Chapter 24. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 24.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes. July 19, 1919. [[H. R. 7343](/us/bill/66/hr/7343).] [[Public, No. 21](/us/pl/66/21).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums are Sundry civil expenses appropriations.*Post,* p. 272.appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. State Department. For temporary employees in the Department of State, $250,000: Temporary employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.*Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. To enable the Department of State to perform the duties transferred War Trade Board.Duties, etc., transferred.by order of the President from the War Trade Board to the 164 Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 652.Department of State, the sum of $200,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $3,500,000 for the War Trade Board for the fiscal year 1919, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1920.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department.Rent, etc., D. C.*Proviso.*Condition. For rent of quarters in the District of Columbia, $100,000; for operating expenses, $25,000; in all, $125,000: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall not be available if space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission in Government-owned buildings. office of auditor for the post office department. Auditor for Post Office Department.Employees on mechanical devices, etc. The unexpended balances in the appropriations of $297,130 for compensation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, as provided Vol. 40, p. 774.Vol. 39, p. 1086.by the legislative Act of July 3, 1918, and for positions diminished under authority of the Act approved March 3, 1917, Public No. 381, are reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. public buildings, construction, rent, and sites.
Public buildings.Sites, construction, etc. For sites, commencement, continuation, or completion of public buildings within the respective limits of cost authorized by law, rent and removal expenses in cities pending extension and remodeling of buildings, severally, as follows: Amherst, Mass. Amherst, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $52,500. Apalachicola, Fla. Apalachicola, Florida, post office and customhouse: For completion, $42,500. Batavia, Ill. Batavia, Illinois, post office:
For completion, $61,050. Bellefourche, S. Dak. Bellefourche, South Dakota, post office: For completion, $10,500. Bluffton, Ind. Bluffton, Indiana, post office: For completion, $47,500. Branford, Conn. Branford, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $34,000. Buffalo, N. Y Buffalo, New York, customhouse and post office: For remodeling and repair, $100,000. Carroll, Iowa. Carroll, Iowa, post office: For completion, $36,500. Central City, Nebr. Central City, Nebraska, post office:
For completion, $34,000. Chamberlain, S. Dak. Chamberlain, South Dakota, post office: For completion, $44,500. Chandler, Okla. Chandler, Oklahoma, post office: For completion, $30,300. Charles Town, W.Va. Charles Town, West Virginia, post office: For completion, $39,500. Cheboygan, Mich. Cheboygan, Michigan, post office: For completion, $31,500. Cherokee, Iowa, Cherokee, Iowa, post office: For completion, $7,500. Clinton, Ind. Clinton, Indiana, post office: For completion, $26,000.
Clinton, S. C. Clinton, South Carolina, post office: For completion, $39,500. Cohoes, N. Y. Cohoes, New York, post office: For completion, $16,000. Comanche, Tex. Comanche, Texas., post office: For completion, $35,000. Cordova, Alaska. Cordova, Alaska, post office and courthouse: For completion, $64,500. Dawson, Ga. Dawson, Georgia, post office: For completion, $35,000. Decatur, Ala. Decatur, Alabama, post office: For completion, $13,500. Des Moines, Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa, courthouse:
For continuation, $100,000. Donora, Pa. Donora, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $51,700. Douglas, Ga. Douglas, Georgia, post office: For completion, $30,000. East Las Vegas, N. Mex. East Las Vegas, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For completion, $86,500. Eldorado, Kans. Eldorado, Kansas, post office: For completion, $35,000. Eureka, Utah. Eureka, Utah, post office: For completion, $35,000. Fairmont, Minn. Fairmont, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $50,000.
Fallon, Nev. Fallon, Nevada, post office: For completion, $40,000. Fayette, Mo. Fayette, Missouri, post office: For completion, $39,700. 165 Fort Fairfield, Maine, post office and customhouse: For completion, Fort Fairfield, Me.$12,000. Fort Plain, New York, post office: For completion, $44,500. Fort Plain, N. Y. Franklin, New Hampshire, post office: For completion, $50,500. Franklin, N. H. Franklin, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $11,000. Franklin, Pa. Franklin, Tennessee, post office:
For completion, $27,550. Franklin, Tenn. Front Royal, Virginia, post office: For completion, $7,000. Front Royal, Va. Gallipolis, Ohio, post office: For completion, $52,500. Gallipolis, Ohio. Geneseo, Illinois, post office: For completion, $30,000. Geneseo, Ill. Gilmer, Texas, post office: For completion, $15,000. Gilmer, Tex. Globe, Arizona, post office and courthouse: For completion, $20,000. Globe, Ariz. Harrisonville, Missouri, post office: For completion, $27,000. Harrisonville, Mo.
Hastings, Michigan, post office: For completion, $48,750. Hastings, Mich. Honey Grove, Texas, post office: For completion, $29,200. Honey Grove, Tex. Honolulu, Hawaii, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For Honolulu, Hawaii.completion, $849,000. Hoosick Falls, New York, post office: For completion, $41,150. Hoosick Falls, N. Y. Houghton, Michigan, post office: For completion, $19,500. Houghton, Mich. Huntington, West Virginia: For additional for rent of temporary Huntington, W.
Va. Rent.quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $1,500. Jerseyville, Illinois, post office: For completion, $46,100. Jerseyville, Ill. Kansas City, Missouri, post office and courthouse: For completion, $250,000. Kansas City, Mo. Kenton, Ohio, post office: For completion, $16,000. Kenton, Ohio. Leesburg, Virginia, post office: For completion, $26,250. Leesburg, Va. Leominster, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $49,500.
Leominster, Mass. Lewistown, Pennsylvania, host office: For completion, $46,500. Lewistown, Pa. Liberty, Missouri, post office: For completion, $32,500. Liberty, Mo. Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $52,000. Lock Haven, Pa. Long Island City, New York, post office: For completion, $25,000. Long Island City, N. Y. McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $14,500. McKees Rocks, Pa. Madison, Wisconsin, post office and courthouse: For continuation. $200,000.
Madison, Wis. Marianna, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $23,500. Marianna, Ark. Marianna, Florida, post office and courthouse: For completion, $16,000. Marianna, Fla. Memphis, Tennessee, sub post office: For completion, $79,500. Memphis, Tenn. Metropolis, Illinois, post office: For completion, $30,000. Metropolis, Ill. Midland, Michigan, post office: For completion, $15,700. Midland, Mich. Mineral Point, Wisconsin, post office and customhouse: For completion, $35,500. Mineral Point, Wis.
Montclair, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $20,000. Montclair, N. J. Mount Pleasant, Michigan, post office: For completion, $17,500. Mount Pleasant, Mich. Mount Pleasant, Texas, post office: For completion, $29,500. Mount Pleasant, Tex. Muskegon, Michigan: For rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $1,500. Muskegon, Mich.Rent, etc. Mystic, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $31,000. Mystic, Conn. Nashville, Tennessee:
For additional for rent of temporary Nashville, Tenn. Rent, etc.quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $6,500. Newport, Rhode Island: For additional for rent of temporary Newport, R. I. Rent, etc.quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,500. Nogales, Arizona, post office and customhouse: For completion, $79,000. Nogales, Ariz. North Topeka, Kansas, post office (branch); For completion, North Topeka, Kans.$15,000.
North Vernon, Indiana, post office: For completion, $36,500. North Vernon, Ind. 166 Oconto, Wis. Oconto, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $27,000. Olyphant, Pa. Olyphant, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $41,500. Orange, Tex. Orange, Texas, post office: For completion, $10,000. Owego, N. Y. Owego, New York, post office: For completion, $9,500. Paxton, Ill. Paxton, Illinois, post office: For completion, $38,000. Phoenixville, Pa. Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, post office:
For completion, $43,500. Pittsburgh, Pa. Site for new post office. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, a site for a new post-office building at Cost limited.Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at a cost not exceeding $950,000. Deposit of proceeds of former building, repealed.Vol. 37, p. 883. And that so much of section 18 of the Public Building Act of March 4, 1913, as provided that the proceeds of the sale of the former unused post office site in said city should be deposited in the Treasury Paid installments appropriated for new site.as a miscellaneous receipt is hereby repealed; and the three paid installments of the purchase price or said former site, together with the interest on said purchase price heretofore paid, aggregating Additional amount.$761,108.33, are hereby reappropriated and made available, together with the further sum of $188,891.67, which is hereby appropriated, for the acquisition of said new site under the above-stated limit of cost.
Remaining installments covered into the Treasury. And that the remaining installment of the price of said former site, when paid, together with the interest thereon, shall be deposited in the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt. Pittsburg, Tex. Pittsburg, Texas, post office: For completion, $29,500. Pittston, Pa. Pittston, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $64,500. Pratt, Kans. Pratt, Kansas, post office: For completion, $12,600. Prescott, Ark. Prescott, Arkansas, post office:
For completion, $10,000. Red Bluff, Calif. Red Bluff, California, post office: For completion, $27,500. Rhinelander, Wis. Rhinelander, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $54,500. Ripon, Wis. Ripon, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $64,600. Rochester, Ind. Rochester, Indiana, post office: For completion, $51,800. Russellville Ark. Russellville, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $24,000. Saco, Me. Saco, Maine, post office: For completion, $39,500. Sacramento, Calif.Quarters for district court.Vol. 40, p. 1271.
Sacramento, California, post office and courthouse: For fitting up quarters for the accommodation of the district court of the northern district of California, $60,000. Saint Johnsbury, Vt. Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, post office: For completon, $61,000. Saint Louis, Mo. Saint Louis, Missouri, appraisers’ stores: For remodeling plumbing system, rewiring, and other necessary repair work, $40,000. Salem, Va. Salem, Virginia, post office: For completion, $34,750. Salisbury, Md. Salisbury, Maryland, post office:
For completion, $64,500. Sandpoint, Idaho. Sandpoint, Idaho, post office: For completion, $30,000. Sandusky, Ohio. Sandusky, Ohio, post office: For completion, $103,000. San Pedro, Calif. San Pedro, California, post office and customhouse: For completion, $43,500. Santa Fe, N. Mex. Santa Fe, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $150,000. Saranac Lake, N. Y. Saranac Lake, New York, post office: For completion, $39,500. Sayre, Pa. Sayre, Pennsylvania, post office:
For completion, $39,500. Shawnee, Okla. Shawnee, Oklahoma, post office: For completion, $43,500. Shelbyville, Ind. Shelbyville, Indiana, post office: For completion, $18,000. Shelbyville, Ky. Shelbyville, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $15,000. Spanish Fork, Utah. Spanish Fork, Utah, post office: For completion, $29,500. State College, Pa. State College, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $10,000. Steubenville, Ohio. Steubenville, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $75,000.
Sunbury, Pa. Sunbury, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $15,000. Tamaqua, Pa. Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $38,000. Thibodaux, La. Thibodaux, Louisiana, post office: For completion, $30,000. Thomasville, N. C. Thomasville, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $34,500. Tomah, Wis. Tomah, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $26,500. 167 Tullahoma, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $20,500. Tullahoma, Tenn. Tulsa, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse:
The sum of $35,000 Tulsa, Okla.Reappropriatian.Vol. 40, p. 111.of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the “post office and courthouse, Tulsa, Oklahoma,” is reappropriated and made available for necessary changes and remodeling at the said building. Vernal, Utah, post office: For completion, $25,250. Vernal, Utah. Vineland, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $12,500. Vineland, N. J. Vinton, Iowa, post office: For completion, $51,000. Vinton, Iowa. Walden, New York, post office:
For completion, $12,500. Walden, N. Y. Washington, District of Columbia, Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For an additional boiler, $12,000. Washington, D. C.Engraving and Printing Bureau. Washington, District of Columbia, Graham Building: For installation of a sprinkler system, $6,000. Graham Building. Washington, District of Columbia, Hygienic Laboratory: For the Hygienic Laboratory.construction of an additional building for laboratory purposes and research work, and for enlarging and remodeling the present animal house connected with the Hygienic Laboratory, $250,000.
Washington, Missouri, post office: For completion, $33,500. Washington, Mo. Water Valley, Mississippi, post office: For completion, $7,500. Water Valley, Miss. Waynesboro, Virginia, post office: For completion, $5,000. Waynesboro, Va. West Point, Georgia, post office: For completion, $9,500. West Point, Ga. Wilmington, Ohio, post office: For completion, $41,000. Wilmington, Ohio. Winchester, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $10,000. Winchester, Mass. Winnemucca, Nevada, post, office:
For completion, $5,000. Winnemucca, Nev. Woodward, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For completion, $64,500. Woodward, Okla. Wyandotte, Michigan, post office: For completion, $39,050. Wyandotte, Mich. Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling, enlarging, and extending Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings.completed and occupied public buildings, including any necessary and incidental additions to or changes in mechanical equipment thereof so as to provide for additional space for emergent cases, not to exceed an aggregate of $20,000 at any one Limitation.building, $220,000. marine hospitals.
Marine hospitals. Chicago, Illinois: For remodeling present building, $50,000; medical Chicago, Ill.officers’ quarters, $10,000; junior medical officers’ quarters, $12,000; pharmacists’ and nurses’ quarters, $16,000; attendants’ quarters, $33,000; in all, $121,000. Cincinnati, Ohio: For additional for repairs, and so forth, $10,000. Cincinnati, Ohio. Mobile, Alabama: For remodeling present building, $50,000; medical Mobile, Ala.officers’ quarters, $10,000; in all, $60,000. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
For extension and remodeling of present building, $20,000. Philadelphia, Pa. Savannah, Georgia: For medical officers’ quarters, $10,000. Savannah, Ga. quarantine stations. Quarantine stations. Cape Charles, Virginia: For a water simply, $20,000. Cape Charles, Va. The foregoing work under “Marine Hospitals” and “Quarantine Supervision 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 all completed Repairs, preservation, etc.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 dredg-168Sitka, Alaska.ing adjacent thereto, buildings and wharf at 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 enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 15 per centum of the annual *Provisos.*Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.Marina hospitals and rentals of such buddings: *Provided,* That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $125,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations and completed and occupied outbuildings, including Treasury buildings, D.
C.*Post,* p. 330.Personal services restricted.wire partitions and fly screens for same, and not exceeding $16,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Arlington, Liberty Loan, Butler, Winder, and Auditors Buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided further,* That this sum shall not be available for the payent 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, $800,000.
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 of the Marine hospitals and *Provisos.*Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided,* That of the sum herein appropriated, not exceeding $70,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and not exceeding $12,000 for the Treasury buildings, D.
C.Treasury, Treasury Annex, 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 Pneumatic tube service, New York City.exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance, 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, Personal services restricted.changes, or repairs: *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, $550,000.
Vaults, safes, etc. Vault 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, $90,000.
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 169year 1920; foreman draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice Technical services.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 ventilating, 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 $176,800; supervising superintendents, superintendents, Superintendents.and junior superintendents of construction and inspectors, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,900 per annum, not to exceed $206,650; expenses of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors Expenses of superintendence, inspectors, etc.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; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, Office supplies, etc.typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical laborsaving devices, and exchange of same, furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telephone service; not to exceed $6,000 for stationery; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, Vol. 40, p. 1232.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, $489,050.
Architectural competitions: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Architectural 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 Hilo, Hawaii.Vol. 36, p. 1373;
Vol. 37, p. 428.under the provisions of the Act approved March 4, 1911, the unexpended balances of the appropriations for architectural competitions, public buildings, for the fiscal year 1919, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is continued and made available for said purposes during the fiscal year 1920. 170 public buildings, operating expenses. Operating expenses.Personal services. 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 services are *Proviso.*Buildings for which available.employed, $3,650,000: *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 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, $555,000: *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: *Provided further,* Use of present furniture.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, 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 excluded.buildings (including the customhouse in the District 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, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract 171or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), $2,300,000.
The appropriation Gas governors.made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided,* *Provisos.*Rental.That rentals shall not be paid 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,* That the Secretary of the Treasury is Advance fuel contracts authorized.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 of Salamanca, 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 authorized Expenses.work of the Coast Guard, as follows, including maintenance, repair, Motorcycles.and operation of motorcycles, 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 and substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, $4,575,000; For rations or commutation thereof at the rate of 45 cents per ration Rations.for warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, $858,000; For twelve clerks to district superintendents at such rate as the Clerks 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, $345,000; Fuel, etc. For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, $500,000; Outfits, stores, etc. For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary Stations, houses of refuge, etc.leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $200,000; For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Traveling expenses.Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $62,000;
For carrying out the provisions of section 8 of the Act approved Death allowances.Vol. 22, p. 57; Vol. 35, p. 46.May 4, 1882, $5,000; For draft animals and their maintenance, $30,000; Draft animals. For telephone lines and their maintenance, $30,000; Telephones. For compensation of civilian employees in the field, $61,000; Civilian employees. For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistence Contingent expenses.Vol. 40, p. 1232.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, $70,000;
In all, $6,749,000. For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $300,000. Repairs to cutters. 172 engraving and printing. Engraving and printing.Work authorized for fiscal year 1920. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, during the fiscal year 1920 of not exceeding 136,000,000 delivered sheets of United States currency, national-bank notes, and Federal reserve currency, 101,440,090 delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, 40,400 sheets of customs stamps, 539,000 delivered sheets of Vol. 38, p. 785.opium orders and special tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, and 11,787,867 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, $2,375,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, including $8,400 for custody of dies, *Proviso.*Large notes.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, $2,035,455, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of *Provisos.*Large notes.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 the requirements 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 of printers’ assistants.*Provided further,* That no part of this sum shall be used to increase the wages of plate printers until all printers’ assistants receive not less than $2.24 per day. Materials, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1232. For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except 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.
Proceeds from work to be credited to Bureau. During the fiscal year 1920 all proceeds derived from work performed 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 Vol. 24, p. 227.the Act of August 4, 1886 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 227), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year 1920. bureau of war risk insurance.
War Risk Insurance Bureau.Expenses.Vol. 40, pp. 401, 009. For expenses of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance under the Act approved October 6, 1917 , as amended: Family allowances. Military and naval family allowance: For the payment of military and naval family allowances as authorized by law, $48,000,000. 173 Military and naval compensation: For the payment of military Compensation, etc.and naval compensation, funeral expenses, services and supplies, as authorized by law, $50,000,000.
For rent of quarters in the District of Columbia, $10.000. Rent, D. C. *Provided,* That none of appropriations made herein for the Bureau *Proviso.*Use for expenses of Government owned, etc., hospitals, forbidden.of War Risk Insurance shall be expended to reimburse any expenses incurred by any Government owned hospital or hospital under contract with the Public Health Service for examination, care, or treatment of beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. miscellaneous objects, treasury department.
Miscellaneous. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connection Appropriations available for enforcing laws relating to the Treasury.Details permitted.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 the appropriation 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 employed at any one time hereunder: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained *Proviso.*Other details.shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653).Vol. 40, p. 1232.under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the 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 banks acting as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 [R.
S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718).of the Revised Statutes, also including examinations of cash account at mints, and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $160,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins in Recoinage of gold coins.[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/696).the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section 3512 of the Revised Statutes, $5,000.
Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Recoinage of minor coins.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: For all miscellaneous expenses in connection Money laundry machines.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, $3,000. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive Distinctive paper for securities.Quantities authorized.paper for United States currency, national bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, 142,800,000 sheets, in order that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may deliver 136,000,000 sheets of United States currency, national bank and Federal reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, $685,440; expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury Personal services.Department, $50 per month when actually on duty, $600; three registers, at $1,380 each; six counters, at $800 each; guards—one 174$1,000, four at $900 each; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; in all, $701,260.
Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1232. 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.Vol. 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 the person *Proviso.*Fees, etc.chosen to be President of the United States, $275,000: *Provided,* That no part of this amount 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. 210.Payment to persons detailed, etc., forbidden.Exception.
Appropriations in this Act shall not be used in payment of compensation 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 during the fiscal year 1920 have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division. Lands, etc.Custody, etc. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the R.S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739.United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $300. customs service.
Customs service.Collecting customs revenue. For collecting the revenue from customs, including not exceeding $200,000 for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, $10,000,000. Automatic, etc., scales. Scales for customs service: For construction and installation of 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, $75,000.
Compensation in lieu of moieties. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $10,000. public health service. Public Health Service.Pay, etc., Surgeon General, officers, etc. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers, including the Surgeon General, Assistant Surgeons General at Large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $850,000; Acting assistant surgeons.
For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $300,000; Pay allotments permitted. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to permit officers of the Public Health Service to make allotments from their pay under such regulations as he may prescribe; Other employees. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $700,000; Freight, travel, etc. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed 175to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $40,000;
For fuel, light, and water, $125,000; Fuel, etc. For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000; Furniture. For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $85,000; Supplies. For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $27,000; Hygienic Laboratory. For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and Marine hospitals.Vol. 40, p. 1232.all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, $625,000: *Provided,* That there may be admitted *Proviso.*Cases for study.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;
For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment Outside treatment, etc.of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $220,000; For preparation for shipment and transportation to their former Transporting remains of officers.homes of remains of officers who die in the line of duty, $5,000. For journals and scientific books, $500; Books, etc. In all, $2,985,500, which shall include the amount necessary for the Inspection of aliens.Vol. 39, p. 885.medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917.
For medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for war-risk Hospital facilities to discharged sick soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 1302, 1304.insurance patients and other beneficiaries 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, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $4,000,000.
Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, Quarantine service.Vol. 40, p. 1232.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; 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, and El Paso, 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, $200,000. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of Prevention of epidemics.Vol. 40, p. 1232.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 quaran-176*Proviso.*Report of expenditures.tine laws which may be then in force, $400,000: *Provided,* That a detailed report of the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.
Field investigations. Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and 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. Inter state quarantine service. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $25,000.
Rural sanitation. Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of *Proviso.*Cooperation of States, etc., required.motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $50,000: *Provided,* 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 studies. Pellagra: For rental, equipment, and maintenance of a temporary field hospital and laboratory, including pay of personnel, for special studies of pellagra, $30,000. Viruses, serums, etc. Regulating sales, etc. Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal service, $35,000. Division of Venereal Diseases.Vol. 40, p. 886.
For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal 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. Hygienic Laboratory.Equipping new building. For the purchase of equipment and furniture for the additional building of the Hygienic Laboratory, $20,000. Statement of health activities by executive departments to be submitted. The heads of the several executive departments and other Government Establishments are authorized and directed to submit to Congress not later than the first Monday in December, 1919, a statement showing for the fiscal year 1919 the activities of their respective departments or establishments pertaining to the public health, and the amounts expended on account of each of the said activities.
ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN. Alien Property Custodian.Services, supplies, etc.Vol. 40, p. 415. For expenses of the Alien Property Custodian authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October 6, 1917, 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, $800,000.
ARLINGTON MEMORIAL AMPHITHEATER COMMISSION. Arlington Memorial.Amphitheater Commission.Dedication expenses. For expenses of dedicating the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater and Chapel in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, $2,000. 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, 177including 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, $32,040; in all, $44,540.
Authority for incurring expenses, including subsistence, by boards Authority for expenses.of arbitration shall first be obtained from the Board of Mediation and Conciliation. COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS. Commission of Fine Arts. For expenses made necessary by the Act approved May 17, 1910, Expenses.Vol. 36, p. 371.entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” 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, $10,500.
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. Council of National Defense. For expenses of experimental work and investigations undertaken Experimental work, etc.Vol. 39, p. 649.Director, employees, etc.by the Council of National Defense, by the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies; 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, including the expenses of members of the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies or other employees going to and attending meetings of the advisory commission or subordinate bodies; and printing and binding Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 646.done at the Government Printing Office, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1919 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1920.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. District of Columbia. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized Pumping stations employees.to pay additional compensation to the engine room forces of the sewage pumping station and the water department pumping station in the District of Columbia and there is hereby appropriated for said purpose the sum of $12,000, payable one half from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from any Half from District revenues.moneys in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs and Columbia Hospital, etc.Repairs, etc.for additional construction, including labor and material for each and every item connected therewith, $5,100; 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, $20,100, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol, Half from District revenues.and paid, one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.
EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION. Employees’ Compensation Commission. Salaries: Three commissioners, at $4,000 each; secretary, $3,000; Salaries.attorney, $3,000; chief statistician, $3,500; chief of accounts, $2,500; assistant chief of accounts, $1,600; claim examiners—chief, $2,250, assistant $2,000, assistant $1,800, two assistants at $1,600 each; special agents—two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each; clerks—five of class three, nine of class two, twenty-one of class one, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; in all, $91,290. 178 Contingent expenses.
Contingent expenses: For furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto, $2,500; law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, and supplies, $1,000; traveling expenses, $5,000; printing and Binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, $7,500; Experts, etc.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 Medical examinations, etc.to be paid at a rate not exceeding $100 per month, $10,000; medical examinations, traveling and other expenses, and loss of wages Vol. 39, p. 747.payable to employees under section 21 of the Act of September 7, 1916, and for miscellaneous items, $2,000; in all, $28,000.
Compensation fund.Allowances from.Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745. Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensation provided by “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries 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, $1,000,000, to remain available until expended.
FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. Vocational Education Board.Rehabilitation of discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 617, 1179.*Ante,* p. 159.*Post,* pp. 328, 1379. Vocational rehabilitation: For an additional amount for carrying 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, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $8,000,000, of which Rent allowance, conditional.*Proviso.*Pay restrictions.*Ante,* p. 159.sum not exceeding $15,000 may be expended for rent of quarters in the District of Columbia if space is not provided in government-owned buildings by the Public Buildings Commission: *Provided,* That no person shall be paid by said Board out of the appropriation contained in this Act, or the Act approved July , 1919, amending section 2 of the act approved June 27, 1918, at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum and rates above that sum, except not to exceed the following:
One at $6,000, two at $5,000 each, twenty-eight in excess of $3,500 and not in excess of $4,000 each, twenty-seven at $3,500 each, seventy at $3,000 each, sixty at $2,750 each, and one hundred at $2,500 each. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Federal Trade Commission.Salaries. For five commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all, $55,000. All other expenses. For all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including personal and other services in the District of Columbia and 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, $1,000,000.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL SOCIAL HYGIENE BOARD. Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board.Expenses.Balances reappropriated.Vol. 40, p. 887.*Proviso.*Personal services. The unexpended balances on June 30, 1919, of the appropriations for the fiscal year 1919 contained in sections 5, 6, and 7 of Chapter XV of the Army Appropriation Act, approved July 9, 1918, are reappropriated and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1920: *Provided,* That the unexpended balance of the sum of 179$100,000 in section 7 to be used under the direction of the Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, books of reference and periodicals, printing and binding, traveling, and other necessary Administrative expenses.expenses of the board in the administration of the provisions of Chapter XV of the said Act.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Interstate Commerce Commission. For nine commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all, $95,000. Salaries. For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution Expenses.Per diem subsistence.of laws to regulate commerce, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the sundry civil appropriation Vol. 38, p. 680.Act approved August 1, 1914, $1,100,000, of which sum Amount for counsel.there may be expended not exceeding $50,000 in the employment of counsel, not exceeding $3,000 for necessary books, reports, and periodicals, 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 $70,000 for rent of buildings Rent, D.
C.in the District of Columbia. To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce Enforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556.compliance with section 20 of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June 29, 1906, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, $300,000. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed Railway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943;
Vol. 36, p. 298.Accidents.Vol. 36, p. 350.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 Block signals, etc.Vol. 34, p. 838; Vol. 35, p. 324; Vol. 38, p. 212.appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906, and the provision of the Sundry Civil Act approved May 27, 1908, including the employment of inspectors, and 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, $313,600.
Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce Physical 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.Rent, D.
C.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 $15,000 for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $2,500,000. For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of Safe 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, extending “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 section Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $288,000. 180 LINCOLN MEMORIAL COMMISSION.
Lincoln Memorial Commission.Dedication expenses.*Post,* p. 1390. For expenses of dedicating the Lincoln Memorial, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $5,000. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS. Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.All expenses.Vol. 38, p. 930; Vol. 40, p. 557. For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; traveling expenses of members and employees; office 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; not to exceed $1,500 for the purchase, maintenance, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; personal *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.services in the field and in the District 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, 1920, shall not exceed $43,000; in all, $175,000.
ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY COMMISSION. Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission.Acquiring additional land.Vol. 37, p. 885. 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, $250,000, to be available until Half from District revenues.expended 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 *Provisos.*Area limited.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 Conditions imposed.session: *Provided further,* That the expenditure of the funds appropriated herein shall be subject to all the conditions imposed by the Vol. 39, p. 282.Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved July 1, 1916.
SHIPPING BOARD. Shipping Board.Salaries. For five commissioners, at $7,500 each; secretary, $5,000; in all $42,500. All other expenses.Vol. 39, p. 728. For all other expenditures authorized by the Act approved September 7, 1916, 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 while upon official business outside of the District of Columbia, $730,486. emergency shipping fund.
Emergency Shipping Fund.Ship building authorization reduced.Vol. 40, p. 650.*Post,* p. 891.Acquiring ship building plants, ships, etc. The authorization of $2,884,000,000 heretofore established for the construction of ships is reduced by the sum of $120,000,000. For purchasing, requisitioning, or otherwise acquiring plants, material, charters, or ships now constructed or in the course of construction, and the expediting of construction of ships thus under Reappropriations.construction, and for the cost of construction of ships, within the limit of cost authorized by law, $356,000,000; and the unexpended 181balances of the appropriations for establishing plants and acquiring Housing employees, etc.property for the housing of shipyard employees and their families, the taking over of certain transportation systems and the transportation of shipyard and plant employees, the purchase of ships under construction or to be constructed in shipyards in foreign countries, and the operation of ships, contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Vol. 40, p. 651.Purchase of ships.Act for the fiscal year 1919, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $150,000,000 for the purchase of ships contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved October 6, 1917, are Vol. 40, p. 345.reappropriated and made available to meet obligations already incurred within the purposes of the appropriation herein made.
No contracts for ship construction to be entered into shall provide Construction contracts restricted.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. Any material or plant, as defined under the emergency shipping Disposal of material or plants.Vol. 40, p. 183.fund provision of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 15, 1917, acquired by the United States Shipping Board Emergency, Fleet Corporation, may be disposed of as the President may direct.
No part of the appropriations made in this Act for the Shipping Restriction on printing bulletins, etc.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 exchanges International exchanges.between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $45,000.
American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among American 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, $42,000. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperation International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of 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: For maintenance of Astrophysical Astrophysical Observatory.Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $13,000. The unexpended balance of the appropriation “for observation of Eclipse of the sun, 1919.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 122.the total eclipse of the sun of June 8, 1918, and so forth,” is reappropriated and made available for observation of the total eclipse of the sun of May 28, 1919, visible in Bolivia.
National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances National Museum.Furniture, etc.required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $20,000; For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, Heating, lighting, etc.$55,000; For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections Preserving collections, etc.from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, all other 182necessary expenses, and not exceeding $5,500 for drawings and illustrations for publications, $300,000;
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, $387,500. 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 books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, Half from District revenues.$115,000; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues pf the District of Columbia and the other halt from the Treasury of the United States.
TARIFF COMMISSION. Tariff Commission.Salaries and expenses. For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, including the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference and periodicals as may be necessary, as authorized Vol. 39, p. 795.*Proviso.*Disbursing clerk.under Title VII of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes”, approved September 8, 1916, $300,000: *Provided,* That the disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department shall act in a similar capacity for the United States Tariff Commission.
WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. armories and arsenals. Armories and arsenals.Benicia, Calif. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For hospital and dispensary building, $20,000. Frankford, Pa. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For extension and expansion of heating mains, $40,000; For construction of roads, railroad sidings, and other facilities to improve transportation, $50,000; For drinking-water fountains, $15,000; For one set of double quarters for noncommissioned officers, $12,000;
In all, $117,000. Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii, Ordnance Depot: For one black-powder magazine, $8,000; For additional roads, $5,000; In all, $13,000. Rock Island, Ill. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For construction of sidewalks, $10,000; For road and sidewalk repairs, $15,000; For repairs to cornices, gables, and slate roofs on shops, $15,000; 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;
In all, $90,000. Springfield, Mass.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 654. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 “for enlarging the boiler room at the water shops, and so forth,” contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, is made available for the improvement of the electric power plant. 183 Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For remodeling Watertown, Mass.paint shop, providing necessary machinery, and converting it into a woodworking shop, $20,000;
For bar-stock storage shed with necessary facilities, $50,000; In all, $70,000. Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional Testing machines.and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative tests and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials of operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $50,000.
Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: Watervliet, N. Y. For wood block floor in old gun shop and small shop, $60,000. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement of arsenals, Repairs.and to meet such unforseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including machinery Machinery.for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $1,550,000. quartermaster corps. Quartermaster Corps. Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer:
For repair and Fort Monroe, Va.Wharf.maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, water, brooms, and shovels, $40,000; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $2,880; in all, $43,780; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $14,593.33. For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, Repairs to roads, etc.macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $10,000; six laborers cleaning roads, at $720 each; in all, for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $9,546.67.
For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, Sewers, etc.$1,725; two engineers, at $1,200 each; two laborers, at $720 each; in all, $5,565; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,710. National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national National cemeteries.Maintenance.cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, $150,000. For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, Superintendents.including not to exceed $1,500 for the superintendent at Mexico City, $63,720.
For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone Headstones for soldiers’, etc., graves.or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and 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 been Repairs to roadways.*Provisos.*Encroachments by railways forbidden.constructed by special authority of Congress, $12,000: *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 Restriction.this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. 184 Limited to one approach.
No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. Burial of indigent soldiers, etc., D. C. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or 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 expenses Half from District revenues.in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $2,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Antietam battlefield, Md. Preservation. Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments, 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. Superintendent. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent 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 and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500.
Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc. Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees: For interment, or of 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; interment, or of 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 Removing remains from abandoned posts, etc.prison camps in the United States; removal of remains from abandoned 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 the 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 Reimbursement to individuals.against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses *Proviso.*Extended during the war to retired list on active duty.incurred prior to July 1, 1910, $8,451,000: *Provided,* That during the continuance of the present war 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.
Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill. 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; 185Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland, and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation Monuments in Cuba and China.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.
Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little Little Rock, Ark.Burial in cemetery, of patients dying at Hot Springs Hospital.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.
San Francisco National Cemetery: For preparation of new extension San Francisco, Calif.New extension.in order to provide additional burial sites, $10,000. national military parks. Military parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga.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 Park: For continuing the establishment of the Gettysburg.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, $50,000.
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park: For continuing Guilford Courthouse.Vol. 39, p. 996.the establishment of a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March 2, 1917, $9,200. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishment Shiloh.of the park; compensation of civilian commissioner; 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, $25,435.
Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the establishment Vicksburg.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. 186 engineer department.
Engineer Department.Buildings and grounds, D. C. Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: Improvement and care. 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. Monument Grounds. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, $7,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. 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 lamp-posts; 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, $35,000. 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, $3,000. 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, $23,200. Potomac Park. For improvement, care, and maintenance of West Potomac Park, including grading, soiling, seeding, planting, and constructing paths, $30,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $8,000. For care and improvement of East Potomac Park, $50,000.
For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $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, $25,000. 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 maintenance of the bathing beach, $15,000. 187 For extension of the bathhouse at the Tidal Basin bathing beach, $20,000., For a ferry line from the vicinity of Seventh and Water Streets to Ferry to Potomac Park.East Potomac Park, $7,000.
For repair of sea wall in West Potomac Park, $3,000. For cement walk in grounds south of Executive Mansion connecting walk around the Ellipse with street sidewalk bounding the park, $5,000. For a new lodge and comfort station in the Smithsonian Grounds, Smithsonian Grounds.Comfort station.Seaton Park.$4,000. For soiling and seeding East and West Seaton Park, $5,000. One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in Half from District revenues.and 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 executive Grounds 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 Buildings, $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 grounds Executive Mansion grounds.(within iron fence), $5,000. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public Engineer, etc.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 a new roof for the storehouse at the propagating gardens, $1,000. Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive 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, $40,000.
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, Traveling expenses of the President.to be 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 and heating public grounds.watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $23,000. For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $4,500. In all, $27,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one half Half from District revenues.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 Government Government 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 on 188floor, $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, $2,000. 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 commencing the construction of a reflecting pool in west Potomac Park, $175,000. Lincoln Memorial.Maintenance. Lincoln Memorial: Custodian, $1,200; watchman, $720; laborer, $660; heat, light, and miscellaneous supplies, $2,000; in all, $4,580. Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, etc.Maintenance. 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, watchman at $720, and a laborer at $660, $5,260, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Grant Memorial.Unveiling, etc., expenses.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 660.*Post,* pp. 900, 1390. 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 1920. Aqueduct Bridge, new.Construction.Vol. 39, p. 163.
Aqueduct 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.approved May 18, 1916, $200,000, 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. 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. 405. For works authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1916, as follows: Kahului, Hawaii.Flood control.Prosecuting work.Vol. 39, p. 948. Kahului, Hawaii, Harbor: for completing improvement, $50,000.
Flood control: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood-Control Act approved March 1, 1917, as follows: Mississippi River. Mississippi River, $6,670,000; Sacramento River. Sacramento River, California, $500,000. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes, etc. Survey of northern and northwestern 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 New York canals.system of the New York canals, including all necessary 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. 189 California Débris Commission:
For defraying the expenses of the California Débris 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 New York Harbor.Preventing injurious deposits.injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, and office force, and expenses of office, $10,260; For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $90,000;
In all, $100,260. medical department. Medical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or Artificial limbs.commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $50,000. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances Surgical appliances.to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, prior to October 6, 1917, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $1,000. Trusses for disabled soldiers:
For trusses for persons entitled Trusses.[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, $1,500. For an additional amount for repairs to and improvements of the Providence Hospital, D. C.Repairs to heating, etc., plant.heating, lighting, and power plant of the Providence Hospital, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $2,000, to be expended under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds and to be paid one-half out of the Half from District revenues.Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Support. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of Dayton, 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 all *Proviso.*Effects of deceased members.receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $60,000;
Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, Subsistence.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, $320,000; 190 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, $160,000;
Hospital. Hospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, furneral 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, $90,000;
Transportation. Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, $750; 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 *Proviso.*Restriction on new buildings.and other improvements of a permanent character, $70,000: *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, $26,000:
In all, $726,750. Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses. Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; 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, $107,000; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000;
Transportation. For transportation of members of the home, $500; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $37,500; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $8,000; In all, $413,000. Togus, Me.Current expenses. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $115,000;
Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $100,000; 191 For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $40,000; For transportation of members of the home, $800; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $33,500; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $16,000;
In all, $346,300. Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including Hampton, Va.Current expenses.the same objects specified Under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $210,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, $90,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $43,000;
For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $43,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,000; Farm. In all, $441,000. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $230,000;
Subsistence. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $128,000; Household. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $60,000; Hospital. For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $58,000; Repairs. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000;
Farm. In all, $542,000. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, Santa Monica, Calif.Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $290,000; Subsistence. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $110,000; Household. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $68,000;
Hospital. For transportation of members of the home, $2,500; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; Repairs. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000; Farm. In all, $578,500. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including Marion, Ind.Current expenses.the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $156,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $72,000; Household. 192 Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,500; Transportation. For transportation of members of the home, $300; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $15,000;
In all, $364,800. Danville, Ill.Current expenses. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; 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, $41,000;
Transportation. For transportation of members of the home, $500; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,500; In all, $430,000. 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, $43,000; Subsistence.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $140,000; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $77,000; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; Transportation. For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $31,000;
Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $18,000; In all, $350,000. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Current expenses. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $23,000; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $59,000; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $55,000;
Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; Transportation. For transportation of members of the home, $3,000; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $15,500; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $5,000; In all, $200,500. Clothing, all branches. Clothing for all branches: For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, 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 homo shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $275,000.
Board of managers.Salaries, etc. Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, 193$4,500; inspector general and chief surgeon, $4,000; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector general, $3,000; assistant inspector general, $3,000; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector general and chief surgeon, $15,500; 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, $10,000; outside relief, $100; legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $1,700; in all, $49,000;
In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $4,716,850. *Provided,* That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be *Proviso.*Intoxicants.expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold. State and Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For State or Territorial homes.Aid to.Vol. 25, p. 450.continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August 27, 1888, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $900,000: *Provided,* That no part of *Provisos.*Intoxicants.this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are Collections from inmates.sold: *Provided further,* 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 or soldiers are admitted and maintained. back pay and bounty.
Back pay and bounty. For arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to Payment to Civil War volunteers.Vol. 14, p. 322.Commutation of rations.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 1920, $1,000.
For arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers War with Spain, etc.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 1920 and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund $500. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. The Secretary of war is authorized to transfer, without charge, Explosives, etc.Transfers from War Department authorized.*Ante,* p. 130.to the Secretary of the Interior for use of the Interior Department, explosives and explosive material for which the War Department has no further use. public buildings.
Public buildings. Repairs of buildings: For repairs of Patent Office Building, Pension Repairs to Department buildings.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 $7,500 may be expended for day labor except for work done by contract. Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs Capitol Buildings.Repairs, etc.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 194motor-propelled, passenger-carrying office vehicles; and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $38,500.
Restoring floors of Capitol. For commencing the restoration of the floors of the Capitol Building, and for each and every expense incident thereto, $25,000. Improving grounds. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $35,570. Repairs to stables, etc. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, Senate and House stables, and repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards Purchases.of same, including personal services, $1,500; this and the four foregoing sums may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended for purchases of articles without reference to section 4 Vol. 36, p. 531.of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments. public lands service.
Public lands.Registers and receivers.*Proviso.*Juneau, Alaska.Register to perform duties of receiver. Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $475,000: *Provided,* That the President is authorized to consolidate the offices of register and receiver at Juneau, Alaska, 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 Salary, etc.imposed upon the register, whose compensation shall be a salary of $3,000 per annum; and all fees and commissions collected by said register, when earned, shall be paid into the Treasury without abatement or deduction. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other Per diem subsistence.incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange of typewriters; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerks 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 Vol. 38, p. 680.offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary *Proviso.*Expenditures restricted.sleeping-car fares: *Provided,* That no expenses chargeable 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, $350,000.
Depositing moneys. Depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, $500. Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp land claims.Vol. 40, p. 1250.*Post,* p. 335. 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 $15,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled *Post,* p. 513.passenger-carrying vehicles and for the purchase of motorcycles for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and exchange of same and for operation and 195maintenance of a motor boat: *Provided,* That the compensation of *Provisos.*Service pay established.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 exceed $3,000 per annum may be allowed: *Provided further,* That Per diem subsistence.agents and others employed under this appropriation may be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, at a rate not Vol. 38, p. 680.exceeding $3.50 each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, except when agents are Alaska service.employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per day each in lieu of subsistence.
For the protection of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad Oregon and California Railroad lands.Protecting.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 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 Vol. 39, p. 218.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 versus United States (numbered 2711, in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit), $25,000.
Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings held Hearings in land entries.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: To enable the Commissioner of the Reproducing plats of Surveys.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 prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $5,000. Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of National forests.Advertising restoration of lands in.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 (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining Opening Indian reservations to entry.to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year 1920: *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. surveying the public lands.
Surveying. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision Expenses.Vol. 40, p. 1250.of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $700,000: *Provided,* That in expending this *Provisos.*Preferences.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 February 22, 1889, and Vol. 25, p. 616.Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.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 196and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants, 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.
Pay of surveyors.The surveys and resurveys 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, Supervisors of surveys.except that the Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed one supervisor 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 diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.per month each, and such per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $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 Resurveys, etc.who may be detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or examinations of 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 Metal section corners.in behalf of the United States: *Provided further,* That the 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 Field employees detailed to General Land Office.survey comers wherever practicable: *Provided further,* That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to Oregon and California Railroad lands, etc.the General Land Office: *Provided further,* That not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriation shall be used for the survey, classification, and sale of the lands and timber of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands.
Abandoned reservations.Vol. 23, p. 103. Abandoned reservations: For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July 5, 1884, and any law prior thereto, $4,000. indian affairs. Indian Affairs.Crow Reservation, Mont.Payment for prior irrigation expenses, etc.*Ante,* p. 16. Of the sum of $150,000, which the Secretary of the Interior is authorized by the Indian Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920 to withdraw from the tribal funds of the Crow Indians in the state of Montana to be expended for making necessary improvements to the irrigation systems in the Big Horn Valley on the Crow Reservation in Montana, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used for the purpose indicated, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $25,000 of this amount shall be available for Shivwits Reservation, Utah.expenses incurred during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919.
That the $10,000 for construction of a steel Bridge and approaches across the Santa Clara River on the Shivwits Indian Reservation in 197the State of Utah, and the $5,000 for construction of a wagon road Bridge and road on.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 587.through the said reservation, appropriated by the Indian Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 587), are hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, reimbursable as provided in the Act aforesaid: *Provided,* That should the cost of the proposed *Proviso.*Restriction on use for bridge.bridge exceed $10,000 no part of the money herein appropriated shall be expended until the Secretary of the Interior shall have obtained from the proper authorities of the State of Utah satisfactory guaranties of the payment by the said State of any and all expenses above that amount and that the proper authorities of the said State shall assume full responsibility for, and will at all times maintain and repair, said bridge and approaches thereto. united states geological survey.
Geological Survey. Office of Director: Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing Salaries, Director, etc.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, $31,020; Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, Scientific assistants.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: For every expenditure requisite for and incident General expenses.Vol. 40, p. 1250.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 Vehicles.$30,000 for the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled 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 by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads:
For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, $15,080; Skilled laborers, etc. For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, Topographic surveys.including lands in national forests, $325,000; For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, $347,073.50; Geologic surveys. For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the Chemical and physical researches.Potash deposits.United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash salts, $40,000;
For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $18,280; Illustrations. For preparation of reports of the mineral resources of the United States, $110,000; Mineral resources report. For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $75,000, to be available immediately; Alaska mineral resources. For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the Water supply.United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $175,000, of which $25,000 may be used to Boring wells.test the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies suitable for irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions by boring wells.
For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories Library.and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, $2,000; 198 Maps.Classifying lands for enlarged homesteads, etc. For engraving and printing geologic maps, $118,000; 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, as required by the public land laws, $175,000;
In all, United States Geological Survey, $1,461,353.50. bureau of mines. Bureau of Mines.General expenses, salaries, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1250. For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary 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, $73,300;
Investigating mine explosions, etc. For investigation as to the causes of mine explosions, methods of 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, $422,210;
Investigating mineral fuels, etc. For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their Economic use in departments, etc.most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use, and to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $150,000; Inquiries, etc., for improving mining conditions, etc.
For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning 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 *Proviso.*Private work forbidden.all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence: *Provided,* That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any party, $100,000;
Petroleum and natural gas investigations. For inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, 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, $125,000; Explosives Act.Balances of appropriations for enforcing, covered in.Vol. 40, pp. 385, 389, 671.
The unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for the enforcement of the Act entitled, “An Act to prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes,” approved October 6, 1917, shall be covered into the Treasury Exception for concluding work.immediately upon the approval of this Act, with the exception of the sum of $15,000 which may be used for expenses incident to concluding the work under said Act;
Personal services in District of Columbia.Allowances for, from Specified investigations. Not exceeding 20 per centum of the preceding sums for investigation 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 199of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States, may be used during the fiscal year 1920 for personal service in the District of Columbia;
The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Details from Public Health Service.Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines; For the employment of personal services and all other expenses in Mining experiment stations.Expenses.Vol. 38, p. 959.connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, authorized by the Act approved March 3, 1915, $150,000;
For such additional personal services as may be necessary for the Pittsburgh experiment station.care and maintenance of the new buildings at Pittsburgh, $17,220; For operation of mine rescue cars, including personal services, Mine rescue cars.Operating expenses.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;
For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000; Mine inspector, Alaska. 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; For technical and scientific books and publications and books of reference, $1,500;
Library. For purchase or lease of necessary land, where and under such Headquarters for rescue cars, etc.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 mine and a plant for studying explosives, $1,000: *Provided,* That the Secretary *Proviso.*Acceptance of donated lands, etc.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;
Persons employed during the fiscal year 1920 in field work, outside Temporary details of field employees in District of Columbia.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 in going to and returning therefrom: *Provided,* That nothing herein shall *Proviso.*Payment of necessary expenses.prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines their necessary expenses or per diem, in lieu of subsistence while on temporary detail in the District of Columbia, for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States.
All Report to be made of.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: For the purchase and transportation of Government fuel yards, District of Columbia.Purchase of fuel, maintenance, etc.Vol. 40, p. 673.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, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia, the unexpended balance of the Balance reappropriated.appropriation made for these purposes for the fiscal year 1919 is reappropriated and made available for such purposes for the fiscal year 1920, and of such sum not exceeding $500 shall be available to Damage claims.200settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles *Proviso.*Sales credited to appropriation, etc.used in delivering fuel: *Provided,* That all moneys received from the sale of fuel during the fiscal year 1920 shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph;
Contracts prior to appropriations authorized.[R. S., sec. 3732, p. 736](/us/rs/s3732/p736). The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for the Government fuel yard in advance of the availability of the appropriation for the payment thereof. Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current years; Exchange of equipment, etc., authorized. Authority is hereby granted to the Secretary of the Interior to exchange, as part consideration in the purchase of new equipment, motor vehicles and any other equipment used by said fuel yards;
In all, Bureau of Mines, $1,201,897. reclamation service. Reclamation Service.Payments from reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated “the reclamation fund”: All expenses. For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902 (32d Statutes, page 388), and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which Objects specified.expenditures from said fund are authorized, including salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; printing and binding; law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications, not Vehicles.exceeding $1,500; purchase, maintenance, and operation of horsedrawn 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, operation, 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 accounts, $1,000; Yuma, Ariz.-Calif. Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $383,000; Orland, Calif. Orland project, California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $113,000; Grand Valley, Colo. Grand Valley project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $192,000, Vol. 40, p. 674.together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the project for the fiscal year 1919;
Uncompahgre, Colo. Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operation, $206,000; Boise, Idaho.Vol. 40, p. 674. Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $664,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal *Proviso.*Extensions restricted.year 1919: *Provided,* That no money shall be expended for extensions of the Boise project, except such amounts as may be collected from construction charges on that project under public notice;
King Hill, Idaho.*Proviso.*Restriction. King Hill project, Idaho: For continuing construction and incidental operations, $332,000: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the King Hill project if without consent of the Secretary of the Interior any lands are hereafter released from any part of the irrigation district assessments apportioned against the same by the board of directors of the King Hill irrigation district; 201 Minidoka project, Idaho:
For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, Minidoka, Idaho.Vol. 40, p. 671.and incidental operations, $463,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1919; Huntley project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation Huntley, Mont.of construction, and incidental operations, $95,000; Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $234,000;
Milk River, Mont. Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $141,000; Sun River, Mont. Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For operation Lower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak.and maintenance, construction work and incidental operations, $59.000; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $880,000;
Newlands project, Nevada: For operation and maintenance, continuation Newlands, Nev.of construction, and incidental operations, $359,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this Vol. 40, p. 674.project for the fiscal year 1919; Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation and maintenance, and Carlsbad, N. Mex.Vol. 40, p. 674.incidental operations, $81,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1919;
Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, Rio Grande, N. Mex.-Tex.Vol. 40, p. 674.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,250,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year 1919: *Provided,* That no *Proviso.*Use for drainage restricted.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 all project investments;
North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota: For maintenance, North Dakota pumping.Vol. 40, p. 675operation, and incidental operations, $85,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1919; Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, continuation Umatilla, Oreg.of construction, and incidental operations, $113,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, Klamath, Oreg.-Calif.Vol. 40, p. 675.continuance of construction, and incidental operations, $357,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1919;
Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For operation and maintenance, Belle Fourche, S. Dak.Vol. 40, p. 675.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $141,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1919; Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For operation and maintenance, Strawberry Valley, Utah.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $55,000; Okanogan project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, Okanogan, Wash.Vol. 40, p. 675.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $325,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1919:
Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, Yakima, Wash.Vol. 40, p. 675.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $353,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1919; Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, Shoshone, Wyo.Vol. 40, p. 675.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $343,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year 1919;
Secondary projects: For cooperative and other miscellaneous investigations, Secondary projects.$75,000; 202 Expenditures limited to specified allotments, etc. Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year 1920, 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 1920 exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for that fiscal year;
Interchangeable amounts. Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably 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; Leases of reserved lands, etc.Proceeds from, etc., to be covered into reclamation fund. The proceeds heretofore or hereafter received from the lease of any lands reserved or withdrawn under the reclamation law or from the sale of the products therefrom shall be covered into the reclamation fund; and where such lands are affected by a reservation or withdrawal under some other law, the proceeds from the lease of land and the sale of products therefrom shall likewise be covered into the reclamation fund in all cases where such lands are needed for the protection or operation of any reservoir or other works constructed under the reclamation law, and such lands shall be and remain under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior;
In all, for the Reclamation Service, $7,300,000. Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash.Reimbursement to fund for water furnished to lands of.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. testimony in disbarment proceedings.
Miscellaneous.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, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. territory of alaska. Alaska.Alaska Engineering Commission.Railroad construction, etc.Vol. 38, p. 305.*Post,* p. 293, 335. Alaskan Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 12, 1914, 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,” including expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations in Alaska, to continue available until expended, $2,038,029.
Sale of supplies, etc., to employees. Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year 1920, 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 1920 there shall be covered into the appropriation established from time to time under the Act approved March 12, 1914, 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,” 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. 203 Insane of Alaska:
For care and custody of persons legally adjudged Care of insane.insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $111,480: *Provided,* That authority is granted to the Secretary of *Proviso.*Payment to Sanitarium Company.the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, not to exceed $495 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1920. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in Education of natives.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 the above special heads, $250,000: *Provided,* That no person employed *Provisos.*Pay restrictions.hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual 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 further,* Services in District of Columbia.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 purposes Supervision 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 expenditure 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 in Medical and sanitary relief.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 and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $80,000.
Patients who are not indigent may be admitted to the hospitals Admission 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 Alaska Reindeer.and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, $7,500: *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 approved Protection 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, $20,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in Suppressing liquor traffic.intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000. 204 national parks.
National Parks.Director of National Park Service, etc. National Park Service: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,000; editor, $2,000; draftsman, $1,800; clerks—two of class three, two of class two, one $1,020, two at $900 each; messenger, $600; in all, for park service in the District of Columbia, $22,220. Crater Lake, Oreg. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvement, and repairing and extension of roads, including not exceeding $300 for 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, $28,225.
General Grant, Calif. General Grant National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, $6,000. Glacier, Mont. Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration and improvement, construction of roads, trails, bridges, and telephone lines and the repair thereof, 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, including not exceeding $1,000 for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-driven and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $85,000.
Grand Canyon, Ariz. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, maintenance, improvement, and development, including not exceeding $2,500 for the purchase, 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, $40,000. Hawaii. Hawaii National Park: For expenses incident to securing donations of patented lands and rights of way over patented lands in Hawaii National Park, $750.
Hot Springs Reservation, Ark.New buildings.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 679. Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: The unexpended balance 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 Acceptance of sites, etc.and made available for the fiscal year 1920. 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.
Lafayette, Me.Vol. 40, p. 1178. 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, $10,000. Mesa Verde, Colo. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, including not exceeding $1,500 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees, $11,000.
Mount Rainier, Wash. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and improvement, construction of roads, bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, including not exceeding $500 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, $32,500. National monuments.Protection. National Monuments: For the preservation, development, administration, and protection of the national monuments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $8,000. 205 Platt National Park, Oklahoma:
For improvement and protection, Platt, Okla.$6,000. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For protection and Rocky Mountain Colo.improvement, $10,000. Sequoia National Park, California: For protection and improvement, Sequoia, Calif.construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, improvement of roads other than toll roads, including not exceeding $500 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with the general park work, $35,000.
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For improvement and Wind Cave, S. Dak.protection, $4,000. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, Yellowstone, Wyo.maintenance, and improvement, including not to exceed $7,500 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 $15,000 for a bridge over the Buffalo Fork of the Snake River on the Lander approach, 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, $255,500, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the *Proviso.*Snow removal.Interior: *Provided,* That not exceeding $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 protection and improvement, Yosemite, Calif.construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvements of roads other than toll roads; including not exceeding $2,300 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horsedrawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $55,000 for grading in width not exceeding twenty feet El Portal-Yosemite Road, $200,000. saint elizabeths hospital.
Saint Elizabeths Hospital, D.C. For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital Maintenance.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, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, $1,000,000; and not exceeding $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: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to *Proviso.*Adjustment of pay.adjust the compensation of officers and employees at Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
The War Department is authorized to transfer to Saint Elizabeths Transfers from Army medical, etc., supplies.Hospital the X-ray and dental outfits at present loaned to that hospital by the medical branch of the War Department. 206 Motor vehicles transferred from Army. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer without charge to Saint Elizabeths Hospital one motor ambulance, eight motor trucks, and not to exceed eleven passenger-carrying motor vehicles for use in general hospital business.
Buildings and grounds. For the buildings and grounds, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, $60,000. For roadways, grading, and walks, $5,000. columbia institution for the deaf. Columbia Institution for the Deaf.Maintenance, etc. For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $85,000. Repairs. For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $7,500. 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, $76,437.75; 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, $10,000; 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, $121,937.75. 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, $33,360. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress; Contingent expenses. 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, $47,000;
In all, $80,360. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. public buildings. Penitentiaries.Atlanta, Ga.Working capital fund reappropriated.Vol. 40, pp. 897, 1035 Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: The appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year 1919, for a working capital fund, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1920; and the said working capital fund and all receipts credited thereto may be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1920. 207 Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary:
For continuing construction, Leavenworth, Kans. Construction.$100,000, to remain available until expended, and to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For the construction McNeil Island, Wash.New buildings.complete of the following buildings: New dining room, kitchen, and bakery, $60,000; new hospital, $20,000; residence for the warden and residence for the deputy warden, $10,000; cottages for guards and employees, $12,000; in all, $102,000 to remain available until expended, and to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.
Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shall Use for other buildings forbidden.not be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building, 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 at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies.
Supreme Court Supplies, etc.reports and Digests and 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 witnesses Witnesses, Board of General Appraisers.before the Board of United States General Appraisers, $3,000. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary Defending 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, $60,000.
Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution Detection 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 the United States;
Protection of the President.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 Per diem subsistence.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, including Vol. 38, p. 680.not to exceed $140,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, and including a Director of the Bureau of Investigation at not Director of Bureau of Investigation.exceeding $7,500 per annum, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $1,600,000.
Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of United Inspection of prisons, etc.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 208the assistant superintendent of prisons, $2,500, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $11,000. Traveling, etc., expenses. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses:
For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of section Enforcing antitrust laws.Vol. 38, p. 730.3648, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500. Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including not exceeding $15,000 for salaries of necessary *Provisos.*Use for prosecuting labor organizations, forbidden.employees at the seat of government, $100,000: *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 Associations 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 to set aside conveyances of allotted lands 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, $10,000: *Proviso.*Expediting directed.*Provided,* That said suits shall be advanced upon the docket and their trial expedited. Enforcing interstate commerce laws.Vol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 761; Vol. 38, p. 219; Vol. 40, p. 272. 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, $8,750. Federal Court Reports and Digests. Federal Court Reports and Digests: For one hundred and seventy-nine 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, $3,580.
For the continuation of two sets of the Federal Reporter, from volumes 229 to 264, inclusive, seventy-two volumes, at $2 per volume, $144. Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition, Volume 63. For fifteen copies of volume 63 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. United States Reports.Purchase of Volumes 253–256. For two hundred and seventy copies each of four volumes—namely, 253 to 256, inclusive, of the Supreme Court Reports to continue the sets now in the hands of certain officials, at $1.75 per volume, $1,890.
Two sets of Volumes 240–256. For the continuation of two sets of Supreme Court reports from volumes 240 to 256, inclusive, thirty-four volumes at $1.75 per volume, $59.50. Pacific railroad suits.Expenses. Protecting interests of the United States in suits affecting Pacific railroads: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, $18,500. 209 JUDICIAL.
Judicial. supreme court. Supreme Court. For nine law clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each Law clerks for Justices.Associate Justice, at not exceeding $3,600 each, $32,400. united states courts. United States courts. For salary of the additional district judge for the northern district Additional judge, Texas northern district.Vol. 40, p. 1183.Marshals.Salaries and expenses.of Texas, $7,500. For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their 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, $1,730,000.
Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with existing law, Advances.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, 1919, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year 1919, or prior years: *Provisos.*Cost of keeping attached vessels, etc.*Provided,* That there shall 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 Per diem subsistence.Vol. 29, p. 183.marshals (except 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 of District attorneys.Salaries and expenses.Services during vacancies.United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $708,300: *Provided,* That United *Proviso.*Subsistence per diem.States 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.
From and after July 1, 1919, sections 6, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 18 District of Columbia, district attorney.General provisions made applicable to.Vol. 29, pp. 180–183.of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, approved May 28, 1896, shall be applicable to the office of the district attorney for the District of Columbia and his assistants. Certificates to the effect that the public interest requires the appointment of assistants to the said district attorney shall be made by the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and the Salary of, and principal assistant.district attorney.
The district attorney shall be paid a salary of $6,000 per annum in full compensation for all his official services and his principal assistant shall be paid a salary not in excess of $4,000 per annum, as the Attorney General may from time to time determine. For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are Regular assistants.appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $400,000: *Provided,* That except as otherwise prescribed by law *Proviso.*Compensation.Vol. 29, p. 181.compensation, the compensation of such of the assistant district attorneys authorized by section 8 of the act approved May 28, 1896, as the Attorney 210General may deem necessary, may be fixed at not exceeding $3,000 per annum.
Assistants in special cases. For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special Foreign counsel.cases, and including not to exceed $30,000 for clerical help for such assistants, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required Oath.[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62).to take oath of office in accordance with section 366, Revised Statutes of the United States), in all, $300,000, to be available for expenditure in the District of Columbia.
Clerks.Salaries, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1182. For salaries of clerks of United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, expenses of travel and subsistence, and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, in accordance with the *Proviso.*Effective date.provisions of the Act approved February 26, 1919, $800,000: *Provided,* That the said Act snail become effective on July 1, 1919. Fees.*Proviso.*Travel restriction, clerks of circuit courts of appeals. For fees of clerks, $18,000: *Provided,* That after July 1, 1919, only actual expenses of travel and expenses of lodging and subsistence, not to exceed $5 per day, shall be allowed any clerk of a United States circuit court of appeals when absent from his official residence on official business.
Commissioners, etc.R.S., sec.1014, p. 189. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes or the United States, $225,000. Jurors. For fees of jurors, $1,150,000. Witnesses.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/160). Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section $50, 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 *Provisos.*Attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).northern 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 further,* That no such persons shall be employed during Traveling expenses of judges.Vol. 36, p. 1161.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 Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by section 259 of the Act approved March 3, 1911, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and Jury expenses.amend the laws relating to the judiciary”; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the In Alaska.Vol. 31, p. 363.same, 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, Jury commissioners.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, $450,000. 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, $70,000. Support of prisoners.
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 211whose 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 the United States jails, including sidewalks, $975,000.
Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.Subsistence.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, $200,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including Clothing, transportation, etc.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 bona fide 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, $75,000;
For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney Miscellaneous.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 horsedrawn 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 live stock may be exchanged or traded when *Proviso.*Live Stock.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, $7,225; For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—one Salaries.$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 $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $84,000; two teamsters, at $600 each engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; in all, $116,700;
For foremen, laundrymen, tailor, printer, and shoemaker, when necessary, $4,300; In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $553,225. 212 Atlanta, Ga.Subsistence. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $150,000; Clothing, transportation, etc. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $77,000;
Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and not exceeding $25 for maintenance and repair of horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $110,000; Hospital. For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $5,000; Salaries. For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—one $1,500, one $1,200; chief clerk, $1,800; physician, $1,800; pharmacist 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 $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $63,000; in all, $95,700;
For foremen, tailor, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000; In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $441,700. 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, $20,000; Clothing, transportation, etc. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $14,000;
Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $20,000; Hospital. For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $750; Salaries. For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $ 1,200; physician, $1,600; steward and cook, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,200; engineer and electrician, $1,200; superintendent of boats, $1,200; chaplain and teacher, $1,000; guards, at $70 per month each, $15,700; in all, $26,100;
In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $80,850. National Training School for Boys, D. C.Salaries. National Training School for Boys: Superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent, $1,500; teachers and assistants, $12,120; chief clerk, $1,000; 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, $40,136;
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 213compensation, not exceeding $1,500, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, for rewards for their recapture, not exceeding $800 for the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $20,000;
In all, National Training School for Boys, $60,136. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Department of Commerce. bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. The proviso contained in the paragraph appropriating $325,000 to Promotion of commerce.Vol. 40, p. 1256, amended.further promote and develop foreign and domestic commerce of the United States to be expended under the Secretary of Commerce found in “An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1919, he amended to read as follows:
“*Provided,* That no more than $60,000 of the foregoing sum shall be Allotment for branch offices increased.*Post,* p. 516.used for the expenses of branch offices.” lighthouses, beacons, fog signals, light vessels, and other works under the lighthouse service. Lighthouses Bureau.Aids to navigation. Execution Rocks Light Station, New York: For restoring and Execution Rocks, N.Y.improving the light station, $10,000. Point Jiguero Light Station, Porto Rico: For rebuilding the station, $24,000.
Point Jiguero, P. R. Manitowoc Breakwater Light Station, Wisconsin: For improving the light and fog signal station, $9,000. Manitowoc, Wis. Chicago Harbor Light Station, Illinois: For completing the removal Chicago, Ill.New breakwater lights, etc.and rebuilding of Chicago Harbor Light Station and establishing lights on the new breakwater in Chicago Harbor, $6,400. Light keepers’ dwellings: For light keepers’ dwellings and appurtenant Light keepers’ dwellings.Limit of cost.Vol. 34, p. 996.structures, including sites therefor, within the limit of cost fixed by the Act approved February 26, 1907, $50,000.
Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, Lighthouse Depot: For Tompkinsville, N. Y., depot.extending and enlarging the machine shop, $30,000. Third Lighthouse District: For riprap to reinforce foundations of Third district.light stations and constructing or improving boat landings, $150,000. Alaska: For establishing new aids to navigation and improvements Alaska.of existing aids, $75,000. lighthouse service. Lighthouse service. General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental General expenses.Objects specified.expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog 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 oil or carbide Oil or carbide houses.*Provisos.*Cost of buildings limited.houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided,* That any 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; restoring light stations and Restoring stations.Limit.depots and buildings connected therewith: *Provided,* That such restoration shall be limited to the original purpose of the structures; wages of laborers attending post lights; temporary employees and 214field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, Rations, etc.and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for keepers of lighthouses, 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 Purchase of sites, etc.and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals; 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 Contingent expenses.instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots; and not exceeding $8,500 for Bureau expenses.contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in the District of Columbia, $3,500,000.
Keepers. Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending lights exclusive of post lights, $1,300,000. Lighthouse vessels. Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $1,400,000. Inspectors, etc. Inspectors, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen superintendents of lighthouses, and for 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, $380,000.
Retired pay.Vol. 40, p. 608. For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $45,000. 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, 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 $2.50 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.*Islands, etc., restrictions. 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, $115,000; 215 For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean Pacific coast.under the jurisdiction of the United States, $250,000;
For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to harbors Physical hydrography.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; For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including the employment of Coast Pilot.such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $5,600; For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian Magnetic observations, etc.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, $100,000;
For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses Special surveys.or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $5,000; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, Miscellaneous.including the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field and office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement, under Reimbursement for relief of shipwrecked persons, etc.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 superintendent, 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, $4,000;
In all, field expenses, $494,600. 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, $56,000. For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including Officers 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, $460,000.
Salaries.Superintendent, engineers, etc. Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; hydrographic and geodetic engineers, junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers, and aids, to be employed in the field or office, as the superintendent may direct, one of whom may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to act as assistant superintendent; hydrographic and geodetic engineers—one $4,500, one $4,000, one $3,500, two at $3,200 each, four at $3,000 each, four at $2,800 each, five at $2,500 each, twelve at $2,400 each, twelve at $2,200 each, fourteen at $2,000 each: junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers—sixteen at $1,800 each, fourteen at $1,600 each, twelve at $1,400 each, thirteen at $1,200 each; aids—ten at $1,100 each, nineteen at $1,000 each; in all, $256,900. 216 Clerks, etc.
Office force: Disbursing agent, $2,500; chief of section of library and archives, $1,800; clerk to superintendent, $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, five at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, six at $840 each; Draftsmen. Topographic and hydrographic draftsmen: Two at $2,400 each, three at $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two copyist draftsmen at $1,000 each;
Computers. Astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers: One $2,500, three at $2,200 each, two at $2,100 each, three at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 each, eleven at $1,200 each; Engravers. Copperplate engravers: One $2,400, two at $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each; Engravers and apprentices at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600; Instrument makers.
Instrument makers: Mechanical engineer $2,750, one $1,800, one Patternmakers, etc. $1,600, three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; Pattern makers and carpenters: Three at $1,400 each, two carpenters and painters at $900 each; Printing employees. Lithographers, lithographic draftsmen, transferers, lithographic pressmen and their helpers, plate printers and their helpers, and other skilled laborers: Two at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each, one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400, eight at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, five at $700 each;
Photographers.Engineers, watchmen, etc. Photographers: One $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,200. Engineer, electricians, dynamo tenders, and electrotypers: One $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,200, four at $1,080 each; Watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers: Three at $880 each, three at $840 each, four at $820 each, three at $720 each, four at $700 each, two at $640 each, three at $630 each, one $550; Office expenses. In all, pay of office force, $266,780. Office expenses: For purchase of new 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 electrotyping 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 may be necessary for the Vol. 40, p. 1261.prompt preparation of charts, not to exceed $6,000; 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 $3,400 Subsistence allowances restricted.for extra labor, $80,000.
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 superintendent), except as now provided by law. 217 bureau of fisheries. Fisheries Bureau. Commissioner’s office: Commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner, Commissioner, deputy, etc.$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, ono $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—three of class four, four of class three, one to commissioner $1,600, five of class two, seven of class one, three at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each (including one for Seattle office); statistical agents—two at $1,400 each, two at $1,000 each; local agents—one at Boston $300, 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, $112,940.
Alaska service: Pribilof Islands—two agents and caretakers at Alaska service.Agents, physicians, etc.$2,000 each, assistant to agent $1,200, two physicians at $1,500 each, three schoolteachers at $1,200 each, two storekeepers at $1,800 each; Alaska Service at large—agent, $2,500; assistant agents—one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,500; inspector, $1,800; wardens—one $1,200, six at $900 each; in all, $31,600. Employees at large: Field assistant, $3,000; two field station superintendents, Employees at large.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.
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(car)employees: Five captains, at $1,200 each; six Distribution employees.messengers, at $1,000 each; five assistant messengers, at $900 each; five apprentice messengers, at $720 each; five cooks, at $600 each; in all, $23,100. Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; Station employees.Afognak, Alaska.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-culturist, $900; Alpena, Mich.in all $2,100. Band (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, Baker Lake, Wash.$900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Beaufort (North Carolina) Biological Station: Superintendent and Beaufort, 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. 218 Cape Vincent, N. Y. Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fireman, $720; apprentice fish-culturist—one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4,140. Clackamas, Oreg. Clackamas (Oregon) and subsidiary stations: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—three at $720 each, two at $600 each; in all, $6,960. Cold Springs, Ga. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Craig Brook, Me. Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Duluth, Minn. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Edenton, N. C. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Erwin, Tenn. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, S4,200. Fairport, Iowa. Fairport
(Iowa)Biological Station: Director, $1,800; superintendent 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. 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, Colo. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $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 at $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. 219 Puget Sound (Washington) Station: Three foremen, at $1,200 each; Puget sound, Wash.nine apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $9,000. Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Put in Bay, Ohio.$1,000; machinist, $960; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,660. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Saint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt.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 (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, San Marcos, Tex.$1,200; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,400. Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Saratoga, Wyo.$900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Spearfish, S. Dak.$900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Springville
(Utah)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Springville, Utah.$900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Private John Allen Station (Tupelo, Mississippi): Superintendent, Private John Allen, Tupelo, Miss.$1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. 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; foremen, 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, $1,800; general assistant, $1,200; Vessels.fishery expert, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $5,200. Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,100; cook, $600; two firemen, at $720 each; seaman, $600; in all, $5,240. Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; in all, $4,220. 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 vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $26,000. Alaska fisheries vessel. Administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, Administration expenses.Vol. 40, p. 1261.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 Propagation expenses.operations 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 220and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, $400,000. Aquatic leather.Developing sources of.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 693. For developing by the Bureau of Fisheries in cooperation with the 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 1919 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1920. Maintenance of vessels. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, 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. Food fishes inquiry. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, 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 and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $15,000. Sponge fisheries.Protection, etc.Vol. 38, p. 692. 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 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, $125,000. Cape Vincent, N. Y.Repairs, etc. Cape Vincent (New York) Fish Hatchery: For general repairs, including improvements to water supply and renewal of equipment, $8,000. Duluth, Minn.Foreman’s cottage. Duluth (Minnesota) Fish Hatchery: For the construction of a foreman’s cottage, $4,000. Fairport, Iowa.Laboratory building. Fairport
(Iowa)Biological Station: For an additional amount for rebuilding the laboratory building, $10,000. Wytheville, Va.Improvements. Wytheville (Virginia) Fish Hatchery: For general improvements to the water supply, including the purchase of a right of way for pipe line, and right to construct dam and reservoir, $5,000. Distribution cars.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 168. Distribution cars: The appropriation of $55,000 in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918 for the purchase or construction of the two steel cars for the distribution of useful food fishes is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1920. steamboat-inspection service. Steamboat Inspection Service.Contingent expenses.Additional appropriation.Vol. 40, p. 1257. Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and other expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and 221assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of title 52, Revised Statutes, fiscal year 1919, $5,550. [R. S., Title III, pp. 852–869](/us/rs/p852–869). bureau of standards. Standards Bureau. Testing of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroad Testing large scales.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. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Department of Labor. immigration stations. Immigrant stations. Ellis Island, New York: For continuation of granite-faced sea wall, Ellis Island, N. Y.Sea wall.under original limit of cost, $175,000. immigration service. Immigration service. For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into Enforcing laws regulating admission of aliens.Vol. 40, p. 1263.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 to section Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.13 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 amendatory thereof; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; preventing the unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, Chinese exclusion.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 to the frontier or seaboard for deportation; refunding of head tax and maintenance Refunding head tax, etc.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 Labor, $2,450,000: *Provided,* That the purchase, use, maintenance, and operation of *Provisos.*Vehicles outside District of Columbia.horses 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 further,* That Limitation.not more than $12,000 of the sum appropriated herein may be expended in the purchase and maintenance of such motor vehicles. The appropriation herein made for the enforcement of the immigration Alien anarchists, etc.Exclusion of.Vol. 40, p. 1012.laws shall be available for 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. For refund of immigration fine erroneously assessed and collected Guanico Central.Refund of fine.from Guanica Central, of Ensenada, Porto Rico, $10. 222 W. and C. T. Jones Steamship Company.Refund of fine. For refund of immigration fine erroneously assessed and collected from the W. and C. T. Jones Steamship Company at Newport News, Virginia, $100. naturalization service. Naturalization Bureau.Pay of examiners, interpreters, clerks, etc. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided for by the Vol. 34, p. 596.Vol. 37, p. 736; Vol. 40, p. 542.Act approved June 29, 1906, as amended by the Act approved 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 Services in District of Columbia.not to exceed $50,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car fare on official business Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.at official stations, together with per diem in lieu of subsistence, 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 $7,000 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; Assistance to clerks of courts.Vol. 34, p. 600; Vol. 36, pp. 765, 830.Vol. 40, p. 171.carrying into effect section 13 of the Act of June 29, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 600), as amended by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, 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 Secretary of Labor may *Proviso.*Pay to assistants to clerks of United States courts, forbidden.prescribe, $450,000: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the compensation of assistants to clerks of United States courts. Naturalization.Aliens serving in armed forces during the war.Vol. 34, p. 596.Vol. 40, p. 542. Any person of foreign birth who served in the military or naval forces of the United States during the present war, after final examination and acceptance by the said military or naval authorities, and shall have been honorably discharged after such acceptance and service, shall have the benefits of the seventh subdivision of section 4 of the Act of June 29, 1906, Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, part 1, No fee required, etc.page 596, as amended, and shall not be required to pay any fee therefor; and this provision shall continue for the period of one year after all of the American troops are returned to the United States. united states housing corporation. Housing Corporation.Salaries in District of Columbia.Vol. 40, pp. 550, 595, 821. Salaries: For officers, attorneys, clerks, and other employees in the District Columbia necessary to carry out the provisions of the Acts of May 16, 1918 (Public Numbered 149, Sixty-fifth Congress), and of June 4, 1918 (Public Numbered 164, Sixty-fifth Congress), $250,000; Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices at Washington, D. C., including purchase of blank books, maps, stationery, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, and soap; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; 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, $60,000; Rent, D. C.2Housing, etc., Bureau. Rent: For buildings and part of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, $22,000; 223 For dwellings commandeered under the Act of May 16, 1918, Commandeered dwellings.Vol. 40, p. 550.(Public Numbered 149, Sixty-fifth Congress), $24,620; In all, rent, $46,620. Valuation of property: For compensation and expenses of independent Property valuation to establish rents, etc.expert boards to appraise the buildings and lands owned by the corporation for the purpose of establishing a basis for rental rates and for fixing sales basis, $75,000; Operation of projects: To manage, maintain, alter, rent, lease Operation of designated projects.lands, houses, buildings, improvements, local transportation, and other general community utilities, including the maintenance and operation of hotels owned by or leased to the United States or the United States Housing Corporation, and commandeered by the United States, as provided by the Acts of May 16, 1918 (Public Numbered 149, Sixty-fifth Congress), and June 4, 1918 (Public Vol. 40, pp. 550,595.Numbered 164, Sixty-fifth Congress), including the cost of premiums on fire insurance policies, fidelity bonds, public and employers’ liabilities, as follows: houses. Houses. Aberdeen, Maryland, $5,000; Alliance, Ohio, $6,500; Bath, Maine, $7,500; Bremerton, Washington, $24,000; Bridgeport, Connecticut (site 4—Crane tract), $19,000; Bridgeport, Connecticut (site 5—Mill green), $19,000; Bridgeport, Connecticut (site 12—Grassmere), $8,000; Charleston, West Virginia, $8,000; Erie, Pennsylvania (east tract), $4,500; Erie, Pennsylvania (west tract), $18,500; Hammond, Indiana, $13,000; Indian Head, Maryland, $8,000; New Brunswick, New Jersey, $17,000; New London, Connecticut, $8,000; Groton, Connecticut, $1,750; Newport, Rhode Island, $3,750; Niagara Falls, New York, $13,000; Niles, Ohio, $5,750; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $44,000; Portsmouth, Virginia, District: Cradock, $47,000; Truxton, $12,500; Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, $1,000; Quincy, Massachusetts, $36,000; Rock Island District: Davenport, Iowa, $15,000; Moline, Illinois, $9,000; East Moline, Illinois, $8,000; Rock Island, Illinois, $16,500; Vallejo, California (Mare Island), $21,000; Washington, District of Columbia, navy yard, $1,000; Waterbury, Connecticut, $4,000; Watertown, New York, $7,000; In all, houses, $412,250. hotels. Houses. Bremerton, Washington, $165,000. Kittery Point, Maine, $74,000. Washington, District of Columbia, Government Hotel for Government Hotel for Government workers, D. C.workers; to manage—including personal service—maintain, alter, rent, lease houses, buildings, and improvements owned by the United States and or the United States Housing Corporation and to operate and maintain restaurants therein, as provided by the Acts of May 16, 1918 (Public Numbered 149, Sixty-fifth Congress), and June 4, 1918 (Public Numbered 164, Sixty-fifth Congress), including the cost of selling the same or, and part thereof; premiums on fire insurance policies, fidelity bonds, public and employers’ liability, $700,000; in all, hotels, $939,000. 224 restaurants. Restaurants. Quincy, Massachusetts, $2,500; Vallejo, California (Mare Island), $110,000; in all, restaurants, $112,500. apartments. Apartments. Bremerton, Washington, $6,000; Bridgeport, Connecticut (site one, Black Rock), $33,000; Bridgeport, Connecticut (site fourteen, Connecticut Avenue), $15,000; Erie, Pennsylvania (West Tract), $1,000; Portsmouth, Virginia, District: Cradock, $6,000; Washington, District of Columbia: Navy Yard, $600; In all, apartments, $61,600. dormitories. Dormitories. Indian Head, Maryland, $6,000; Quincy, Massachusetts, $74,000; Vallejo, California (Mare Island), $28,000; Washington, District of Columbia: Navy Yard, $4,000; In all, dormitories, $112,000. *Proviso.*Use of other appropriations forbidden. In all, $2,068,970: *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. Housing for war needs.Vol. 40, p. 552, amended. Section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May 16, 1918, is hereby amended to read as follows: Termination of authority. " “Sec. 5. That the power and authority granted herein shall cease with the termination of the present war as formally proclaimed by the President, except the power and authority to care for, rent, operate, and sell such property as remains undisposed of; to conclude and execute contracts or other obligations made or incurred during the war or in carrying out the provisions of this section; to collect the principal and interest of loans made or other sums due under obligations entered into under this Act; and to take such other steps as are necessary to protect the interests of the Government and to fulfill the obligations duly incurred in carrying out the powers granted by said Sale of property thereupon.Act. All property shall be sold at its fair market value as soon as can be advantageously done, and a reasonable effort shall be made to sell the houses direct to prospective individual home owners for their own occupancy before they are offered for sale in bulk or to speculative investors. Full power and authority is hereby given to sell and convey all such property remaining undisposed of after the termination Execution of conveyances.of the present war. All deeds, contracts, or other instruments of conveyance executed by the United States Housing Corporation by its duly authorized officer or officers where the legal title to the property in question is in the name of said corporation, and by the United States of America by the Secretary of Labor where the title to the property in question is in the name of the United States of America, shall be conclusive evidence of the transfer of title to the property in question according to the purport of such deeds, contracts, or other instruments of conveyance, and in no case shall any purchaser or grantee thereunder be required to see to the application of *Provisos.*Lien for unpaid purchase money.No free disposal, etc.any purchase money: *Provided, however,* That no sale or conveyance shall be made hereunder on credit without reserving a first lien on such property for the unpaid purchase money: *Provided further,* That in no case shall any such property be given away; nor shall rents be furnished free, but the rental charges shall be reasonable and just as 225between the tenants and the Government. The United States Dissolution of Housing Corporation on disposal of property, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 550, 505.Housing Corporation (a corporation organized by authority of the President of the United States, pursuant to the provisions of an Act approved May 16, 1918, entitled ‘An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,’ and an Act approved June 4, 1918, entitled ‘An Act making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes’) shall wind up its affairs and dissolve as soon as it has disposed of said property and performed the duties and obligations herein set forth: *Provided,* That Reports to Congress.the corporation shall report to Congress on December 31, 1919, and on June 30, 1920, all sales made and the amounts received therefrom together with a detailed statement of receipts and expenditures on account of the other activities authorized by law.” " miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. To enable the Secretary of Labor to continue the investigation Women in industry.Investigation of.touching women in industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000. To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, to develop Employment of wage earners.Maintenance of employment offices, etc.Vol. 40, p. 696.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 in the several States and political subdivisions thereof 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 Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.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 and binding, $400,000. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Department of Agriculture. Additional for rent in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1920, Additional rent, D.C.*Post,* p. 260.*Proviso.*Condition.$41,509: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall not be available if space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission in Government-owned buildings. LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction Statement of appropriations.For third session of Sixty-fifth Congress.of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the third session of the Sixty-fifth 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 required Vol. 25, p. 587.by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. The statement of appropriations, new offices created, offices omitted, To include statement for first session of Sixty-sixth Congress.and so forth, required by law to be prepared under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, for the third session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, shall include the statement of appropriations, and so forth, required by law to be prepared for the first session of the Sixty-sixth Congress. Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, Botanic Garden.Repairs, etc.painting, glazing, repairs to footwalks and roadways, general 226repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables, including skilled laborers and laborers at rates to be fixed by the superintendent; care and maintenance of a motor-propelled vehicle; repairing and putting comfort station in sanitary condition; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $15,000. New boiler. For purchase and installation of new boiler to replace three old ones, including personal services and labor, $1,350. Protection of Capitol, etc.Additional police force. Protection of the Capitol: For an additional uniformed police force 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, $30,000, one-half *Proviso.*Appointments.to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by by the Clerk of the House of Representatives: *Provided,* That the appointment 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 Office Building.Maintenance. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and Supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $65,000. Furniture. For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor and material 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, $23,500. Capitol.Senate kitchens and restaurants. For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $41,000. Restoring wall decorations, Senate wing corridors. For continuing the work of restoring the decoration 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. Automobile drivers for Vice President and Speaker. For additional amount for driving the automobiles of the Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, $240 each, $480. Storekeeper, Senate. For additional amount to pay the storekeeper of the Senate a salary of $2,500 for the fiscal year 1920, $280. House Office Building.Maintenance. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $60,000. Capitol power plant.Maintenance. Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House 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. Fuel, oil, etc. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional Purchases.buildings, $150,000. This and the two foregoing appropriations shall be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in Vol. 34, p. 1365.control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act 227approved March 4, 1907, and without reference to section 4 of the Vol. 36, p. 531.Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments. The Department of the Interior and the Union Station group of Reimbursement for current supplied.temporary housing shall reimburse the Capitol power plant for current supplied during the fiscal year 1920 and the amounts so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriations for the said plant and be available for the purposes named therein. Joint Commission on Reclassification of Salaries: For an additional Joint Commission on Reclassification of Salaries.Additional appropriation.Vol. 40, p. 1269.amount to enable the commission to complete the reclassification of salaries in accordance with the requirements of section 9 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $50,000. For allowance to Zebulon Weaver, contestee in the contested election Contested election expenses.Zebulon Weaver.case of Britt versus Weaver, Sixty-fifth Congress, for expenses incurred by him in that case and actually paid out, as ascertained by Elections Committee Numbered Three, $2,000. For payment to James J. Britt for expenses incurred in the contested James J. Britt.election case of Britt versus Weaver, Sixty-fifth Congress, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered Three, $2,000. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Government Printing Office. public printing and binding. Office of Public Printer: Public Printer, $6,000; purchasing agent, Public Printer purchasing agent, clerks, etc.$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. Office of Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; Deputy Public Printer, clerks, etc.clerks—one of class three, one of class two, one $840; messenger; in all, $9,180. Watch force: Captain, $1,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each; sixty-four Watch force.watchmen; in all, $49,080. Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions Holidays.of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $287,286. Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with Leaves of absence.the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $477,000. For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printing Public printing and binding.Aggregate amount.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 Claims, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the International Bureau of American Republics, the Executive Office, and the departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary Office salaries and expenses.employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated 228for, including the compensation of the foreman of binding and the Vehicles.foreman of printing; rents, fuel, gas, electric 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, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; adding and numbering machines, Machinery, equipment, etc.time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding $100,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings Reconstructing garage as warehouse.(including not to exceed $50,000 for reconstructing garage as warehouse); 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 Miscellaneous.on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous 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, $6,000,000. Total. In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of office Allotments.force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the last-named sum, $6,976,476; and from the said sum printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: Congress. For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, $2,292,276. 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. Departments, etc. For State Department, $40,000. For the Treasury Department, including printing required by the Federal Farm Loan Act, $475,000. *Proviso.*Army medical bulletins. For the War Department, $1,000,000: *Provided,* 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 For Chief of Engineers.officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $50,000 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. For the Navy Department, $300,000, including not exceeding $50,000 for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $70,000 for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, $320,000. 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, $550,000. 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 the 229same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $125,000. 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; 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, $1,500. For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $300,000. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed $47,000 Department of AgricultureVol. 28, p. 616.Vol. 34, p. 825.for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January 12, 1895, and in pursuance of the joint resolution numbered 13, approved March 30, 1906, and also including not to exceed $200,000 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, $600,000. For the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and exclusive of the Bureau of the Census, $300,000. For the Department of Labor, $150,000. 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, $200,000. For the Executive Office, $3,000. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $130,000, 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. Not more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated Quarterly allotments.Restrictions.for the public printing and for the public binding shall be 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 either of 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. 230 Certificate of necessity required. Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not be 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. Restriction on paying detailed employees. No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any 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. Apportionment of expenditures to work executed. All expenditures from appropriations made herein under Government 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. office of superintendent of documents. Office of Superintendent of Documents.Salaries. Superintendent, $3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks—two 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. Contingent expenses. For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines 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; drayage, 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, $20,000; in all, $155,000. THE PANAMA CANAL. 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 231exchange, 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, Vol. 37, p. 563.sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing, and Disposal of unserviceable materials, etc.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 herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence when prescribed by Per diem subsistence.the Governor of the Panama Canal, to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Vol. 38, p. 680.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: For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of Maintenance and operation.Governor.Purchases, etc.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 Payment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 742.in 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, $7,547,939, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of Additional from receipts.business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act; For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support Sanitation, etc.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; For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, Civil government expenses.district judge at the rate of $7,500 per annum from March 1, 1919, district attorney $5,000, marshal $5,000, and for gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $702,000; For completing in every detail two sea-going coal barges now under Seagoing coal barges.Completing two.Vol. 40, p. 177.construction by contract entered into by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation acting for the Panama Canal, to the extent that it was acting within the limits of the authority of the Panama Canal under the act approved June 12, 1917 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 177), $364,949 each, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in addition to $800,000 each appropriated for two sea-going barges in said Act: *Provided,* That the limitation contained *Proviso.*Cost limit removed.in said Act that the total cost of each barge shall not exceed $800,000 each is hereby removed, $729,898. In all, $9,829,837, to continue available until expended. Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent to Number of employees limited to estimates.Exceptions.and unforeseen at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, and except for those employed in connection with the 232 Construction employees.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, Permanent organization.and supplies, and except for the permanent operating organization under which the compensation of the various positions is limited Vol. 37, p. 561.by section 4 of the Panama Canal Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year 1920 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 Rate of pay restricted.Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any such person during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than Report of emergency cases.was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on July 1, 1918; and all employments made or compensation 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 1920. Moneys from designated sources to be credited to original appropriations. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated, for the fiscal year 1920 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 Net profits covered into the Treasury.of the canal and Canal Zone; and any net profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Operating waterworks, etc., for Panama and Colon. In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year 1920, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. Sums for salaries to be in full. Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year 1920, and all laws or parts of laws to the extent they are in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed. Material, supplies, etc.Purchases of, to be made from stock no longer needed by other activities, when possible. Sec. 3. That the heads of the several executive departments and other responsible officials, in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible shall purchase material, supplies, and equipment, when needed and funds are available, from other services of the Government possessing material, supplies, and equipment no Ascertainment if available before purchasing elsewhere.longer required because of the cessation of war activities. It shall be the duty of the heads of the several executive departments and other officials, before purchasing any of the articles described herein, to ascertain from the other services of the Government whether they Price.have articles of the character described that are serviceable. And articles purchased by one service from another, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price not to exceed actual Sales authorized.cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services of the Government are authorized to sell such articles under the conditions specified, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellane-233ous receipt: *Provided,* That this section shall not be construed to *Provisos.*Transfers under Executive order not affected.amend, alter, or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities: *Provided further,* That any officer of the Government Transfer of printing equipment, etc., to Government Printing Office from other services.having machinery, material, equipment or supplies for printing, binding, and blank book work, including lithography, photolithography, and other processes of reproduction, which are no longer required or authorized for his service, shall submit a detailed report of the same to the Public Printer, and the Public Printer is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing, to requisition such articles of the character herein described as are serviceable in the Government Printing Office, and the same shall be promptly delivered to that office. Sec. 4. That except as otherwise provided by law the President is Discontinued agencies.Files, etc., transferred to permanent establishments.authorized to transfer to the custody and care of such of the departments or independent establishments as he may determine the files and records of the agencies created for the period of the war upon the discontinuance of such activities. Sec. 5. The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer any unused Army motor vehicles, etc.Sales of surplus, to other Government services.and surplus motor-propelled vehicles and motor equipment of any kind, the payment for same to be made as provided herein, to any branch of the Government service having appropriations available for the purchase of said vehicles and equipment: *Provided,* That in *Provisos.*Price conditions.case of the transfers herein authorized a reasonable price not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage, shall be determined upon and an equivalent amount of each appropriation available for said purchase shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt, and the appropriation in each case reduced accordingly: *Provided further,* That it shall be the duty of each official of the Government having Preference directed.such purchases in charge to procure the same from any such unused or surplus stock if possible: *Provided further,* That hereafter no Free transfers of motor vehicles restricted.transfer of transfer of motor-propelled vehicles and motor equipment, unless specifically authorized by law, shall be made free of charge to any branch of the Government service. Sec. 6. That the following portions of the unexpended balances of Unexpended balances of appropriations covered into the Treasury.appropriations for the fiscal year 1919 for the support of the various services, as set forth in this section, shall be covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act, namely: Capital Issues Committee, $265,000; Capital Issues Committee. Committee on Public Information, $200,000 of the appropriation of Public Information Committee.Vol. 40, p. 646.$1,250,000; Federal Trade Commission, $200,000; Federal Trade Commission. Food Administration, $3,500,000; Food Administration. Fuel Administration, $655,000; Fuel Administration. War Industries Board, $1,925,000; War Industries Board. War Trade Board, $70,000; War Trade Board. Total appropriations to be covered into the Treasury by this section, $6,815,000. Sec. 7. For the purpose of securing an area of lands suitable for a Washington.Use of State land grants for University forest experiment station authorized.demonstration forest and forest experiment station for the University of the State of Washington, the consent of Congress is hereby granted the Board of Regents of the University of the State of Washington, and the State of Washington, acting through its properly constituted authorities, to exchange lands heretofore granted to the State of Washington by Act of Congress approved February 22, 1889, for the Vol. 25, pp. 679–681.purposes of a university in said State, or lands by said Act granted to the State of Washington “for State charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institutions” and thereafter by the State of Washington in part apportioned for the use and support of the University 234of Washington, for an area of equal value to be chosen and agreed upon out of lands heretofore granted to said State by said Act of Congress for the support of common schools, whether heretofore or hereafter formally selected or patented under the laws of the United Restrictions, etc.States. Lands so acquired by the State of Washington for the common schools, and lands so acquired for the use of the State University shall be subject to the same restrictions and conditions as to sale and disposal as were imposed upon the lands originally granted by the Act of Congress approved February 22, 1889, to the State of Washington for the use of the common schools and the State University, respectively. J. F. McMurray.Claims of, against Choctaws and Chickasaws.Vol. 40, p. 583, amended.Additional claims referred to Court of Claims. Sec. 8. That chapter eight, Laws of 1918, page 583, third paragraph, in line 16 of said paragraph, after the words “United States,” be amended by inserting the following: And with jurisdiction also to hear, consider, and adjudicate any and all other claims or demands by or against either party to said litigation, to the end that a complete and final adjustment may be had between said parties as to outstanding matters of controversy or account between them: *Provided,* That nothing in this amendment *Proviso.*Claims specifically excluded.shall be construed to include claims by J. F. McMurray or Mansfield, McMurray and Cornish relating to the sale of the Choctaw-Chickasaw coal lands or claims relating to the Leased District, or claims relating to proceeds arising from the sale of timber lands, unallotted or other lands or any other claim where the services were not actually rendered Limitation.and finished and resulted to the benefit of said people: *Provided further,* That the said J. F. McMurray shall be limited in presenting such additional claims to such matters as may have or shall hereafter be set up by way of set off or counterclaim by the defendants. Approved, July 19, 1919.