Chapter 6. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 6.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes. July 11, 1919. [[H. R. 3478](/us/bill/66/hr/3478).] [[Public, No. 5](/us/pl/66/5).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the followingThird Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1919.*Post,* p. 272.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, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN. Alien Property Custodian. For expenses of the Alien Property Custodian authorized by the Services, supplies, etc., under.Vol. 40, p. 415.Act entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October 6, 1917, including personal and other services and expenses incident to the acquiring and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, printing and binding, law books, books of reference and periodicals, supplies and equipment, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $90,000.
That section 9 of the “Act to define, regulate, and punish trading Trading with the enemy.Vol. 40, p. 419, amended.with the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October 6, 1917, is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 9. That any person not an enemy or ally of enemy claiming Claims of other than enemies against property held by Custodian.*Post,* p. 977.any interest, right, or title in any money or other property which may have been conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the Alien Property Custodian hereunder and held by him or by the Treasurer of the United States, or to whom any debt may be owing from an enemy or ally of enemy whose property or any part thereof shall have been conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the Alien Property Custodian hereunder, and held by him or by the Treasurer of the United States, may file with the said Notice to be filed, etc.custodian a notice of his claim under oath and in such form and containing such particulars as the said custodian shall require; and Payment, conveyance, etc., may be ordered by the President.the President, if application is made therefor by the claimant, may order the payment, conveyance, transfer, assignment, or delivery to said claimant of the money or other property so held by the Alien Property Custodian or by the Treasurer of the United States or of the interest therein to which the President shall determine said claimant is entitled: *Provided,* That no such order by the President *Provisos.*Rights against claimants not barred.shall bar any person from the prosecution of any suit at law or in equity against the claimant to establish any right, title, or interest which he may have in such money or other property.
If the President Suit allowed, after the war, to establish interest, etc.shall not so order within sixty days after the filing of such application or if the claimant shall have filed the notice as above required and shall have made no application to the President, said claimant may, at any time before the expiration of six months after the end of the war institute a suit in equity in the Supreme Court Jurisdiction of courts.of the District of Columbia or in the district court of the United States for the district in which such claimant resides, or, if a corporation, where it has its principal place of business (to which suit the Alien Property Custodian or the Treasurer of the United States, as the case may be, shall be made a party defendent), to establish the interest, right, title, or debt so claimed, and if suit shall be so instituted then the money or other property of the enemy, or ally of enemy, against whom such interest, right, or title is asserted, or debt claimed, shall be retained in the custody of the Alien Property Retention of property until judgment, etc.Custodian, or in the Treasury of the United States, as provided in this Act, and until any final judgment or decree which shall be36entered in favor of the claimant shall be fully satisfied by payment or conveyance, transfer, assignment, or delivery by the defendent or by the Alien Property Custodian or Treasurer of the United States on order of the court, or until final judgment or decree shall be Property of owner considered enemy solely because residing in territory of allies occupied by German, etc., forces.entered against the claimant, or suit otherwise terminated: *Provided, however,* That in respect of all property heretofore determined by the President to have been held for, by, on account of, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of a person who was an enemy or ally of enemy, if the President, after further investigation, shall determine that such person was an enemy or ally of enemy solely by reason of residence in that portion of the territory of any nation associated with the United States in the prosecution of the war which was occupied by the military or naval forces of Germany or Austria-Hungary, or their allies, and that such person is a citizen or subject of such associated Delivery, etc., without application allowed.nation, then the President, without any application being made therefor, may order the payment, conveyance, transfer, assignment, or delivery of such money or other property held by the Alien Property Custodian, or by the Treasurer of the United States, or of the interest therein to which the President shall determine such person entitled, either to the said enemy or to the person by whom said property was conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered or paid Effect of receipt therefor.over to the Alien Property Custodian.
And the receipt of the said enemy or of the person by whom said property was conveyed, transferred, assigned, or delivered to the Alien Property Custodian, shall be a full acquittance and discharge of the Alien Property Custodian or the Treasurer of the United States as the case may be, and of the United States in respect of all claims of all persons heretofore or hereafter claiming any right, title, or interest in said property, or compensation or damages arising from the capture of such property Legal rights not impaired.by the President or the Alien Property Custodian: *Provided further, however,* That except as herein provided no such action by the President shall bar any person from the prosecution of any suit at law or in equity to establish any right, title, or interest which he may have therein.
No other lien, etc., enforceable. “Except as herein provided, the money or other property conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the Alien Property Custodian shall not be liable to lien, attachment, garnishment, trustee Moneys excepted.Vol. 40, p. 420.process, or execution, or subject to any order or decree of any court. “This section shall not apply, however, to money paid to the Alien Property Custodian under section 10 hereof.” " ARLINGTON MEMORIAL AMPHITHEATER COMMISSION.
Arlington MemorialAmphitheater Commission.Completing contraction of amphitheater, etc.Vol. 35, p. 540; Vol. 37, p. 882; Vol. 38, p. 848. For completing the construction, under the direction of a commission consisting of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds; John McElroy, representing the Grand Army of the Republic; the commander of Camp No. 171, United Confederate Veterans of the District of Columbia; and Charles W.
Newton, representing the United Spanish War Veterans, of a memorial amphitheater, including a chapel, at the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, and in accordance with the plans of Carrere and Hastings, architects, of New York City, adopted by the commission heretofore appointed, and for each and every purpose in connection therewith, $75,000, Limit of cost increased.To remain available until expended; and the limit of cost of the said memorial is increased from $750,000 to $825,000.
BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY. Efficiency Bureau.Transfer of statistical records, etc., to. Not later than June 30, 1919, all books, records, and papers relating to the investigations of duplication of statistical and other work and 37to the work of the statistical clearing house of the Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics shall be transferred to the Bureau of Efficiency. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Civil Service Commission. For amount required during the fiscal year 1919 to meet the Envelopes, 1919.increased cost of envelopes in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Vol. 40, p. 753.Act approved July 2, 1918, $2,650.
The unexpended balances on June 30, 1919, of appropriations for Additional, etc., employees.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, pp. 1021, 1223.additional and temporary employees for the Civil Service Commission made, respectively, in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, and the “First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1919,” are reappropriated and made available under the same conditions for the fiscal year 1920: *Provided,* That *Proviso.*Extension of appointment preferences to discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1293, amended.the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Fourteenth and subsequent decennial censuses,” approved March 3, 1919, so far as it relates to preference in employment of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, be amended to read as follows:
“That hereafter in making appointments to clerical and other positions in the Executive branch of the Government in the District of Columbia or elsewhere preference shall be given to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, and widows of such and to the wives of injured Wives of injured soldiers, etc., added.soldiers, sailors and marines who themselves are not qualified, but whose wives are qualified to hold such positions.” EXECUTIVE. Executive Office. Office of the President:
For additional compensation to one expert Additional pay to expert stenographer.stenographer, fiscal year 1920, $500. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Library of Congress. Contingent expenses: For amount required during the fiscal year Envelopes, 1919.1919 to meet the increased cost of envelopes in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Vol. 40, p. 753.Act approved July 2, 1918, $1,371.37. Distribution of card indexes:
For services of assistants at salaries Card indexes.less than $1,000 per annum and for piecework and work by the hour, including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $2,142.25. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA District of Columbia. salaries. Coroner’s office: For payment of the deputy coroner during the Deputy coroner.absence of the coroner, $110.
Free Public Library (including Takoma Park Branch): For maintenance, Free Public Library.Miscellaneous.repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, for the following fiscal years: For 1916, $15; For 1918, $43.62. 38 contingent and miscellaneous expenses. Contingent expenses.Automobiles, etc.Maintenance. For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motor cycles, and motor trucks owned by the District of Columbia, that are not otherwise provided for, including such personal services in connection therewith not otherwise authorized, as the commissioners shall in writing specially order, $4,000.
Morgue.Ice plant, etc., at.Vol. 39, p. 1011. The appropriation for the establishment of an ice or cold storage plant at the morgue, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1920, together with the further sum of $3,500. General advertising. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, fiscal year 1918, $464.85.
Coroner’s office. For contingent expenses of the coroner’s office, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $2,000. Advertising taxes in arrears. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1918, as required to be given by Act of March 19, 1890, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $995.08. Telephone service. For additional cost to the various departments of the District of Columbia government for telephone service for the months of May and June, 1919, due to increased rates effective May 1, 1919, $2,300. sewers.
Sewers.Cleaning, etc. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, $20,000. Pumping stations. For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks, $12,000. Reappropriations.Main and pipe.Vol. 39, p. 1018. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for main and pipe sewers, fiscal year 1918, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year 1919.
Anacostia interceptor.Vol. 39, p. 690. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for Anacostia main interceptor, fiscal year 1917, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year 1920. Vol. 40, p. 822. Any unexpended balance of the appropriation for Anacostia main interceptor for the fiscal year 1916, Heretofore reappropriated for the fiscal year 1919, is reappropriated for the fiscal year 1920. streets. Streets.Specified suburban roads. Construction of suburban roads:
For additional amount necessary to complete the improvement of Longfellow Street, Concord Avenue, and Kennedy Street, fiscal year 1918, $15,500. Cleaning, etc. For dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia *Proviso.*Additional pay to laborers.Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $34,000: *Provided,* That not to exceed $6,000 may be paid from this appropriation as additional compensation from March 5 to June 1, 1919, to laborers in the street cleaning department, so as to make their rate of compensation for that period equal to the rate paid them prior to March 5, 1919.
Ashes, disposal, etc.Investigation, etc., of contracts for.*Post,* p. 78. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to investigate conditions affecting the existing contract for the collection and disposal of ashes in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, with a view to determining whether any adjustment should be made in the compensation paid, or to be 39paid, thereunder and to adjust the same if the facts disclose the necessity for such adjustment: *Provided further,* That additional *Provisos.*Additional payment allowed.compensation, if any, paid as authorized herein shall not exceed the sum of $22,000 for the year, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated.
And the said commissioners Collection, etc., under Commissioners, authorized.are further authorized, if in their opinion such action shall be to the best interests of the District of Columbia, to hereafter to conduct any or all of the operations involved in the collection and disposal of city refuse of every kind as municipal functions, and for that Purchase of equipment, etc., for.purpose to purchase or lease the necessary plants, buildings, and land, to purchase or hire horses and horse-drawn vehicles, passenger-carrying and other motor-propelled vehicles, equipment, and machinery, and to employ expert and other personal services, and labor, and to pay traveling, maintenance, incidental, and contingent expenses: *Provided,* That products arising from such operations conducted Sale of products, etc.as authorized herein may be sold and the proceeds arising therefrom shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts: *Provided further,* That any or all operations herein authorized to Effective on expiration of present contracts, etc.be conducted as municipal functions may be put into effect as such upon the expiration of any of the existing contracts for the collection and disposal of city refuse or upon the failure of any of the present contractors to properly perform the work covered by their contracts: *Provided further,* That it shall be unlawful for any employee of the Receiving gifts by employees removing refuse, etc., unlawful.District of Columbia engaged in the removal of garbage, ashes, miscellaneous refuse, dead animals, or night soil, or for any employee of a contractor doing such work for the District of Columbia, to accept any gift, except from his employer, in money or any other thing of value for any service performed in connection with the removal of city refuse as hereinbefore described; and it shall be Gifts for services unlawful.unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, except such employer, to pay or offer to pay, any money or to make any gift to any such employee for such service; that any person violating the provisions Penalty for violations.of this paragraph shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum of not less than $5 nor more than $40 for each such offense.
The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for Benning Road viaduct, etc.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, pp. 7, 350.Benning Road viaduct and bridge are reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year 1920. Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience Public convenience stations.stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $2,000. Bathing beach: For amount required to reimburse the life Bathing beach.guards, clerks, laborers, and help at the bathing beach pool after July 16, 1918, who received during the period of their employment only 50 cents per day, $1,330.46. public schools.
Public schools. Longevity pay: For longevity pay for director of intermediate Longevity pay.instruction, supervising principals, supervisor and assistant supervisor of manual training, principals of normal high and manual-training high schools, the assistant principal (who shall be dean of girls) of the Central High School, principals of grade manual-training schools, heads of departments, director and assistant director of primary instruction, directors and assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians, Vol. 34, p. 320.to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school 40 Vol. 35, p. 289;
Vol. 36, p. 393; Vol. 37, p. 156.officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, as amended by the Acts approved May 26, 1908, and May 18, 1910, and June 26, 1912, $72,000. Principals.Additional pay to, for graded schools.Vol. 34, p. 320. Allowance to principals: For allowance to principals of grade-school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the 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, $1,000.
Western High School. For furniture and equipment, Western High School, fiscal year 1916, $25. W. H. Marlow. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to pay to W. H. Marlow the sum of $28, for fuel furnished without the usual inspection required by law, fiscal year 1917. Fuel, light, and power. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, fiscal year 1918, $1,831.73. Night schools. Night schools: For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors *Proviso.*Pay for services March 8 to May 30, 1919.of day schools, $12,000: *Provided,* That payment is authorized to all employees who served in the night schools during the period from March 8 to May 30, 1919, inclusive, at the rate of pay they were receiving on March 7, 1919, this payment to be in addition to the nominal sum of $1 which such teachers received for the service rendered.
Equipment, etc. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $1,000. Deanwood School.Toilet facilities.Vol. 39, p. 1026. Not exceeding $4,000 of the appropriation of $50,000 for the erection of a four-room addition to the Deanwood School, including assembly hall, and for plumbing and toilet facilities for the existing building, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, is authorized to be expended solely for the installation of necessary toilet facilities in said school. metropolitan police.
Police.Fuel. Miscellaneous: For fuel, $1,300. Motor vehicles. For maintenance of motor vehicles, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. House of Detention. House of Detention: For miscellaneous expenses, including rent, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, meals, maintenance of motor station vehicle and other necessary expenses, $550. fire department. Fire department.Fuel. For fuel, $15,000. Forage. For forage, $11,000. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1919, $9,000; For 1916, $76. health department. Health department.Disinfecting service. For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or 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. 41 For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the Drainage of lots, etc.Vol. 29, p. 125.Vol. 34, p. 114.drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $500.
For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act to Enforcing milk regulations.Vol. 28, p. 109.regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1895, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $100. For maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the pound service, Pound.$150. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, Crematory.$150.
For repairing the roof and retort of the public crematorium, $500. COURTS. Court of Appeals: For necessary expenditures in the conduct of Court of Appeals.the clerk’s office, $100. Municipal court: For contingent expenses, including books, law Municipal court.books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $151.74; For 1919, $800. Police Court: For printing, law books, books of reference, and so Police Court.forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $710.70.
Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs Lunacy writs.de 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, $1,350. courts and prisons. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation Support of convicts.of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $35,000. charities and corrections.
Board of Charities: For the maintenance of one motor ambulance, $600. Board of Charities. Washington Asylum and Jail: For provisions, fuel, forage, and Washington Asylum and Jail.Maintenance.so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $12,000. For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia, Support of jail prisoners.including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $30,000.
Home for Aged and Infirm: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness Home for Aged and Infirm.and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including maintenance of motor truck, $16,000. Tuberculosis Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and Tuberculosis Hospital.vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, 42tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books, and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary items, $7,000.
Board of Children’s Guardians.Feeble-minded children.Board of children, etc. Board of Children’s Guardians: For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $2,000. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $39,000. Additional to sectarian institutions.Vol. 40, p. 947. Authority is hereby granted to pay during the fiscal year 1919, in addition to the sum of $1,500 heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $4,500 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control.
Industrial Home School for Colored Children.Grand Army home. Industrial Home School For Colored Children: For additional for maintenance, fiscal year 1918, $268.56. Temporary home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic: For maintenance, fiscal year 1917, $29.26. Support of indigent insane. Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $50,000. Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811.
For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance 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, $500. judgments. Payment of judgments. For payment of judgments, including costs rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in House Documents Numbered 1788 and 1822 of the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, and House Document Numbered 12 of the present session, $8,303.25, 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 the same became due until the date of payment. water department.
Water department.Distribution branch.Service expenses.Limitation increased.Vol. 40, p. 952. For salaries, distribution branch, fiscal year 1916, $16.67. The limitation of $420,685 placed on expenditures for continuing the extension and the maintaining of the high service system of water distribution for the fiscal year 1919 is increased to $440,685. Half of foregoing from District revenues. One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations 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.
EMERGENCY SHIPPING FUND. Emergency Shipping Fund.Recruiting crew, etc. For recruiting, instructing, and training officers, engineers, and crews for American vessels, and for all expenditures incidental thereto, $500,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State.Additional employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction. For additional employees in the Department of State, $20,000: *Provided,* That not more than six persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800. 43 foreign intercourse.
Foreign intercourse. United States Consulates: For contingent expenses of United Contingent expenses, consulates.States consulates, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $50,000. Foreign Missions: For contingent expenses of foreign missions, Contingent expenses, missions.including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $100,000.
For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Relief, etc., of American seamen.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, $60,000. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. office of chief clerk and superintendent. Arlington Building and Annex: For equipment of the Arlington Department buildings.Arlington Building.Building and Annex, including rugs and carpets, awnings, window shades and carriers, window ventilators, and bottle water coolers, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1920.
Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Treasury Annex Building.Place: For equipment of the building, including rugs and carpets, awnings, window shades, window ventilators, and bottle water coolers, $3,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1920. Treasury Department Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets, northwest: Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets NW.Operating force.For the following employees for care and maintenance of the building during the fiscal year 1920, at annual rates of compensation as follows:
Carpenter, $1,200; plumber, $1,200; plumber’s helper, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; wireman, $900; three mechanics, at $900 each; captain of the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; thirty-one watchmen, at $720 each; janitor, $1,200; assistant janitor, $1,000; head of char force, $660; two assistant heads of char force, at $480 each; one hundred and twenty charwomen, at $240 each; twelve male laborers, at $660 each; four female laborers, at $660 each; in all, $76,900.
For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, removal of Operating expenses.trash, repairs, equipment, and miscellaneous expenses, fiscal year 1920, $33,548. Darby Building: For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, Darby Building.ice, and miscellaneous items, fiscal year 1920, $6,000. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $8,000. Freight, etc. For amount required to meet the increased cost of envelopes in Envelopes, for 1918, 1919.accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Act approved July Vol. 40, p. 753.2, 1918, for the following fiscal years:
For 1918, $15,000; For 1919, $80,000. For shelving and for moving bureaus and divisions now located in Moving office equipment, etc.six floors of the Bond Building (rented building) to Government-owned buildings of the Treasury Department, $2,000. For rent of the Navy Annex Building on New York Avenue near Navy Annex Building.Rent.Eighteenth Street Northwest, fiscal year 1920, $40,000. 44 office of auditor for war department. Auditor for War Department.Additional employees.Vol. 40, p. 1164.
The unexpended balance on June 30, 1919, of the appropriation of $100,000 for additional employees, contained in the “Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1919,” is reappropriated for the fiscal year 1920. office of the treasurer. Treasurer’s office.National currency. National currency (reimbursable): For the following employees from July 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Tellers, etc., redemption of. Assistant tellers—One $2,200, one $2,000; clerks—four of class four, four of class three, four of class two; expert counters—twenty at $1,100 each, thirty at $900 each; three messengers at $840 each; messenger boy, $480; in all, $75,400. customs service.
Customs service.New York.Reimbursing laborers. For reimbursement of certain customs laborers at the port of New York for expenses for meals and car fares at unusual hours, incurred in connection with the emergency guarding of German and Austrian vessels, piers, and the appraisers warehouse, during the period from February to August, 1917, inclusive, $910.15. internal revenue. Internal revenue.Refunding collections.Vol. 35, p. 325. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections under the provisions of the Act approved May 27, 1908, $50,000. bureau of engraving and printing.
Engraving and printing.Number of sheets for authorized work increased.*Post,* p. 330.Vol. 38, p. 758.Vol. 40, p. 641. The limitation in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 as to the number of delivered sheets of United States currency, national-bank notes, and Federal reserve currency to be executed is increased from 123,000,000 to 129,000,000, of opium Vol. 38, p. 758.Vol. 40, p. 641.orders and special tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, from 687,300 to 725,000, and of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work from 5,052,800 to 14,452,800.
Salaries. For salaries of all necessary employees other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $160,000. Materials, etc. For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when in writing ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $100,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Continued use of power presses, etc. during present emergency.Vol. 37, p. 430.Vol. 40, p. 349, amended. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, during the emergency growing out of the war with Germany, to have all bonds, notes, checks, or other printed papers now or hereafter authorized to be executed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department printed in such manner and by whatever plate-printing process and on any style of plate-printing presses that he may consider suitable for the issue of such securities and Use of other processes.other papers in the form that will properly safeguard the interests of the Government, and that such presses as are used in printing from intaglio plates shall be operated by plate printers except on 45such work as is now being done by other processes and any similar work that may be necessary hereafter: *Provided,* That in the execution *Proviso.*Retention of plate printers.of such work only such part of it shall be transferred from the present method of executing it as will permit of the retention in the service of such permanent plate printers as are now engaged in the execution of such work, or such temporary plate printers similarly employed and who can qualify under civil-service regulations for permanent Suspension of restriction on power and hand presses.appointments; and all Acts or parts of Acts heretofore enacted relative to the use of power and hand presses in the printing of securities of the Government are hereby suspended and declared not in effect until that time, and at the termination of said emergency such Acts or parts of Acts shall be in effect and force as prior to the Vol. 37, p. 430.Act of October 6, 1917. public buildings.
Public buildings. Operating supplies: For operating supplies for public buildings, Operating supplies.including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $285,000. public health service. Public Health Service. For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical Acting assistant surgeons.officers), $10,000. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the Contingent expenses.expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $5,000.
For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and Marine hospitals.Maintenance.all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, $40,000. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to acquire and Broadview, Ill.Hospital at, to be acquired and completed.Vol. 40, p. 1304.*Post,* pp. 378, 508, 1163.complete immediately the hospital at Broadview, Cook County, Illinois, authorized and appropriated for by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines,” approved March 3, 1919 (Public Act Numbered 326, Sixty-fifth Congress).
The last paragraph of section 6 of the “Act to authorize the Secretary Emergency fund.Vol. 40, p. 1303, amended.Use extended.of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines,” approved March 3, 1919, is hereby amended to read as follows: The sum of $1,500,000 is hereby authorized to be held as an emergency fund for the purchase of land and the erection thereon of buildings or for the purchase of land and buildings, and the remodeling thereof, suitable for hospital and sanatoria purposes, which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to select and locate for the uses of the United States Public Health Service, if in his judgment the emergency requires it. bonds of crew of united states ship san diego.
U.S.S. “San Diego.” Any Liberty loan bonds belonging to an officer or member of the Duplicate Liberty bonds authorized to officers, etc., of, which they lost by sinking of vessel.crew of the United States ship San Diego and which were in possession of the owner on board said vessel on the 19th day of July, 1918, when such vessel was sunk off the coast of Long Island, New York, and which shall be shown to have been at that time lost beyond recovery are hereby declared to have been wholly destroyed and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to issue duplicates of such bonds in conformity with the provisions of the Revised Statutes. 46 WAR DEPARTMENT.
War Department. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses. For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $150,000. Postage stamps. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $75. river and harbor work.
River and harbor work.Payment of damage claims.Vol. 36, p. 676. For payment of claims adjusted and settled under section 4 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act approved June 25, 1910, and certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered 1756 and 1819 of the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, $774.31. ordnance department. Ordnance Department.Morgan, N. J.Payment of claims for losses by explosion at.Vol. 40, p. 1165. For the payment of the claims for damage to and loss of private property occasioned by the explosions and fire at the plant of T.
A. Gillespie Company, at Morgan, New Jersey, which have been determined by the Secretary of War and agreed to by the claimants, and in amounts not exceeding those which are enumerated and scheduled in House Document Numbered 1735, parts 2 and 3, of the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, $852,106.49. Subsequent claims. For payment of the claims for damage to and loss of private 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 which are enumerated and scheduled in the final report of the Secretary of War under date of May 31, 1919, in Senate Document Numbered 31, Sixty-sixth Congress, first session, and shown therein as schedules “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” and “I,” $463,392.08.
Deductions, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1164. The disbursing authority in paying amounts appropriated herein, or amounts heretofore or hereafter appropriated by Congress for the payment of claims for damage to and loss of private property occasioned by the explosions and fire at the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Company, at Morgan, New Jersey, is hereby directed to make such deductions as is found necessary by any errors or omissions on submission of further evidence. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
Army.Incurred obligations.Payment from unexpended balances. For the payment of lawful obligations of the Military Establishment already incurred during the fiscal years 1918 and 1919 and for which no appropriations are available, the Secretary of War is authorized to use the unexpended balances of the following appropriations for the fiscal years 1918 and 1919 and in sums not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Ordnance Department. From appropriations of the Ordnance Department, $770,000,000;
Quartermaster Corps. From appropriations of the Quartermaster Corps, $450,000,000; Air Service. From appropriation, Air Service, Military, $20,000,000; From appropriation, Air Service, Production, $30,000,000; *Provisos.*Transfers directed. In all, $1,270,000,000: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make the transfers of appropriations herein authorized: Services in District excluded.*Provided further,* That no part of the foregoing sums shall be transferred for the payment of personal services in the District of 47Columbia: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of War shall transmit Statement to Congress.to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing the amounts transferred to or from any appropriation account under the foregoing authorization.
NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Support of branches, etc.Soldiers, including the same objects specified in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 for the following branches and under the following heads, respectively: Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, Milwaukee, Wis.$3,000; For hospital, $2,000; For farm, $1,000; In all, $6,000.
Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For household, $21,000; Togus, Me. For hospital, $3,000; For farm, $1,000; In all, $25,000. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For household, $26,000; Leavenworth, Kans For current expenses, $2,000; For hospital, $6,000; In all, $34,000. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, Santa Monica, Calif.$4,000; For household, $10,000; For hospital, $9,000; In all, $23,000. Marion, Indiana, Branch: For current expenses, $5,000; Marion, Ind.
For farm, $5,000; In all, $10,000. Danville, Illinois, Branch: For current expenses, $7,500; Danville, Ill. For household, $12,000; For hospital, $2,000; For repairs, $6,000; In all, $27,500. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For Hot Springs, S. Dak.household, $5,000; For hospital, $3,500; In all, $8,500. Clothing: For clothing for all branches, including the same objects Clothing.specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1917, $258.62; For 1918, $300. In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $134,558.62: *Provided,* That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be *Proviso.*Liquor restriction.expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.
State, etc., Buildings. State, War, and Navy Building: For fuel, lights, repairs, and Main Building.miscellaneous items, $5,000. Potomac Park Office Buildings: For fuel, lights, repairs, and Potomac Park buildings.miscellaneous items, $15,000. Temporary office buildings: For employees during the fiscal year Temporary buildings, 1920.Detailed, locations.1920 at annual rates of compensation as follows, for the maintenance 48and protection of the temporary office buildings known as War Trade Building, between B and C Streets and Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets northwest;
Food Administration Building Number 1, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets and C and D Streets northwest; Food Administration Building Number 2, between New York Avenue and D Street and Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets northwest; Council of National Defense Building, on Eighteenth Street between C and D Streets northwest; Fuel Administration Buildings Numbers 1 and 2, bounded by Virginia Avenue, Eighteenth and C Streets northwest; Fuel Administration Building Number 3, on D Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets northwest;
H. L. Pettus Building, on Nineteenth Street, between Virginia Avenue and D Street northwest; Archie Butt Building, 1725 New York Avenue northwest; and Corcoran Courts Building, on New Operating force.York Avenue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets northwest: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, three of class one; two messengers at $840 each; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—one $1,400, four at $1,200 each; foreman, $1,600; carpenters—one $1,400, five at $1,200 each; plumbers—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each; steam fitter, $1,400; sign writer, $1,400; painters—three at $1,200 each, one $1,000; eight general mechanics at $1,000 each; assistant engineers—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each; eighteen firemen at $840 each; eleven coal passers at $720 each; guards—captain $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,080 each, eighteen sergeants at $900 each, one hundred and sixty-seven privates at $780 each; fire marshal, $1,200; foreman of laborers, $1,000; assistant foremen of laborers—two at $840 each, nine at $720 each; eighty-four laborers at $660 each; six attendants at $480 each; laborers and charwomen, $97,020; in all, $394,520.
Operating expenses.*Proviso.*Supervision, etc. For fuel, lights, repairs, ground rent, miscellaneous items, and printing, fiscal year 1920, $162,798.75: *Provided,* That the care, maintenance, and protection of the above buildings shall be under the supervision and control of the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. Assistant to superintendent. State, War, and Navy Building: For an assistant to the superintendent, fiscal year 1920, $3,600. Potomac Park buildings, 1920.Additional operating force.
Potomac Park Office Buildings: For the following additional employees for the maintenance and protection of the buildings during the fiscal year 1920, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Foreman, $1,400; two assistant foremen, at $960 each; nine assistant foremen or forewomen, at $780 each; laborers and charwomen, $184,140; in all, $194,480. Materials and supplies.Mall office buildings, 1920.Additional operating force. For cleaning material and supplies, fiscal year 1920, $19,308.
Mall office buildings: For the following additional employees for the maintenance and protection of the buildings during the fiscal year 1920, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Foremen, $1,400; two assistant foremen, at $960 each; fourteen assistant foremen or forewomen, at $780 each; laborers and charwomen, $118,140; in all, $132,380. Materials and supplies.Building, Eighteenth Street and Virginia Avenue NW., 1920.Additional operating force. For cleaning material and supplies, fiscal year 1920, $11,814.
Temporary office building (Eighteenth Street and Virginia Avenue northwest): For the following additional employees for the maintenance and protection of the buildings during the fiscal year 1920, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Assistant foreman or forewoman, $780; laborers and charwoman, $9,900; in all, $10,680. Materials and supplies. For cleaning materials and supplies, fiscal year 1920, $1,068. 49 NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. Damage claims: To pay the claims adjusted and determined by Collision damage claims.Vol. 36, p. 607.the 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 Document Numbered 1755 of the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, and House Document Numbered 29 of the present session, $8,211.47. contingent expenses.
Contingent expenses. For amount required during the fiscal year 1919 to meet the increased Envelopes, 1919.cost of envelopes in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General in section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Vol. 40, p. 753.Act approved July 2, 1918, 832,265.52. hydrographic office. Hydrographic Office. The appropriation for “Contingent and miscellaneous expenses” Printing presses.Vol. 40, p. 1243.for the fiscal year 1919 is made available for the exchange and purchase of such printing presses as may be necessary. bureau of construction and repair.
Bureau of Construction and Repair. The limitation on expenditures for draftsmen and other technical Technical services.Increase allowed in Department.Vol. 40, p. 790.services from the appropriation “Construction and repair of vessels,” contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 is increased by the sum of $105,000. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Navy. general expenses. Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and incidental expenses, Contingent.including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $200,000.
Care of lepers: For maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, Lepers.Care, etc., Culion, P. I.and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, fiscal year 1918, $173.23. bureau of navigation. Bureau of Navigation. Outfits on first enlistment: For outfits for all enlisted men and Outfits, first enlistment.apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each, fiscal year 1916, $178.10.
Maintenance of naval auxiliaries: For pay, transportation, shipping Auxiliaries.Maintenance.and subsistence of civilian officers and clerks of naval auxiliaries, and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in the emergency which can not be paid from other appropriations, fiscal year 1916, $398.80. public works, bureau of yards and docks. Naval Academy: For completion of the extension of Bancroft Hall, Naval Academy.Bancroft Hall, extension.$325,000. bureau of medicine and surgery.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, including the Surgeons’ necessaries.same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $3,000,000. 50 Contingent. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $750,000. Hospital treatment. For care, maintenance, and treatment of patients in naval and in other than naval hospitals, $4,500,000. bureau of construction and repair.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.Technical services.Increase allowed at yards, etc.Vol. 40, p. 730. The limitation specified in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 on expenditures for draftsmen and other technical services from the appropriation “Construction and repair of vessels” is increased by the sum of $1,000,000. naval academy. Naval Academy.Maintenance, etc. For general maintenance and repairs, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $25,000. marine corps.
Marine Corps.Repairs to barracks, etc. For repairs and improvements to barracks, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $1,323.40. Quartermaster’s department.Maintenance. For maintenance of the quartermaster’s department, Marine Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1916, $1,353.20. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. contingent expenses.
Contingent expenses.Envelopes, 1919.Vol. 40, p. 753. For amount required during the fiscal year 1919 to meet the increased cost of envelopes in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Act approved July 2, 1918, $30,000. public buildings. Public buildings.Capitol Buildings.General repairs, etc. Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs thereof, including cleaning and repairing works of art, flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol and for Senate and House Office Buildings; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle; wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying office vehicles; and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $5,000; to be available until expended.
Maltby Building.Additional for reconstruction.Vol. 40, p. 552. Maltby Building: For an additional amount to convert the building known us the Maltby Building into suitable condition for office purposes, said work and expenditures hereunder to be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the United States Courthouse, D. C.Reconstructing, etc.Capitol Building and Grounds, to be available until expended, $4,400. Courthouse, District of Columbia: For reconstruction and furnishing of the courthouse, District of Columbia, including material and labor, and for each and every item incident thereto, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Half from District revenues.Building and Grounds, to be available until expended, $57,000, one-half to be paid out of the Treasury and one-half out of the revenues District of Columbia.
George W. Evans.Credit in accounts. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to credit in the accounts of George W. Evans, disbursing clerk, Department of 51the Interior, the sum of $371.54, covering expenditures from the appropriation “Capitol Building and Repairs,” fiscal year 1917-1918, for the maintenance of office vehicles authorized and approved by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds. columbia institution for the deaf. Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental Support, etc.expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $3,000. saint elizabeths hospital. Saint Elizabeths Hospital. For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital Maintenance.of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, civilians in the quartermaster’s service of the Army, persons, transferred from the Canal Zone, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles, for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, not exceeding $1,500; not to exceed $45,240 for adjustment Adjusting pay of employees.of compensation of employees, $100,000, to be available until expended. territory of alaska.
Alaska. Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions Alaska Engineering Commission.Vol. 38, p. 305.of the Act approved March 12, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 305), entitled “An Act to authorize the. President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” to continue available until expended, $1,964,351. ores, metals, and minerals. Conservation of minerals, etc. The sum of $41,500,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation Balance for expenses of, covered into the Treasury.Vol.40, pp. 1010, 1274.heretofore made for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply,” approved October 5, 1918, shall be covered into the Treasury immediately upon the passage of this Act.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United Detection, etc., of crimes.States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $350,000. UNITED STATES COURTS. United States courts. For salary of the additional district judge for the northern district Texas, northern district.Additional judge.Vol. 40, p. 1183.of Texas, at the rate of $7,500 per annum from March 14 to June 30, 1919, $2,229.17.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their Marshals.deputies, including the same objects specified under this head hi the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $200,000. 52 District attorneys. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of 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 1919, $45,000.
Clerks. For fees of clerks, $50,000. Commissioners, etc.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189). For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes of the United States, $120,000. Jurors. For fees of jurors, $50,000. For fees of jurors, fiscal year 1918, $2,602.25. Witnesses.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $50,000.
Envelopes, 1919. For amount required during the fiscal year 1919 to meet the increased cost of envelopes in accordance with the adjustment made by Vol. 40, p. 753.the Postmaster General under section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Act, approved July 2, 1918, $4,000. Miscellaneous. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, $35,000.
Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $80,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $15,000;
For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $55,000; For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation for the fiscal year 1918, $760.28. In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $150,760.28.
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $45,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $32,500; For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $30,000;
For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $1,000; In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $108,500. McNeil Island, Wash. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $13,000;
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $3,000; 53 For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $8,000; In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $24,000.
For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects Support of prisoners.specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $500,000. National Training School for Boys: For support of inmates, including National Training School for Boys, D. C.the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $7,300. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post Office Department. contingent expenses.
Contingent expenses. For amount required during the fiscal year 1919 to meet the increased Envelopes, 1919.cost of envelopes in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Vol. 40, p. 753.Act approved July 2, 1918, $6,934.67. For maintenance of horses and vehicles, including the same objects Horses and vehicles.specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $500.
For miscellaneous items, including the same objects specified under Miscellaneous.this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, and including not to exceed $2,000 for telephone service, $5,000. For furniture and filing cabinets, $3,000. Furniture. For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, $18,000. Official Postal Guide. POSTAL SERVICE. Postal Service. out of the postal revenues. office of the postmaster general.
Postmaster General. For gas, electric power, and light, and repair of machinery, Post Equipment shops building.Office Department equipment shops building, $1,000. office of the first assistant postmaster general. First Assistant Postmaster General. For compensation to postmasters, fiscal year 1917, $72.45. Postmasters. For special-delivery tees for the following fiscal years: Special delivery fees. For 1917, 32 cents; For 1918, $1,067,700.70. For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerk hire Temporary, auxiliary, and substitute clerk 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, $300,000.
For unusual conditions at post offices, $25,000. Unusual conditions. office of the second assistant postmaster general. Second Assistant Postmaster General. For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and Railway Mail Service.Traveling expenses.assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, and chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $1,500.
For per diem allowance of two assistant superintendents while Per diem, two assistant superintendents.actually traveling on official business away from their home, their 54official domicile, and their headquarters, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster General, not to exceed $4 per day, and for their necessary official expenses not covered by their per diem allowance, not exceeding $150; in all, $822. office of third assistant postmaster general. Third Assistant Postmaster General.Postage stamps.
For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, and for coiling of stamps, $400,000. Indemnity, lost mail. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail for the fiscal years that follow: For 1919, $691,493.45; For 1918, $50,000. office of fourth assistant postmaster general. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.Envelopes, 1919. For amount required during the fiscal year 1919 to meet the increased cost of envelopes and money-order blanks and forms in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General Vol. 40, p. 753.under section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Act approved July 2, 1918, $122,219.25.
Star routes, except Alaska. For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, $1,500,000. Twine, etc. For wrapping twine and tying devices, $ 2,282.95. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Department of Commerce. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses.Envelopes, 1918.Vol. 40, p. 753. For amount required during the fiscal year 1918 to meet the increased cost of envelopes in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Act approved July 2, 1918, $2,000. bureau of the census.
Census Office.Preliminary expenses.Fourteenth Census.Vol. 40, pp. 1255, 1291. Not to exceed $100,000 of the appropriation for expenses of the Fourteenth Census, contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, shall be made available from and after the passage of this Act for preliminary expenses in preparation for the Fourteenth Decennial Census, including books of reference, printing, alterations and repairs to buildings, the strengthening of floors, the purchase and installation of freight elevators, the construction of fireproof vaults, the rental Rent of tabulating machinery, etc.of a garage and personal services in the District of Columbia; and such part of the appropriation for the Fourteenth Census, contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, as may be necessary, is hereby made available for the rental of card-punching, card-sorting, and card-tabulating machinery for use in tabulating census statistics. coast and geodetic survey.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.Office expenses. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $24,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1920. 55 bureau of fisheries. Fisheries Bureau. Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal and salmon Alaska general service.fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $44,700.
For an additional amount for the purchase or construction of a Lighter for Pribilof Islands.wooden power lighter for use at the Pribilof Islands, and for equipment thereof, $7,500. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Department of Labor. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses. For amount required during the fiscal year 1919 to meet the Envelopes, 1919.increased cost of envelopes in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Vol. 40, p. 753.Act approved July 2, 1918, $5,496.79. miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous. To enable the Secretary of Labor, during the remainder of the Employment of wage earners, etc.Maintenance, etc., expenses.Vol. 40, p. 696.fiscal year 1919, to maintain the present organization established under appropriations contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved July 1, 1918, for the furnishing of information and the rendering of assistance to wage earners throughout the United States during the present emergency, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, rental, and maintenance of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, heat and light, telegraph and telephone service, supplies and equipment, and printing and binding, $272,000.
To enable the Secretary of Labor, during the remainder of the Conciliation of labor disputes, etc.Vol. 40, p. 696.fiscal year 1919, to carry on the work of mediation and conciliation in labor disputes, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and in the field, per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, traveling expenses, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, supplies and equipment, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, and printing and binding, $26,393.11. immigration service.
Immigration Service. For refund of head tax paid on account of eighty-one aliens in Head tax refund.transit through the United States, whose departure therefrom after the period prescribed by the immigration regulations was caused by interrupted passenger sailings to Europe incident to war conditions, $648. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to make settlement for Advertising.$11.85 from the appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration for the fiscal year 1919, in payment for advertising erroneously ordered without previous compliance with the terms of section 3828 [R.
S., sec. 3828, p. 749](/us/rs/s3828/p749).of the Revised Statutes. housing for war needs. Housing for war needs. The sum of $32,500,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriations Amount of unexpended balance covered in.Vol. 40, pp. 550, 595, 821.heretofore made for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May 16, 1918, shall be covered into the Treasury 56*Proviso.*Revenues on hand from all sources to be covered in.immediately upon the passage of this Act: *Provided,* That all revenues on hand June 30, 1919, and all revenues derived thereafter from the exercise of the authority contained in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May 16, 1918, as amended by the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 4, 1918, including revenues from rentals, the operation of properties, the disposal of properties, the repayments of loans, and the interest on loans, shall be covered into the Treasury Detailed estimates of estimates for all expenses to be submitted.of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.
And the proper authority shall submit to Congress detailed estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for each fiscal year thereafter so long as the said Act remains in effect, for personal services and all other expenses required in the District of Columbia and elsewhere to provide for the care, rental, maintenance, and operation of properties as authorized by law. LEGISLATIVE. Legislative.Capitol.Plans, etc., for extending, to be revised.Vol. 33, p. 481.
To enable the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds to revise the plans and estimates of cost for carrying out the extension of the Capitol Building in accordance with the report contained in House Document Numbered 385, Fifty-eighth Congress, third session, and supplementary reports, $2,500, to continue available during the fiscal year 1920. House Office Building.Maintenance.Legislative Drafting Service.Salaries and expenses.Vol. 40, p. 1141. House Office Building:
For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $7,000. Legislative Drafting Service: For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the legislative drafting service as authorized by section 1303 of the “Revenue Act of 1918,” the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1919 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1920, together with the further sum of $20,000. senate. Senate.Assistance to Senators not chairmen of committees.
For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: For assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, as follows: From March 4 to June 30, 1919.Vol. 40, p. 760. Five clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, from March 4 to June 30, 1919; five assistant clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, from March 4 to June 30, 1919; five messengers, at $1,200 each per annum, from March 4 to June 30, 1919, to be paid from the appropriation for assistance to Senators provided for the fiscal year 1919.
Designated persons.Vol. 40, p. 760. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for 1919 for compensation of officers, clerks, assistant clerks, and messengers to Senators not chairmen of committees, to wit: John J. McAllister, Jr. John J. McAllister, junior, for services rendered as clerk to Honorable George H. Moses, Senator from the State of New Hampshire, from November 6, 1918, to November 21, 1918, at the rate of $2,000 per annum and additional compensation at the rate of $120 per annum;
J. Rutledge McGhee. J. Rutledge McGhee, for services rendered as clerk to Honorable W. P. Pollock, Senator from the State of South Carolina, from November 6, 1918, to December 1, 1918, at the rate of $2,000 per annum and additional compensation at the rate of $120 per annum; Cornelia W. Morton. Cornelia W. Morton, for services rendered as clerk to Honorable Charles L. McNary, from November 6, 1918, to December 9, 1918, at the rate of $2,000 per annum and additional compensation at the rate of $120 per annum;
Aline Thompson. Aline Thompson, for services rendered as assistant clerk to Honorable Charles L. McNary, from November 6, 1918, to December 9, 1918, at the rate of $1,200 per annum and additional compensation at the rate of $120 per annum; and 57 Helen K. Kiefer, for services rendered as messenger to Honorable Helen K. Kiefer.Charles L. McNary, from November 6, 1918, to December 9, 1918, at the rate of $1,200 per annum and additional compensation at the rate of $120 per annum.
To pay Susan Shoemaker for services rendered as additional clerk Susan shoemaker.to Honorable Charles L. McNary, from November 6, 1918, to December 9, 1918, $113.33. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates Official reporters.Reimbursement.of the Senate for clerical expenses actually and necessarily incurred from July 1, 1918, to May 31, 1919, $5,475.52. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for Motor 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.
To pay Dennis M. Kerr for extra and expert services rendered to Dennis M. Kerr.Services.the Committee on Pensions during the third session of the Sixty-fifth Congress as assistant clerk to said committee, by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200. For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies Senate kitchens and restaurants.for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $4,500, to be available until expended.
The balance of the appropriation made in the Sundry Civil Act Subways, Capitol to Office Buildings.Reappropriation.Vol. 36, p. 1443.approved March 4, 1911, “To provide suitable transportation for freight and other purposes in the subway leading from the Capitol to the Senate and House Office Buildings,” is hereby made available for the improvement and maintenance of the subway transportation system in the Senate subway. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for refrigerating Refrigerating apparatus for Capitol and Office Buildings.Supplying Senate Chamber with fresh air, etc., from.Vol. 36, p. 1443.apparatus for the Senate and House wings of the Capitol and Senate and House Office Buildings, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including the cooling of the air supplied to the Senate Chamber and the Hall of the House, completion of the ice-water plants in the Senate and House Office Buildings, for labor, materials, and personal services, made in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912, is hereby made available, to provide at all times an equable temperature and a sufficient supply of pure fresh air for the Senate Chamber, together with the additional sum of $42,000 for said purposes, including labor, materials, and personal services, which is hereby appropriated, to be available until expended.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation Don C. Clayton.Services.for clerks and messengers to committees for the fiscal year 1919, to Don C. Clayton, for services rendered as clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department, from October 25 to 27, 1918, both inclusive, at the rate of $2,220 per annum and additional compensation at the rate of $120 per annum. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Inquiries and investigations.including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1 per printed page, $10,000.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized in his Motor equipment to be transferred from War Department.discretion to transfer without charge to the Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate such motor equipment as is suitable to the needs of the Senate and which is no longer required for the use of the War Department. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $500. Fuel, etc. 58 Furniture, Terrace rooms. For purchase of furniture for refitting ten rooms in the Senate Terrace for occupancy by Senate committees and Senators, fiscal years 1919 and 1920, $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Senate Office Building.Construction.Vol. 33, p. 487. Senate Office Building: Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee rooms and offices for the United States Senate, provided for in the Sundry Civil Act approved April 28, 1904, fiscal years 1919 and 1920, $2,500, said sum to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate. house of representatives. House of Representatives.William P.
Borland.Pay to widow. To pay the widow of William P. Borland, late a Representative from the State of Missouri, $7,500. John L. Burnett.Pay to widow. To pay the widow of John L. Burnett, late a Representative from the State of Alabama, $7,500. Albert Estopinal.Pay to widow. To pay the widow of Albert Estopinal, late a Representative from the State of Louisiana, $7,500. Harvey Helm.Pay to widow. To pay the widow of Harvey Helm, late a Representative from the State of Kentucky, $7,500.
Charles August Sulzer.Pay to widow. To pay the widow of Charles August Sulzer, late a Delegate from the Territory of Alaska, $7,500. Carl C. Van Dyke.Pay to widow. To pay the widow of Carl C. Van Dyke, late a Representative from the State of Minnesota, $7,500. Contested election expenses. For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections Numbered One and Two:
Charles A. Sulzer. Charles A. Sulzer, $2,000, which sum shall be paid to his estate; James Wickersham. James Wickersham, $2,000; T. A. Chandler. T. A. Chandler, $2,000; James S. Davenport. James S. Davenport, $1,600; Thomas B. Dunn. Thomas B. Dunn, $1,995.16; In all, $9,595.16. Paying arrears of pay, etc., to Members in military service, ratified.Vol. 40, p. 1324. The action of the Sergeant at Arms and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, in complying with the resolution of the House of Representatives and paying the arrears of salary and clerk allowance to Members of the House of Representatives of the Sixty-fifth Congress who did not receive their monthly salary and allowance while absent from the House in the military service of the United States during the war, is hereby ratified and confirmed.
Stenographers to committees.Reimbursement. For reimbursement to the Official Stenographers to Committees for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them from July 1, 1918, to March 4, 1919, $650 each, $2,600. South Trimble.Compiling, etc., digest of contested election cases. To pay South Trimble, Clerk of the House of Representatives, Sixty-fifth Congress, the amount due 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 the Sixty-fifth Congress Vol. 24, p. 445.(six in number), as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act relating to contested elections,” approved March 2, 1887, $1,435.90, and an additional sum of $933.35 to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said South Trimble, and in such proportions as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, $2,362.95.
Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $12,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1920. Post office messengers. To continue the employment of nine messengers at $100 per month each, in the post office of the House of Representatives, from April 1 to November 30, inclusive, 1919, $7,200. 59 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, $90,000.
For purchase or repair of furniture and floor coverings for the House Furniture, etc.wing of the Capitol Building and for the House Office Building, including services of necessary upholsterers, cabinetmakers, finishers, and laborers, $43,836.25, to continue available during the fiscal year 1920. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, Stationery.$125. For amount required to pay additional compensation at the rate Official reporters and stenographers to committees.Additional pay.of $1,000 per annum to each of the official reporters of debates and each of the official stenographers to committees, and at the rate of $500 per annum to the assistant to the official reporters of debates, in accordance with House Resolution Numbered 506, adopted February 5, 1919, from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, inclusive, $14,000.
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-fifth Congress, third session, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,800. printing and binding. Printing and binding. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, exclusive Post Office Department.of the money-order office, $100,000.
For printing and binding for the Pan American Union, $8,000. Pan American Union.Supreme Court, D.C. For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $500. For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $30,000. Department of Labor.Superintendent of Documents.Envelopes, 1919. Office of Superintendent of Documents: For amount required during the fiscal year 1919 to meet the increased cost of envelopes in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 of the Post Office Appropriation Act approved July Vol. 40, p. 753.2, 1918, $7,000.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs Payment.Vol. 24, p. 505.of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered 1702, and which have not been appealed, Classification.namely:
Under the Treasury Department, $200. Under the Post Office Department, $5,198.22. In all, $5,398.22, 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. For payment of the judgment rendered against the Government “Esparta,” steamship.Payment to owners.Vol. 39, p. 1474.under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the owners of the steamship Esparta,” approved February 14, 1917, and certified to the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, in House Document Numbered 1701, $9,136.10.
For payment of the judgment rendered against the Government “Mabel I. Meyers,” barkentine.Payment to owners, etc.Vol. 39, p. 1393.under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the owners of the barkentine Mable I. Meyers and her master and crew, 60and for the relief of the owners of cargo of molasses late on board said barkentine,” approved August 21, 1916, as certified to the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, in Senate Document Numbered 429, $81,860.51.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments, Court of Claims.Payment. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, in House Document Numbered 1700 and Senate Document Numbered 428, namely: Classification. Under the Treasury Department, $929.72; Under the War Department, $10,473.08; Under the Navy Department, $169,360.46; Under the Interior Department, $101,913.55; In all, $282,676.81. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.
Additional. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to Congress during the present session in Senate Document Numbered 12, namely: Classification. Under the War Department, $5,618.36; Under the Navy Department, $5,039.18; Under the Interior Department, $123.78; Under the Post Office Department, $208,694.94; In all, $219,476.26. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.
Judgments, Indian depredation claims.Payment. For payment of the judgment rendered by the Court of Claims in an Indian depredation case, certified to the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, in Senate Document Numbered 427, $300; said judgment Deductions.Vol. 26, p. 853.to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section 6 of the Act approved March 3, 1891, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” 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 Reimbursement.the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the 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.
Right to appeal. None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS. Audited claims.Payment of, certified by accounting officers. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted Vol. 18, p. 110.or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1916 and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been Vol. 23, p. 254.certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as 61fully set forth in House Document Numbered 1714, reported to Congress during the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For collecting the revenue from customs, $239.35. Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For paper money laundering machine, 1917, $8.94. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, $65.76. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $1.75. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $12.50. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $202,602.57. For redemption of stamps, $1,454.83. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $97,494.93.
For allowance or drawback, $1,943. For plate printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $54.05. For the Coast Guard, $1,449.90. For operating supplies for public buildings, $4.51. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $227.76. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $500.60. For general expenses of public buildings, $5.38. For post office, Monroe, Michigan, $5.08. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $435.07.
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, $892.30. For barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands, $21.05. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $398.99. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $229.43. For medical and hospital department, $70.45. For appliances for disabled soldiers, $3. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $25.82.
For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps, $63.30. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For pay, Marine Corps, $47.72. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For maintenance, quartermaster department, Marine Corps, $55. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $1.50. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $10. For pay of the Navy, $1,182.84. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $1,719. For construction plants at navy yards, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $900.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $34.06. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $5. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For investigating mine accidents, $7.57. For books and publications, Bureau of Mines, $129.60. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, 1918, $484.69. For Indian school and agency buildings, $101.60. For Indian school transportation, 28 cents. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1918, $74,927.42. 62 For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1917, $1,205.02.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $6.16. For irrigation, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $376.09. For water supply, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, 1918, $867. 99. For support of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, North Dakota, 1918, $36. For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, 1918, $2,365.58. For maintenance and operation, Modoc Point irrigation system, Klamath Reservation, Oregon (reimbursable), 1918, $310.84.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $2.08. For Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, 1918, $8.71. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1917, $659.78. For salaries, consular service, $44.44. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $9.12. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $333.34.
For emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, 1918, $26,244.30. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1918, $9,439.04. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1917, $2,319.82. For Smithsonian Institution, preservation of collections, National Museum, $2.60. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $13.21. For salaries, Department of Agriculture, $42.78. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, 38 cents. For general expenses, Forest Service, $24.48.
For preventing spread of moths, Bureau of Entomology, $9.37. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $2.28. For International Dry Farming Congress, Denver, Colorado, $2.54. For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $1.52. For general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1918, $567.30. For testing structural materials, Bureau of Standards, $2.05. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $34. For investigation of railway materials, Bureau of Standards, $110. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, 31 cents.
For Frying Pan Shoals Light Vessel, North Carolina, $2.52. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $30.55. For Department of Labor, expenses of regulating immigration, $5.41. For detection and prosecution of crimes, 1918, S13.25. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $52. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1918, $6,541.36. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1917, $404.85. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $70.50.
For support of prisoners, United States courts, 1918, $26,861.22. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For indemnities, international registered mail, $248.31. For indemnities, domestic mail, $13.25. 63 For shipment of supplies, $54.30. For Star Route Service, special mail carriers, $518.51. For Railway Mail Service, $133.82. For compensation to postmasters, $49.09. For Rural Delivery Service, $90.16.
For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $565.32. AUDITED CLAIMS. Audited claims. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be Payment of, certified by accounting officers of the Treasury.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 the Vol. 18, p. 110.Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1916 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 forth Vol. 23, p 254.in Senate Document Numbered 426, reported to the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For collecting the revenue from customs, $22.75. Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $6.28. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $93,827.61. For redemption of stamps, $414.65. For allowance or drawback, $34.07. For Coast Guard, $308.16. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $7.95. For general expenses of public buildings, $5.58. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $743.75. 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, $260.25. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $220.95. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps, $63.30. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $58.92. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For contingent expenses, Navy Department, 1917, $15.28.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, $54.12. For pay, miscellaneous, $137.44. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $46.52. For gunnery and engineering exercises, Bureau of Navigation, 1917, $5. For pay of the Navy, $175.80. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $410. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $5.90. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.
For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 1918, Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.$3,668.05. 64 For Geological Survey, $100. For investigating mine accidents, $1,517. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, 1918, $100.86. For Indian schools, support, $59.61. For Indian school and agency buildings, $21. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1918, $31,255.80. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1917, $2,898.30. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $30.28.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1918, $519.93. For Indian school, Truxton Canyon, Arizona, 50 cents. For irrigation, Colorado, River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $234.21. For water supply, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, 1918, $164.53. For Indian school, Greenville, California, repairs and improvements, 1918, 25 cents. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, repairs and improvements, 1918, 30 cents. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, 1918, 50 cents.
For plans, and so forth, for completing irrigation of Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), $535.97. For plans, and so forth, for completing irrigation of Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), 1917, $50. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1917, $57.86. For the relief and protection of American seamen, 1918, $4,850.70.
For Interstate Commerce Commission, $2.82. For salaries, Department of Agriculture, $32.67. For library, Department of Agriculture, $123.80. For miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, $9.70. For general expenses, Weather bureau, $1.82. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $4.01. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $77.16. For general expenses, Forest Service, $225.42. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $88.50. For enforcement of the food and drugs Act, $570.37.
For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, 67 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, 23 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates, 71 cents. For general expenses, Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, $1.49. For general expenses, Office of Markets and Rural Organization, $1.15. For general expenses, enforcement of the Insecticide Act, $225.43. For Naval Stores Investigations, $101.83. For general expenses, Children’s Bureau, $37.44. For detection and prosecution of crimes, 1918, $37.50.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $11.35. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1918, $2,946.05 For fees of jurors, United States courts, 1918, $95.20. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $756.98. For supplies for United States courts, 1918, $12.48. For support of prisoners, United States courts, 1918, $22,945.55. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $160.20. 65 claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.
For indemnities, international registered mail, $108.95. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For shipment of supplies, $290.33. For compensation to postmasters, $66.86. For star-route service, $71.59. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $108.31. For clerks, third-class post offices, $228. For city delivery carriers, $35.87. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $38.71. For Rural Delivery Service, $48. AUDITED CLAIMS. Audited claims. Sec. 4. That for the payment of the following claims certified to Payment of, certified by accounting officers of the Treasury.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 the Vol. 18, p. 110.
Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1916 and prior Sears, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth Vol. 23, p. 254.in Senate Document Numbered 18, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department. For collecting the revenue from customs, $3.84.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $60.57. For field investigations of public health, $377.69. For collecting the income tax, $67.50. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal Revenue Service, $85.77. For refunding Internal Revenue collections, $10. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $163,177.50. For redemption of stamps, $1,756.92. For payment of judgments against internal revenue officers, $127,730.01.
For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, $49.66. For Coast Guard, $4.52. For operating supplies for public buildings, $15.61. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $2.85. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $103. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $2,510.76. 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, $833.25.
For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $184.80. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $1,186.20. For barracks and quarters, $325. For medical and hospital department, $50. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $4.76. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For pay, Marine Corps, $486.64. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $8.93.
For pay of the Navy, $366.44. 66 claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 1918, Department. $4,130.86. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, $9. For library, Department of the Interior, 1917, 74 cents. For Capitol Building and repairs, 1917 and 1918, $1,772.92. For education of natives of Alaska, 1917 and 1918, $3,240.01. For restoration of lands in forest reserves, $28.25.
For surveying the public lands, $3.33. For investigating mine accidents, $80.91. For books and publications, Bureau of Mines, $38.38. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $8. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, 1918, $13.27. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1918, $15,492.73. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1917, $220.62. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 80 cents. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1918, $59.41.
For Indian school and agency buildings, $130.50. For Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, repairs and improvements, 1918, $63.80. For irrigation, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $873.43. For water supply, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, 1918, $17.76. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $28. For Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, repairs and improvements, 1918, $127.42. For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, repairs and improvements, 1918, $16.44.
For support of Indians of Klamath Agency, Oregon, 1918, $3.20. For Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, $308.83. For Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, heating plant, $3.50. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $37. For Indian school, Pierre, South Dakota, boilers and stack, 1919, 35 cents. For Indian school, Hayward, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, 1918, $7.50. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, 1918, $50. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, 1918, $69.34.
For Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, repairs and improvements, 1918, $31.33. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For salaries and expenses, War Trade Board, 1918, $38.38. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1917, $1,507.71. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, 1917, $15,970.75. For salaries, Consular Service, $634.32. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $529.69.
For contingent expenses, United States consulates, 1918, $13,146.72. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1918, $3,549.81. For International Bureau of Weights and Measures, $2,521.01. For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1919, $1,157.74. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, 81 cents. 67 For general expenses. Bureau of Plant Industry, 65 cents. For enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act, 60 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, 67 cents.
For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, 23 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, 1918, $260.34. For general expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates, 71 cents. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $2.20. For agricultural experiment station, Alaska, receipts from sale of products, $36.91. For general expenses, Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, 49 cents. For general expenses, Office of Markets and Rural Organization, $1.15. For general expenses, enforcement of the Insecticide Act, $225.43.
For enforcement of wireless communication laws, 1918, 35 cents. For investigation of railway materials, Bureau of Standards, $28.97. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $80. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $174.37. For protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, 1917, $299.13. For expenses of regulating immigration, $235.82. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, 20 cents. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, 1918, $642.96.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $19.70. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, 1918, $1,975.31. For fees of clerks. United States Courts, 1918, $3,280.63. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1918, $908.60. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1917, $49.55. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $125.70 For fees of jurors, United States courts, 1918, $43.50. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $3.
For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $12.60. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $25. For support of prisoners, United States courts, 1918, $2,950.22. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For indemnities, domestic mail, $48.88. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For shipment of supplies, $3.17. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, 36 cents. For railway post-office car service, $432.69. For compensation to postmasters, $46.24.
For clerks, first and second class post offices, $50. For city delivery, incidental expenses, $12.75. For railway mad service, salaries, $6.06. For watchmen, messengers, and laborers in post offices, $5.81. For rural delivery service, $520.97. Total, audited claims, section 4, $377,838.71. Sec. 5. That the heads of the several executive departments and Materials, supplies, etc.Purchases to be made from available stock of other Government services no longer required by them.other responsible officials, in expending appropriations contained in this or any other Act, so far as possible shall purchase material, supplies, and equipment, when needed and funds are available, from other services of the Government possessing material, supplies, and equipment no longer required because of the cessation of war activities.
It shall be the duty of the heads of the several executive Duty before purchasing elsewhere.departments and other officials, before purchasing any of the articles 68described herein, to ascertain from the other services of the Government whether they have articles of the character described that Price stipulation.are serviceable. And articles purchased by one service from another, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable Sales authorized, etc.price based upon length of usage.
The various services of the Government are authorized to sell such articles under the conditions specified, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt: *Provided,* That this section shall not be construed to amend, alter, or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities.
Congressional legislation.Use of appropriations for personal services, etc., in influencing Members of Congress as to, forbidden. Sec. 6. That hereafter no part of the money appropriated by this or any other Act shall, in the absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or written matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress to favor or oppose, by vote or otherwise, any legislation or appropriation by Congress, whether before or after the introduction of any bill or resolution proposing such legislation Communication on request, etc., not affected.or appropriation; but this shall not prevent officers and employees of the United States from communicating to Members of Congress on the request of any Member or to Congress, through the proper official channels, requests for legislation or appropriations which they deem necessary for the efficient conduct of the public business.
Removal of offending officer, etc. Any officer or employee of the United States who, after notice and hearing by the superior officer vested with the power of removing him, is found to have violated or attempted to violate this section, shall Punishment for violations.be removed by such superior officer from office or employment. Any officer or employee of the United States who violates or attempts to violate this section shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
Title of Act. Sec. 7. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1919.” Approved, July 11, 1919.