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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · June 30, 1920 · Chapter 253

Chapter 253. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 253.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes. June 5, 1920. [[H. R. 14335](/us/bill/66/hr/14335).] [[Public, No. 264](/us/pl/66/264).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1920. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND.American Printing House for the Blind. To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequatelyExpenses. to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August*Ante*, p. 272. 4, 1919, $10,000. ANTFIRACITE COAL COMMISSION. Anthracite Coal Commission. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal yearSalaries and expenses. 1920 for the Bituminous Coal Commission is made available during the fiscal years 1920 and 1921 for expenses of the Anthracite Coal*Post*, p. 1796.
Commission, including salaries and expenses of officers, employees and witnesses, personal services in the District of Columbia, purchase.*Ante*, p. 503. of supplies, printing and binding, reporting proceedings, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith. 1016 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. salaries. District of Columbia Employees’ Compensation Fund: For carryingEmployees’ Compensation Fund expenses. out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act*Ante*, p. 104. entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of theirVol. 39, p. 742. duties and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, $500. contingent and miscellaneous expenses.Contingent expenses.
For printing all annual and special reports of the government of thePrinting reports, fiscal year 1919. District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, for submission to Congress, $979.67. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, theJudicial expenses. printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, fiscal year 1919, $103.55.
For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportationCoroner’s expenses. for the coroner’s office and the morgue, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1917 and 1920, as follows: For 1917, $2.50; For 1920, $2,000. Coroner’s office: For amount required to pay the deputy coronerDeputy coroner. during the absence of the coroner for the fiscal years that follow: For 1919, $95;
For 1920, $60. District Building: For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics,Care of District Building. labor, and miscellaneous supplies, fiscal year 1917, $18.60. Free Public Library: For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting,Free Public Library.Miscellaneous. fitting up buildings, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1916, 1918, and 1920, as follows: For 1916, $7.15; For 1918, $42.60;
For 1920, $1,750. Authority is granted to expend during the fiscal year 1920, inAdditional car fare allowance.*Ante*, p. 73. addition to the sum of $5,000 heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $2,000, for the purchase of car fares, from appropriations contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920. improvements and repairs. For current work of repairs to suburban roads and suburbanSuburban roads, etc.Repairs. streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles, $20,000. sewers.Sewers.
For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the maintenanceCleaning, etc. of motor vehicles, $5,000. For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, andPumping stations. so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $27.50. 1017 electrical department.Electrical Department. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of publicLighting. lamps, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $4. rock creek park.Rock Creek Park.
For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, and so forth,Care and improvement. including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1915, $50.06. public schools.Public schools. Longevity pay: For longevity pay for director of intermediateLongevity pay. instruction, supervising principals, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years:
For 1910, $200; For 1911, $200; For 1912, $200; For 1913, $200; For 1914, $200; For 1915, $200; For 1916, $200; For 1917, $142; For 1920, $46,000. Allowance to principals: For allowance to principals of gradePrincipals.Additional pay to, for graded schools. school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of theVol. 34, p. 320. Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, $2,348.50.
For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material,Furniture, etc., for manual training. and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, fiscal year 1917, $79.03. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $16,600.Fuel, light and power. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,Contingent expenses. stationery, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1916, $1.23; For 1917, $172.60. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the firstSupplies to pupils. eight grades, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, $157.50. For purchase of apparatus and technical books and extending theApparatus, etc., physics departments. equipment and for maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, and Dunbar High Schools for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1916, $140.49; For 1917, $5. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds andRepairs and improvements. for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $10,000. Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial AppropriationDouble pay prohibition not applicable to school gardens. Act approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply to employees 1018 of the school garden department of the public schools of the DistrictVol. 39, p. 120. of Columbia.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For expenses attending theColumbia Institution for the Deaf.Expenses.[R. S. sec. 4864, p. 942.](/us/rs/s4864/p942)Vol. 31, p. 844. instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $1,800, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable ageColored deaf-mutes. belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $467, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided, *That all expenditures*Proviso.*Supervision. under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the board of education. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, inBlind children.
Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $1,467, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided, *That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be*Proviso.*Supervision. made under the supervision of the Board of Education. metropolitan police.Police. For maintenance of motor vehicles, fiscal year 1917, $7.50.Motor vehicles. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, and so forth, includingMiscellaneous. the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $3.57. fire department.Fire Department.
For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, and so forth,Contingent expenses. including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $4,000. For forage, $2,400.Forage. health department.Health department. For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries orDisinfecting service. compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $500.
For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatmentDispensaries for tuberculosis and venereal diseases. of persons suffering from tuberculosis and of persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service, rent, and supplies, $1,200. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the poundPound, motor vehicle. service, $400. Chemical laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order,Chemical laboratory. and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, fiscal year 1917, $8.40.
The appropriation of $500 contained in the Third DeficiencyCrematory. Reappropriation. *Ante*, p. 41. Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1919, for repairing the roof and retort of the public crematorium, is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year 1921. courts. Juvenile Court: For compensation of the acting judges of theJuvenile Court.Acting judges. Juvenile Court for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $20; 1019For 1919, $170. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $250.Miscellaneous.
For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $200. For meals of jurors and of prisoners temporarily detained at court awaiting trial, $25. Police court: For meals and lodging of jurors and of bailiffs inPolice court. attendance upon them when ordered by the court, fiscal year 1918, $20. For witness fees, fiscal year 1916, $1.50. Municipal court:
For contingent expenses, including books, lawMunicipal court. books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $1,200. Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs deLunacy writs. lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, includingVol. 33, p. 740. the employment of an alienist at not exceeding $1,500 per annum, and a clerk at $900 who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, $1,400. courts and prisons.Courts and prisons.
Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses and paymentSupreme court.Witness fees, etc.[R. S. sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $2,000. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts out of the District. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $20,000. charities and corrections.
Board of Charities: For the maintenance of one motor ambulance,Board of Charities. $400. washington, asylum and jail. Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles andWashington Asylum and Jail.Hospital expenses. repair to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including an allowance to the superintendent of not exceeding $360 per annum for maintenance of vehicles for use in discharge of his official duties, $8,500.
Support of prisoners: For maintenance of jail prisoners, and soSupport of jail prisoners, etc. forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $11,500. Home for Aged and Infirm: For provisions, fuel, forage, and soHome for Aged and Infirm. forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, $1,162.99. Tuberculosis Hospital:
For provisions, fuel, forage, and so forth,Tuberculosis Hospital. including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $2,500. 1020 child-caring institutions.Care of children. Board of Children’s Guardians: For maintenance of feeble-mindedBoard of Children’s Guardians.Feeble-minded children. children (white and colored), $4,500. For board and care of all children, and so forth, including the sameBoard, etc., of children. objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $33,000.
Authority is granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $1,500Additional to sectarian institutions. heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $5,000, during the fiscal year 1920, to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control. Industrial Home School: For maintenance, including the sameIndustrial Home School. objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $1,000. Insane: For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordanceDeporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811. with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899, $600.
Workhouse: For maintenance, including the same objects specifiedWorkhouse.Maintenance. under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $7.20. For fuel for manufacturing and construction, dynamite, oils, andOperation. repairs to plant, fiscal year 1917, $74.76. For fuel for maintenance, fiscal year 1918, $159.50. militia.Militia. For expenses of camps, including the same objects specified underExpenses, camps, etc. this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $32.50. temporary services.Temporary services.
The limitation on the amount which may be expended for servicesAmount for, increased. *Ante*, p. 101. of temporary employees, contained in section 2 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, is increased from $100,000 to $102,000. judgments. For payment of the judgments, including costs, against the DistrictPayment of judgments. of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered 767 of the present session, $9,138.28, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date they became due until the date of payment.
One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriationsHalf of foregoing from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 837. on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.Vocational Education Board. Vocational rehabilitation: For an additional amount for carryingRehabilitation of discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 617, 1179.*Ante*, pp. 159, 178, 504. out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June 27, 1918, as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, funeral and other incidental expenses (including the transportation of remains) of deceased trainees of the board, printing and 1021 binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $7,000,000: *Provided*, That the*Provisos.*Pay restriction.*Ante*, p. 178. salary limitations placed upon the appropriation for vocational rehabilitation by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved July 19, 1919, shall apply to the appropriation herein made: *Provided further*, That the board may, after June 30, 1920, pay, subject to theAllowance increase permitted. conditions and limitations prescribed by section 2 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act as amended, to all trainees undergoing training under said section residing where maintenance and support is above the average and comparatively high, in lieu of the monthly payments*Ante*, p. 159. for maintenance and support prescribed by section 2, as amended, such sum as in the judgment of the said board is necessary for his maintenance and support and for the maintenance and support of persons dependent upon him, if any: *Provided, however*, ThatLimitations. in no event shall the sum so paid such person while pursuing such course be more than $100 per month for a single man without dependents, or for a man with dependents $120 per month, plus theVol. 40, pp. 403, 610. several sums prescribed as family allowances under section 204 of Article II of the War Risk Insurance Act.
FEDERAL CONTROL OF TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE SYSTEMS.Federal control of telegraph, etc., systems. For payment of the deficit incurred in the operation of the telegraphPayment of operating deficit.Vol. 40, p. 904.*Ante*, p. 157. and telephone systems during the period of Government control and to carry out the provisions of the joint resolution approved July 16, 1918, and the Act approved July 11, 1919, with reference to just compensation to the owners of the telegraph and telephone systems for the supervision, possession, control, and operation of their properties by the United States during the period beginning midnight, July 31, 1918, and ending midnight, July 31, 1919, $14,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1921.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to andTraveling expenses. returning from their posts: To pay the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of diplomatic and consular officers and clerks in embassies, legations, and consulates and their families and effects in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under orders of the Secretary of State, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, $125,000.
Transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consularBringing home remains of officers, etc. assistants to their homes for interment: For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic and consular officers of the United States, including consular assistants, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, $1,344.65.
International Geodetic Association for the MeasurementInternational Geodetic Association.Maintenance of Ukiah Observatory. of the Earth: For the maintenance of the International Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, California, and the continuance of the international latitude work there from May 1, 1920, until the International Geodetic Association shall find it possible to resume its support of the observatory, $500: *Provided*, That so much thereof as*Proviso.*Deducted from quota. may be used for the purposes mentioned shall be deducted from the 1022 quota due from the United States as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth.
Sixth International Sanitary Conference: The President isInternational Sanitary Conference.Representatives to be appointed to. authorized to appoint or designate two officers of the United States connected with the Public Health Service to represent the United States in the Sixth International Sanitary Conference of American States to be held at the city of Montevideo, Uruguay, in December, 1920. For the expenses of such representatives in attending theExpenses. conference, including the assembling of necessary data and preparation of a report, $2,000, to be available during the fiscal year 1921.
For salaries for chargés d’affaires ad interim, $8,000.Chargés d’affaires ad interim. Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To enable the PresidentContingent expenses, foreign missions. to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal years 1914 and 1917, as follows: For 1914, $2,200; For 1917, $15,000. To pay the cost of the transportation of diplomatic and consularTravel allowance; 1915. officers in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the orders of the Secretary of State, at the rate of 5 cents per mile, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, fiscal year 1915, $70.30.
Relief and protection of American seamen: Relief and protectionRelief of American seamen. of American seamen in foreign countries, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, $35,000. Salaries of the Consular Service: For salaries of consuls general,Consular Service.Salaries.Vol. 38, p. 805. consuls, and vice consuls, as provided in the Act approved February 5, 1915, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1916, $1,025.26; For 1917, $2,163.25. Post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers: To Post allowances. enable the President, in his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to consular and diplomatic officers in belligerent countries and countries contiguous thereto, in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, fiscal year 1917, $634.26.
Allowance for clerk hire at United States consulates:Clerks at consulates. Allowance for clerk hire at consulates; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1916, $174.99; For 1917, $550. Expenses of Interpreters and Guards in Turkish Dominions: InterpretersInterpreters, guards, etc., Turkey. and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions, Persia, Morocco, northern Africa, and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1916, $622; For 1917, $2,729.81. Contingent expenses, United States consulates: Expenses ofContingent expenses, consulates. providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal years that follow: For 1916, $908.44; For 1917, $5,893.11. Representation of interests of foreign Governments growing out ofRepresenting interests of foreign Governments. hostilities in Europe, and so forth:
To enable the United States to 1023 fulfill the obligations devolving upon it in connection with or growing out of its representation of the interests of foreign Governments and their nationals, and so forth, including the same objects specified in Public Resolution Numbered 48, approved September 11, 1914, forVol. 38, p. 778. the fiscal years that follow: For 1916, $231.67; For 1917, $4,376.82. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. coast guard.Coast Guard. 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, $200,000.
For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistenceContingent expenses. 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, $25,000, which sum or any part thereof may be paid from any subhead (except “Pay and allowances”)*Ante*, p. 171. of the appropriation “Coast Guard, 1920.” contingent expenses, treasury department.Contingent expenses.
For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $1,200.Freight, etc. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grateFuel, etc. baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $2,000. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas and electric light fixtures, electric light wiring and material,Lighting. candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $500. customs service.Customs service.
For collecting the revenue from customs, including the detectionCollecting customs revenue. and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, $90,000. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. The limitation for the fiscal year 1920 on the number of deliveredNumber of sheets of customs stamps increased.*Ante*, p. 172. sheets of custom stamps authorized to be executed is increased from 40,400 to 193,200. independent treasury.Independent Treasury. For expenses Incident to the transfer of the duties and functionsTransfer of duties, etc. of the several subtreasuries when discontinued, as provided for in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the*Ante*, p. 654. fiscal year 1921, $292,000.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expensesContingent expenses.[R. S., sec. 3653. p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719). under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $49,000. office of assistant treasurer at new york.Assistant treasurer, New York. For reimbursement for amounts made good by certain employeesReimbursing employees in office of. in the Office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, New York, of losses incurred by them in the payment of dis-1024bursing officers’ checks upon indorsements which were later found to have been forged, and on account of a cash shortage as follows:
Charles M. Le Furge $531.24, Cortland P. Bennett $126, and Montgomery Maynard $500; in all, $1,157.24. internal revenue.Internal Revenue. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money coveredRefunding collections. into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections under the provisions of the Act approved May 27, 1908, fiscal year 1919, $30,217.21.Vol. 35, p. 325. For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes,Assessing, collecting, etc., taxes of Revenue Act, 1918.Vol. 40, p. 1234. as provided by the Revenue Act of 1918, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $535,000; and the unexpendedUse of unexpended balances. balances of other appropriations for the Internal-Revenue Service for the fiscal year 1920 may also be expended for this purpose. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices.
Denver, Colorado, Mint: For incidental and contingent expenses,Denver, Colo. including new machinery and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, fiscal year 1919, $4,060. Philadelphia Mint: For wages of workmen and other employees,Philadelphia, Pa. $55,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $25,000. public buildings.Public buildings.
Not to exceed $2,000 of the sum paid to the Secretary of theHarrisburg, Pa. Treasury by the American Fidelity Company, sureties.for the H. L. Brown Company, defaulting contractors for the construction of the extension, and so forth, of the post office and courthouse, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is appropriated and made available for completing the extension, remodeling, and so forth, of said building. Columbia, South Carolina, post office: For completion of the building,Columbia, S.
C. $95,000. Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heatingOperating supplies. purposes, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal vear 1920, $401,417.33. public health service.Public Health Service. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $44,000.Pay. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including theFreight, travel, etc. expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $8,000.
For medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for warriskHospital facilities to discharged sick soldiers, etc. 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 1025 burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $2,000,000.
The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer to theArmy medical supplies transferred free for designated hospitals. Secretary of the Treasury for use of the Public Health Service, and without payment therefor, such hospital furniture, equipment, and supplies, as may be required for hospitals of the said service at Fort Henry, Fort Bayard, Whipple Barracks, and in Cook County, Illinois. The total value of the material transferred hereunder shall not exceed $1,000,000. bureau of war risk insurance.War Risk Insurance Bureau.
The sum of $350,000 of the appropriation for stationery and minorTransfer of allotments of appropriations.*Ante*, p. 331. office supplies, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920, is made available for the payment of salaries. The sums of $1,500 and $35,000 of the appropriation for the fiscal yearVol. 40, p. 1227. 1920 for “Salaries and expenses of employees engaged in field investigations and for expenses of branch offices” are made available, respectively, for traveling expenses, and for furniture, equipment, and supplies.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. office of the secretary.Secretary’s Office. For additional amount required for the salary of the AssistantAssistant Secretary. Secretary of War during the fiscal years 1920 and 1921, in accordance*Ante*, p. 764. with section 5a of the Act “to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the National Defense, and for other purposes’ approved June 3, 1916, and to establish military justice,” $5,416.67. Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department.
For payment of the claims for damage to and loss of privateMorgan, N. J.Payment of claims for losses by explosions, etc., at.Vol. 40, p. 1165. property occasioned by the explosions and fire at the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Company, at Morgan, New Jersey, which have been determined by the Secretary of War from claims submitted by the sufferers and in amounts not exceeding those enumerated and scheduled in House Document Numbered 777 of the present session, $62,867.10. bureau of insular affairs.Insular Affairs Bureau.
The taxes imposed by the Philippine Legislature in section 1614Philippine Islands.Taxes imposed by legislature of, legalized, etc. of the Act Numbered 2657, enacted by that body on February 24, 1916, are legalized and ratified, and the collection of all such taxes made under or by authority of such Act of the Philippine Legislature is legalized, ratified, and confirmed as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had by prior Act of Congress been specifically authorized and directed. national cemeteries.National cemeteries.
For the restoration and repair of storm damage to the Vicksburg,Vicksburg, Miss.Repairing storm damage. Mississippi, National Cemetery and roadway thereto, $7,500, to remain available until June 30, 1921. public buildings and grounds. Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvementBuildings and grounds, D. C. and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: 1026 For additional for a new roof for the storehouse at the propagating gardens, $1,340. For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $417.
For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $500.Executive Mansion. transportation service.Inland, etc., transportation. Transportation facilities on inland and coastwise waterways: ForOperating expenses. Vol. 40, p. 455. payment of expenses of operation of boats, barges, tugs, and other transportation facilities, on the inland, canal, and coastwise waterways acquired by the United States in pursuance of the fourth paragraph of section 6 of the Federal Control Act of March 21, 1918, $270,000. river and harbor work.River and harbor work.
Readjustment of contracts: The sum of $368,978.33 found to beReadjustment of contracts not completed April 6, 1917.Vol. 40, p. 1290. due various contractors under the provisions of section 10 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1919, on certain contracts for work on river and harbor improvements entered into, but not completed prior to April 6, 1917, for work performed between April 6, 1917, and July 18, 1918, may be paid by thePayable from balances for projects.
Secretary of War from any unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for the projects on which such work was performed. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. quartermaster corps. Pay of the Army: For pay of the Army, including the same objects,Pay of the Army. except mileage, specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $55,000,000; For mileage to commissioned officers, warrant officers, members ofMileage to officers, etc. the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $1,600,000;
In all, $56,600,000, to be paid from the unexpended balance ofReappropriation. Vol. 40, p. 851. the appropriation “Pay, and so forth, of the Army,” for the fiscal year 1919, which is reappropriated for such purposes. Transportation of the Army: The Secretary of War is authorizedTransportation.Wives of soldiers married in Europe. to pay for the transportation from Europe to the United States of the wives of soldiers who became such while the soldiers were in Europe. The payment therefor shall be made from funds appropriated for the transportation of the Army and its supplies and at the per capita rates agreed upon for the transportation of the troops. bureau of insular affairs.Insular Affairs Bureau.
For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in the PhilippineCare of insane soldiers, Philippine Islands.Vol. 35, p. 122. Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformable to the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908, $1,000. settlement of contracts.War contracts. The following unexpended amounts of appropriations for thePayment for, suspended by reason of armistice, from unexpended appropriations. fiscal year 1918 shall remain upon the books of the Treasury to the credit of the respective appropriations until June 30, 1921, to permit payments for the adjustment and settlement of claims resulting from 1027 the suspension or termination of contracts or other procurement obligations of the War Department, consequent upon the suspension of hostilities, and for the adjustment of claims under the Act entitled “An Act to provide relief in cases of contracts connected with theVol. 40, p. 1272. prosecution of the war, and for other purposes,” approved March 2, 1919:
Armored motor cars, 1918, $2,985,946.53;Appropriations designated. Armored motor cars, 1917 and 1918, $307,312.80; Automatic rifles, 1918, $3,817,364.90; Automatic rifles, 1917 and 1918, $424,348.86; Barracks and quarters, 1918, $253,634.24; Barracks and quarters, 1917 and 1918, $11,782.29; Construction and repair of hospitals, 1918, $9,854.52; Engineer operations in the field, 1918, $110,868.51; Field artillery for National Guard, 1917 and 1918, $1,200,000; Increase for aviation, Signal Corps, 1918, $24,465,187.70;
Manufacture of arms, 1917 and 1918, $466,446.39; Medical and hospital department, 1918, $501,983.87; Ordnance service, 1918, $861.08; Ordnance stores—ammunition, 1917 and 1918, $377,820.88; Ordnance stores and supplies, 1917 and 1918, $47,036.55; Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, 1918, $6,077,771.23; Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, 1917 and 1918, $5,447.31; Shooting galleries and ranges, 1918, $300; Signal service of the Army, 1918, $761,470.91; Signal service of the Army, 1917 and 1918, $43,159;
Supplies, services, and transportation, 1918, $9,625,816.55; Supplies, services, and transportation, 1917 and 1918, $10,744.76. In all, $51,505,158.88: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be*Proviso.*Restriction. used to pay any claim arising out of any contract or other obligation unless such contract or obligation was entered into subsequently to April 6, 1917, and prior to November 12, 1918. The following unexpended amounts of appropriations for the fiscalUnexpended ba1ances available for prior contracts. year 1918 shall remain upon the books of the Treasury Department to the credit of the respective appropriations until June 30, 1921, to permit payments under contracts or obligations entered into during the period that such appropriations were available for obligation:
Supplies, services, and transportation, 1918, $23,573,117.51; Supplies, services, and transportation, 1917 and 1918, $98,693.12; In all, $23,671,810.63. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,Support of branches, etc. including the same objects specified in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920 for the following branches and under the following heads, respectively:
Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For subsistence, $42,000.Dayton, Ohio. For hospital, $7,000; For farm, $3,000; In all, $52,000. Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee, Wis. For subsistence, $7,000; For repairs, $2,500; For farm, $2,000; In all, $11,500. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas:Leavenworth, Kans. For subsistence, $16,000; For farm, $2,000; 1028 In all, $18,000. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California:Santa Monica, Calif. For subsistence, $30,000; For hospital, $3,000;
For farm, $1,000; In all, $34,000. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana:Marion, Ind. For hospital, $1,000; For farm, $1,000; In all, $2,000. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois:Danville, Ill. For hospital, $4,000; For repairs, $2,000; In all, $6,000. Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee:Johnson City, Tenn. For subsistence, $50,000; For hospital, $11,000; For repairs, $1,000; For farm, $1,000; In all, $63,000. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota:Hot Springs, S.
Dak. For subsistence, $30,000; For household, $3,000; For hospital, $20,000; For repairs, $2,500; For farm, $500; In all, $56,000. In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $242,500. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. That until otherwise provided by law no midshipman found deficientNaval Academy.Reexamination of midshipmen deficient in studies. at the close of the last and succeeding academic terms shall be involuntarily discontinued at the Naval Academy or in the service unless he shall fail upon reexamination in the subjects in which found deficient at an examination to be held at the beginning of the next and succeeding academic terms, and the Secretary of the Navy shall provide for the special instruction of such midshipmen in the subjects in which found deficient during the period between academic terms.
The following additional positions are authorized during the fiscalAdditional temporary employees authorized. year 1921 to be paid from the following appropriations for temporary employees, contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921: Office of the Secretary of the Navy: Two positions, at $2,400 each;*Ante*, p. 663. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: One position, at $4,000.*Ante*, p. 667. damage claims. Damage claims: To pay the claims adjusted and determined by theCollision damage claims.Vol. 36, p. 607.
Navy Department under the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1911, on account of damages occasioned to private property by collisions with vessels of the United States Navy and for which naval vessels were responsible, certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered 741 and 757 of the present session, $5,302.44: *Provided*,*Proviso.* Amount corrected. That the amount stated in item 18 in Document Numbered 741 shall be $228.79 instead of $288.79. shipping bulletin.Shipping Bulletin.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to cause to be preparedPublication authorized. in the Office of Communications, Navy Department, a publication 1029 known as the Shipping Bulletin, and to publish and furnish the same to the maritime interests of the United States and other interested parties, at the cost of collecting and publishing the information, including the cost of printing and paper and other necessary expenses. The expenses of such bulletin shall be paid from the appropriationExpenses.*Ante*, p. 827.Receipts from sales.
“Engineering,” Bureau of Steam Engineering, fiscal year 1921. The money received from the sale of such publication shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged onTransportation. account of expiration of enlistment, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $3,594.26.
Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service, and soRecruiting. forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $2,873.24. Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged onTransportation.Fiscal years 1919, 1920. account of expiration of enlistment, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1919, $6,735,764.70;
For 1920, $3,000,000. The recruiting officer, Washington, District of Columbia, is authorizedAdvertising.Washington, D. C. to make payment in the amount of $5.15 for advertising inserted in Washington, District of Columbia, newspapers, said advertising having been inserted without first securing the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, as required by section 3828, Revised Statutes.[R.S., sec. 3828, p. 749](/us/rs/s3828/p749). The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of the recruiting officer, Cincinnati, Ohio, anCincinnati, Ohio. item of $56.15, covering advertising in newspapers inserted without first securing the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, as required by section 3828, Revised Statutes.[R.
S. sec. 3828, p. 749](/us/rs/s3828/p749). Gunnery and engineering exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badgesGunnery and engineering exercises. for excellency in gunnery, target practice, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $15. Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprenticeOutfits, first enlistments. seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each, fiscal year 1916, $202.77.
Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprenticeFiscal year 1919.Clothing gratuity, etc. seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $100 each; for the clothing gratuity of officers and other members of the Naval Reserve Force, not to exceed $150 each for officers; for civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharges for bad conduct, undesirability, or in aptitude; in all, fiscal year 1919, $856,848.03. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expensesContingent. and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $15,825. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works. Hospital construction: For additional temporary hospital constructionHospital construction. and repairs as may be necessary at the points named herein 1030and to provide same with suitable hospital facilities: Newport, Rhode Island, $50,000; Brooklyn, New York, $35,000; in all, $85,000.
Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For continuing thePortsmouth, N. H. extension of the quay wall, $19,084.59. Depots for coal: For depots for coal and other fuel at San Diego,Fuel depots. California, $9,666.75; at Guantanamo, Cuba, $13,832.25; in all, $23,499. Naval Hospital, Fort Lyon, Colorado: The unexpended balanceFort Lyon, Colo.Naval hospital enlargement, etc.*Ante*, p. 143. of the appropriation for the purchase of land for the enlargement and development of the naval hospital, Fort Lyon, Colorado, contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 or so much thereof as may be required, is continued and made available for the acquisition, in the manner provided in said Act, of lands for which negotiations have been entered into but not consummated. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Care of hospital patients: For the care, maintenance, and treatmentCase of hospital patients. of patients in naval and in other than naval hospitals, $530,000. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. territory of alaska.Alaska. Education in Alaska: For education and support of the nativesEducation of natives. in Alaska, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $56,000. columbia institution for the deaf.Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
For repairs at main power plant, including installation of newPower plant repairs. boiler tubes and of mechanical stokers, $6,500. freedmen’s hospital.Freedmen’s Hospital. For subsistence, fuel, and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine,Contingent expenses. medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $9,555.99. pension office.Pension Office. To provide additional compensation for employees of the BureauAdditional employees under Retirement Act.*Ante *p. 617. of Pensions designated to carry out the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, $2,000, to continue available until June 30, 1921: *Provided*, That no person so employed*Proviso.*Pay restriction. shall receive compensation at a rate exceeding $1,740 per annum except one at $3,000, one at $2,400, one at $2,000, and two at $1,800 each.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, for the fiscalPostal Guide. years that follow: For 1920, $6,500; For 1921, $50,000. For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office for theGovernment Printing Office.Heat, etc., to city post office. cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department building at Massachusetts 1031 Avenue and North.
Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. POSTAL SERVICE.Postal Service. Out of the Postal Revenues. office of the first assistant postmaster general.First Assistant Postmaster General. For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerkTemporary, auxiliary, and substitute clerks. hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices, and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, $1,000,000.
For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles,Vehicle allowance. and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of screen-wagon and city delivery and collection services, $1,200,000. audited settlements.Audited settlements. For special-delivery fees for the following fiscal years:Special delivery fees. For 1918, $960.65; For 1919, $1,179,987.47. office of the second assistant postmaster general.Second Assistant Postmaster General.
For additional compensation for the transportation of mails byRailroad routes. railroads for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, in accordance with the increased rates fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission in its order Numbered 9200 of December 23, 1919, $8,000,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $250,000 may be expended*Proviso.*Freight train service. for payment of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special arrangement in freight trains or otherwise.
For transportation of foreign mails, $900,000.Foreign mails. The Postmaster General is authorized to sell under such rulesAirplanes, etc.Sale of unsuitable, authorized. and regulations as he may prescribe any airplanes, parts thereof, field equipment, tools and other aviation material which have become unsuitable in the postal service or which will deteriorate and become unsuitable before it can be used. The proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as “Miscellaneous receipts.”Deposit of proceeds.
For two delegates to the Universal Postal Congress at Madrid,Universal Postal Congress.Delegates to. Spain, to be appointed by the Postmaster General from the Post Office Department, fiscal year 1921, $4,000. office of the third assistant postmaster general.Third Assistant Postmaster General. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of piecesIndemnity, lost, etc., domestic mail matter. of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1918, $50,000; For 1919, $125,000; For 1920, $1,000,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. For amount required during the fiscal year 1919, to meet the increasedMoney order blanks.Increased cost, 1919. cost of money-order blanks and books in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 ofVol. 40, p. 753. the Post Office Appropriation Act approved July 2, 1918, $7,710.17. For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service inStar routes.
Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, $1,600,000. 1032 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $1,000.Stationery. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights,Miscellaneous. foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street car fares not exceeding $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $7,000. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.
Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecutionDetection and prosecution of crimes. of crimes against the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $125,000. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to allow inF. R. Brenneman.Allowance in accounts. the accounts of F. R. Brenneman, United States marshal for the District of Alaska, third division, the sum of $681 paid by him on authority from the Attorney General, covering compensation and expenses in coroners’ inquest proceedings conducted by United States Commissioner Anthony McGettigan.
To enable the Attorney General to employ, at his discretion andOpinions of Attorney General. Editing, etc., Volume 32. [R.S. sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314). Vol. 18, p. 109. Vol. 39, p. 120. irrespective of the provisions of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes and section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916, such competent person or persons as will in his judgment best perform the service, to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of volume 32 of the Opinions of the Attorneys General, the printing of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions of section 383, Revised[R.
S., sec. 383, p. 63](/us/rs/s383/p63). Statutes, $500. For payment of Francisco Montefredini for legal services and expensesFrancisco Montefredini. Services, etc. in the matter of the claim of the United States Government for coal on German steamship Waltrante, at Brindisi, Italy, $800, and the value of 3,860.41 lire at the time actual payment is made, in all not to exceed $1,500. JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and theirMarshals. deputies, including the same objects specified in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $120,000.
For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $125,000. For reimbursement of the Bureau of Mines of the Department ofBureau of Mines. the Interior for coal chargeable against the office of the district attorney, District of Columbia, furnished in 1919, $48.32; and for paymentPotomac Electric Power Company, D.C. to the Potomac Electric Power Company, for current furnished said office in May and June, 1919, $24.95; in all, $73.27.
For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who areAssistant district attorneys. appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $3,500. For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States districtAssistants in special cases. attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the AttorneyForeign counsel. General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take1033 oath of office in accordance with section 366, Revised Statutes of the[R.
S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). United States), fiscal year 1919, $3,600. For fees of jurors, $100,000.Jurors. For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses ofWitnesses.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $60,000. For pay of bailiffs and criers, and so forth, including the sameBailiffs, etc. objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $30,000.
For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by theMiscellaneous. 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, $100,000. For supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and addingSupplies. machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $5,000. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary:
For subsistence, includingLeavenworth, Kans., penitentiary.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, for the fiscal yearn that follow: For 1919, $17,487.94; For 1920, $65,000. For clothing, transportation, traveling expenses, and so forth,Clothing, etc. including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1919, $6,421.18; For 1920, $40,000. The accounting officers are authorized and directed to allow theEdward Fraser.Payment to. claim of Edward Fraser, Leavenworth, Kansas, for $21 for expense of repair of damage to his automobile by automobile belonging to the penitentiary. The accounting officers are authorized and directed to allow theLeavenworth fire department.Claim allowed. claim of the Leavenworth, Kansas, city fire department for $276 for clothing and shoes of employees and fire hose ruined in fighting the fire in the penitentiary in July, 1919.
The cash allowance of $5 and the clothing allowance of $12, nowAllowances to discharged prisoners increased, fiscal year 1921. authorized by law for prisoners on discharge from the United States penitentiaries, are increased during the fiscal year 1921 to $10 and $15, respectively. The accounting officers are directed to allow under the appropriationSacramento County, Calif.Claim allowed. for “Support of prisoners, United States courts, 1919,” the claim of $263.15 of the board of supervisors of Sacramento County, California, for repair of damage maliciously done to the county jail building by Federal prisoners during the fiscal year 1919.
National Park Commissioners: For the salary of the CommissionerNational Park Commissioners.Salaries, Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant Parks.*Ante*, p. 733. of the Yosemite National Park, and the salary of the Commissioner for the Sequoia and General Grant National Parks at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, as follows: Fiscal year 1920, $250; Fiscal year 1921, $3,000. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Agricultural Department. bureau of animal industry.Animal Industry Bureau. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay to J.
W. HarreldJ. W. Harreld.Payment to. from the appropriations “General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry,” and “Enforcement of the United States Grain Standards Act,” fiscal year 1920, the respective sums of $49.15 and $62.27; in1034 all, $111.42, representing the one-half interest of said J. W. Harreld in rent remaining unpaid by the Department of Agriculture for the use and occupancy of rooms in the Patterson Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from November 8 to December 15, 1919, the provisionsVol. 35, p. 1109. of section 114 of the Penal Code notwithstanding. bureau of biological survey.Biological Survey Bureau.
General expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, including the sameGeneral expenses. objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $36,271.50. states relations service.States Relations Service. For necessary expenses to repair damage by typhoon to buildings,Guam.Typhoon damages, repairs. fences, and so forth, of the Agricultural Experiment Station on the Island of Guam, $5,000, to be available for the fiscal year 1921. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau.
Authority is granted for the payment from unexpended balancesDistributing cars.Payment from unexpended balances for. of the appropriations for the fiscal years 1918 and 1920 for “propagation of food fishes” the sums of $3,832 and $317, respectively, for the equipment and completion of two steel distributing cars; in all, $4,149. Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska,Alaska, general service.Protecting seal fisheries, etc. 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 the provisions of the Act approved April 21, 1910, entitled “An Act toVol. 36, p. 326. 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, $2,000.
Fairport, Iowa, Biological Station: For equipment of laboratoryFairport, Iowa.Laboratory building. building, including aquaria and tanks, furniture, and scientific, technical, and reference library, to continue available until June 30, 1921, $5,000. Fish hatchery and laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts: ForWoods Hole, Mass.Replacing building, etc., destroyed by fire. replacing the building and equipment recently destroyed by fire, repairing all other damages to the station occasioned by the fire, the transfer of the boiler and pumping plant to the new building, the necessary replacement and rearrangement of the steam and water systems of the station, and the razing present pump and boiler house, to continue available until June 30, 1921, $70,000. steamboat-inspection service.Steamboat-Inspection Service.
Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and otherContingent expenses. expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of title 52, Revised Statutes, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1919, $4,500; For 1920, $20,000. 1035 lighthouse service.Lighthouse Service.
Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crewsVessels. Officers and crews. of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $75,000. Inspectors, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen superintendentsInspectors, etc. 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, $3,000.
To reimburse R. C. Hart, special disbursing agent of the DepartmentR. C. Hart.Reimbursement of. of Commerce in the office of the superintendent of lighthouses, Portland, Oregon, for expenditures made by him from the appropriation “General expenses, Lighthouse Service, 1914,” for per diem in lieu of subsistence, which w’ere disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury, $300. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer, without payment,Capitol power plant.Army equipment, etc., to be transferred to. to the Superintendent, United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds, such material and equipment, not required by the War Department, as the Superintendent may request for use at the Capitol power plant, the Capitol Building, and the Senate and House Office Buildings.
Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and HouseMaintenance. Office Buildings, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $23,000. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneousHouse Office Building.Maintenance. items, and for all necessary services, $1,800. senate.Senate. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $35,000.Miscellaneous items. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1919, $10,000.
For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, andStationery. for committees and officers of the Senate, fiscal years 1920 and 1921, $2,000. To pay Dennis M. Kerr for extra and expert services rendered toDennis M. Kerr.Services. the Committee on Pensions during the first and second sessions of the Sixty-sixth Congress as assistant clerk to said committee, by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200. For an additional messenger for service at the mam entrance toAdditional messenger. the Senate Chamber, at an annual compensation of $1,440, fiscal year 1921, $1,440.
To pay Paul C. Carpenter for extra and expert services renderedPaul C. Carpenter.Services. the Committee on Interstate Commerce in its investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, $199.10. To pay James M. Porter for extra services during the second sessionJames M. Porter.Services. of the Sixty-sixth Congress rendered the Select Senate Committee in the investigation of the public-school system of the District of Columbia, $300. For additional expenses of reporting and transcribing the debatesOfficial reporters.Additional pay for fiscal year 1921. and proceedings of the Senate and to equalize more nearly the amounts paid by the Senate and House of Representatives for reporting their respective proceedings from July 1, 1920, to June 30, 1921, payable in equal monthly installments, $9,844.
Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items andSenate Office Building.Maintenance. supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the 1036 care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $1,500. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay to Emma, Britt,Emma Britt.Payment to. widow of James T. Britt, late an employee of the maintenance roll of the Senate Office Building, a sum equal to six months’ compensation, at the rate he was receiving at the time of his death, May 16, 1920, $600.
For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles forMotor vehicles. carrying the mails, and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. house of representatives. To pay the mother of Charles A. Nichols, late a RepresentativeCharles A. Nichols.Pay to mother. from the State of Michigan, $7,500. For payment to Wilham T. Bland for expenses incurred as contesteeContested election expenses.William T.
Bland. in the contested-election case of Reeves versus Bland, Sixty-sixth Congress, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $2,000. For payment to John F. Fitzgerald for expenses incurred as contesteeJohn F. Fitzgerald. in the contested-election case of Tague versus Fitzgerald, Sixth-sixth Congress, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered Two, $2,000. For payment to Sam C. Major for expenses incurred as contesteeSam C. Major. in the contested-election case of Salts versus Major, Sixty-sixth Congress, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $2,000.
For folding speeches and pamphlets at a rate not exceeding $1Folding. per thousand, $8,000, to continue available during the fiscal yearReappropriation.*Ante*, p. 519. 1921; and the appropriation for this purpose contained in the “Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, Fiscal year 1920,” is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1921. To pay Wilham Tyler Page, Clerk of the House of Representatives,William Tyler Page.Compiling, etc., contested election cases documents. for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading proof, indexing of testimony, stenography and typewriting, supervising the work, and expenses incurred in the contested-election cases of theVol. 24, p. 445.
Sixty-sixth Congress (seven in number), as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act relating to contested elections,” approved March 2, 1887, $2,153.90; and an additional sum of $1,400 to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by him, and in such proportion as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, $3,553.90. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, $250.Stationery. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, for the following fiscal years:
For 1919, $2,827.21; For 1920, $30,000. Hereafter supplies for use of the Senate and the House of RepresentativesCongressional supplies.Purchases under Supply Committee contract schedules.Vol. 36, p. 531. may be purchased in accordance with the schedule of contract articles and prices of the General Supply Committee authorized by section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning the purchase of supplies for the executive departments and other Government establishments in Washington: *Provided*, That paper, envelopes,*Proviso.*Paper, etc., may be purchased from Public Printer. and blank-books required by the stationery rooms of the Senate and House of Representatives for sale to Senators and Members for official use may be purchased from the Public Printer at actual cost thereof and payment therefor shall be made before delivery.
For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, fiscal yearFurniture. 1919, $38.25. 1037 For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for theAutomobile for Speaker. Speaker, $500. For reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees forStenographers to committees.Reimbursement. amounts actually and necessarily expended by them to May 31, 1920, $800 each, $3,200. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes,Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Charles C.
Allen. and Charles C. Allen, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-sixth Congress, second session, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,800. Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply withLeaves of absence. the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $27,360.29. Hereafter the Postmaster General shall in his annual report submitFranked matter.Postmaster General to report cost of mailing matter by departments, etc. a detailed statement of the cost to the postal establishment of the matter mailed under frank by each department and independent establishment of the Government and the revenue which would be derived therefrom if carried at the ordinary rates of postage.
Hereafter the head of each department and independent establishmentDepartment, etc., publications.Annual detailed report of number, cost, etc., of, to be submitted. of the Government shall on the first day of each regular session submit in writing a report to the Congress giving the aggregate number of the various publications it has issued during the preceding fiscal year giving same in detail, and shall also report the cost of japer used for such publications, cost of printing and the cost of preparation of each publication, and the number of each which has been distributed. public printing and binding.Public printing and binding.
For the Civil Service Commission, $7,500.Civil Service Commission. For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the District ofSupreme Court, D. C. Columbia, $500. office of superintendent of documents.Superintendent of Documents. For supplying books to depository libraries, $25,000.Books to libraries. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs ofPayment.Vol. 24, p. 505. suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” approved March 3, 1887, certified to Congress at its present session by tlie Attorney General in House Document Numbered 774 and which have not been appealed, $45,781.74, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims,Payments. and reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered 771 and Senate Document Numbered 295, namely:Classification Under the Treasury Department, $15,590.52; Under the War Department, $333,692.02; Under the Navy Department, $6,535.54; Under the Post Office Department, $5,084.27; In all, $360,902.35. 1038 JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Judgment, Indian depredation claims.
For payment of the judgment rendered by the Court of Claims inPayment. an Indian depredation case, certified to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 775, $255, said judgment to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisionsDeductions. of section 6 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustmentVol. 26, p. 853. and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” approved March 3, 1891, shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to theReimbursement.
United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian service. None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until theRight to appeal. right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toPayment of, certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of theVol. 18, p. 110.
Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1917 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to CongressVol. 23, p. 254. under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 222, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, $50.75. For the redemption of stamps, $349.34. For the payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $12,252.86. For allowance of drawback, $71.77. For refunding moneys erroneously received and covered, internal revenue, $55. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $60,015.86. For Coast Guard, $1,697.76. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $21.70. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $875.48. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $67.85. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $1,132. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $987.25. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $524.12. For Medical and Hospital Department, $79.31. For arming, equipping, and training National Guard, $198.95.
For civilian military training camps, $78.53. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $36.96. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $75. 1039 For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, $69.40. claims allowed by the auditor fob the navy department. For pay, miscellaneous, $67.50.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For pay, Marine Corps, $230.54. For contingent, Marine Corps, $4,202.80. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $8,852.37.
For arming and equipping Naval Militia, $107.50. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $62. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $278. For torpedoes and appliances, Bureau of Ordnance, $1,196. For pay of Navy, $2,822.68. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For traveling expenses of inspectors, Department of the Interior,Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. 1918, 25 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 1918, $93.53.
For repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior, 1919, $77.69. For improving the Capitol Grounds, 1917 and 1918, $379.66. For Saint Elizabeths Hospital, 1919, $4,297.46. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, $51.75. For surveying the public lands, 55 cents. For Geological Survey, $5.75. For investigating mine accidents, $1. For enforcement of the Act to regulate explosives, Bureau of Mines, 1919, $443.42. For Indian schools, support, $24.30. For Indian school and agency buildings, $9.78.
For industrial work and care of timber, $67.58. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $165.91. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1918, $11.72. For general expenses, Indian Service, $1.97. For Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, repairs and improvements, 1918, $118.50. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1919, $7.56. For Indian school, Santa Fe, New Mexico, repairs and improvements, 1918, $2.15. For support of Kickapoos, Oklahoma, 1919, $15.30.
For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, repairs and improvements, 1919, $4.08. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, 1919, $55.45. For roads and bridges, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), $39.09. claims allowed by the auditor for state and other departments. For contingent expenses, Department of State, $88.92.Claims allowed by Auditor for State,etc., Departments. For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $166.66. For salaries, interpreters to consulates, $681.77.
For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $159.69. For astrophysical observatory, Smithsonian Institution, $9. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $344.15. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $55.67. For library, Department of Agriculture, $7.44. For general expenses, Forest Service, $8.55. 1040 For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $20.93. For general expenses, Office of Markets and Rural Organization, $69.43. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $806.19.
For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $2.12. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $5.33. For promoting commerce, South and Central America, 25 cents. For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, 47 cents. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $5.40. For contingent expenses, Shipping Service, $13.60. For color standardization, Bureau of Standards, $75. For equipping chemical laboratory building, Bureau of Standards, $71.39. For standardizing mechanical appliances, Bureau of Standards, $17.72.
For testing miscellaneous materials, Bureau of Standards, 1918, $755.07. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $1,074.32. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $4.95. For detection and prosecution of crimes, 68 cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, 1919, $600.56. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $96.45. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1918, $183.15. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1919, $3,179.65. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $6.
For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $178.50. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For railroad transportation, $6,459.86.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For indemnities, international mail, $335.18. For indemnities, domestic mail, $2.88. For wagon service, $6,669.63. For compensation to postmasters, $126.78. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $18.13. For shipment of supplies, $12.48. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $646.
For Railway Mail Service, travel allowance, $10.06. Total, audited claims, section 2, $125,303.74. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toAdditional claims certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of theVol. 18, p. 110. Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1917 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forthVol. 23, p. 254. in House Document Numbered 766, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: NewspaperClaims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. clippings and books, $3. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $189. For redemption of stamps, $127.32. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $19,700.95. 1041 For allowance or drawback, $1,258. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal Revenue Service, $1.29. For salaries and expenses, agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, $52. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $299,021.54.
For the Coast Guard, $458.39. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $551.45. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $29.90. For operating supplies for public buildings, $11.56. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $14. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For Signal Service of the Army, $15.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $3,431.69. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $1,064.
For supplies, service, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $14,288.45. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $291.66. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $175.89. For barracks and quarters, $68.83. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $2,475.24. For medical and hospital department, $2,107.20. For library, Surgeon General’s Office, $51.86. For transportation of rifle teams to national matches, $82. For arming, equipping, and training, National Guard, $433.76.
For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $7.62. For civilian military training camps, $92.94. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $24.07. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $50. For transportation and caring for interned Mexican soldiers and military refugees, $400.50. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For pay, miscellaneous, $80.31.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For pay, Marine Corps, $363.48.
For maintenance, quartermaster’s department, Marine Corps, $8,155.67. For contingent, Marine Corps, $13,269.55. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $3.54. For recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, $61.85. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $20. For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $160.32. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $497.50. For torpedoes and appliances, Bureau of Ordnance, $38. For torpedo station, Bureau of Ordnance, $6.
For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, $1,679. For pay of the Navy, $5,238.81. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $324.44. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,620.50. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $498.20. For engineering Bureau of Steam Engineering, $86.29. 1042 claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For equipment and operation, building for Interior DepartmentClaims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. offices, 1918, $15.
For contingent expenses, Department of Interior, $56.38. For contingent expenses, Department of Interior, 1918, $29.62. For education of natives of Alaska, $318.30. For scientific library, Patent Office, $54.97. For international protection of industrial property, Patent Office, 1918, $54.32. For repairs of buildings, Department of Interior, $30.40. For medical relief in Alaska, $242.73. For books and publications, Bureau of Mines, $3.10. For enforcement of the Act to regulate explosives, Bureau of Mines, 1919, $4,093.83.
For investigations, petroleum and natural gas. Bureau of Mines, $48.51. For testing fuel, Bureau of Mines, $1. For Geological Survey, $2. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $21.32. For Indian schools, support, $109.97. For Indian school buildings, $62. For Indian school and agency buildings, $36.12. For Indian school transportation, $22.74. For industry among Indians, $37.14. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $145.10.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1918, $111.49. For general expenses, Indian Service, $1.25. For inspectors, Indian Service, $2.20. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $104.84. For Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, 32 cents. For water supply, Navajo and Hopi Indians, Arizona (reimbursable), 1918 and 1919, $91.05. For Indian school, Greenville, California, 1918, $25.63. For support of Chippewas of the Mississippi, Minnesota, 1919, $15.83. For support of Indians, Blackfeet Agency, Montana, 1918 and 1919, $386.55.
For Indian school, Carson City, Nevada, 1919, $48. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1919, 32 cents. For support of Pawnees, schools, Oklahoma, 1919, $48.92. For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, repairs and improvements, 1919, 39 cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $52.55. For maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), 1919, $136.91. For support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, 1919, $51.25.
For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, 1919, 41 cents. claims allowed by the auditor for state and other departments. For public printing and binding, $4.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For additional employees, Department of State, 1918, $19.86. For contingent expenses, Department of State, 1919, $32.81. For salaries, diplomatic and consular officers, while receiving instructions and in transit, $400. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $8.96. For salaries, Consular Service, $3,986.30. 1043 For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $300.
For allowance for clerks at consulates, $1,478.75. For expenses, interpreters and guards in Turkish, dominions, and so forth, $1,013.36. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $995.54. For emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, $300. For transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular assistants, 1919, $171.40. For representation of interests of foreign Governments growing out of hostilities in Europe, and so forth, $2.04. For Commission on Industrial Relations, $184.77.
For Interstate Commerce Commission, $1,114.18. For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1919, $77. For library, Department of Agriculture, $20.15. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $1.68. For general expenses, Forest Service, $803.45. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $4.35. For general expenses, Office of Markets and Rural Organization, $44.46. For general expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates, $3.56. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $10.62.
For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $95.55. For determining physical constants, Bureau of Standards, $49.87. For standardizing mechanical appliances, Bureau of Standards, $24.50. For testing structural materials, Bureau of Standards, $216.15. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $141.95. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $50.90. For salaries, Lighthouse Service, $4.40. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, 70 cents. For protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, $10.
For books for judicial officers, $10.56. For fees of clerks, United States courts, 1919, $2,606.63. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $7.80. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1919, $4,859.40. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $15.70. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $130.72. For supplies for United States courts, 1918, $8.43. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $185.40. For support of prisoners, United States courts, 1919, $6,184.73. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.
For railroad transportation, $210,263.17.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post office Department. For indemnities, international mail, $400.36. For indemnities, domestic mail, $270.59. For City Delivery Service, carriers, $52.54. For separating mails, third and fourth class post offices, $11. For rent, light, and fuel, $141.25. For Railway Mail Service, salaries and travel allowance, $113.20. For mail messenger service, $20. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $347.55. For clerks, first, second, and third class post offices, $220.92.
For Rural Delivery Service, $2,009.86. For compensation to postmasters, $733.49. For shipment of supplies, $70.41. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, purchases, $1.90. For canceling machines, 55 cents. 1044 For temporary city delivery carriers, $163.80. Total audited claims, section 3, $625,446.25. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 4. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toAdditional claims certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 ofVol, 18, p. 110. the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1917 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forthVol. 23, p. 254. in Senate Document Numbered 286, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For collecting the income tax, $58.50.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For redemption of stamps, $1,690.62. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $8,584.71. For allowance or drawback, $24.49. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $21,918.34. For operating supplies for public buildings, $1.50. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For barracks and quarters, $34,272.63.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $53.50.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $4,214.83. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $3,689.07. For shooting galleries and ranges, $2,483.78. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $1,887.85. For civilian military training camps, $31.20. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $26. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For pay miscellaneous, 1919, $28,479.42.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.
For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $3,892.98. For contingent, Marine Corps, $7,916.45. For outfits for landsmen, $45. For pay of the Navy, $1,054.57. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 1919, $374,082.65. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1.20. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For contingent expenses of land offices, $3.16.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For general expenses, Bureau of Mines, $12.10.
For investigating mine accidents, $232.98. For testing fuel, Bureau of Mines, $22.50. For mineral mining investigations, Bureau of Mines, $112.50. For investigations, petroleum and natural gas, Bureau of Mines, $207.13. 1045 For expenses, mining experiment stations, Bureau of Mines, $15.15. For enforcement of the Act to regulate explosives, Bureau of Mines, 1919, $142.84. For Indian schools, support, $30.25. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1919, $129.10. For support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, 1919, $31.04. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.
For salaries, Consular Service, 1919, $103.67.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, 1919, $1.92. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $145.30. For library, Department of Agriculture, $1.75. For general expenses, Forest Service, $130.64. For color standardization, Bureau of Standards, $23.56. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $8.35. For tees of commissioners, United States courts, 1919, $183.80. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $27.98.
For support of prisoners, United States courts, 1918, $10. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $698. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For railroad transportation, $356,342.12.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For indemnities, domestic mails, $212.25. For compensation to postmasters, $844.99. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $175.64. For rural delivery service, $210. For special delivery fees, $3.28. For temporary and auxiliary clerks in post offices, $130.20.
For clerks, third-class post offices, $75. For rent, light, and fuel, $59. Total audited claims, section 4, $854,735.49. Sec. 5. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “Third Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1920.” Approved, June 5, 1920.
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