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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · June 30, 1921 · Chapter 235

Chapter 235. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 235.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes. June 5, 1920. [[H. R. 13870](/us/bill/66/hr/13870).] [[Public, No. 246](/us/pl/66/246).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Sundry civil expenses appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, namely:
Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Public buildings.public buildings, construction, and rent. Alexandria, La., rent.Alexandria, Louisiana: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $4,000. Brooklyn, N. Y., post office.Brooklyn, New York, post office: For raising annex floor to grade of main workroom, and for installing mail lift, $45,000. Phoenixville, Pa., payment for site.Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, post office:
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay from amounts heretofore appropriated for the purchase of a site and construction of a building for post office purposes at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, a sum not exceeding $17,500 for the purchase of a suitable site. Sitka, Alaska, additional land for customhouse.Sitka, Alaska, customhouse: For adjoining land and cabins thereon, $200. Washington, D. C. Auditors’ Building.Sewer system, etc.Washington, District of Columbia, Auditors’ Building:
For changes in the sewage system to provide for a separation of the sanitary wastes from the storm water in said building, the west outbuilding, power house, stable, and laundry, and for the discharge of rain water from certain areas of the new Bureau of Engraving and Printing building into the storm-water sewers, including the necessary alterations incident thereto, and for installing permanent feeders for supplying light and power to the Auditors’ Building, $60,000. Fence.For relocating fence on the Fourteenth Street side of the building, $3,000.
Engraving and Printing Bureau.Washington, District of Columbia, Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For changes in the roof of the laundry building, $3,500. Butler Building.Washington, District of Columbia, Butler Building; For increased lighting facilities, $2,500. Treasury Building. Remodeling fourth story, etc.Washington, District of Columbia, Treasury Building: For additional amount for remodeling fourth story, in order to provide additional accommodations, and for new roof for entire building, $240,000.
Reimbursing contractors for loses, etc.Relief of contractors: For an additional amount for the payment of claims of contractors, and so forth, arising under the Act entitled " An Act for the relief of contractors and subcontractors for the post offices *Ante*, p. 281.and other buildings and work under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and for other purposes,” approved August 25, 1919, as amended, $1,000,000. 875 Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling, enlarging,Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings. and extending completed and occupied public buildings, including any necessary and incidental additions to or changes in mechanical equipment thereof so as to provide or make available additional space in emergent cases, not to exceed an aggregate of $20,000 at any oneLimitation. building, $330,000. marine hospitals.Marine hospitals.
Boston, Massachusetts: For additional amount for remodeling mainBoston, Mass. building and erection of medical officers’ quarters, junior officers’ double quarters, pharmacists’ double quarters, female nurses’ quarters, attendants’ quarters, and a tuberculosis pavilion, approach work, for mechanical equipment, telephone and bedside call-bell systems, $54,300; for additional amount for miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $13,400; in all, $67,700. Fort Stanton, New Mexico, Sanatorium:
For remodeling boilerFort Stanton, N. Mex. plant and power house, $23,000. Savannah, Georgia: For additional amount for one additional hospitalSavannah, Ga. ward building, remodeling present building, and approach work; mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call-bell systems, $34,000; for additional amount for miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $9,000; in all, $43,000. quarantine stations.Quarantine stations. Baltimore, Maryland: For purchase of property, $176,775.Baltimore, Md., purchase of property.
Cape Fear, North Carolina: For water tank on steel tower, $15,000.Cape Fear, N. C. New York, New York: For the acquisition by purchase from theNew York, N. Y.Purchase of New York Quarantine Station. State of New York of the property known as “the New York Quarantine Station,” $1,395,275. The schedule of fees and rates of charges in effect at the New YorkSchedule of fees, etc., continued. Quarantine Station at the time of the transfer of the title thereto to the United States shall be adopted and promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury as the schedule of fees and rates of charges for the operation of the said station under the jurisdiction of the United States.
Port Townsend, Washington: For concrete system for rain water;Port Townsend, Wash. electric lighting system; and wharf protection shed for passengers, $14,000. Texas: For transfer and purchase of Texas Quarantine Stations,Texas Quarantine Stations, purchase, etc. $90,071. The foregoing work under “Marine Hospitals” and “QuarantineSupervision of construction, etc. Stations” shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses.
Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of allRepairs, preservation, etc. completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor, Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska,Sitka, Alaska. and the Secretary of the Treasury may, in renting said wharf, require that the lessee shall make all necessary repairs thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlarge-876ment of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 15 per centum of the annual rentals *Provisos*.Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $200,000 may be used for government-owned Public Health Service hospitals and quarantine stations and completed and occupied outbuildings, including wire partitions and fly screens Treasury buildings, D.C.for same, and not exceeding $25,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Treasury Annex Numbered Two, Arlington, Liberty Loan, Butler, Winder, and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia:
Personal services restricted.*Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $900,000. Mechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, etc.Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 10 per centum *Provisos*.Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated, not exceeding $125,000 may be used for government- owned Public Health Service hospitals and quarantine Treasury buildings, D.
C.stations, and not exceeding $20,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Treasury Annex Numbered Two, Arlington, Liberty Loan, Butler, Winder, and Auditors Buildings, in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors Building, and not exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance, Pneumatic tube service, New York City.changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessarily incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, That Personal services restricted.this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $615,000.
Vaults, safes, etc.Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $100,000.
General expenses.Vol. 35, p. 537.Additional salary, Supervising Architect.General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page 537): For additional salary of $1,000 for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal Technical services.year 1921; foremen draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,500 per annum; structural engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,500 per annum; mechanical, sanitary, electrical, heating and ven-877tilating, and illuminating engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $1,200 to $2,400 per annum; computers and estimators, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,500 per annum; the expenditures under all the foregoing classes for which a minimum and maximum rate of compensation is stated, not to exceed $143,450; supervisingSuperintendents. superintendents, superintendents and junior superintendents of construction and inspectors, at rates of pay from $2,000 to $3,500 per annum, not to exceed $240,000; expenses of superintendence,Expenses of superintendence, inspectors, etc. including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total expenditure of $7,500; office rent and expenses of superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth;Office supplies, etc. advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telephone service;*Ante*, p. 651. not to exceed $6,000 for stationery; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; not to exceed $10,000 for transporting drawings, miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $488,050.
Architectural competitions: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryArchitectural competitions.Payment of commissions, etc.Vol. 27, p. 468. to make payment for architectural services under contracts entered into prior to the repeal of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same,” approved February 20, 1893, including additional commissions accruing under certain of said contracts due to increase in the limits of cost of certain buildings, except as otherwise specifically provided by law, and including payment for the services from July 1, 1912, of the architect of the Hilo, Hawaii, building, specially selected underHilo, Hawaii.Vol. 36, p. 1373;
Vol. 37, p. 428. the provisions of the Act approved March 4, 1911, the unexpended balances of the appropriations for architectural competitions, public buildings, for the fiscal year 1920, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is continued and made available for said purposes during the fiscal year 1921, 878 Operating expenses.public buildings, operating expenses. Operating force.Personal expenses.Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such *Proviso*.Buildings for which available.services are employed, $3,700,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but not including any Buildings excluded.other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices.
Furniture, etc.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extensions of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or establishments *Provisos*.Personal services restricted.of the Government, $625,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency, and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building:
Use of present furniture.*Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies.Fuel, light, power, water, etc.Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodian forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodian forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishing in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings (including the customhouse in the District Buildings excluded.of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints,879branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), $2,500,000.
The appropriation made herein for gas shall includeGas governors. the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall not be paid*Provisos*.Rental. for such gas governors greater than 35 per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct: *Provided further*,Advance fuel contracts authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department in advance of the availability of the appropriation for the payment thereof.
Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current fiscal year. Salamanca, New York, ground rent: For annual ground rent ofSalamanca, N. Y.Ground rent. the Federal building site at Salamanca, New York, on account of Indian leases, due and payable on February 19 of each year, in advance, to the treasurer of the Seneca Nation of Indians, beginning February 19, 1915, and expiring February 19, 1991, $7.50. coast guard.Coast Guard. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedExpenses. work of the Coast Guard, as follows, including not to exceed $2,000 for purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelledMotor vehicles. passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes:
For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers,Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men. cadets and cadet engineers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks and surfmen, substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, $5,776,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Details in District of Columbia. That not more than ten enlisted men at one time may be detailed to duty in the District of Columbia; Titles of commissioned officers of the Coast Guard are herebyCommissioned personnel.Titles changed. changed as follows:
Senior captain to commander, captain to lieutenant commander, first lieutenant to lieutenant, second lieutenant to lieutenant junior grade, third lieutenant to ensign, captain of engineers to lieutenant commander (engineering), first lieutenant of engineers to lieutenant (engineering), second lieutenant of engineers to lieutenant, junior grade (engineering), and third lieutenant of engineers to ensign (engineering): *Provided*, That all laws applicable*Proviso*.Laws applicable. to the titles hereby abolished in the Coast Guard shall apply to the titles hereby established;
For rations or commutation thereof for warrant officers, pettyRations. officers, and other enlisted men, $1,381,000; For twelve clerks to district superintendents at such rate as theClerks to superintendents. Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed $1,200 each, $13,000; For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge,Fuel, etc. $575,000; For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same,Outfits, stores, etc. $678,000; For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporaryStations, houses of refuge, etc. leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $300,000;
For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of theTraveling expenses. Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $175,000; For draft animals and their maintenance, $40,000;Draft animals. 880 Coastal communication lines.For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance, $35,000; Civilian employees.For compensation of civilian employees in the field, $61,940;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistence of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $105,000; In all, $9,139,940. Repairs to cutters.For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $360,000.
New York Harbor, and Hampton Roads.The Lighthouse Service shall cooperate with the Coast Guard in marking anchorage grounds in the harbors of New York and Hampton Buoys.From Lighthouse appropriations.Roads by furnishing and maintaining buoys necessary for such purposes. Appropriations for the Lighthouse Service for the fiscal year 1921 are made available therefor. Administration of oaths.Such commissioned and warrant officers of the Coast Guard as may be designated by the commandant of the Coast Guard are hereby authorized to administer such oaths as may be necessary in connection with recruiting and for the proper conduct of said service.
“Deck courts” for trial of enlisted men.“Deck courts,” to consist of one commissioned officer only, may be ordered by or under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for the trial of enlisted men in the Coast Guard for minor offenses now triable by Coast Guard courts; and said courts shall be governed in their organization and procedure substantially in accordance with naval “deck courts,” and shall have the same power to impose punishment. Engraving and Printing.engraving and printing.
Work authorized for fiscal year 1921.For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, during the fiscal year 1921 of not exceeding 123,250,000 delivered sheets of United States currency, national-bank and Federal reserve currency, 100,997,447 delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, *Post*, p. 1160.Vol. 38, p. 785.Vol. 40, p. 1130.276,000 delivered sheets of customs stamps, 904,363 delivered sheets of opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, and 11,058,832 delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows:
Salaries.For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees required for the administrative work of the bureau of the class provided Vol. 40, p. 1231.for and specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, $2,569,000, to be expended under the direction Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.*Proviso*.Large notes.of the Secretary of the Treasury, including $8,400 for custody of dies, rolls, and plates: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements Vol. 31, p. 45.of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March 14, 1900.
Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $2,023,125, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Provisos*.Large notes.of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the881requirements of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March 14, 1900: *Provided further*, That no part of thisVol. 31, p. 45.Wages of printers’ assistants. sum shall be used to increase the wages of plate printers until all printers’ assistants receive not less than $2.37 per day.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials exceptMaterials, etc.*Ante*, p. 651. distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,602,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year 1921 all proceeds derived from work performedProceeds from work to be credited to Bureau. by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 227), shallVol. 24, p. 227. be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year 1921. bureau of war risk insurance.War Risk Insurance Bureau.
For expenses of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance under the ActExpenses.Vol. 40, pp. 401, 609. approved October 6, 1917, as amended: Compensation: For the payment of military and naval compensationMilitary and naval compensation. for death or disability, $125,000,000; and the unexpended balances of the appropriations for military and naval compensation for the fiscal year 1920 are continued and made available during the fiscal year 1921 for the payment of compensation for death or disability.
Medical and Hospital Services: For medical, surgical, and hospitalMedical and hospital services. services, medical examinations, funeral expenses, traveling expenses, and supplies, for beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, including court costs and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, $46,000,000. This appropriation shall be disbursed by theDisbursement of appropriation.Allotments.
Bureau of War Risk Insurance and such portion thereof as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time to the Public Health Service, the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the War and Navy Departments and transferred to their credit for disbursement by them for the purposes set forth in this paragraph. The allotments to the said Board of ManagersImproving facilities at Volunteer Soldiers’ Homes. shall also include such sums as may be necessary to alter or improve existing facilities in the several branches under its jurisdiction so as to provide adequate accommodations for such beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance as may be committed to its care.
The allotments made to the War and Navy Departments shall beAllotments to War and Navy Departments. available for expenditure under the various headings of appropriations made to said departments as may be necessary. miscellaneous objects, treasury department.Miscellaneous. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and inAppropriations available for enforcing laws relating to the Treasury.Details permitted. connection with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control, not exceeding at any one time four persons paid from the882appropriation, for the collection of customs, four persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internal-revenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and four persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be *Proviso*.Other details.employed at any one time hereunder: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the *Ante*, p. 651.*Ante*, p. 654.public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositaries, including national [R.S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718).banks acting as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised Statutes, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $160,000.
Recoinage of gold coins.Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary [R.S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696).of the Treasury, as required by section 3512 of the Revised Statutes, $5,000. Recoinage of minor coins.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 40, p. 643.Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $10,000 together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1919.
Money laundry machines.Money laundry machines: For all miscellaneous expenses in connection with the installation and maintenance of money laundry machines, including repairs and purchase of supplies for machines in the District of Columbia and in the various Subtreasury offices, $500. Distinctive paper for securities.Quantities authorized.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank: currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, 129,000,000 sheets, in order that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may deliver 123,250,000 sheets of United States currency, national-bank and Federal reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary Personal services.expenses, $669,510; expense of officer detailed from the Treasury Department, $50 per month when actually on duty, $600; three registers, at $1,380 each; six counters, at $800 each; guards—one $1,000, four at $900 each; three skilled laborers, at $840 each; in all, $686,170.
Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.*Ante*, p. 651.Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign Governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign Governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay Vol. 40, p. 511.and bounty laws, and for the enforcement of section 18 of the War Finance Corporation Act; hire and operation of motor-propelled or Per diem subsistence.1Vol. 38, p. 680.horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for no Protecting person of the President, etc.other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the883person chosen to be President of the United States, $400,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Fees, etc.
That no part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts 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 States courts”:*Post*, p. 924.Pay restriction. *Provided further*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a compensation greater than that allowed by law, except not exceeding three persons, who may be paid not exceeding $12 per day.
Appropriations in this Act shall not be used in payment of compensationPayment to persons detailed, etc., forbidden.Exception. or expenses of any person detailed or transferred, except to the Department of State, from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, or who may at any time dining the fiscal year 1921 have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care,Lands, etc.Custody, etc. protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the[R.
S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739). Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $300. customs service.Customs service. For collecting the revenue from customs, including not exceedingCollecting customs revenue. $200,000 for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, $11,300,000: *Provided*, That not more than one appraiser for*Proviso*.One appraiser at Baltimore. the port of Baltimore shall be paid from this appropriation.
Scales for customs service: For construction and installation ofAutomatic, etc., scales. special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, $147,000. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $10,000. BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE.Internal revenue.
Enforcement of the National Prohibition Act: For the employmentEnforcing National Prohibition Act.*Ante*, p. 305. of additional officers, traveling and other necessary miscellaneous expenses to guard intoxicating liquors in bonded and other warehouses, and prevent violations of the National Prohibition Act, $1,000,000. public health service.Public Health Service. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissionedPay, etc., Surgeon General, etc. medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistant surgeons general at large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $856,000;
For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medicalActing assistant surgeons. officers), $275,000; Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to permitPay allotments permitted hereafter. officers of the Public Health Service to make allotments from their pay under such regulations as he may prescribe; For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $740,000;Other employees. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including theFreight, travel, etc. expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $40,000;
For fuel, light, and water, $135,000;Fuel, etc. or furniture and repairs to same, $8,000;Furniture. For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospitalSupplies. supplies, $85,000; 884 Hygienic Laboratory.For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $45,000; Marine hospitals.*Ante*, p. 651.For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included *Proviso*.Cases for study.under special heads, $625,000: *Provided*, That there may be admitted into said hospitals for study persons with infectious or other diseases affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time;
Outside treatment, etc.For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $220,000; Transporting remains of officers.For preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in the line of duty, $5,000; Books, etc.For journals and scientific books, $500; Inspection of aliens.Vol. 39, p. 885.In all, $3,034,500, which shall include the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917.
Hospital facilities to discharged sick soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 1302, 1304.For medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for beneficiaries (other than war-risk insurance patients) of the Public Health Service, including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, clerical help in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, printing, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance and operation of passenger motor vehicles, court costs and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $4,000,000.
Use of allotments from War Risk Insurance Bureau.*Ante*, p. 881.The allotments made by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to the Public Health Service for the care of beneficiaries of that bureau by the said service shall also be available for expenditure by the Public Health Service on that account for necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, clerical help in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, printing, freight, transportation and travel, and maintenance and operation of passenger motor vehicles.
Quarantine service.*Ante*, p. 651.Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations at Eastport and Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island, and the Delaware Bay and River; Alexandria, Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear, Newbern, and Washington, North Carolina; Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, and Port Royal, South Carolina;
Savannah; South Atlantic; Darien; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River; Biscayne Bay; Key West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Punta Rassa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Saint Joseph; Saint Andrews and Pensacola, Florida; Mobile; New Orleans and supplemental stations thereto; Pascagoula; Gulf; Gulfport; Galveston, Laredo, Eagle Pass, El Paso, Sabine, Port Arthur, Orange, Beaumont, Port Aransas, Brownsville, Rio Grande City, and Hidalgo, Texas;
San Diego, San Pedro and adjoining ports, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, and Port Harford, California; Fort Bragg, Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Newport, Coos Bay, and Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto; quarantine systems of Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, including the leprosy hospital; Porto Rico; and the Virgin Islands; and including and not exceeding $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $255,000. 885 Prevention of epidemics:
To enable the President, in case only ofPrevention of epidemics.*Ante*, p. 651. threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, influenza, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $355,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Report of expenditures.
That a detailed report of the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress. Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man andField investigations. conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $300,000. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State andInterstate quarantine service. municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $25,000.
Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration workRural sanitation. in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $50,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Cooperation of States, etc., required. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expense of such demonstration work.
Pellagra: For rental, equipment, and maintenance of a temporaryPellagra studies. field hospital and laboratory, including pay of personnel, for special studies of pellagra, $16,250: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall*Proviso*.Limitation. be available for expenditure after December 31, 1920. Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses,Viruses, serums, etc. Regulating sales, etc. serums, toxins, and analogous products, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal service, $50,000.
For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of VenerealDivision of Venereal Diseases.Vol. 40, p. 886. Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, Chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918, including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $200,000. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue in effect theHospitals for discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1302. provisions of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines,” approved March 3, 1919, $295,000 ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN.Alien Property Custodian.
For expenses of the Alien Property Custodian authorized by theServices, supplies, etc.Vol. 40, p. 415.*Ante*, p. 35. Act entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October 6, 1917, as amended; including personal and other services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, printing and binding, law books, books of reference and periodicals, supplies and equipment, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $455,000.
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND.American Printing House for the Blind. To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequatelyExpenses. to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August*Ante*, p. 272. 4, 1919, $40,000. 886 Board of Mediation and Conciliation.BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION. Salaries and expenses.For commissioner, $7,500; assistant commissioner, $5,000; necessary and proper expenses incurred in connection with any arbitration or with the carrying on of the work of mediation and conciliation, including rent in the District of Columbia, traveling and other necessary expenses of members or employees of boards of arbitration, furniture, office fixtures and supplies, books of reference and periodicals, salaries, traveling expenses, and other necessary expenses of members or employees of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation, to be approved by the chairman of said board, $22,500; in all, $35,000.
Authority for expenses.Authority for incurring expenses, including subsistence, by boards of arbitration shall first be obtained from the Board of Mediation and Conciliation. Civil Service Commission.CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Expenses of Retirement Act.*Ante*, p. 619.To carry out the provisions of section 13 of the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, including personal services in the District of Columbia, stationery, printing, purchase of books, office equipment and other supplies, $50,000, of *Proviso*.Pay restriction.which sum $4,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,740 per annum except one at $2,000 and four at $1,800 each.
Commission of Fine Arts.COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS. Expenses.Vol. 36, p. 371.For expenses made necessary by the Act entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” approved May 17, 1910, including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the commission by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, who shall be the secretary and shall act as the executive officer of said commission, $10,000. Council of National Defense.COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.
Salaries and expenses.For expenses of the Council of National Defense; for the employment of a director, secretary, chief clerk, and other expert, clerical, and other assistance; equipment and supplies, including law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; subsistence and travel; and printing and binding done at the Government Printing *Provisos*.Pay restriction.Office, $75,000: *Provided*, That no salary shall be paid to any officer or employee of the council in excess of $6,000 per annum: *Provided Public Information Committee.*Ante*, p. 327.further*, That the unexpended balance of the $32,000 heretofore appropriated for liquidating the affairs of the Committee on Public Information is hereby reappropriated.
District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Columbia Hospital, etc.Repairs, etc.Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs and for additional construction, including labor and material for each and every item connected therewith, $5,000; for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, $20,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent Half from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 837.of the Capitol, and paid, one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States. 887 EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION.Employees’ Compensation Commission.
Salaries: Three commissioners, at $4,000 each; secretary, $3,000;Salaries. attorney, $4,000; chief statistician, $3,500; chief of accounts, $2,500; assistant chief of accounts, $1,600; accountant, $2,250; claim examiners— chief $2,250, assistant $2,000, assistant $1,800, five assistants at $1,600 each; special agents—two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each; clerks—seven of class three, twelve of class two, twenty-seven of class one, three at $1,000 each; chief telephone operator, $1,000; messenger, $840; experts and temporary assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and temporary clerks, stenographers, or typewriters in the District of Columbia, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $100 per month, $10,000; in all, $124,940.
Contingent expenses: For furniture and other equipment andContingent expenses. repairs thereto; law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, and supplies; traveling expenses; printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office; medical examinations, traveling andMedical examinations, etc.Vol. 39, p. 747. other expenses, and loss of wages payable to employees under section 21 of the Act of September 7, 1916, and for miscellaneous items; in all, $30,000.
Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensationCompensation fund.Allowances from.Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745. provided by “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section 9, and the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections 9 and 11, $2,500,000, to remain available until expended.
FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.Vocational Education Board. Vocational rehabilitation: For an additional amount for carryingRehabilitation of discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 617, 1179.*Ante*, p. 159. out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June 27, 1918, as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, funeral and other incidental expenses (including transportation of remains) of deceased trainees of the board, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $90,000,000, of which sum not exceedingRent allowance, conditional. $5,000 may be expended for rent of quarters in the District of Columbia if space is not provided by the Public Buildings Commission: *Provided*, That the salary limitations placed upon the appropriation*Proviso*.Pay restrictions.*Ante*, p. 159. for vocational rehabilitation by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved July 19, 1919, shall apply to the appropriation herein made except that there may be employed during the fiscal year 1921, in addition to this limitation, employees at annual rates of compensationAdditional employees authorized. as follows:
One at not to exceed $6,500, one at not to exceed $5,000, two at not to exceed $4,000 each, ten at not to exceed $3,500 each, ten at not to exceed $3,250 each, and ten at not to exceed $3,000 each. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.Federal Trade Commission. For five commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all,Salaries. $55,000. For all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade CommissionAll other expenses. in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including personal and other services in the District of Columbia888and elsewhere, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, printing and binding, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, newspapers, foreign postage, Vol. 38, p. 722.and witness fees and mileage in accordance with section 9 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, $900,000.
Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board.INTERDEPARTMENTAL SOCIAL HYGIENE BOARD. Direction of expenditures.The duties and powers conferred upon the Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board by Chapter XV of the Army Appropriation Act approved July 9, 1918, with respect to the expenditure of the Vol. 40, p. 886.appropriations made therein are extended and made applicable to the appropriations for similar purposes made in this Act. Expenses.For expenses of the board, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, books of reference and periodicals, printing and binding, traveling, and other necessary expenses, $80,000.
Assistance to States.For assisting the States in protecting the military and naval forces of the United States against venereal diseases, $150,000; and the Unexpended balance reappropriated.Vol. 40, p. 887.unexpended balance on June 30, 1920 (approximately $250,000), of the appropriation heretofore made for this purpose is continued and *Proviso*.Institutions excluded.made available during the fiscal year 1921: *Provided*, That no part of these sums shall be expended in assisting reformatories, detention homes, hospitals, or other similar institutions in the maintenance of venereally infected persons;
Allotment to States for treatment, etc.Unexpended balance reappropriated.Vol. 40, p. 887.For allotment to the various States for the prevention, treatment, and control of venereal diseases, $450,000; and the unexpended balance on June 30, 1920 (approximately $300,000), of the appropriation heretofore made for this purpose is continued and made *Proviso*.State compliance with conditions, etc., required.available during the fiscal year 1921: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be allotted to any State unless such State, in a manner satisfactory to the board, shall have complied with, and shall have given assurance of continued compliance with, the conditions and regulations governing such allotments and the expenditures that may be made therefrom;
Universities, etc., for discovering preventive measures.For payment to universities, colleges, and other suitable institutions, for scientific research for the purpose of discovering more effective medical measures in the prevention and treatment of venereal diseases, $85,000; Developing educational methods of prevention, etc.For payment to universities, colleges, and other suitable institutions and organizations for the purpose of discovering and developing more effective educational measures in the prevention of veneral diseases, $250,000;
Contributions from universities, etc., required.No part of the respective sums contained in the two preceding paragraphs shall be paid to any university, college, institution, or organization which does not set aside an additional sum for the same purpose at least equal to the amount to be received from the United States; In all, Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board, $1,015,000. Interstate Commerce Commission.INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Salaries.For eleven commissioners, at $12,000 each; secretary, $7,500; in all, $139,500.
Expenses.Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.Amount for counsel.For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $1,600,000, of which sum there may be expended not exceeding $50,000 in the employment of counsel, not exceeding $3,000 for necessary books, reports, and889periodicals, not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply schedule, and not exceeding $120,000 for rent of buildings inRent, D.C.*Proviso*.Condition. the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission.
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce complianceEnforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556.*Ante*, p. 493. with section 20 and other sections of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June 29, 1906, and as amended by the Transportation Act, 1920, including the employment of necessary special accounting agents or examiners, $600,000. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531;
Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943; Vol. 36, p. 298.Accidents.Vol. 36, p. 350.Block signals, etc. regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test block-signal and train-control systems and appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906, and the provision of theVol. 34, p. 838;
Vol. 35, p. 324; Vol. 38, p. 212.Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. Sundry Civil Act approved May 27, 1908, including the employment of inspectors, and per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $313,600. Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate CommercePhysical valuation of railroads.Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 40, p. 271, Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce, approved February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof,” by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks,Issues of stock, etc.Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. bonds, and other securities, approved March 1, 1913, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and including not exceeding $20,000 for rent of buildings in the District ofRent, D.
C.*Proviso*.Condition. Columbia, $1,750,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission. For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act ofSafe locomotive boilers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 913; Vol. 40, p. 616. February 17, 1911, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” and amendment of March 4, 1915, extendingVol. 38, p. 1192. the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender,” including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission may deem necessary, and for per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to sectionPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $290,000.
LINCOLN MEMORIAL COMMISSION.Lincoln Memorial Commission. The appropriation for expenses of dedicating the Lincoln Memorial,Dedication expenses.Appropriation continued.*Ante*, p. 180. contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, is continued and made available for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1921. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS.Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reportsAll expenses.Vol. 38, p. 930;
Vol. 40, p. 557. in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; traveling expenses of members and employees;890office supplies, printing, and other miscellaneous expenses, including technical periodicals and books of reference; equipment, maintenance, and operation of research laboratory and wind tunnel, and construction of additional buildings necessary in connection therewith; maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; and purchase, maintenance, and operation of one passenger-carrying motor cycle; personal services in the field and in the District *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.of Columbia: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for clerical, drafting, watchmen, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $50,000; in all, $200,000.
Railroad Labor Board.RAILROAD LABOR BOARD. Salaries.For nine members of the board, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all, $95,000. All other expenses.*Ante*, p. 470.For all other authorized expenditures of the Railroad Labor Board in performing the duties imposed by law, including personal and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, supplies and equipment, law books and books of reference, periodicals, printing and Rent, D. C.Condition.binding, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence, rent of quarters in the District of Columbia if space is not provided by the Public Buildings Commission, rent of quarters outside the District of Amount for fiscal year 1920.Columbia, witness fees, and mileage, $355,000, of which sum $50,000 shall be available for the fiscal year 1920.
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission.Acquiring additional land.Vol. 37, p. 885.ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY COMMISSION. Half from District revenues.*Ante*. p. 837.*Provisos*.Area limited.To enable the commission created by section 22 of the Public Buildings Act approved March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 885), to continue proceedings toward the acquisition of lands required for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park, $200,000, to be available until expended Land included.Description.and to be payable one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the total area of lands finally to be acquired for said parkway shall not exceed the area and parcels described and delineated in the map numbered 2, contained in House Document Numbered 1114 of the Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, except that the following Conditions imposed.Vol. 39, p. 282.parcels outside the said taking line shall be included, namely, three hundred and fifteen feet of lot eight hundred and one, three hundred and ninety-eight and one-half feet of lot fifty-four, five thousand and thirty-five feet of lots thirty-nine, forty, forty-one, forty-two, and forty-three, lots eight hundred and twenty-six, eight hundred and twenty-seven, and eight hundred and twenty-eight, containing four thousand nine hundred and fifteen feet, and lots thirty-six, thirty-seven, and thirty-eight, containing six thousand nine hundred and eighty-three feet, in square twenty-five hundred and forty-four; and lots eight hundred and nineteen, eight hundred and twenty, nineteen and twenty, containing ten thousand six hundred and twenty-six feet, part of lots twenty-one, eight hundred and fourteen, eight hundred and fifteen, eight hundred and sixteen, eight hundred and seventeen, and forty-five, containing ten thousand two hundred and ninety feet, and lots forty-six, eight hundred and twenty-two, and eight hundred and twenty-one, containing nine thousand one hundred and forty-six feet, in square twenty-five hundred and forty-three, in all, forty-seven thousand seven hundred and eight and fifty one-hundredths feet: *Provided further*, That the expenditure of the funds appropriated herein shall be subject to all the conditions imposed by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved July 1, 1916. 891 SHIPPING BOARD.Shipping Board.
For five commissioners, at $7,500 each; secretary, $5,000; in all,Salaries.*Post*, p. 990. $42,500. For all other expenditures authorized by the Act approved SeptemberAll other expenses.Vol. 39, p. 728. 7, 1916, as amended, including the compensation of attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for all other expenses of the board, including the rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, printing and binding, and actual and necessary expenses of members of the board, its special experts, and other employees*Post*, p. 990. while upon official business outside of the District of Columbia, $400,000. emergency shipping fund.Emergency Shipping Fund.
The authorization of $2,764,000,000, heretofore established for theShipbuilding authorization reduced.*Ante*, p. 180. construction of ships, is reduced to $2,614,000,000. The expenses of the United States Shipping Board EmergencyEmergency Fleet Corporation.Expenses authorized.*Post*, p. 990. Fleet Corporation, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, for administrative purposes, the payment of claims arising from the cancellation of contracts, damage charges and miscellaneous adjustments, maintenance and operation of vessels, and the completion of vessels now under construction, shall be paid from the followingSources specified. sources:
(a)The amount on hand July 1, 1920;
(b)the amount received during the fiscal year 1921 from the operation of ships;
(c)not to exceed $15,000,000 from deferred payments on ships sold prior to the approval of this Act;
(d)not to exceed $25,000,000 from plant and material sold during the fiscal year 1921; and
(e)not to exceed $30,000,000 from ships sold during the fiscal year 1921: *Provided*,*Proviso*.No further construction contracts authorized. That, after the approval of this Act, no contract shall be entered into or work undertaken for the construction of any additional vessels for the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. No contracts for ship construction to be entered into shall provideContract restrictions. that the compensation of the contractor shall be the cost of construction plus a percentage thereof for profit, or plus a fixed fee for profit. No part of the funds of the United States Shipping Board EmergencyRent, D. C., restriction. Fleet Corporation shall be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, during the fiscal year 1921, if suitable space is provided for the said corporation by the Public Buildings Commission. No part of the appropriations made in this Act for the ShippingPrinting bulletins, etc., forbidden. Board or the Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be expended for the preparation, printing, or publication of any bulletins, newspapers, magazines, or periodicals, or for services in connection with same, not including preparation and printing of reports or documents authorized by law. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For the system of international exchangesInternational exchanges. between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $50,000. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches amongAmerican Ethnology. the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archæologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $44,000. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperationInternational Catalogue of Scientific Literature. of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue892of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, clerk hire, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500. Astrophysical Observatory.Astrophysical Observatory: For maintainance of the Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $13,000. National Museum.Furniture, etc.National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $20,000; Heating, lighting, etc.For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, $70,000; Preserving collections, etc.For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, all other necessary expenses, and not exceeding $5,500 for drawings and illustrations for publications, $312,620; Repairs, etc.For repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary labor and material, $10,000; Books, etc.For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, $2,000; Postage.For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500; In all, National Museum, $415,120. National Gallery of Art.Administration expenses.National Gallery of Art: For the administration of the National Gallery of Art by the Smithsonian Institution, including compensation of necessary employees and necessary incidental expenses, $15,000. National Zoological Park.Expenses.National Zoological Park: For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary Half from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 837.books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, $125,000; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Purchase of additional lands.For the purchase, by condemnation or otherwise, of all of the following lots, pieces, or parcels of land lying between the present western boundary of the National Zoological Park and Connecticut Description.Avenue, now known or described on the records of the surveyor of the District of Columbia as parcels numbers fifty-four over five, fifty-four over six, fifty-five over sixty, fifty-five over sixty-one, the portion of parcel known as number fifty-four over four that lies between the south line of Jewett Street and a line parallel to and three hundred feet distant south from said south line of Jewett Street, and the portion of parcel number fifty-five over fifty-eight that lies between the north line of Jewett Street and a line drawn parallel to and three hundred feet distant north from said north line At jury valuation.of Jewett Street, $80,000, or such portion thereof as may be necessary, to be available till the termination of the proceedings herein authorized. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to purchase any of said land that he can obtain by agreement with the owners thereof at prices not in excess of the valuation Vol. 38, p. 27.placed on said land by the jury and approved by the court in the condemnation proceedings had under authority of the provisions of *Provisos*.Price restriction.the Sundry Civil Act approved June 23, 1913: *Provided*, That the price of the portion of a parcel of land shall be pro rata of the valua-893tion of the entire parcel, based on area, except that the price of the portions hereinbefore described of parcel number fifty-five over fifty-eight shall be pro rata of the valuation of parcel number fifty-four over four; and the Secretary of the Treasury is further authorizedCondemnation proceedings. and directed to institute proceedings (under provisions of Sundry Civil Act approved June 23, 1913) for the condemnation of any of the land hereinbefore described that he may be unable to purchase by agreement with the owner or owners thereof. The land acquiredLands added to Zoological Park. under the provisions of this Act, together with the included highways (Jewett Street from the National Zoological Park to Connecticut Avenue, and the new highway connection therewith establishedVol. 33, p. 522. under the provisions of public Act numbered 203, approved April 28, 1904, for a distance of two hundred and fifty feet north from Jewett Street and two hundred and fifty feet south from Jewett Street), shall be added to and become a part of the National Zoological Park: *Provided*, That such portion of said land as may be necessary mayHighways authorized. be used for a highway not more than fifty feet wide adjacent to the north line of the land taken from parcel number fifty-five over fifty-eight and a highway not more than fifty feet wide adjacent to the south line of the land taken from parcel number fifty-four over four, said highways to extend from Connecticut Avenue to the new highway hereinabove mentioned, and to be under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. TARIFF COMMISSION.Tariff Commission. For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission,Salaries and expenses. including the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference and periodicals as may be necessary, as authorizedVol. 39, p. 795. under Title VII of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September 8, 1916, $300,000. UNITED STATES PILGRIM TERCENTENARY COMMISSION.United States Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission. For the participation of the United States in the observance of theExpenses participating in celebration. three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Provincetown and Plymouth, Massachusetts, in accordance with the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered 42 (Sixty-sixth Congress),*Ante*, p. 598. approved May 13, 1920, $400,000. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Temporary employees: For personal services in the Office of theOffice, Director of Finance.Temporary employees. Director of Finance, War Department, $183,000, which may be expended notwithstanding the third proviso of the paragraph entitled “Temporary employees, War Department,” contained in*Ante*, p. 766.*Ante*, p. 658. the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:Frankford, Pa. For completion of the power plant, including the installation of equipment, $270,000; For extension of water and fire mains, $23,000; For installation of high-tensioned electrical transmission lines from the power plant to the shops, $88,000; In all, $381,000. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois:Rock Island, Ill. 894 For maintenance and operation of power plant, $20,000; Bridges, etc.For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct; and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $30,000; For painting Rock Island Bridge, $12,000; In all, $62,000. Watertown, Mass.Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For erecting steel already purchased and installing crane on hand for ingot storage yard, $17,000. Testing machines.Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $35,000. Watervliet, N. Y.Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For concrete ash bins, $2,000. Repairs.Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement of arsenals and depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or Machinery.other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $1,550,000. Civilian schools on reservations.*Ante*, p. 333.Ordnance reservations, civilian schools: For the maintenance and operation of schools for children on Ordnance reservations, $61,800. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.Hangar for airship.Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland: For the construction of a steel hangar to accommodate one United States Navy type “C-2” airship, $150,000. Ogden, Utah.Ammunition storage facilities.Title requirement not applicable.[R. S. sec. 355, p. 60](/us/rs/s355/p60).*Ante*, p. 510.Storage facilities for ammunition, Ogden, Utah: Section 355 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the expenditure of appropriations for the Ordnance Department of the Army provided for in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920 for the purchase of land near Ogden, Utah, and for improvements upon such land. Quartermaster Corps.quartermaster corps. Fort Monroe, Va.Wharf, etc.Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, water, brooms, and shovels, $15,000; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $2,880; in all, $18,780; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $6,260. Repairs to roads, etc.For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $2,500; six laborers cleaning roads, at $720 each; in all, $6,820; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $4,546.67. Sewers, etc.For waste, oil, motor and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, stone, and supplies, $1,200; two engineers, at $1,200 each; two laborers, at $720 each; in all, $5,040; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,360. National cemeteries.Maintenance.National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, $250,000. Superintendents.For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, including not to exceed $1,500 for the superintendent at Mexico City, $63,720. Headstones for soldiers’, etc., graves.For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town,895and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March[R. S., sec. 4877, p. 944](/us/rs/s4877/p944).Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56.Civilians.Vol. 33, p. 396; Vol. 34, p. 741.Confederates. 3, 1873, February 3, 1879, and March 9, 1906; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April 28, 1904, and June 30, 1906; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $100,000. For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have beenRepairs to roadways.*Provisos*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden. constructed by special authority of Congress, $18,000: *Provided*, That no railroads shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: *Provided further*, That no part of thisRestriction. sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repairLimited to one approach. of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, orBurial of indigent soldiers, etc., D. C. in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines, of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expensesHalf from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 837. in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $1,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments,Antietam battle field, Md.Preservation, etc. tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $7,500. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendentSuperintendent. to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected for this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500. Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees:Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc.Cremation allowed. For interment, cremation (only upon request from relatives of the deceased), or preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, cadets, United States Military Academy, including acting assistant surgeons and enlisted men in active service, and accepted applicants for enlistment; interment, or preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field or at military posts within the limits of the United States; interment of military prisoners who die at military posts; for the interment and shipment to their homes of remains of enlisted men who are discharged in hospitals in the United States and continue as inmates of said hospitals to the date of their death, and for interment of prisoners of war and interned alien enemies who die at prison camps in the United States; removal of remains from abandonedRemoving remains from abandoned posts, etc. posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines, interred in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where theReimbursement to individuals. expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this896sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred American cemeteries in France.*Provisos*.Retired list on active duty, included.prior to July 1, 1910; expenses of the segregation or bodies in permanent American cemeteries in France; in all, $21,549,000: *Provided*, That the above provisions shall be applicable in the cases of officers and enlisted men on the retired list of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while on active duty by proper assignment and Citizens serving with Allies.also to citizens of the United States who may nave died while serving in the armies of the Allies associated with the American forces: Maintenance of graves abroad, etc.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 184.*Provided further*, That, in addition to the foregoing sum, the unobligated balance of the appropriation “Disposition of Remains of Officers, Soldiers, and Civil Employees,” for the fiscal year 1920 is made available during the fiscal year 1921 for the care and maintenance of graves of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees of the Army abroad, and for the preparation and shipment of their remains to Compiling personal data of disposition of remains.*Post*, p 1164.their homes, or to national cemeteries: *Provided further*, That there may be expended from and after the approval of this Act and until June 30, 1921, from this appropriation and the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920, a total amount not exceeding $250,000 for personal services in the Cemeterial Division, Office of the Quartermaster General, War Department, for compiling, recording, preparing, and transmitting data incident to the disposition of Authorization for employees.*Ante*, p. 658.the remains referred to herein; this sum may be expended notwithstanding the third proviso of the paragraph entitled “Temporary employees, War Department,” contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921. Confederate Mound, Chicago, III.Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $500. Confederate Stockade, Ohio.For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Cemetery, Johnstons Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $350. Confederate burial plats.Care, etc.Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland, and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Monuments in Cuba and China.Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000. Little Rock, Ark.Burial in cemetery, of patients dying at Hot Springs Hospital.Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $200. Arlington National Cemetery, Va.New toilet facilities.Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia: For the construction of new toilet facilities, $12,000. Battle Ground Cemetery, D. C.Construction of rostrum.Rostrum for Battle Ground National Cemetery, District of Columbia: For the construction of a rostrum at the Battle Ground (District of Columbia) National Cemetery, including necessary material and labor, in order to provide suitable place for holding memorial exercises, and so forth, $2,500. Memorial Amphitheater, etc., Arlington.Care, etc.Arlington Memorial Amphitheater and Chapel: For care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater and Chapel and grounds in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, including a custodian at $1,200, $8,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. 897 national military parks.Military parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park: For continuingChickamauga and Chattanooga. the establishment of the park; compensation and expenses of civilian commissioner, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including $300 for necessary clerical labor under direction of the chairman of the commission; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $50,000. Gettysburg National Military Park: For continuing the establishmentGettysburg. of the park; acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of civilian commissioner, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and all other expenses incident to the foregoing, $65,000. Guilford Courthouse National Military Park: For continuingGuilford Courthouse. the establishment of a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act toVol. 39, p. 996. establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March 2, 1917, $9,200. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishmentShiloh. of the park; compensation of secretary and superintendent; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies, implements, and materials; foundations for monuments; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $22,435. Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the establishmentVicksburg. of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $30,000. engineer department.Engineer Department. Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvementBuildings and grounds, D. C.Improvement and care. and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows:. For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, $4,000. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex,Monument Grounds. $7,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. 898 General repairs, etc.For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and hauling same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and the purchase, operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of motor cycles for division foremen, $35,000. Traffic in parks.Nothing contained in the provision regarding the making and enforcing of regulations governing the speed of motor vehicles in the District of Columbia found in section 1 of the District of Columbia Act approved March 3, 1917, shall be construed to interfere with the Chief of Engineers in exclusive control of.Vol. 39, p. 1012.exclusive charge and control heretofore committed to the Chief of Engineers over the park system of the District of Columbia, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to make and enforce all regulations for the control of vehicles and traffic, and limiting, the speed thereof on roads, highways, and bridges within the public grounds Penalties for speed violations.Vol. 34, p. 621.in the District of Columbia, under his control, subject to the penalties prescribed in the Act entitled “An Act regulating the speed of automobiles in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved June 29, 1906. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $4,000; For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $3,500. For broken-stone road covering for parks, $10,000. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000. Rock Creek Park and Piney Branch Parkway.For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park and the Piney Branch Parkway, exclusive of building for superintendent’s residence, and including personal services in the District of Columbia, $30,000. Potomac Park.For improvement, care, and maintenance of West Potomac Park, including grading, soiling, seeding, planting, and constructing paths, $40,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $8,000. For care and improvement of East Potomac Park, $50,000. For care, maintenance, and improvement of Montrose Park, $5,000. Outdoor sports.For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, $15,000. Meridian Hill Park.For improvement, care, and maintenance of Meridian Hill Park, $30,000. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000. Union Station Plaza, fountains.For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which operate the three fountains on the Union Station Plaza, $4,000. Park maintenance.To provide for the increased cost in park maintenance, $75,000. For care of the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue, between Second and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $2,500. Tidal Basin bathing beach.Tidal Basin bathing beach: For purification of waters of the Tidal Basin and care, maintenance, and operation of the bathhouse and beach, $15,000. For construction of an extension of the bathhouse and beach at the Tidal Basin bathing beach, $20,000. 899 For a ferry line from the vicinity of Seventh and Water Streets toFerry to Potomac Park. East Potomac Park, $7,000. For cement walks in grounds south of Executive Mansion, $5,000. The appropriation for a new lodge and comfort station in theSmithsonian Grounds.Comfort station.*Ante*, p. 187. Smithsonian Grounds, contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1921, together with the additional sum of $3,000. For grading, soiling, and seeding East and West Seaton Park,Seaton Park. $5,000. For a new combined lodge and comfort station in Stanton Park, $7,000. For improving the grounds around the Freer Art Gallery BuildingFreer Art Gallery Building. in Smithsonian Grounds, $20,000. One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in andHalf from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 837. around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executiveGrounds of executive departments, etc. departments, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library Building, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and the Senate and House Office Buildings as may be requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, $4,000. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion groundsExecutive Mansion grounds. (within iron fence), $5,000. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge ofEngineer, etc. public buildings and grounds, $2,400. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000. For drainage back of the iron fence at the north front of the Executive Mansion grounds, $1,500. Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing ofExecutive Mansion.Care, repair, etc. Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $45,000. For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $8,000.Fuel. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion,Greenhouses. $9,000. For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000. For reconstructing one greenhouse. Executive Mansion, $4,000. For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to beTraveling expenses of the President. expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000. For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses,Lighting. including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600. Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds,Lighting, etc., public grounds. watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance and repair, $24,000. For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $4,500. In all, $28,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one-halfHalf from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 837. of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and GovernmentGovernment telegraph. Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, $500. Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer,Washington Monument.Maintenance salaries. $960; assistant steam engineer, $840; fireman, $660; assistant fireman, $660; conductor of elevator car, $900; attendants—one on900floor $720, one on top floor $720; three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $8,820. Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $4,500. Sunday opening.For extra services of employees and for additional supplies and materials, to provide for the opening of the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,500. Lincoln’s death place.Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous repairs, $200. Wakefield, Va.Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100. Reflecting pool, Potomac Park.For continuing the construction of a reflecting pool in West Potomac Park, $84,000. Lincoln Memorial.Maintenance.Lincoln Memorial: Custodian, $1,200; three watchmen, at $720 each; laborer, $660; heat, light, miscellaneous labor, and supplies, $2,000; in all, $6,020. Grant Memorial.Unveiling, etc., expenses.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 188.The appropriation of $5,000 made in the Sundry Civil Act approved August 1, 1914, for unveiling and dedicating the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including erecting and taking down viewing stands and putting the grounds in sightly condition, is made available for said purposes during the fiscal year 1921, and shall also be available for Removal of part of fence, etc.removal of so much of the iron part of the brick and iron fence on the east side of the Botanic Garden as in the opinion of the superintendent of the garden may be necessary to improve the surroundings of the said memorial. However, the large stone or brick gateposts on the east side of the garden shall be taken down to a level with the substructure which also is made of brick or stone. Georgetown Bridge.Construction.Vol. 39, p. 163.Georgetown Bridge: For continuing the construction of the bridge authorized in section 1 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the removal of what is now known as the Aqueduct Bridge, across the Potomac River, and for the building of a bridge in place thereof,” Half from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 837.Name changed from Aqueduct Bridge.approved May 18, 1916, $500,000, one half to be payable out of the Treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. This bridge shall hereafter be known as the Georgetown Bridge. Rivers and harbors.Contract work.Harbors and rivers, contract work: Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, including horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required and to be used only for official business, namely: Vol. 39, p. 391.For works authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1916, as follows: Delaware River.Philadelphia to the sea.Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For continuing improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, in completion of contract authorization, $300,000. Vol. 40, p. 906.For works authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1918, as follows: Key West, Fla.Harbor at Key West, Florida: For continuing improvement, $82,700. Flood control.Prosecuting work.Vol. 39, p. 948.Flood control: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917, as follows: 901 Mississippi River, $6,670,000, to remain available until expended.Mississippi River. Survey of northern and northwesternSurvey of northern and northwestern lakes. etc. lakes: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior,. Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessaryNew York canals. expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $125,000. California Debris Commission: For defraying the expenses of theCalifornia Debris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507 commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893, $15,000. Harbor of New York: For the prevention of obstructive and injuriousNew York Harbor.Preventing injurious deposits. deposits within the harbor and adjacent water, of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, and office forces and expenses of office, $14,260; For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $95,000; In all, $109,260. medical department.Medical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $150,000: *Provided*, That the Surgeon General of the Army is authorized to pay*Proviso*.Price. not exceeding $125 for each artificial limb or apparatus for resection furnished in kind hereafter under the provisions of section 4787,[R. S. sec. 4787, p. 929](/us/rs/s4787/p929). Revised Statutes, as amended. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances. to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, prior to April 6, 1917, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $500. Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitledTrusses.[R. S. sec. 1176, p. 211](/us/rs/s1176/p211).Vol. 20, p. 353. thereto under section 1176, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved March 3, 1879, $1,000. Medical and surgical history of the War with Germany: TowardMedical and surgical history of War with Germany.Preparation, etc. the preparation for publication under the direction of the Secretary of War of a medical and surgical history of the War with Germany, including printing and binding at the Government Printing Office and the necessary engravings and illustrations, $50,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limit of cost. That the total cost of such history shall not exceed $150,000. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,Support. as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay ofDayton, Ohio.Current expenses. officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and repairs not done by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice, payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Effects of deceased members. all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for902such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $62,000; Subsistence.Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; food supplies, except articles of special diet for the sick, purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; tobacco; dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, $325,000; Household.Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and their repair, if not repaired by the home; fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and repairs, if not repaired by the home, $182,000; Hospital.Hospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence; bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $115,000; Transportation.Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Repairs.Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads and other *Proviso*.Restriction on new buildings.improvements of a permanent character, $90,000: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; Farm.Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain, and grain products, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; animals purchased for stock or work (including animals in the park); gasoline; materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, park, and cemetery; and construction of roads and walks, and repairs not done by the home, $31,000; In all, $806,000. Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $50,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $170,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $90,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $56,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $500; 903 For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, $56,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $11,000; In all, $433,500. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, includingTogus, Me.Current expenses. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $119,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, $105,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $47,000; For transportation of members of the home, $500;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs.Unexpended balance,*Ante*, p. 191. for the Central Branch, $23,000, together with the unexpended balance of this appropriation, for this purpose, for the fiscal year 1920; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $19,000; In all, $356,500. Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, includingHampton, Va.Current expenses. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger vehicles, $20,000, together with not exceeding $30,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920; The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to transferTransfer of furniture from Army hospital. without charge to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for its use all the furniture and equipment in good condition, including hospital and medical supplies, quartermaster, motor transport and utilities, ordnance and Signal Corps property, at Army General Hospital Numbered Forty-three at Hampton, Virginia, which is not required by the Army. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $60,000, together with not exceeding $150,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for thisUnexpended balance.*Ante*, p. 191. purpose for the fiscal year 1920; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold.Unexpended balance. for the Central Branch, $50,000, together with not exceeding $50,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital.Unexpended balance. for the Central Branch, $29,000, together with not exceeding $28,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920; The unexpended balance of the appropriation for transportation ofTransportation.Unexpended balance. members of the home for the fiscal year 1920 is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1921; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs.Unexpended balance. for the Central Branch, $20,000, together with not exceeding $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm.Unexpended balance. the Central Branch, $3,000, together with not exceeding $7,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920; In all, $182,000. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses,Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $52,000; 904 Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $240,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $130,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $76,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $500; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $60,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $24,000; In all, $582,500. Santa Monica, Calif.Current expenses.Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $51,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $300,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $110,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $85,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $2,500; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $20,000; In all, $616,500. Marion, Ind.Current expenses.Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $145,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $72,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $52,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $300; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $19,000; In all, $376,300. Danville, Ill.Current expenses.Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $50,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $190,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $104,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $50,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $500; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $11,000; In all, $450,500. Johnson City, Tenn.Current expenses.Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000; 905 For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $150,000; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, $77,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $60,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,500;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, $35,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $23,000; In all, $393,500. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: ForHot Springs, S. Dak.Current expenses. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $25,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $59,000; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, $60,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under thisHospital. head for the Central Branch, $60,000; For transportation of members of the home, $2,000;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, $18,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $6,000; In all, $230,000. Clothing for all branches: For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps,Clothing, all branches. boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor, shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $275,000. Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; generalBoard of managers.Salaries, etc. treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, $5,000; inspector general and chief surgeon, $4,500; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector general, $3,500; assistant inspector general, $3,500; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector general and chief surgeon, $17,000; clerical services for managers, $2,700; traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $9,000; outside relief, $100; legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $1,700; in all, $51,500. In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $4,753,800. The following persons shall be entitled to the benefits of theAdditional admissions authorized. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the board of managers, namely: Honorably discharged officers, soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the regular, volunteer, or other forces of the United States in any war in which the country has been engaged, in campaigns against hostile Indians, or who served in any of the extraterritorial possessions of the United States, in foreign countries, including Mexican border service, or in the Organized Militia or National Guard when called into the Federal service, and who are disabled by diseases or wounds and by reason of such disability are either temporarily or permanently incapacitated from earning a living. To increase the comfort of the members, the Board of Managers,Assignment of eligibles to branch homes. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, is authorized to make such rules governing the assignment to the different branches906 of the various classes of those eligible to admission to the home as it deems advisable and best for the public service. Use of allotments for care of War Risk Insurance beneficiaries.*Ante*, p. 881.The allotments made by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for the care of beneficiaries of that bureau by the said board shall also be available for expenditure by the board on that account at such of the homes and for such of the objects of expenditure at such homes as are hereinbefore enumerated, including the sums allotted for alteration and improvement of existing facilities so as to provide adequate accommodations for the beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. State or Territorial homes.Aid to.Vol. 25, p. 450.*Ante*, p. 399.State and Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August 27, 1888, as amended, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, *Proviso*.Collections from inmates.$1,000,000: *Provided*, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. Back pay and bounty.back pay and bounty. Payment to Civil War volunteers.Vol. 14, p. 322.Commutation of rations.For arrears of pay of two and three years volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July 28, 1866, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year 1921, $1,000. War with Spain, etc.For arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the War with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officer of the Treasury during the fiscal year 1921 and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $500. Waterways transportation.transportation facilities on inland and coastwise waterways. Expense of operating canal and coastwise facilities.Vol. 40, p. 456.For additional expense incurred in the operation of boats, barges, tugs, and other transportation facilities on the inland, canal, and coastwise waterways acquired by the United States in pursuance of the fourth paragraph of section 6 of the Federal Control Act of *Proviso*.Employees in Department.*Ante*, p. 458.March 21, 1918: *Provided*, That not to exceed $17,680 of this appropriation may be used for the payment of experts, clerks, and other employees in the War Department in accordance with the provisions of section 201
(e)of the Transportation Act, 1920, approved February 28, 1920, $4,000,000. Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Public buildings.public buildings. Repairs to Department buildings.Repairs of buildings: For repairs of Patent Office Building, Pension Office Building, and of the General Land Office Building, including preservation and repair of steam-heating and electric-lighting plants and elevators, $30,000, of which sum not exceeding $8,500 may be expended for day labor except for work done by contract. 907 Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairsCapitol buildings.Repairs, etc.*Ante*, p. 673. thereof, including cleaning and repairing works of art, flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol and for Senate and House Office Buildings; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle; wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase and maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying office vehicles; and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $38,500. The appropriation for commencing the restoration of the floors ofRestoring floors of Capitol.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 194. the Capitol Building, contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, is continued and made available for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1921. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surroundingImproving grounds. the Capitol, Senate, and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $35,750. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, SenateRepairs to stables, etc. and House stables, and Maltby Building, including personal services, $1,000; this and the three foregoing sums may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended for purchases of articlesPurchases.Vol. 36, p. 531. without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments. For painting and repairing the exterior of the Court of ClaimsCourt of Claims.Repairs to building. building, and for every expenditure incident thereto, $4,700, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds. For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, District of Columbia,Courthouse, D. C.Repairs, etc. including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $2,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds and to be paid one-half out of theHalf from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 837. Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. public lands service.Public lands. Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registersRegisters and receivers. of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $450,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Consolidation of register and receiver.Broken Bow, Nebr. That the President is authorized to consolidate the offices of register and receiver at Broken Bow, Nebraska, and to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register for said office. All the powers, duties, obligations and penalties imposed by law upon both the register and receiver of said office shall be exercised by and imposed upon the register, whose compensation shall be a salary of $500 per annum, together with the fees and commissions otherwise allowable to both register and receiver, but the salary, fees and commissions of such register shall not exceed $3,000 per annum. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and otherContingent expenses. incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public money; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerksPer diem subsistence. detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914,Vol. 38, p. 680. and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided*, That no expenses chargeable*Proviso*.Expenditures restricted to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $375,000:908Clerks in Alaska*Provided further*, That the clerks employed hereunder in Alaska may be paid a compensation not to exceed $2,220 per annum. Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp land claims.*Ante*, p. 673.Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: For protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, including not exceeding $15,000 for clerical services in bringing up and making current the work of the General Land Office, $500,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and exchange of same and for operation and maintenance of *Provisos*.Service pay.a motor boat: *Provided*, That the compensation of the chief of field service employed hereunder, including his services in the District of Columbia, shall not exceed $3,500 per annum and the compensation of all others employed hereunder shall not exceed $2,700 per annum each, except in Alaska, where a compensation not to Per diem subsistence.exceed $3,000 per annum may be allowed: *Provided further*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation may be allowed Vol. 38, p. 680.per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, at a rate not exceeding $3.50 each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, except when Alaska service.agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per day each in lieu of subsistence. Oregon and California Railroad lands.Protecting.For the protection of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and Coos Bay Wagon Road lands: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the cooperation of the Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, as in his judgment may be most advisable, to establish Vol. 39, p. 218.and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the Act Coos Bay Wagon Road lands.Vol. 40, p. 1179.approved June 9, 1916, and the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company against United States (numbered 2711, in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit), $25,000. Hearings in land entries.Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands; whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law; and of *Proviso*.Fees for depositions.hearings in disbarment proceedings, $25,000: *Provided*, That where depositions are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 10 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request. Reproducing plats of surveys.Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys *Proviso*.Price to the public.prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $6,000: *Provided*, That hereafter photolithographic copies of township plats shall be sold to the public at 50 cents each. National forests.Advertising restoration of lands in.Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to advertise the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, $7,500. Opening Indian reservations to entryOpening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reser-909vation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1921: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Reimbursement. That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $7,500. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervisionSurveying.Expenses.*Ante*, p. 673.*Provisos*.Preferences. of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $700,000: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Act approved FebruaryVol. 25, p. 616.Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. 22, 1889, and the Acts approved July 3 and July 10, 1890, and to survey under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants, and including the survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior, and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, lands subject to disposition under mineral land laws where survey thereof is not otherwise provided for, lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, and including such retracements and re-marking of State boundaries as shall be found necessary in order to close the public land lines thereon. The surveys and resurveysPay of surveyors. provided for in this appropriation to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation, not exceeding $200 per month each, as he may prescribe, except in Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding $300 per month each may be allowed such surveyors, except that the Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed one supervisorSupervisor of surveys. of surveys, whose compensation shall not exceed $300 per month, and not to exceed ten surveyors who may be employed in a supervisory capacity, whose compensation shall not exceed $250 per month each, and such per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceedingPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. $3.50, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, said per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed hereunder and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or examinations ofResurveys, etc. surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States: *Provided further*, That theMetal section corners. sum of not exceeding 10 per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public land survey corners wherever practicable: *Provided further*,Field employees detailed to General Land Office. That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriation may be used for the survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-calledOregon and California Railroad lands, etc. Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands. 910 Pension Bureau.bureau of pensions. Expenses of retirement Act.*Ante*, p. 616.To enable the Bureau of Pensions to perform the duties imposed upon it by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, including personal services, purchase of books, office equipment, stationery and other supplies, printing, traveling expenses, and expenses of medical and other examinations, $50,000, of *Proviso*.Pay restriction.which sum $4,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,740 per annum except one at $2,000 and four at $1,800 each. Geological Survey.united states geological survey. Salaries, Director, etc.Office of Director: Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; librarian, $2,000; photographer, $2,000; assistant photographers—one $900, one $720; clerks—one of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, four at $900 each; four copyists, at $720 each; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $28,520. Scientific assistants.Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, one $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; chemist, $3,000; geographers—one $2,700, one $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 each; in all, $29,900. General expenses.*Ante*, p. 673.General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $30,000 for the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled Vehicles.and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, engineers, and land classifiers, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads: Topographic surveys.For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, including lands in national forests, $330,000; Geologic surveys.For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, $352,000; Chemical and physical researches.For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash salts, $40,000; Illustrations.For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $18,280; Mineral resources report.For preparation of the reports of the mineral resources of the United States, $125,000; Water supply.For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $180,000, of which $25,000 may be used to test the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies Boring wells.suitable for irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions by boring wells; Library.For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories and professional, and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, $2,000; Maps.For engraving and printing geologic maps, $ 125,000; Classifying lands for enlarged homesteads, etc.For the examination and classification of lands requisite to the determination of their suitability for enlarged homesteads, stock-raising homesteads, public watering places, and stock driveways, or other uses, as required by the public land laws, to be immediately available, $300,000; Water power production.Survey and investigation of.For a survey of power production and distribution in the United States, including the study of methods for the further utilization911of water power, and the special investigation of the possible economy of fuel, labor, and materials resulting from the use in the Boston- Washington industrial region of a comprehensive system for the generation and distribution of electricity to transportation lines and industries, and the preparation of reports thereon, $125,000. TheAcceptance of contributions. Secretary of the Interior is authorized to receive any sums which may be contributed for this purpose. Such sums shall be deposited in the Treasury and credited to the appropriation herein made and be available for expenditure for the purposes thereof. In all, United States Geological Survey, $1,655,700. bureau of mines.Bureau of Mines. For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessaryGeneral expenses, salaries, etc.*Ante*, p. 673. assistants, clerks, and other employees, in the office in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in the District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $76,900; For investigations as to the causes of mine explosions, methods ofInvestigating mine explosions, etc. mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $409,065; For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral productsInvestigating mineral fuels, etc. belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use, and to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use ofEconomic use in departments, etc. fuel as may result in greater economy, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $142,510; For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerningInquiries, etc., for improving mining conditions. the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Private work forbidden. That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party, $125,000; For inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation,Petroleum and natural gas investigations. treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting the industry, including equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel, and subsistence, $135,000; Not exceeding 20 per centum of the preceding sums for investigationPersonal services, D. C.Allowances for, from specified investigations. as to the causes of mine explosions; for inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances; for inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas; and not exceeding 30 per centum of the preceding sums for investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States may be used during the fiscal year 1921 for personal service in the District of Columbia; The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of theDetails from Public Health Service. Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation912work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of the officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines; Mining experiment stations.Expenses.Vol. 38, p. 959.For the employment of personal services and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, authorized by the Act approved March 3, 1915, $200,000; Pittsburgh. Pa., experiment station.Maintenance, etc.For care and maintenance of the buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, including personal services, the operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles for official use, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, $50,000; Mine rescue cars.Operating expenses.Vol. 38, p. 959.For operation of mine rescue cars, including personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, equipment and supplies, authorized by the Act approved March 3, 1915; to be available for expenditure on any preliminary work that may be found necessary in connection with such cars as are to be purchased prior to the time of their actual delivery, $154,667; Mine inspector, Alaska.For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000; For clerk to mine inspector of Alaska, $1,500; For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding $4 when absent on official business from his designated headquarters, and for actual necessary traveling and contingent expenses of said inspector and clerk, $2,500; Library.For technical and scientific books and publications and books of reference, $1,500; Headquarters for rescue cars, etc.For the purchase or lease of necessary land, where and under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for headquarters of mine rescue cars and construction of necessary railway sidings and housing for the same, or as the site of an experimental *Proviso*.Acceptance of donated lands, etc.mine and a plant for studying explosives, $1,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept any suitable land or lands, buildings, or improvements that may be donated for said purpose and to enter into leases for periods not exceeding ten years, subject to annual appropriations by Congress; Billings, Mont.Sale of former rescue station at.Authority is granted the Secretary of the Interior to sell at public auction lots one, two, and three, block one hundred and twenty, with any improvements thereon, of the original town site of Billings, Montana, which were used as a United States mine rescue station; the proceeds of said sale to be deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts; Temporary details of field employees in District of Columbia.Persons employed during the fiscal year 1921 in field work outside of the District of Columbia under the Bureau of Mines may be detailed temporarily for service in the District of Columbia, for purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only their actual traveling expenses or per diem in lieu of subsistence *Proviso*.Payment of necessary expenses.in going to and returning therefrom: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines of their necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu of subsistence while on temporary detail in the District of Columbia, for purposes only of Report to be made.consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States. All details made hereunder, and the purposes of each, during the preceding fiscal year shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof Government Fuel Yards, District of Columbia.Purchase of fuel, maintenance, etc.Government fuel yards: For the purchase and transportation of fuel; storing and handling of fuel in yards; maintenance and operation of yards and equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors, purchase of equipment, rentals,913and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia, the unexpendedBalance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 199. balance of the appropriation made for these purposes for the fiscal year 1920 is reappropriated and made available for such purposes for the fiscal year 1921, and of such sum not exceeding $500 shall be available to settle claims for damages caused to private propertyDamage claims.*Proviso*.Sales accredited to appropriation, etc. by motor vehicles used in delivering fuel: *Provided*, That all moneys received from the sales of fuel during the fiscal year 1921 shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph; Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior may have sand, gravel,Use yard trucks for municipal hauling, etc. stone, and other material hauled for the municipal government of the District of Columbia and for branches of the Federal service in the District of Columbia, whenever it may be practicable and economical to have such work performed by using trucks of the Government fuel yards not needed at the time for the hauling of fuel. Payment for such work shall be made on the basis of thePayment of cost. actual cost to the Government fuel yards; Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to deliver,Deliveries prior io fiscal year. during the months of April, May, and June of each year, to all branches of the Federal service and the municipal government in the District of Columbia, such quantities of fuel for their use during the following fiscal year as it may be practicable to store at the points of consumption, payment therefor to be made by these branches of the Federal service and municipal government from their applicable appropriations for such fiscal year; During the fiscal year 1921, the head of any department orScientific investigations, etc., for departments, etc., by Bureau. independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of Mines 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 the Interior, transfer to the Bureau of Mines such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. TheTransfer of funds, etc. Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Mines for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made; In all, Bureau of Mines, $1,302,642. reclamation service.Reclamation Service. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund inPayments from reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388. the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated “the reclamation fund”: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902 (32dAll expenses. Statutes, page 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including salariesObjects specified. in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds for overcollections heretofore or hereafter received on account of water-right charges, rentals, and deposits for other purposes; printing and binding; law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications, not exceeding $1,500; purchase, maintenance, andVehicles. operation of horse-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, opera-914tion, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior; and payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior: Projects designated.Salt River, Ariz.Salt River project, Arizona: For examination of project and project accounts, $1,000; Yuma, Ariz.-Calif.Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $435,000; Orland, Calif.Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $120,000; Grand Valley, Colo.Grand Valley project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $208,000; Uncompahgre, Colo.Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $174,000; Boise, Idaho.*Provisos*.Drainage restrictions.Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $774,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for drainage except in irrigation districts formed under State laws and upon the execution of agreements for the repayment to the United States of Pending litigation not affected.the costs thereof: *Provided further*, That the foregoing proviso shall not be construed as an expression of opinion by the Congress upon the litigation pending between the Government and the settlers on such project or in any manner prejudice such litigation; King Hill, Idaho.King Hill project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $320,000: *Proviso*.Limitation.*Provided*, That no expenditure shall be made from this appropriation that will bring the total expenditure for the King Hill project to an amount in excess of the amount stipulated in contract dated December 17, 1917, between the King Hill irrigation district and the Secretary of the Interior providing for the construction of the King Hill project by the United States Reclamation Service, unless and until a supplemental agreement has been executed by the King Hill irrigation district guaranteeing the reimbursement to the United States of the total amounts expended on the project; Minidoka, Idaho.Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $317,000, together *Ante*, p. 201.with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1920; Huntley, Mont.Huntley project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $129,000; Milk River, Mont.Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $552,000; Sun River, Mont.Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $148,000; Lower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak.Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $83,000; North Platte, Nebr.- Wyo.North Platte project, Nebrasks-Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,000,000; Newlands, Nev.Newlands project, Nevada: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $664,000; Carlsbad, N. Mex.Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $108,000; Rio Grande, N. Mex.-Tex.Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, *Ante*, p. 201.$1,000,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1920; 915 North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota: For maintenance,North Dakota pumping. operation, and incidental operations, $119,000; Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, continuationUmatilla, Oreg. of construction, and incidental operations, $170,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance,Klamath, Oreg.- Calif. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $289,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation*Ante*, p. 201. for this project for the fiscal year 1920; Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For operation and maintenance,Belle Fourche, S. Dak. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $120,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1920; Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For operation and maintenance,*Ante*, p. 201. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $86,000; Okanogan project, Washington: For operation and maintenance,Strawberry Valley, Utah. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $666,000: Okanogan, Wash.*Provided*, That no part of the moneys hereby appropriated shall become*Proviso*.Restriction on constructing pumping plant. available for the construction of a permanent pumping plant until such action has been taken as may be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior to relieve the lands of the Okanogan project from liability for the obligations of the Methow-Okanogan irrigation district to the extent deemed necessary by the said Secretary to fully safeguard the security of the United States for the funds invested in the project. Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, continuationYakima, Wash. of construction, and incidental operations, $351,000; Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, continuationShoshone, Wyo. of construction, and incidental operations, $459,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for*Ante*, p. 201. the fiscal year 1920; Riverton project, Wyoming: For the reclamation of lands withinRiverton, Wyo. and in the vicinity of the ceded portion of the Wind River or Shoshone Reservation, including operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $100,000: *Provided*, That said*Proviso*.Fixing charges, etc. lands shall be subject to all the charges, terms, conditions, provisions, and limitations of the Reclamation Act and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, and suitable provision shall be made by the Secretary of the interior in fixing the charges to provide for reimbursement of the entire expenditure in accordance with the reclamation law and other laws applicable to said lands; Secondary projects: For cooperative and other miscellaneous investigations,Secondary projects. $50,000; Imperial Valley irrigation investigation: For investigation and surveysImperial Valley, Calif.Expenses of investigations.*Ante*, p. 600. of irrigation possibilities, Imperial Valley, California, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for all other expenses authorized by the Act of May 18, 1920, $20,000; Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended,Expenditures limited to specific allotments. nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year 1921, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1921 exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for that fiscal year; Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeablyInterchangeable amounts. for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects; Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, the DirectorUse of motor vehicles for traveling. of the Reclamation Service shall find that the expenses of travel can be reduced thereby, he may, in lieu of actual traveling expenses, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to916exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile, used for necessary travel on official business; In all, for the Reclamation Service, $8,463,000. Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash.Reimbursing fund for water furnished to lands in.Vol. 38, p. 604.For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 604), there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $11,000. Miscellaneous.testimony in disbarment proceedings. Disbarment proceedings.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices, $300, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Alaska.territory of alaska. Alaska Engineering Commission Railroad construction, etc.Vol. 38, p. 305.*Ante*, p. 293.Alaskan Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved March 12, 1914, as amended, including expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations in Alaska, and including a plant for cleaning coal, $7,000,000, to continue available until expended. Sale of supplies, etc., to employees.Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year 1921, from the appropriation made for the construction and operation of railroads in Alaska, articles and supplies for sale to employees and contractors, the appropriation to be reimbursed by the proceeds of such sales Receipts from sales, etc., to be credited to construction account.During the fiscal year 1921 there shall be covered into the appropriation established from time to time under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved March 12, 1914, as amended, the proceeds of the sale of material utilized for temporary work and structures in connection with the operations under said Act, as well as the sales of all other condemned property which has been purchased or constructed under the provisions thereof, also any moneys refunded in connection with the construction and operations under said Act, and a report hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of its next session. Care of insane.Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, *Proviso*.Payment to Sanitarium Company.$120,630: *Provided*, That authority is granted to the Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, not to exceed $540 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1921. Education of natives.Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees; and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under *Provisos*.Pay restriction.the above special heads, $275,000: *Provided*, That no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or917unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding $200 per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated and actual post of duty: *Provided*Services in District of Columbia. further, That of said sum not exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposesSupervision of expenditures. in Alaska for schools other than those for the education of white children under the jurisdiction of the governor thereof shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditures of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior,Medical and sanitary relief. in his discretion and under his direction, with the advice and cooperation of the Public Health Service, to provide for the medical and sanitary relief of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, purchase, repair, rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; books and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $90,000. Patients who are not indigent may be admitted to the hospitalsAdmission of pay patients. for care and treatment on the payment of such reasonable charges therefor as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in AlaskaReindeer. and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, $6,400: *Provided*, That the Commissioner of Education is*Proviso*.Sale of males, etc. authorized to sell such of the male reindeer belonging to the Government as he may deem advisable and to use the proceeds in the purchase of female reindeer belonging to missions and in the distribution of reindeer to natives in those portions of Alaska in which reindeer have not yet been placed and which are adapted to the reindeer industry. Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the Act approvedProtection of game.Vol. 35, p. 102. May 11, 1908, entitled “An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, $25,000, to be expended under the direction of the Governor of Alaska. Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic inSuppressing liquor traffic. intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000. Exportation of birch timber: Hereafter birch timber may be exportedBirch timber.Exportation of, permitted. from Alaska. national parks.National Parks. National Park Service: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500;Director of National Park Service, etc. chief clerk, $2,000; editor, $2,000; draftsman, $1,800; accountant, $1,800; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, one $1,020, two at $900 each; messenger, $600; in all, for park service in the District of Columbia, $27,420. Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior in his administration ofAcceptance of donated lands, etc., for parks and monuments. the National Park Service is authorized, in his discretion, to accept patented lands, rights of way over patented lands or other lands, buildings, or other property within the various national parks and nation monuments, and moneys which may be donated for the purposes of the national park and monument system. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection,Crater Lake, Oreg. maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $600918for the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger- carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $25,300. General Grant, Calif.General Grant National Park, California: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $5,300. Glacier, Mont.Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and to the International Boundary, including not exceeding $1,000 for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $95,000. Grand Canyon, Ariz.Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, maintenance, improvement, and the acquisition of lands for road and trail rights of way within the park, including not exceeding $1,000 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and *Proviso*.On toll roads forbidden.employees in connection with general park work, $60,000: *Provided*, That no expenditure shall be made in the maintenance or improvement of any toll road or toll trail. Hawaii.Hawaii National Park: For expenses incident to securing donations of patented lands and rights of way over patented lands in Hawaii National Park, $1,000. Hot Springs Reservation, Ark.New buildings.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 204.Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: The unexpended balance on June 30, 1920, of the appropriation and authorization contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 for the construction of a new administration and Government free bathhouse building is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal Acceptance of donated sites.year 1921. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to use such appropriation and authorization in the construction of separate buildings for administration and free bathhouse purposes and to accept sites in the city of Hot Springs which may be donated for said buildings. Assessment of specified charges for water.The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to assess and collect from physicians, who desire to prescribe the hot waters from the Hot Springs Reservation, reasonable charges for the exercise of such privilege, including fees for examination and registration; and he is also authorized to assess and collect from bath attendants and masseurs operating in all bathhouses receiving hot water from the reservation, reasonable charges for the exercise of such privileges. The moneys received from the exercise of this authority shall be used in the protection and improvement of the said reservation. Lafayette, Me.Lafayette National Park, Maine: For administration, maintenance, protection, and improvement, including not exceeding $600 for maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for use in administration of the park, $20,000. Lassen Volcanic, Calif.Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For protection and improvement, $2,500. Mesa Verde, Colo.Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees, $14,000. Mount Rainier, Wash.Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the superintendent and park employees in connection with general park work, $40,000, of which sum $1,500 shall be immediately available for the installation and repair of telephone lines. 919 National Monuments: For the administration, protection, maintenance,National Monuments.Protection, etc. preservation, and improvement of the national monuments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $8,000. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection,Platt, Okla. maintenance, improvement and extension of sewer system, including the purchase of a wagon and team of mules for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work and the purchase of provender therefor, $9,000. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration,Rocky Mountain, Colo. protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $40,000. Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, protection,Sequoia, Calif. maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven, passenger- carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with with general park work, and not exceeding $3,000 for the construction of a building for administration purposes at Giant Forest, $36,000. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration,Wind Cave, S. Dak. protection, maintenance, and improvement, $5,000. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection,Yellowstone, Wyo. maintenance, and improvement, including not to exceed $8,400 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, not to exceed $7,600 for the purchase, operation, maintenance, and. repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and including feed for buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $278,000, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That not exceeding*Proviso*.Snow removal. $2,000 may be expended for the removal of snow from any of the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the tourist season. Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection,Yosemite, Calif. maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,800 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $300,000. Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, maintenance,Zion, Utah. and improvement, $7,300. Saint Elizabeths Hospital, D. C.saint elizabeths hospital. For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths HospitalMaintenance. of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, civilians in the quartermaster’s service of the Army, persons transferred from the Canal Zone, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for the use of the superintendent,Vehicles. purchasing agent, and general hospital business, not exceeding $16,500; and not exceeding $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the general hospital business, $1,000,000; and not exceed-920ing $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends, not exceeding $1,000 in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients. Deputy disbursing agent authorized.Authority is granted to appoint a deputy disbursing agent who shall give a bond satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, and who shall have the same power as the disbursing agent during the absence of that officer. Buildings and grounds.For general repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $80,000. For hydrotherapeutic apparatus and baths, $15,000. For construction of a garage, $15,000. For construction of a sun parlor, $20,000. Columbia Institution for the Deaf.columbia institution for the deaf. Maintenance.For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $90,000. Repairs.For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $8,500. Women’s dormitory.For painting and equipping new women’s dormitory building, and finishing grading and walks adjacent thereto, $5,000. Howard University.howard university. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, ice and stationery, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than $1,500 shall be used for normal instruction, $90,000; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $20,000; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $1,500; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, $32,500; Home economics building.For home economics building, to include dining hall and kitchen, $85,000; Medical department.Medical department: For part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $7,000; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, biological, and natural-history studies and use in laboratories of the science hall, including cases and shelving, $2,000; Fuel and light.Fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University, including necessary labor to care for and operate the same, $5,000; In all, $243,000. Freedmen’s Hospital.freedmen’s hospital. Salaries, etc.For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed $3,000, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $40,020. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress; Contingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 673.For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $54,500; In all, $94,520. 921 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. public buildings.Penitentiaries. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: The appropriation of $150,000Atlanta, Ga.Working capital fund reappropriated, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 897, 1035. for the fiscal year 1919, for a working capital fund, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1921; and the said working capital fund and all receipts credited thereto may be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1921. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For continuing construction,Leavenworth, Kans.Construction. $100,000, to remain available until expended, and to be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shallUse for other buildings forbidden. not be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional buildings, other than those specifically provided for herein, at any Federal penitentiary. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous. Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000;Conduct of customs cases.Assistant Attorney-General, attorneys, etc.Vol. 36, p. 108. special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by subsection 30 of section 28 of the Act of August 5, 1909; necessary clerical assistance and other employees atServices, supplies, etc. the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, Supreme Court Reports and Digests, Federal Reporter and Digests, printing, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $65,000. For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnessesWitnesses, Board of General Appraisers. before the Board of United States General Appraisers, $2,000. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessaryDefending suits in claims. expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring evidence in the matter of claims against the United States, including Indian depredation claims and such other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, and including not exceeding $500 for law books which shall be available to keep current existing sets of United States Supreme Court reports, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $50,000. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecutionDetection and prosecution of crimes. of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, referees, and trustees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President of theProtection of the President. United States; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice or the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to sectionPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. 13 of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, including not to exceed $200,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, and including a Director of the Bureau ofDirector of Bureau of Investigation. Investigation at not exceeding $7,500 per annum, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $2,000,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Advances. That this appropriation shall be available for advances to be made by the disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice when authorized and approved by the Attorney General, the provisions of section9223648 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided Special agents authorized.further*, That for the purpose of executing the duties for which provision is made by this appropriation, the Attorney General is Designation.authorized to appoint officials who shall be designated “special agents of the Department of Justice,” and who shall be vested with the authority necessary for the execution of such duties. Inspection of prisons, etc.Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of United States prisons and prisoners, and for the collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records and their exchange with the officials of State and other institutions, including salary of the assistant superintendent of prisons, $2,500; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $11,000. Traveling, etc., expenses.Advances.Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of section 3648, [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500. Enforcing antitrust laws.Vol. 38, p. 730.Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including not exceeding $10,000 for clerical services and not exceeding $40,000 for compensation of attorneys at the seat of government, $100,000, together with the unexpended balance of the *Provisos*.Use for prosecuting labor organizations, etc., forbidden.appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920: *Provided*, however, That no part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in Association of farmers, etc.furtherance thereof, not in itself unlawful: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products and associations of farmers who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products. Oil lands.Expenses of suits affecting withdrawn.Suits affecting withdrawn oil lands: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting withdrawn oil lands and for expenses in connection therewith, including salaries of necessary employees in the District of Columbia, $65,000. Conveyances, Five Civilized Tribes.Suits to set aside.Suits for removal of restrictions, allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes: For necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $7,500. Enforcing interstate commerce laws.Vol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 38, p. 219; Vol. 40, p. 272.*Ante*, p. 474.Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce: For expenses of representing the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February 4, 1887, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees in the District of Columbia, $10,000. Federal Court Reports and Digests.Federal Court Reports and Digests: For one hundred and eighty-one copies of continuations of the Federal Reporter, as issued, estimated at ten volumes per year, to continue sets now furnished various officials, at $2 per volume, $3,620. For district attorney, southern district of New York.For two copies each of volumes ten and eleven of the Federal Reporter Digest to continue two sets in the hands of the United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, at $5 per volume, $20. Lawyers Edition, Volume 64.For fifteen copies of volume 64 of the Lawyers’ Edition of the Supreme Court Reports, including advance sheets to continue the sets now in the hands of certain officials, at $7.50 per volume, $112.50. Supreme Court Reports, for South Carolina western district.For one complete set of Supreme Court Reports, official edition, volumes 1 to 256, inclusive, and digest thereof for United States District Court, Anderson, South Carolina, $568.05. 923 Protecting interests of the United States in suits affecting PacificPacific railroad suits.Expenses. railroads: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific Tailroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, $10,000. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States Courts For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and theirMarshals.Salaries and expenses. deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska, services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the office of United States marshal for the District of Columbia, $2,061,000. AdvancesAdvances. to United States marshals, in accordance with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made prior to July 1, 1920, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year 1920, or prior years: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Cost of keeping attached vessels. there snail be paid hereunder any necessary cost of keeping vessels or other property attached or libeled in admiralty in such amount as the court, on petition setting forth the facts under oath, may allow *Provided further*, That marshals and office deputy marshals (exceptPer diem subsistence.Vol. 29, p. 183. in the District of Alaska) may be granted a per diem of not to exceed $4 and $3, respectively, in lieu of subsistence, instead of, but under the conditions prescribed for, the present allowance for actual expenses of subsistence. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys.Salaries and expenses. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and forServices during vacancies. salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $730,000: *Provided*, That United States*Proviso*.Per diem subsistence. district attorneys and their regular assistants may be granted a per diem of not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, instead of, but under the conditions prescribed for, the present allowance for actual expenses of subsistence. For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who areRegular assistants. appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $500,000: *Provided*, That except as otherwise prescribed by law the*Proviso*.Compensation.Vol. 29, p. 181. compensation of such of the assistant district attorneys authorized by section 8 of the Act approved May 28, 1896, as the Attorney General may deem necessary, may be fixed at not exceeding $3,000 per annum. For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States districtAssistants in special cases. attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and including not to exceed $30,000 for clerical help for such assistants, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by theForeign counsel.Oath.[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section 366, Revised Statutes of the United States), $450,000, to be available for expenditure in the District of Columbia. For salaries of clerks of United States district courts, their deputies,Clerks.Salaries, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1182. and other assistants, expenses of travel and subsistence, and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 26, 1919, $990,000: *Provided*, That the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix the*Proviso*.Clerk, supreme court, D. C. salaries of the clerks of the United States district courts and to provide for their office expenses, and for other purposes,” approved924February 26, 1919, shall be applicable on and after July 1, 1920, to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, excepting Appointment.that said clerk shall be appointed as heretofore by the Chief Justice of said Court. Fees.For fees of clerks, $6,000. Commissioners, etc.[R. S., sec 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes of the United States, $200,000. Jurors.For fees of jurors, $1,150,000. Witnesses.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $1,200,000. Rent of court rooms.For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, $55,000. Bailiffs, etc.For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern *Provisos*.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).Attendance.district of Illinois: *Provided*, That all persons employed under section 715 of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *Provided Traveling expenses of judges.further*, That no such person shall be employed during vacation; expenses of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United States in Alaska, Porto Vol. 36, p. 1161.Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by section 259 of the Act approved March 3, 1911, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the Jury expenses.laws relating to the judiciary”; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, In Alaska.Vol. 31, p. 363.Jury commissioners.when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, Title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900; and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $250,000. Miscellaneous.For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, $500,000. Supplies.For supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $75,000. Support of prisoners, etc.For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and not exceeding $2,500 for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $870,000. Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.Subsistence.Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including supplies from the prison stores for warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $250,000; Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including materials for making clothing at the penitentiary; gratuities for prisoners at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona925fide residence in the United States, or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on official duty; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, $100,000; For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the AttorneyMiscellaneous. General, fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; not exceeding $500 for maintenance and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; labor and materials for repairing steam heating plant, electric plant, and water circulation, and drainage; labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings, general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; advertising in newspapers; fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental conditions of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; pay of extra guards or employees when deemed necessary by the Attorney General: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Live stock. live stock may be exchanged or traded when authorized by the Attorney General, $150,000; For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies,Hospital. and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $8,000; For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—oneSalaries. $1,500, one $1,200; physician, $1,800; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,800; record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,000, four at $900 each; head cook, $1,000; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; three captains of watch, at $1,500 each; guards, $124,800; two teamsters, at $600 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; in all, $159,000; For foreman, laundryman, tailor, printer, and shoemaker, when necessary, $4,300; In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $671,300. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including theAtlanta, Ga.Subsistence. same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $165,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, includingClothing, transportation, etc. the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $90,000; For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specifiedMiscellaneous. under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and not exceeding $1,000 for motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle and not exceeding $25 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $120,000; For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified underHospital. this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $5,500;. For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—oneSalaries. $1,500, one $1,200; chief clerk, $1,800; physician, $1,800; phar-926macist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; bookkeeper and record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,000, four at $900 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; two teamsters, at $600 each; head cook, $1,000; three captains of watch, at $1,500 each; guards, $84,320; in all, $118,520; For foremen, tailor, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000; In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $503,020. McNeil Island, Wash.Subsistence.McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $35,000; Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $20,000; Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $27,500; Hospital.For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $1,000; Salaries.For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, $1,600; steward and cook, $1,000; chief clerk, 1,200; stenographer, $900; captain of watch, $1,500; engineer and electrician, $1,200; superintendent of boats, $1,200; chaplain and teacher, $1,000; guards, $18,400; in all, $31,200. National Training School for Boys, D. C.Salaries.In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $114,700. National Training School for Boys: Superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent, $1,500; teachers and assistants, $13,620; chief clerk, $1,000; nurse, $900; matron of school and nurse, at $600 each; storekeeper and steward, $720; farmer, $660; baker, $660; tailor, $720; parole officer, $900; office clerk, $720; assistant office clerk, $480; physical director, $720; seven matrons of families, at $240 each; foremen of shop and skilled helpers, $4,200; assistant farmer and assistant engineer, at $420 each; laundress, $360; teamster, $420; florist, $540; engineer and shoemaker, at $600 each; cook, $600; dining-room attendants—boys $300, officers $240; housemaid, $216; seamstress, $240; assistant cook, $300; watchmen, not to exceed nine in number, $3,780; secretary and treasurer, $900; janitor, $420; in all, $42,536; Maintenance.For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books and periodicals, stationery, printing, entertainments, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, fencing, roads, all repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $2,000, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $25,000; In all, National Training School for Boys, $67,536. Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Lighthouse Bureau.lighthouse service. General expenses.Objects specified.General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage,927fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of on or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*, That any*Provisos*.Cost of buildings limited. oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall not exceed $550 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $500 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots; restoringRestoring stations. light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith: *Provided*,Limit. That such restoration shall be limited to the original purpose of the structures; wages of persons attending post lights; temporary employees, and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for keepers of lighthouses,Rations, etc. working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year; fuel and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals;Purchase of sites, etc. rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling expenses; mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000; traveling and subsistence expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses; all other contingent expenses of district officesContingent expenses. and depots; and not exceeding $8,500 for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in the District of Columbia,Bureau office expenses. $4,200,000. Hereafter post-lantern lights and other aids to navigation may beYukon River, etc., Alaska.Aids to navigation authorized. established and maintained, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Lighthouses, on the Yukon River and its tributaries, Alaska. The cost thereof shall be paid out of the annual appropriations for the Lighthouse Service. Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousandKeepers. eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and persons attending lights exclusive of post lights, $1,300,000. Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews ofLighthouse vessels. light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $1,800,000. Superintendents, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeenSuperintendents, etc. superintendents of lighthouses, and of clerks and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, District of Columbia, $400,000. For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the fieldRetired pay.Vol. 40, p. 608. service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $70,000. 928 Coast and Geodetic Survey.coast and geodetic survey. Expenses.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, and for the purchase of surveying instruments, including extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service while observing tides or currents, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $3 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Field expenses.Atlantic and Gulf coasts.*Proviso*.Limit for islands, etc.Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided*, That not more than $45,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $104,000; Pacific coast.For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, $255,570; Physical hydrography.For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $15,000; Coast Pilot.For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $5,600; Magnetic observations, etc.For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic instruments; lease of sites where necessary and erection of temporary magnetic building continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; establishing lines of exact levels in Alaska; determination of geographical positions, by triangulation or traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the interior of the United States and Alaska; determination of field astronomic positions; for continuing gravity observations; and including the employment in the field and office of such magnetic observers, at salaries not exceeding $2,200 per annum, as may be necessary, $134,560; Special surveys.For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $4,550; Miscellaneous.For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field and Reimbursement for relief of shipwrecked persons, etc.office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $550; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the director, and not exceeding $500 for the expenses of the attendance of the American International Research Council.delegates at the meetings of the International Research Council or of its branches, $5,000; 929 In all, field expenses, $524,280. Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels,Vessels.Repairs, etc. including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $64,000. For alterations to vessels transferred from the Navy Department, $14,600. For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, includingOfficers and crews. professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $528,000. Pay, commissioned officers: For pay and allowances prescribed byCommissioned officers.Pay, etc., to correspond with relative Navy rank.Rank designated.*Ante*, p. 825. law for commissioned officers on sea duty and other duty, holding relative rank with officers of the Navy, including one director with rank of captain, two hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of captain, seven hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of commander, nine hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant commander, thirty-eight hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant, fifty-five junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant (junior grade), twenty-nine aids with relative rank of ensign, and including officers retired in accordance with existing law, $510,797: *Provided*, That the title of “superintendent” of the United*Provisos*.Title of superintendent changed to director. States Coast and Geodetic Survey is hereby changed to “director,” but this change shall not affect the status of the present incumbent or require his reapppointment: *Provided further*, That the SecretaryAssistant director. of Commerce may designate one of the hydrographic and geodetic engineers to act as assistant director. Office force: Disbursing agent, $3,000; chief of section of librarySalaries.Office force, clerks, etc. and archives, $1,800; clerk to director, $1,800; chief of printing and sales, $2,000; clerks—three at $1,800 each, three at $1,650 each, four at $1,400 each, eleven at $1,200 each, fifteen at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; Topographic and hydrographic draftsmen: Two at $2,900 each,Draftsmen. three at $2,460 each, six at $2,260 each, six at $2,060 each, three at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, two copyist draftsmen at $1,200 each; Astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers: OneComputers. $3,000, three at $2,460 each, two at $2,360 each, three at $2,260 each, four at $2,060 each, four at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, eleven at $1,400 each; Copperplate engravers: One $2,500, two at $2,400 each, three atEngravers. $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each; Engravers and apprentices at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600; Instrument makers: Mechanical engineer $3,000, one $1,800, oneInstrument makers. $1,600 five at $1,400 each; Pattern makers and carpenters: Three at $1,400 each, two carpentersPattern makers, etc. and painters at $900 each; Lithographers, lithographic draftsmen, transferers, lithographicPrinting employees. pressmen and their helpers, plate printers and their helpers, and other skilled laborers: Two at $2,200 each, two at $2,000 each, one $1,900, one $1,800, one $1,600, eight at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, one $1,100, five at $900 each; Photographers: One $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,200;Photographers. Engineer, electricians, dynamo tenders, and electrotypers: OneEngineers, watchmen, etc. $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,200, four at $1,080 each; Watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers: Three at $880 each, ten at $840 each, four at $820 each, three at $720 each, four at $700 each; plumber and steamfitter, $1,200; In all, pay of office force, $308,270. 930 Office expenses.Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments (except surveying instruments), including their exchange, materials, equipment and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division; books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference; maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electro typing supplies; photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; including the employment in the District of Columbia of such personal services, other than clerical, as *Ante*, p. 684.may be necessary for the prompt preparation of charts, not to exceed $7,000; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; office wagon and horses or automobile truck; heating, lighting, and power; telephones, including operation of switchboard; telegrams, ice, and washing; office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of officers and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and not exceeding $4,000 for extra labor, $90,000. Skylight over pressroom.For skylight over pressroom, $1,500. Subsistence allowances restricted.Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. Transfer of historical instruments.The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to transfer, under such rules and regulations as he may deem advisable, to educational institutions and to museums, such instruments of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as, in his judgment, are of historical value but of no further use in the work of that survey, except such historical instruments as may be needed by the Smithsonian Institution for exhibit at the National Museum. Fisheries Bureau.bureau of fisheries. Commissioner, deputy, etc.Commissioner’s office: Commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner, $3,500; assistants in charge of divisions—fish culture $2,700, inquiry respecting food fishes $2,700, fishery industries $2,500; assistants— one in charge of office $2,500, one $2,500, one $2,400, one for developing fisheries and for saving and use of fishery products $2,400, one $2,220, one for fishery food laboratory $2,000, one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,600, two at $1,200 each; fish pathologist, $2,500; architect and engineer, $2,200; assistant architect, $1,600; draftsman, $1,200; accountant, $2,100; librarian, $1,500; superintendent of car and messenger service, $1,600; clerks—four of class four, six of class three, one to commissioner $1,600, seven of class two, twelve of class one, two at $900 each (including one for Seattle office); statistical agents—one $1,600, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,000 each; local agents—one at Boston $600, one at Gloucester $600, one at Seattle $600; engineer, $1,080; three firemen, at $720 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; five janitors and messengers at $720 each; janitress, $480; messenger boy, $360; five charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $114,840. Alaska service.Pribilof Islands.Alaska service: Pribilof Islands—superintendent, $2,400; two agents and caretakers at $2,000 each; assistant to agent, $1,200; two physicians at $1,800 each; three school-teachers at $1,200 each; At large.two storekeepers at $1,800 each; Alaska service at large—agent. $2,500; assistant agents—two at $2,000 each, one $1,800, one $1,500; inspector, $1,800; wardens—one $1,200, seven at $1,000 each; in all, $38,200. 931 Employees at large: Field assistant, $3,000; two field stationEmployees at large. superintendents, at $1,800 each; field assistants—one $1,500, one $1,200; fish-culturists—two at $960 each, two at $900 each; six machinists, at $960 each; two coxswains, at $720 each; in all, $20,220. Distribution
(car)employees: Five captains, at $1,400 each; sixDistribution employees. messengers, at $1,100 each; five assistant messengers, at $1,000 each; five apprentice messengers, at $840 each; five cooks, at $720 each; in all, $26,400. Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,Station employees.Afognak, Alaska. $1,200; two fish-culturists, at $960 each; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fish-culturists,Alpena, Mich. $900; in all, $2,100. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Superintendent,Baird and Battle Creek, Calif. $1,500; foreman, $1,080; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,280. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturistsBaker Lake, Wash. at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Beaufort (North Carolina) Biological Station: Superintendent andBeaufort, N. C. director, $1,500; scientific assistant, $1,400; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturist, $600; in all, $4,400. Berkshire (Massachusetts) Trout Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500;Berkshire, Mass. fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Boothbay Harbor, Me. $900; engineer, $1,100; apprentice fish-culturists—one $780, two at $600 each; three firemen, at $600 each; custodian of lobster pounds, $720; in all, $8,000. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,Bozeman, Mont. $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,800. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360.Bryans Point, Md. Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fireman,Cape Vincent, N. Y. $720; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4,140. Clackamas (Oregon) and subsidiary stations: Superintendent,Clackamas, Oreg. $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fishculturists— three at $720 each, two at $600 each; in all, $6,960. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Cold Springs, Ga. $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Craig Brook, Me. $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists,Duluth, Minn. at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Edenton, N. C. $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Erwin, Tenn. $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Fairport
(Iowa)Biological Station: Director, $1,800; superintendentFairport, Iowa. of fish-culture, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; shell expert, $1,200; clerk, $900; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $12,600. 932 Gloucester, Mass.Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; fireman, $720; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,920. Green Lake, Me.Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Homer, Minn.Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $8,700. Key West, Fla.Key West (Florida) Biological Station: Superintendent, $1,800; engineer, $1,000; laboratory aid, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,800. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,Leadville, Colo. $1,200; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; cook, $480; in all, $6,900. Louisville, Ky.Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Mammoth Springs, Ark.Mammoth Springs (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Manchester, Iowa.Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Nashua, N. H.Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Neosho, Mo.Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4,320. Northville, Mich.Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $960; fish-culturist, $900; four apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,760. Orangeburg, S. C.Orangeburg (South Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Puget Sound, Wash.Puget Sound (Washington) Station: Three foremen, at $1,200 each; nine apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $9,000. Put in Bay, Ohio.Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,000; machinist, $960; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,660. Saint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt.Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, four at $600 each; in all, $6,720. San Marcos, Tex.San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,400. Saratoga, Wyo.Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Spearfish, S. Dak.Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Springville, Utah.Springville
(Utah)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Private John Allen, Tupelo, Miss.Private John Allen Station, Tupelo (Mississippi): Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. 933 Washington (District of Columbia) Central Station and Aquaria:Washington, D. C. Central Station and Aquaria. Superintendent, $1,500; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $720 each; laborer, $600; in all, $3,540. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent,White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500;Woods Hole, Mass. machinist, $960; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; three firemen, at $600 each; four apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $8,460. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists,Wytheville, Va. at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,Yes Bay, Alaska. $1,200; two fish-culturists, at $960 each; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $2,200; general assistant, $1,400;Vessels. fishery expert, $1,400; clerk, $1,200; in all, $6,200. Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,700; engineer, $1,300; cook, $800; two firemen, at $840 each; seaman, $800; in all, $6,280. Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,400; engineer, $1,200; fireman, $840; two seamen, at $780 each; in all, $5,000. Steamer Halcyon: Master, $1,700; first officer, $1,200; engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,200; three firemen, at $780 each; three seamen, at $810 each; cook, $870; cabin boy, $600; in all, $11,740. Steamer Phalarope: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,200; fireman, $780; two seamen, at $810 each; cook, $870; in all, $5,970. For officers and crew of vessels for Alaska fisheries service, $26,000.Alaska fisheries vessels. Administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner,Administration expenses.*Ante*, p. 684. including stationery, scientific and reference books, periodicals, newspapers for library, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $11,000. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operationsPropagation expenses. of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, and not to exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, $400,000. For developing by the Bureau of Fisheries in cooperation with theAquatic leather.Developing sources of.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 220. Bureau of Standards new aquatic sources of supply of leather, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1920 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1921. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches,Maintenance of vessels. including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels, $120,000. Commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per day) may be paidCommutation of rations, etc. to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries during the fiscal year 1921 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of theFood fishes inquiry. decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals,934plants, and waters, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $45,000. Statistical inquiry.Statistical inquiry: For collections and compilation of statistics of the fisheries, the study of the methods and relations of the fisheries, including travel and preparation of reports, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $7,500. Sponge fisheries.Protection, etc.Sponge fisheries: For protecting the sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to carry out the Vol. 38, p. 692.provisions of the Act of August 15, 1914, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,000. Alaska, general service.Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc.Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, and for all expenses necessary to carry out Vol. 36, p. 326.the provisions of the Act approved April 21, 1910, entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,” and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $140,000. Alaska Fur-seal Islands.Buildings, repairs, etc.Alaska Fur-seal Islands: For the construction and repair of buildings, and improvement of water supply, $10,000. Standards Bureau.bureau of standards. Testing large scales.Testing of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroad track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post-office, navy-yard, and customhouse scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws and in the methods of inspection, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000. Addition to Bureau site.Condemnation, etc., of lands for, authorized.To enable the Secretary of Commerce to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, two parcels of land aggregating approximately two hundred and eighty-nine thousand and seventy-one square feet, for enlargement of the present site of the Bureau of Standards, the sum of $47,272, or so much thereof as may be necessary, any direct purchase of the parcels to be made upon the basis of the valuation of the assessors of the District of Columbia; the two parcels lying respectively to the north and south of the original site of the Bureau of Standards Description.and described as follows: First parcel, starting at the northwest corner of the said site on Idaho Avenue, said site being known as parcel 44/25, and running thence northeasterly along the east line of said avenue to the north line of Pierce Mill Road; thence westerly with said north line to the east line of Idaho Avenue, ninety feet wide; thence northeasterly with said east line ninety-three feet, more or less, to the south line of Van Ness Street, sixty feet wide; thence easterly with said south line nine hundred and twenty feet, more or less, to the point of intersection with the prolongation of the present east line of the Bureau of Standards site; thence southerly with said line of prolongation ninety-seven feet, more or less, to the northeast corner of the Bureau of Standards site; thence westerly along the north line of the present bureau site nine hundred and sixty-five feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, containing approximately935ninety-one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five square feet; second parcel, starting at the intersection of the north line of Tilden Street with the south line of said Bureau of Standards site, and running thence easterly along the south line of said site a distance of one thousand one hundred and twenty-nine feet, more or less, to the southeast corner of the bureau site; thence southerly following the prolongation of the east line of the site of the bureau a distance of one hundred and seventy-two feet, more or less, to the center line of Tilden Street; thence in a general westerly direction along the center line of Tilden Street a distance of one thousand one hundred feet, more or less, to the point of intersection of said center line of Tilden Street with the west line of assessors’ parcel 43/8; thence northwesterly along the said west line of said parcel 43/8 to the point of intersection with the north line of Tilden Street a distance of seventy-five feet, more or less; thence in a westerly direction to the point of beginning, a distance of thirty-five feet, containing approximately one hundred and ninety-seven thousand two hundred and forty-six square feet. The site now owned by the United States Government and referred to herein is that assessed and carried on the books of the assessor’s office as parcel 44/25. The Bureau of Standards is authorized and directed to make anGas, D. C.Investigation of cost, quality, etc. investigation as to the standard, quality, and cost of production and distribution of gas furnished the Government and private consumers in the District of Columbia and report the result of such investigation to Congress on or before the first Monday in December, 1920. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. immigration stations.Immigrant stations. Ellis Island, New York:Ellis Island, N. Y. For a feed-water heater, including installation and incidental work, $12,000; For a boiler-feed pump, including installation and connections, $5,500; For a new salt-water suction line and traveling screen, with complete equipment, $12,000; For dredging channel approaches to Ellis Island, $10,000; For a fresh-water storage tank, with necessary foundations and connections, $15,000; For new service pumps for water supply, including installation, $11,000; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The unexpended balance in the appropriationPhiladelphia, Pa.Remodeling detention house.Balance available.Vol. 38, p. 666. for the construction of an immigration station for the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is hereby made available for the remodeling of the detention house and administration building at said station, under the direction of the Secretary of Labor; In all, $65,500. immigration service.Immigration service. For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens intoEnforcing laws regulating admission of aliens.*Ante*, p. 686.*Post*, p. 1008. the United States, including the contract-labor laws; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said laws, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant toPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. section 13 of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February 5, 1917,Vol. 39, p. 874; Vol. 40, p. 542. entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to and the residence of aliens in the United States,” and Acts amendatory936thereof; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized Chinese exclusion.by said Act; preventing the unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto; expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expenses of conveyance of Chinese persons Refunding head tax, etc.to the frontier or seaboard for deportation; refunding of head tax and maintenance bills upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of *Provisos*.Vehicles, outside District of Columbia.Labor, $2,600,000: *Provided*, That the purchase, use, maintenance, and operation of horse and motor vehicles required in the enforcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of those laws, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe: *Provided Limitation.further*, That not more than $12,000 of the sum appropriated herein may be expended in the purchase and maintenance of such Exclusion of alien anarchists.motor vehicles: *Provided further*, That the appropriation herein made for the enforcement of the immigration laws shall be available for Vol. 40, p. 1012.*Ante*, p. 593.*Post*, p. 1008.carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to exclude and expel from the United States aliens who are members of the anarchistic and similar classes,” approved October 16, 1918, and Acts amendatory thereof. Reimbursement for inspection of aliens in contiguous territory, permitted.Vol. 39, p. 1106.Nothing in the proviso contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act of March 3, 1917, relative to augmenting salaries of Government officials from outside sources shall prevent receiving reimbursements for services of immigration officials incident to the inspection of aliens in foreign contiguous territory, and such reimbursement shall be credited to the appropriation, “Expenses of regulating immigration.” Commissioner of immigration, New Orleans, La.Vol. 38, p. 666.The limitation specified in the Act approved August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 666), upon the compensation of the Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New Orleans, Louisiana, is hereby removed. Alien anarchists, etc.Exclusion of.Vol. 40, p. 1012.*Ante*, p. 593.Enforcement of laws against alien anarchists: For the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to exclude and expel from the United States aliens who are members of the anarchistic and similar *Post*, p. 1008.classes,” approved October 16, 1918, and Acts amendatory thereof, including salaries and expenses of officers, clerks, and employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem in lieu of subsistence, supplies, rentals, deportation expenses, and all other expenses incident to the enforcement of said laws, to be expended under the Unexpended balances continued.*Ante*, p. 518.direction of the Secretary of Labor, $300,000; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose, contained in the “Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920,” is continued *Proviso*.Additional allotment authorized.and made available during the fiscal year 1921: *Provided*, That these sums may be supplemented, if necessary, by specific allotment from the foregoing appropriation for “Expenses of regulating immigration” upon the written order of the Secretary of Labor. Deportation of aliens.Expenses.Vol. 39, pp. 874–898Deportation of aliens under the laws regulating immigration: For the expenses of deporting to the countries whence they came, as specified in the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, of alien public charges and others ordered deported under the laws regulating immigration since July 31, 1914, including conveyance to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, transportation charges when payable by the United States under the terms of existing law, including maintenance expenses, expenses of attendance and per diem in lieu of subsistence, and all incidental expenses in connection therewith, to937be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $100,000; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose,Unexpended balances continued.*Ante*, p. 518. contained in the “Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920,” is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1921. For refund of immigration fine erroneously assessed and collectedJ. D. Spreckels and Brothers Company.Refund of fine./ from J. D. Spreckels and Brothers Company at San Francisco, California, $200. naturalization service.Naturalization Bureau. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners,Pay of examiners, interpreters, clerks, etc. interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided for by the Act approved June 29, 1906, as amended by the Act approvedVol. 34, p. 596.Vol. 37, p. 736; Vol. 40, p. 542. March 4, 1913 (Statutes at Large, volume 37, page 736), and May 9, 1918 (Statutes at Large, volume 40, pages 542 to 548, inclusive), including not to exceed $50,000 for personal services in the DistrictServices in District of Columbia. of Columbia, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car fare on official business at official stations, together with per diem in lieu of subsistence,Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for such per diem together with actual necessary traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceed $13,400 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; carrying into effect section 13 of the Act ofAssistance to clerks of courts.Vol. 34, p. 600; Vol. 36, pp. 765, 830.Vol. 40, p. 171. June 29, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 600), as amended by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 765), and in accordance with the provisions of the Sundry Civil Act of June 12, 1917; and for mileage and fees to witnesses subpoenaed on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the*Proviso*.Pay to assistants to clerks of United States courts, forbidden. Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $525,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the compensation of assistants to clerks of United States courts. united states housing corporation.Housing Corporation. Salaries: For officers, clerks, and other employees in the DistrictSalaries in District of Columbia, for specified duties. of Columbia necessary to collect and account for the receipts from the sale of properties of the United States Housing Corporation, the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, property commandeered by the United States through the Department of Labor, and to collect the amounts advanced to transportation facilities and others, $50,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder*Proviso*.Pay restriction. at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum and only one person may be employed at that rate; Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expensesContingent expenses. of the offices at Washington, District of Columbia, including purchase of blank books, maps, stationery, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, freight and express charges; telegraph and telephone service; printing and binding; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, and necessary to collect loans made to corporations and associations, $20,000; Appraisal: For the cost of appraisal under contract loans made toAppraisal expenses. expedite transportation facilities, $10,000; 938 Collections from sales.*Ante*, p. 224.Collections: For the collection of money due from the sale of real estate under the provisions of the Act approved July 19, 1919, $25,000; Hotel for Government workers, D. C.Maintenance.Washington, District of Columbia, Government hotel for Government workers: For maintenance, operation, and management of the hotel and restaurant therein, including personal services, $960,000: *Proviso*.Pay restriction.*Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum, and only one person may be employed at that rate. Direction of expenditures.The appropriations made herein under the title “United States Housing Corporation” shall be available for expenditure by the agency or agencies of the public service having jurisdiction of the affairs of the said corporation. *Proviso*.Use of former appropriations restricted.In all, $1,065,000: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations heretofore made and available for expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be expended for the purposes for which appropriations are made herein. Women in industry.women in industry. Investigating expenses.To enable the Secretary of Labor to continue the investigations touching women in industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $75,000. Employment service.employment service. Maintenance of national employment offices, etc.Expenses designated.To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, to develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, to advance their opportunities for profitable employment by maintaining a national system of employment offices and to coordinate the public employment offices throughout the country by furnishing and publishing information as to opportunities for employment and by maintaining a system for clearing labor between the several States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official station together with their Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service and printing *Proviso*.Harvesting wheat crop.and binding, $225,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended to perfect an organization that can adequately mobilize and direct the workers required to harvest the wheat crop. Department of State.DEPARTMENT OF STATE. War Trade Board.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 163.Not exceeding $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the War Trade Board for the fiscal year 1920 is made available for the fiscal year 1921 for expenditure under the direction of the Secretary of State. Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. Statement of appropriations.For second session of Sixty-sixth Congress.Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the second session of the Sixty-sixth Congress, showing appropriations made,, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills, as required939by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmenVol. 25, p. 587. of said committees to do the work. Capitol Police: For purchasing and supplying uniforms to CapitolCapitol police.Uniforms. Police, $4,000, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, and one-half by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Protection of the Capitol: For an additional uniformed police forceAdditional force for protection of Capitol, etc. for the protection of the Capitol Building and Grounds, the Senate and House Office Buildings, and the Capitol power plant, and for emergencies, and each and every item incident thereto, $20,000, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House of Representatives: *Provided*, That the appointment*Proviso*.Appointments. to the positions herein provided shall be made by the Sergeants at Arms of the two Houses and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, and shall be made solely on account of efficiency and special qualifications. Senate, contingent expenses: For repairs, improvements, equipment,Senate kitchens and restaurants. and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $41,000; For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Inquiries and investigations, Senate. including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1.25 per printed page, $100,000. For the Capitol: For continuing the work of restoring the decorationRestoring wall decorations, Senate wing corridors. on the walls of the first-floor corridors in the Senate wing of the Capitol, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $5,000. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous itemsSenate Office Building.Maintenance. and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $65,000; For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor and materialFurniture, etc. incident thereto and repairs thereof, window shades, awnings, carpets, glass for windows and bookcases, desk lamps, window ventilators, name plates for doors and committee tables, electric fans, and so forth, $7,500. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneousHouse Office Building.Maintenance. items, and for all necessary services, $64,000. Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and HouseCapitol power plant.Maintenance. Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate stables and engine house, House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,600 per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; for necessary personal and other services; and for materials and labor in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant, and substations connected therewith, $111,000. For repair of the boilers and boiler equipment of the Capitol powerRepairs, etc. plant, $25,000. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plantFuel, oil, etc. which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings, $198,000. This and the three foregoing appropriationsPurchases. shall be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act ap-Vol. 34, p. 1365.940Vol. 36, p. 531.proved March 4, 1907, and without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments. Reimbursement for current supplied.The Department of the Interior and the Union Station group of temporary housing shall reimburse the Capitol power plant for current supplied during the fiscal year 1921, and the amounts so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriations for the said plant and be available for the purposes named therein. Government Printing Office.GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. public printing and binding. Public Printer, purchasing agent, clerks, etc.Office of Public Printer: Public Printer, $6,000; purchasing agent, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,750; accountant, $2,500; assistant purchasing agent, $2,500; cashier and paymaster, $2,500; clerk in charge of Congressional Record at the Capitol, $2,500; private secretary, $2,500; assistant accountant, $2,250; chief timekeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,000; clerks—four at $2,000 each, ten of class four, thirteen of class three, twelve of class two, ten of class one, fifteen at $1,000 each, eleven at $900 each, one $840; paymaster’s guard, $1,000; doorkeepers—chief $1,200, one $1,200, five assistants at $1,000 each; two messengers, at $840 each; delivery men—chief $1,200, five at $950 each; telephone switchboard operator, $720; three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; seven messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $153,930. Deputy Public Printer, clerks, etc.Office of Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, one $840; messenger; in all, $9,180. Watch force.Watch force: Captain, $1,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each; sixty-four watchmen; in all, $49,080. Holidays.Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $300,000. Leaves of absence.Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $560,000. Public printing and binding.Aggregate amount.For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printing and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Customs Appeals, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Pan American Union, the Executive Office, the United States Geographic Board and the departments; Office salaries and Expenses.for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated for (including the compensation of the foreman of binding, the foreman of printing, and the foreman of press work, at $3,000 each); rents, fuel, gas, electric Vehicles.current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, electrical vehicles for the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $1,500); freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; directories,941technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding $100,000); equipment, andMachinery, equipment, etc. for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneousMiscellaneous. items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $5,783,710. During the fiscal year 1921, any department or independent establishmentDepartments, etc.To advance 90 per cent of cost for work ordered, other than allotments. of the Government ordering printing and binding from the Government Printing Office (other than that specifically provided for by allotment) shall advance to the Public Printer upon written request 90 per centum of the estimated cost of the work at the time the order is placed and upon completion of such work shall pay to the Public Printer a sum sufficient to complete payment of the actual cost thereof. The sums so advanced to the Public Printer shall beCredit, etc. placed to the credit of the appropriation “public printing and binding,” on the books of the Treasury Department and be subject to requisition by the Public Printer. In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of officeTotal. force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the last-named sum, $6,855,900; and from the said sum printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsAllotments.Congress. and debates, $2,000,000. Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. For the State Department, $45,000.Departments, etc. For the Treasury Department, including printing required by the Federal farm loan Act, $600,000. For the War Department, its bureaus and offices, $450,000: *Provided*,War Department.*Provisos*.Army medical bulletins. That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $50,000 shall be available for printingFor Chief of Engineers and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. For the Navy Department, $250,000, including not exceeding $50,000 for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education and not exceeding $10,000 for printing miners’ bulletins, $285,000. For the Civil Service Commission, $75,000. For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $575,000. For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the annual report of the director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for printing and. binding the942same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $150,000. Smithsonian Institution.For the Smithsonian Institution: For printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, the editions of which shall not exceed ten thousand copies, $10,000: *Proviso*.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 700.*Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000 made for this purpose in the sundry civil Act approved July 1, 1918, is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year 1921; under the Smithsonian Institution: For the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to or acquired by the National Museum Library, $37,500; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau, $21,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, $200; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, $100; the National Zoological Park, $200; the Astrophysical Observatory, $200; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, $7,000; in all, $76,200. For the Department of Justice, $40,000. For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, $1,200. For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $600,000. Department of Agriculture.Vol. 28, p. 616.For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed $47,000 for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January 12, Vol. 34, p. 825.Farmers’ bulletins.1895, and in pursuance of the joint resolution numbered 13, approved March 30, 1906, and also including not to exceed $250,000 for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, $725,000. For the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and exclusive of the Bureau of the Census, $325,000. For the Department of Labor, $200,000. For the Supreme Court of the United States, $15,000; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500. For the Court of Claims, $30,000. For the Library of Congress, including the Copyright Office and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, $232,000. For the Executive Office, $3,000. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $150,000, of which sum not exceeding $10,000 shall be available to print and furnish to the States at cost report-form blanks. For the Pan American Union, $25,000. For the United States Geographic Board, $2,000. Quarterly allotments.Not more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated for the public printing and for the public binding shall be Restrictions.expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either943of said last quarters the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended; and no department or Government establishment shall consume in any such period a greater percentage of its allotment than can be lawfully expended during the same period of the whole appropriation. Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not beCertificate of necessity required. expended for printing or binding for any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, except such as shall be certified in writing to the Public Printer by the respective heads or chiefs thereof to be necessary to conduct the ordinary and routine business required by law of such executive departments or Government establishments, and except such reports, monographs, bulletins, or other publications as are authorized by law or specifically provided for in appropriations herein; all other printing required or deemed necessary or desirable by heads of executive departments or other Government establishments or offices or bureaus thereof shall be done only as Congress shall from time to time authorize. No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to anyRestriction on paying detailed employees. person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law. All expenditures from appropriations made herein under GovernmentApportionment of expenditures to work executed. Printing Office, except appropriations for salaries and for stores and general expenses in and for the office of superintendent of documents, shall be equitably apportioned and charged by the Public Printer to each publication or work executed under any of the foregoing allotments, so that the total charges for work done from the appropriations aforesaid shall not be less than the total amount actually expended from all of said appropriations. The illustrations to accompany bound copies of memorial addressesIllustrations for eulogies.Payment for. delivered in Congress shall be made at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and paid for out of the appropriation for that Bureau, or, in the discretion of the Joint Committee on Printing, shall hereafter be obtained elsewhere by the Public Printer and charged to the allotment for printing and binding for Congress. office of superintendent of documents.Office of Superintendent of Documents. Superintendent, $3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks—twoSalaries. of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, eleven at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, twenty-four at $840 each; cataloguers—one in charge $1,800, two at $1,500 each, four at $1,200 each, one $1,100, eight at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; cashier, $1,600; librarian, $1,500; foreman, $1,600; assistant foreman, $1,200; labor necessary in making distribution of Government publications, $116,033.20; in all, $215,393.20. For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machinesContingent expenses. and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; paper; twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car fares, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; dray age, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $39,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $16,000; for binding reserve remainders, and for supplying books to depository libraries, $80,000; equipment, material, and supplies for distribution of public documents, $30,000; in all, $165,000. 944 Panama Canal.THE PANAMA CANAL. All expenses.Objects specified.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees, including $1,000 additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500, textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report; rent and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and Claims for damages, etc.horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for damages to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Vol. 37, p. 503.Disposal of unserviceable materials, etc.Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal, to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: Maintenance and operation.Governor.Purchases, etc.For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of the governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of material, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales, payment in Payment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 742.lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the injury compensation Act approved September 7, 1916, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal, Additional from receipts.$7,531,851, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act; Sanitation, etc.For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers, and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $850,000; Civil government expenses.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, salaries of district judge $7,500, district attorney $5,000, marshal $5,000, and for gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $900,000; In all, $9,281,851, to be available until expended. 945 Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequentNumber of employees limited to estimates.Exceptions.Construction employees. to and unforeseen at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, and except for those employed in connection with the construction of permanent quarters, offices, and other necessary buildings, dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, and except for the permanent operating organizationPermanent organization. under which the compensation of the various positions is limited by section 4 of the Panama Canal Act, there shall not be employedVol. 37 p. 501. at any time during the fiscal year 1921 under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted, respectively, in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations in the annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any suchRate of pay restricted. person during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on July 1, 1919; and all employments made or compensationReport of emergency cases. increased because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year 1921. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated, for theMoneys from designated sources to be credited to original appropriations. fiscal year 1921 for expenditures and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like service; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other by-products of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and any net profits accruing from suchNet profits covered into the Treasury. business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance,Operating waterworks, etc., for Panama and Colon. and extension of water works, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year 1921, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries ofSums for salaries to be in full. officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year 1921, and all laws or parts of laws to the extent they are in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed. Sec. 3. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the head of eachGovernment owned buildings, D. C.Additional information of, to be submitted annually to Congress. department and independent establishment of the Government to submit to Congress annually in the Book of Estimates, a statement giving for each of the Government-owned buildings in the District of Columbia under their respective jurisdiction the following information for the preceding fiscal year: The location and valuation of each building, the purpose or purposes for which used, and the cost of care, maintenance, upkeep, and operation thereof per square foot of floor space. Sec. 4. Any journal, magazine, periodical, or similar publicationContinuance of publications, by departments, etc., until June 30, 1921. which is now being issued by a department or establishment of the Government may, in the discretion of the head thereof, be continued,946Discontinuance thereafter unless specifically authorized.within the limitation of available appropriations or other Government funds, until June 30, 1921, when, if it shall not have been specifically authorized by Congress before that date, such journal, magazine, periodical, or similar publication shall be discontinued. Sec. 5. Transportation Act, 1920.*Ante*, p. 468, amended. Paragraphs (a), (b), and
(c)of section 210 of the Transportation Act of 1920 approved February 28, 1920, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 210.
(a)New loans to railroads.Application of carriers for, after termination of Federal control. For the purpose of enabling carriers by railroad subject to the Interstate Commerce Act properly to serve the public during the transition period immediately following the termination of Federal control, any such carrier may, at any time after the passage of this Act, and before the expiration of two years after the termination of Federal control make application to the commission for a loan from the United States to meet its maturing indebtedness, or to provide itself with equipment or other additions and betterments, setting forth the amount of the loan; the term for which it Purpose of loan, etc.Details required.is desired; the purpose of the loan and the use to which it will be applied; the present and prospective ability of the applicant to repay the loan and meet the requirements of its obligations in that regard; the character and value of the security offered; and the extent to Statement to accompany applications.which the public convenience and necessity will be served. The application shall be accompanied by statements showing such facts in detail as the commission may require with respect to the physical situation, ownership, capitalization, indebtedness, contract obligations, operation, and earning power of the applicant, together with such other facts relating to the propriety and expediency of granting the loan applied for, and the ability of the applicant to make good the obligation as the commission may deem pertinent to the inquiry. “(b) Certificate of findings as to necessity for loan, etc. If the commission, after such hearing and investigation, with or without notice, as it may direct, finds that the making, in whole or in part, of the proposed loan by the United States, for one or more of the aforesaid purposes, is necessary to enable the applicant properly to meet the transportation needs of the public, and Earning power, value of security, etc.that the prospective earning power of the applicant and the character and value of the security offered are such as to furnish reasonable assurance of the applicant’s ability to repay the loan within the time fixed therefor, and to meet its other obligations in connection with such loan the commission shall certify to the Secretary of Amount, time, terms, etc.the Treasury its findings of such facts; also the amount of the loan which is to be made; the time, not exceeding fifteen years from the making thereof, within which it is to be repaid; the terms and conditions of the loan, including the security to be given for repayment; Ability to repay, etcthat the prospective earning power of the applicant, together with the character and value of the security offered, furnish, in the opinion of the commission, reasonable assurance of the applicant’s ability to repay the loan within the time fixed therefor and reasonable Inability to secure funds otherwise.protection to the United States; and that the applicant, in the opinion of the commission, is unable to provide itself with the funds necessary for the aforesaid purposes from other sources. “(c) Allowance of loan and acceptance of security immediately if practicable. Upon receipt of such certificate from the commission the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately, or as soon as practicable, make a loan of the amount recommended in such certificate out of any funds in the revolving fund provided for in this section and accept the security prescribed therefor by the commission. All Interest.such loans shall bear interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum, payable semiannually, to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to be Secretary of Treasury to prescribe form.Time, security, etc. to accord with finding; of Commission.placed to the credit of said revolving fund. The form of obligation to be entered into shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the time, not exceeding fifteen years from the making thereof, within which such loan is to be repaid, the security which947is to be taken therefor, and the terms and the conditions of the loan shall be in accordance with the findings and the certificate of the commission.” " The loans for equipment authorized by section 210, TransportationLoans for equipment authorized to car trusts, etc. Act, 1920, may be made to or through such organization, car trust or other agency as may be determined upon or approved or organized for the purpose by the commission as most appropriate in the public interest for the construction, and sale or lease of equipment to carriers, upon such general terms as to security and payment or lease as provided in this section or in subsections 11 and 13 of*Ante*, p. 490. section 422 of the Transportation Act, 1920. Sec. 7. Hereafter no department or other Government establishmentTypewriting machines.Disposal of used, restricted. shall dispose of any typewriting machines by sale, exchange, or as part payment for another typewriter, that has been used less than three years. Approved, June 5, 1920.
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