Chapter 93. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 93.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes. November 4, 1919. [[H. R. 9205](/us/bill/66/hr/9205).] [[Public, No. 73](/us/pl/66/73).] *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums are First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1920.appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Civil Service Commission. For temporary employees for the Civil Service Commission, $50,000: Temporary employees.*Proviso.*Pay restrictions.*Provided,* That not more than two persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,400 per annum and no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION. Committee on Public Information. Authority is hereby granted the Director of the Council of National Expenses of closing accounts, etc.*Post,* p. 886.Defense to expend during the fiscal year 1920 the sum of $32,000 from the funds now to the credit of the Committee on Public Information for necessary expenses incurred therefor since July 1, 1919, and for the expenses of auditing and closing the accounts and affairs of said committee.
All unexpended balances of appropriations Unexpended balances available for incurred liabilities.for and allotments to the Committee on Public Information shall remain available for payment under the direction of the Director of the Council of National Defense of such liabilities as were actually and necessarily incurred by the committee prior to June 30, 1919: *Provided,* That $1,000,000 of such appropriations and *Proviso.*Amount covered into the Treasury.allotments shall be covered into the Treasury immediately upon the passage of this Act.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. District of Columbia. sewers. The unexpended balances of appropriations contained in the District Main and pipe, suburban, etc.Balances reappropriated.Vol. 40, p. 929.of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 for main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, for suburban sewers, and for assessment and permit work, sewers, amounting in all to approximately $120,000, are hereby reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year 1920. Upper Potomac interceptor:
For additional amount required for Upper Potomac interceptor.completing the construction of the upper Potomac interceptor between Twenty-seventh and K Streets and the Chain Bridge, $19,000. 328 public schools. Public schools.Community forums, etc.Allowance for employees.*Ante,* p. 85. Community forums and civic centers: Not to exceed 33⅓ per centum of the appropriation of $25,000 for the fiscal year 1920 for expenses of the community forums and civic centers in the public schools of the District of Columbia may be expended for payment of secretaries, teachers, organizers, and clerks. courthouse.
Courthouse.Charwomen. For the care and protection of the courthouse of the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, namely: Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum, from November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive, $800, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. columbia hospital and lying-in asylum. Columbia Hospital for Women.Repairs, etc. Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs and for additional construction, including labor and material for each and every item connected therewith, $2,900.
Half from District revenues. One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in 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. FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. Vocational Education Board.Rehabilitation of discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 617, 1179.*Ante,* pp. 159, 178. Vocational rehabilitation: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June 27, 1918, as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $5,000,000: *Proviso.*Pay restriction.*Ante,* p. 178.*Provided,* That the salary limitations prescribed by the item of appropriation for vocational rehabilitation contained in the Sundry Civil Act, approved July 19, 1919, shall apply to the appropriation hereby made.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Federal Trade Commission.Food stuffs, etc., investigations. For all expenses necessary in connection with the collection of information as may be directed by the President of the United States, or within the scope of its powers, regarding the production, ownership, manufacture, storage, and distribution of foodstuffs, or other necessaries, and the products or by-products arising from or in connection with the preparation and manufacture thereof, together with figures of cost and wholesale and retail prices, $150,000.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Smithsonian Institution.National Museum.Freer Building expenses.Aircraft exhibition.Expenses of temporary Army building for.Vol. 40, p. 102. National Museum: For heating, lighting, ventilating, electrical, and telephonic service for the Freer Building, $14,715. To enable the Regents of the Smithsonian to heat, and to fit up for an exhibition of the aircraft and accessories produced by this Government since the declaration of war, the temporary metal structure erected in the Smithsonian Grounds by the War Department under the authority of public resolution Numbered 5, approved 329June 9, 1917, $14,000: *Provided,* That the Secretary of War is hereby *Proviso.*Control transferred to Regents.authorized to transfer the custody and control of the said building to the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
International exchanges: The unexpended balance of the appropriation International exchanges.Reappropriation, etc.Vol. 40, p. 122.for the system of international exchanges, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, for the fiscal year 1918, is reappropriated for payment of expenses of the international exchanges for the fiscal year 1919, together with the additional sum of $903.68. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. State Department. Salaries: For additional officers and employees in the Department Additional force.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.of State during the fiscal year 1920, $200,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $4,500 per annum. foreign intercourse.
Foreign intercourse. Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Belgium: Belgium.Salary of ambassador to.*Ante,* p. 291.Toward the payment of the salary of the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Belgium as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 16, approved September 29, 1919, at the rate of $5,500 per annum, from September 30, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive, $4,140.28, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of Additional to amount for minister.Vol. 40, p. 1325.$12,000 for the salary of an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Belgium for the fiscal year 1920, appropriated in the Diplomatic and Consular Act approved March 4, 1919, is hereby made available to be applied to the salary of the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Belgium.
To reimburse the appropriation “Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, fiscal year 1920,” on account of allotments made therefrom for expenses of the American Mission to Negotiate Peace, $388,000. For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance Interparliamentary Union to promote Arbitration.of the Interparliamentary Union for the promotion of International Arbitration at Brussels, Belgium, $2,000. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. office of the secretary.
Secretary’s office. Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants: For additional employees Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.Additional employees.from November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two, two of class one; in all, $6,800.02. office of auditor for treasury department. Auditor for Treasury Department. For additional employees from November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, Additional employees.inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows:
Clerks—seven of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; five calculating machine operators (nonapportioned) at $1,200 each; check assorters (nonapportioned)—four at $720 each, thirteen at $700 each; in all, $26,253.42. office of auditor for navy department. Auditor for Navy Department. For additional employees from November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, Additional employees.inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerks—ten of class four, ten of class three, ten of class two, ten of class one; assistant messenger at $720; two laborers at $660 each; messenger boy at $480; in all, $41,680.10. 330 office of auditor for state and other departments.
Auditor for State, etc., Departments.Additional employees. For additional employees from November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two; in all, $5,200.02. bureau of engraving and printing. Engraving and Printing Bureau.Additional work authorized.Vol. 40, p. 641.*Ante,* p. 44. The limitation for the fiscal year 1919 as to the number of delivered sheets of United States currency, national-bank notes, and Federal reserve currency is increased from 129,000,000 to 130,715,269. office of comptroller of the currency.
Comptroller of the Currency.Additional money counters. National currency (reimbursable): For ten money counters at the rate of $1,000 each per annum from November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, inclusive, $6,666.70. independent treasury. Independent Treasury.Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of the Independent Treasury, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $40,000. internal revenue.
Internal revenue.Washington, D. C.Rent, office of collector in.Vol. 40, p. 1234. Authority is granted for the expenditure of $4,020 from the appropriation for “Collecting the war revenue, fiscal year 1920,” for the rental of quarters in the District of Columbia for a branch office of the collector of internal revenue for the district of Maryland. public buildings. Public buildings.Operating supplies. Operating supplies: For operating supplies for public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $157,406.11.
Repairs and preservation.Allowance for Treasury buildings, D. C., increased.*Ante,* p. 168. Repairs and preservation: The provision for the limitation of $16,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Arlington, Liberty Loan, Butler, Winder, and Auditors Buildings in the District of Columbia, expendable from the appropriation of $800,000 contained in the Sundry Civil Act approved July 19, 1919, is hereby extended so that not exceeding $21,000 may be expended for repairs to those buildings.
Mount Olive, N. C. Mount Olive, North Carolina, post office: For continuation (site), $2,800. Nashville, Tenn.Rent, etc. Nashville, Tennessee, rent of buildings: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,000. Newport, R. I.Rent, etc. Newport, Rhode Island, rent of buildings: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and moving expenses incident thereto, $1,500.
Cape Charles, Va., quarantine station.*Proviso.*Supervision of work. Cape Charles, Virginia, quarantine station: For wharf, bulkhead, breakwater, and dredging of channel, $125,000: *Provided,* That all work authorized in this paragraph shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. secret service division. Secret Service Division.Suppressing counterfeiting, etc. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody 331of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers, and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign Governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign Governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for the enforcement of section 18 of the War Finance Corporation bonds, etc.Vol. 40, p. 511.War Finance Corporation Act; hire and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.in lieu of subsistence; when allowed pursuant to section 13, of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the Protection of the President, etc.President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $50,000: *Provided further,* *Provisos.*Witness fees.That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States Courts”:
Pay restriction.*Provided further,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a compensation greater than that allowed by law except not exceeding three persons who may be paid not exceeding $12 per day. office of the treasurer. Treasurer’s Office. National currency (reimbursable): The Secretary of the Treasury National currency.Reimbursing Engraving and Printing Bureau.is authorized to assess the proper National and Federal Reserve Banks in the sum of $10,416.99, the amount paid during the fiscal year 1919 by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to certain of its employees while detailed to the Treasurer’s Office to assort notes in the National Bank Redemption Agency.
National currency (reimbursable): For additional employees in redeeming Additional employees, redemption of currency.Federal reserve and national currency, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks, for the period November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Assistant superintendent, at $3,000; chief of money section, at $2,750; chief of accounting section, at $2,750; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, seven of class two; expert counters—fifty at $1,100 each, sixty at $1,000 each, sixty-two at $900 each; two messengers, at $840 each; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; one messenger boy, at $480; three charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $136,813.94 bureau of war risk insurance.
War Risk Insurance Bureau. For expenses of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, as authorized Salaries.by law: For salaries of the director and commissioners, and of such deputies, assistants, accountants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, $4,000,000; stationery and minor office supplies, $550,000; Office supplies, etc.miscellaneous expenses, including telephones, telegrams, freight, express, foreign postage, not exceeding $100 for street car fares, not exceeding $500 for law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $60,000; not to exceed $800,000 of the appropriation for “salaries Printing, etc., from field expenses.Vol. 40, p. 1227.and expenses of employees engaged in field investigations and expenses of branch offices, fiscal year 1920,” is made available for printing and binding, to be done at the Government Printing Office, and necessary printing of forms, and so forth, for use abroad may be done abroad; furniture, equipment, and supplies, $75,000; addressograph Addressograph supplies, etc.supplies, $161,536; traveling expenses (exclusive of field investigations), $10,000; purchase, maintenance, and repair of a motor-pro-332Repayment to National Museum.pelled passenger vehicle, $1,000; for payment to the National Museum on account of repairs and other expenses made necessary by the occupancy of that building by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, *Proviso.*Work of employees restricted.$5,640; in all, 34,863,176: *Provided,* That all employees appropriated for by this paragraph shall be engaged exclusively on the work of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance during the fiscal year 1920. american printing house for the blind.
Printing House for the Blind.Expenses.*Ante,* p. 272. To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved *Proviso.*Publications to Library for the Blind, D.C.4, 1919, $30,000: *Provided,* That two copies of each of the publications printed by the American Printing House for the Blind shall be furnished free of charge to the National Library for the Blind located at Seventeen hundred and twenty-nine H Street northwest, Washington, District of Columbia. miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous.C. G. Duganne.Credit in accounts. Credit in the accounts of C. G. Duganne: The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of C. G. Duganne, formerly disbursing officer, United States Reclamation Service, Denver, Colorado, the sum of $147, representing amount paid by him to the Hendee Manufacturing Company ($144) and overpayment to M. Killian ($3), the former having been disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury [R.
S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).Department as having been paid in contravention of the provisions of section 3709, Revised Statutes, and the latter because of the item representing an overpayment to the payee named, $147. Sydney E. Smith.Credit in accounts. Credit in the accounts of Sydney E. Smith: The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Sydney E. Smith, disbursing clerk of the War Department, the sum of $550 expended by him from the appropriation for contingent expenses, War Department, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, for the removal of certain partitions in the State, War, and Navy Building, and for this purpose the sum of $550 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses. For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and motor cycles, and one motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car fares, not exceeding $1,000; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $400.000.
Rent. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the War Department, fiscal year 1919, $1,978.72. 333 engineer department. Public building and grounds, D. C. Public Buildings and Grounds: For construction of walks and Judiciary Park.Improvements, etc.service road and the restoration and planting of grounds around the courthouse in Judiciary Park, including the removal of the statue, $23,445, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the Half from District revenues.District of Columbia and one-half from the Treasury of the United States. miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous. Transportation to China of Chinese refugees: For defraying the cost Transporting, etc., Chinese refugees from Mexico to China.of transportation and subsistence to China of certain Chinese refugees from Mexico who have been under military Jurisdiction since 1917, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $31,165. ordnance department. Ordnance Department. Ordnance reservation civilian schools: Authority is granted for Civilian schools on reservations.Use of ammunition, appropriations for expenses of, at specified places.Vol. 40, p. 816.the expenditure during the fiscal year 1920 of not to exceed $45,000 from appropriations heretofore made for the “purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon,” for the operation and maintenance on ordnance reservations at Amatol and Mays Landing, New Jersey, Nitro, West Virginia, Jacksonville, Tennessee, Penniman, Virginia, Sheffield and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and Tullytown, Pennsylvania, of schools for children of persons employed thereon, where public schools are not conveniently available for such children, including salaries, supplies, stationery, and industrial work, replacement and repair of books and equipment, and all incidental and necessary expenses in connection therewith. armories and arsenals.
Armories and arsenals.Rock Island, Ill.Shop building for recuperators. Rock Island, Illinois, Arsenal: The remaining unexpended balances, not to exceed $450,000, of the appropriation of $2,965,000 for increasing the facilities for the manufacture of field artillery materiel, including the necessary buildings and equipment, and for providing additional storage space and other storage facilities, either by Reappropriations.building and equipping new storehouses or by building and equipping shops for manufacturing purposes and equipping as storehouses shops thereby vacated and made available (Act of June 12, Vol. 40, pp. 128, 353.1917) and of the appropriation of $1,295,200 additional for increasing facilities for the manufacture of field artillery materiel, including the necessary buildings and equipment (Act of October 6, 1917) are made available for the erection of a shop building for the manufacture of recuperators at Rock Island Arsenal: *Provided,* That this sum *Proviso.*Restriction.shall not be available until the present plant for the manufacture of recuperators is disposed of.
Watertown, Massachusetts, Arsenal: The remaining unexpended Watertown, Mass.Repairing planers, etc.balance of the appropriation of $32,000 “For repairing and electrifying five large planers and boring mills” contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, is reappropriated and Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 654.made available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1920. river and harbor work. River and Harbor work. For payment of claims adjusted and settled under section 4 of the Collision damage claims.Vol. 36, p. 676.River and Harbor Appropriation Act approved June 25, 1910, and certified to Congress during the present session in House Documents Numbered 83, 108, and 177, $907.52. 334 NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.
Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.Togus, Me. Eastern Branch: For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $12,000. Santa Monica, Calif. Pacific Branch: For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $10,000. PANAMA CANAL. Panama Canal.Court expenses. For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, salaries of district judge $7,500, district attorney $5,000, marshal $5,000, and for gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $150,000, to continue available until expended.
NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. rent. Rent. For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, fiscal year 1919, $175. damage claims. Collision damages claims.Vol. 36, p.607. To pay the claims adjusted and determined by 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 Senate Document Numbered 104 of this session, $6,289.94.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Navy. bureau of supplies and accounts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.Additional allowance for classified employees.*Ante,* p. 148. The limitation on expenditures from the appropriation “Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, fiscal year 1920,” for pay of classified employees is increased by the sum of $500,000. bureau of construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair.Additional allowance for classified employees.*Ante,* p. 149. The limitation on expenditures from the appropriation “Construction and repair of vessels, fiscal year 1920,” for pay of classified employees is increased by the sum of $250,000.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. public buildings. Public buildings.Annex to Senate folding room.Repairs, etc. Old Telephone Exchange Building: For repairs and improvements to Old Telephone Exchange Building, twenty-three B Street northwest, to make it an annex to the Senate Folding Room, twenty-one B Street northwest, and to connect up both buildings with heating plant of Maltby Building, $3,500, to be expended under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds. bureau of education.
Education Bureau.Registers of teachers, etc. For maintaining registers of teachers and assisting officers of education in finding teachers for positions requiring special qualifica-335tions, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $5,000. School and School Directed Home Gardens: To continue the activities School and home gardens.of the United States school garden army of the Bureau of Education in promoting school and school-directed home gardens, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $25,000. columbia institution for hie deaf.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf. For repairs to the cottage damaged by fire on August 26, 1919, $2,000. Repairing fire damages. national park service. National Park Service. Glacier National Park, Montana: For reimbursement of the appropriation Glacier, Mont.Fighting forest fires.for Glacier National Park for the fiscal year 1920 on account of expenditures for fighting forest fires in the park, $50,000. For the construction of a bridge over the Flathead River at Belton, Montana, $12,000.
Bridge over Flathead River. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For reimbursement of the Yellowstone.Fighting forest fires.appropriation for Yellowstone National Park for the fiscal year 1920 on account of expenditures for fighting forest fires in the park, $25,000. general land office. Public lands. Protecting public lands, timber, and so forth: To reimburse the Protecting, etc.Fighting forest fires.appropriation “Protecting public lands, timber, and so forth,” fiscal year 1920, for expenditures for protecting timber on the public lands from forest fires, $160,000. patent office.
Patent Office. For the payment of Tice and Lynch, customhouse brokers, of Tice and Lynch.Payment to.New York, the sum of $84.75, advanced by them to Stevens and Brown, an American library and literary agency, of London, England, to cover insurance premiums taken out on six consignments of British patents forwarded to the United States Patent Office, $84.75. For additional employees from November 1, 1919, to June 30, Additional employees.1920, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows:
Clerks—one of class four, one of class three, two of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; fifteen copy pullers, at $480 each; in all, $13,066.99. For producing copies of weekly issue of patents, designs’, and trademarks; Copies of weekly issues of patents, etc.production of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents and other papers; and for expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, $15,000: *Provided,* That hereafter 10 cents per copy *Proviso.*Price for uncertified copies.shall be charged for uncertified printed copies of specifications and drawings of patents. territory of alaska.
Alaska. Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions Engineering Commission.Constructing railroads, etc.Vol. 38, p. 305.of the Act approved March 12, 1914, entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” as amended, including expenses incident to conducting Hearings and examining estimates for appropriations in Alaska, to be available until expended, $6,000,000. 336 POSTAL SERVICE.
Postal service. out of the postal revenues. From postal revenues. office of the first assistant postmaster general. First Assistant Postmaster General.Clerks, etc., at post offices. For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class post offices, $750,000. office of third assistant postmaster general. Third Assistant Postmaster General.Indemnity lost domestic 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 1918, $100,000; For 1919, $700,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster general. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.Twine, etc. For wrapping twine and tying devices, fiscal year 1919, $50,000. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. salaries. Additional employees. For additional clerical and subclerical employees in the Department of Justice in the District of Columbia, $12,000. Chief clerk.Additional pay. For additional compensation to the chief clerk for services as general administrative agent of the Department of Justice, at the rate of $500 per annum from November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive, $333.34.
Private secretary.Additional pay. For additional compensation to the private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General for special assistance to the Attorney General, at the rate of $600 per annum from November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive, $400. Pardon attorney.Additional pay. For additional compensation to the attorney in charge of pardons, at the rate of $600 per annum from November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive, $400. contingent expenses.
Contingent expenses.Furniture, etc. For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $3,000. Stationery. For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $7,000. Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street-car fares not exceeding $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $7,000. miscellaneous.
Enforcing antitrust laws.*Provisos.*Use for prosecuting labor, etc., organizations forbidden.Exception. Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of anti-trust laws, $200,000: *Provided, however,* That no part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization other than an organization of public officers or any individual other than a public officer for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours, or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof, not Associations of farmers, etc.in itself unlawful: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropria-337tion shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products and associations of farmers who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products.
Transportation of aliens: For expenses incident to the transportation Transporting, etc., interned enemy aliens.of alien enemies to places of internment and to the return or removal of said aliens from places of internment in the United States to the countries of which they are citizens, or to their places of residence, or, in the discretion of the Attorney General, to such other places in the United States as they may elect; and for expenses of maintaining aliens in hospitals or otherwise outside of internment camps, $200,000, to be available also for expenses heretofore incurred for said purposes.
Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and Detection and prosecution of crimes.prosecution of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, referees, and trustees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President Protection of the President, etc.of the United States; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice or the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $1,000,000. public buildings.
Penitentiaries. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For rebuilding and repair of Leavenworth, Kans.Repairing fire damages.damage done by fire occurring in the west main cell wing on July 19, 1919, $100,000. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For mill equipment, $50,000. Atlanta, Ga.Mill equipment JUDICIAL. Judicial. united states courts. United States courts. For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their Marshals.deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska, services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of horsedrawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the office of United States marshal for the District of Columbia, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1920, $200,000; For 1919, $45,000. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys.United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, fiscal year 1919, $35,000. 338 Clerks.Vol. 40, p. 1182.
For salaries of clerks of United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, expenses of travel and subsistence, and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 26, 1919, $150,000: *Proviso.*Per diem subsistence instead of actual expenses.*Provided,* That per diem in lieu of subsistence may be granted to clerks of United States district courts, their deputies and other assistants, instead of, but at the rates prescribed and under conditions applicable to the allowance for actual expenses of subsistence, as provided in said Act.
Assistants in special cases. For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take Oath.[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62).oath of office in accordance with section 366, Revised Statutes of the United States), to be available for expenditure in the District of Columbia, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1920, $300,000; For 1919, $25,000. 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, fiscal year 1919, $15,000. united states penitentiaries. Penitentiaries.Watch force.Salaries established From and including October 1, 1919, the salaries of the captains of the watch in the United States penitentiaries shall be at the rate of $1,500 per annum and the salaries of guards as follows:
For the first year of service, $70 per month. For the second year of service, $80 per month. For the third year of service, $90 per month. For the fourth and subsequent years of service, $100 per month. Leavenworth, Kans.Additional pay, watch force. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For additional for salaries of captains of watch, $1,125; for additional for salaries of guards, $9,750; in all, $10,875. Atlanta, Ga.Additional pay, watch force. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For additional for salaries of captains of watch, $1,125; for additional for salaries of guards, $7,200; in all, $8,325.
Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $2,947.60. McNeil Island, Wash.Additional pay, guards.Clothing, etc. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For additional for salaries of guards, $1,600. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $634.99.
Iowa Reformatory.Reimbursement to warden. Support of prisoners: The accounting officers are authorized and directed to reimburse the warden of the Iowa Reformatory at Anamosa, for gratuities amounting to $181 furnished United States prisoners discharged from that institution during the quarter ended Vol. 18, p. 480.March 31, 1919, the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1875, notwithstanding. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Agricultural Department.Japanese beetle.Emergency expenses to control, etc.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the recent and sudden spread of the Japanese beetle in the State of New Jersey and to provide means for the control and prevention of spread of this insect in that State and to other States, in 339cooperation with the State of New Jersey and other States concerned and with individuals affected, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $45,000. forest service.
Forest Service. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the existing emergency Emergency fighting forest fires.and to pay expenses heretofore incurred or which may hereafter be incurred in fighting and preventing forest fires endangering the national forests during the fiscal year 1920, $2,950,000. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Department of Commerce. coast and geodetic survey. Coast and Geodetic Survey. For additional topographic and hydrographic draftsmen from November Additional draftsmen.1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows:
Three at $2,000 each; three at $1,750 each; in all, $7,500.03. For additional employees from November 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, Additional watchmen, etc.inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Watchmen, firemen, messengers, or laborers, seven at $840 each; plumber and steamfitter, $1,200; in all, $4,720. bureau of fisheries. Fisheries Bureau. Miscellaneous expenses: For amount required during the fiscal Envelopes, 1919.year 1919 to meet the increased cost of envelopes in accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 Vol. 40, p. 753.of the Post Office Appropriation Act approved July 2, 1918, $300.
Maintenance of vessels: For an additional amount for furnishing Maintenance of vessels.Subsistence.*Proviso.*Commutation of rations, 1920.subsistence to employees on vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries, including those holding statutory positions, $5,000: *Provided,* That commutation of rations not to exceed $1 per day may be paid to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries during the fiscal year 1920 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Baker Lake, Washington, Station:
For the reconstruction of the Baker Lake, Wash.Rebuilding station.buildings and the replacement of the equipment recently destroyed by fire, $50,000. Fairport, Iowa, biological station: For the purchase and installation of a metal-working lathe and power saw, $1,000. Fairport, Iowa.Shop equipment. Wytheville, Virginia, fish hatchery: For general improvements Wytheville, Va.Water supply.to water supply, including purchase of a right of way for pipe line and right to construct dam and reservoir, $4,000. lighthouse service.
Lighthouse Service. General service: For constructing or purchasing and equipping Vessels.Constructing, etc.Vol. 40, p. 607.lighthouse tenders and light vessels, to replace vessels worn out in service, in the third, fifth, and eighth lighthouse districts, or for use in the Lighthouse Service generally, $760,000. Diamond Shoal, North Carolina: For constructing and equipping Diamond Shoal, N.C.Light vessel for, etc.a light vessel for station off Diamond Shoal, North Carolina, or for general service, $450,000.
Conneaut Light Station, Ohio: For completing the light and fog Conneaut, Ohio.Light station.signal station, $19,600. 340 bureau of navigation. Navigation Bureau.Shipping service.Commissioner at Galveston, Tex. Shipping Service: For a shipping commissioner at Galveston, Texas, at the rate of $1,500 per annum from October 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, inclusive, $1,125. Clerks in offices. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce, of not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person of clerks in the offices *Proviso.*Pay allowance.of shipping commissioners, $10,000: *Provided,* That one clerk may be employed hereunder at a compensation not to exceed $2,200 per annum.
Motor boats to enforce navigation laws. Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction by customs officers, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, $18,000. Wireless communication on steamers.Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol. 37, p. 199. Wireless communication laws:
To enable the Secretary of Commerce to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers” and “to regulate radio communication” and to carry out the international radio telegraphic convention, and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, rent, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, *Proviso.*No pay increase.$20,000: *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall be used to increase the compensation of persons employed to enforce wireless communication laws. bureau of standards.
Standards Bureau.Miscellaneous. General expenses: For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, books and periodicals; traveling expenses (including expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies when required in connection with standardization, testing, or other official work of the bureau); street car fares not exceeding $100; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of a passenger automobile and motor trucks for official use, including their exchange; and contingencies of all kinds, $35,000.
Cooperative industrial research development. Industrial research: For technical investigations in cooperation with the industries upon fundamental problems involved in industrial development following the war, with a view to assisting in the permanent establishment of American industries developed during the war, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $250,000. Testing Government materials. Testing Government materials: For the specification, testing, and inspection of materials and equipment purchased by the Government departments to determine suitability for the specific uses involved, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $100,000.
Investigating, etc., safety standards for industrial occupations. Industrial safety standards: To investigate conditions of personal hazard in electrical, industrial, and mercantile establishments and other places where apparatus and machinery are used or hazardous materials are handled; to formulate safety standards covering construction, installation, and operation of electrical and mechanical apparatus and machinery, and the handling of materials; to prepare Safety codes.national safety codes suitable for general application and for adoption and enforcement by Federal, State, and municipal bodies; and to 341cooperate with engineering and industrial organizations in the development Cooperation with technical organizations.and revision of such codes and with administrative bodies in the introduction and interpretation of the codes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000.
Standardization of instruments, machinery, and equipment: To Cooperative standardizing of instruments, machinery, etc.enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate with Government departments, engineers, and manufacturers in the establishment of standards, methods of testing, and inspection of instruments, equipment, tools, and electrical and mechanical devices used in the industries and by the Government, including the practical specification for quality and performance of such devices, and the formulation of methods of inspection, laboratory, and service tests, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000.
Platinum and rare metals: For the purchase of platinum and other Platinum and rare metals.Purchase of.rare metals required for use in the experimental work of the Bureau of Standards, $15,000. For the completion of a retaining wall along the south side of the Completing retaining wall.new industrial laboratory, together with that portion of the piping tunnel adjacent to the building and involved in the construction of the retaining wall, and the grading incident thereto, $20,000.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Department of Labor. immigration service. Immigration Bureau. For enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration of aliens Enforcing immigration laws.into the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $263,072.04. Not to exceed $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation Interned aliens.Appropriation continued.Vol. 40, p. 216.for “Expenses of interned aliens, 1917-1918,” is continued and made available for expenditures incurred by the Immigration Service for interned aliens during the fiscal years 1919 and 1920. bureau of labor statistics.
Labor Statistics Bureau For miscellaneous expenses of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including Miscellaneous.the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $12,000. printing and binding. Printing and binding. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to make settlements for Settlement of accounts for War Labor and Naturalization expenses.Vol. 28, p. 601.$5,630.58 and $81 from appropriations for expenses of the printing and binding services of the War Labor Administration and “Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, 1918-1919,” respectively, Vol. 28, p. 601.in payment for printing ordered without compliance with the Act approved January 12, 1895. international conference of labor.
International Labor Conference. For salaries and expenses of the International Conference of Labor, Salaries and expenses.as follows: United States Government executive staff: For two and one-half Government executive staff.months, at monthly compensation as follows: Assistant to the Secretary, $450; first assistant, $300; three executive assistants, at $200 each; two assistants at hotels, at $200 each; private secretary, $200; two stenographers, at $150 each; typist, $125; and two messengers, at $75 each; in all, $6,312.50.
Conference staff, for two months, at monthly compensation as Conference staff.follows: Two stenographers, at $150 each; two deputy secretaries, at 342$300 each; four subsecretaries (for commissions), at $200 each; four interpreters, at $200 each; three English-French translators, at $200 each; three French-English translators, at $200 each; six French stenographers, at $83.33 each; six English stenographers, at $150 each; chief messenger, $125; eight messengers, at $75 each; expenses, at not exceeding $10 per diem for each person, $12,000; in all, $23,649.96.
Chief clerk’s office. Chief clerk’s office, for two months, at monthly compensation as follows: Chief clerk, $200; assistant chief clerk, $150; and stenographer, $150; in all, $1,000. Expenses. Expenses: For reporting proceedings, $20,000; printing proceedings, $10,000; paper, $2,500; contingent expenses, $1,000; in all, $33,500. *Provisos.*Accounting. Total, International Conference of Labor, $64,462.46: *Provided,* That all accounting in connection with the conference shall be done by the disbursing officer of the Department of Labor: *Provided further,* Subsistence allowance restricted.That no part of the money herein appropriated for the International Conference of Labor shall be available for the payment of an allowance for per diem expenses in lieu of subsistence to any person No other funds to be used.residing in the District of Columbia: *Provided further,* That this sum shall not be supplemented by expenditures from any other appropriation nor shall any part of this or any other appropriation be used for telegraphing or cabling the proceedings of the said conference.
LEGISLATIVE. Legislative.Botanic Garden. Botanic Garden: For pay to the statutory employees of the Botanic Garden, at rates to be fixed by the superintendent, $1,075. senate. Senate.Reporting debates.Additional compensation. For additional expenses of reporting and transcribing the debates and proceedings of the Senate and to equalize more nearly the amounts paid by the Senate and the House of Representatives for reporting their respective proceedings from June 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, payable in equal monthly installments from October 1, 1919, $10,716.66.
Chief telephone operator. For pay to the chief telephone operator, office of the Sergeant at Senate, $300. Inquiries and investigations. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1 per printed page, $135,000. Motor vehicles. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails, and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, fiscal year 1919, $1,033.85.
Fuel, oil, etc. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1919, $400.97. Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $10,000. house of representatives. House of Representatives.J. Willard Ragsdale.Pay to widow. To pay the widow of J. Willard Ragsdale, late a Representative from the State of South Carolina, $7,500. Joseph B. Thompson.Pay to widow. To pay the widow of Joseph B. Thompson, late a Representative from the State of Oklahoma, $7,500.
Miscellaneous items, etc. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, for the fiscal years that follow: 343 For 1919, $45,000; For 1920, $139,000. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, Stationery.$210. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $50,000 for furnishing House Office Building. Additional office equipment.
Vol. 38, p. 240. additional rooms in the House Office Building, contained in the Public Resolution approved October 24, 1913, is made available for additional office equipment for such of the rooms of that building as may be necessary on account of the appointment of additional clerks to Members. For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, for the fiscal Furniture, etc.years that follow: For 1919, $96.76; For 1920, $15,000. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Government Printing Office.
To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Charles C. Allen.Extra services.Charles C. Allen, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-sixth and Congress, first session, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,800. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments, United States Courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs Payment of.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 Congress during the present session by the Attorney General in Senate Document Numbered 100, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Classification. Under the War Department, $1,578.90; Under the Navy Department, $7,725.05; In all, $9,303.95, together with such additional sum as may be Interest.necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments, Court of Claims. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and Payment of.reported to Congress during the present session in Senate Documents Numbered 102 and 125, namely:
Classification. Under the Treasury Department, $61,300.20. Under the War Department, $26,038.60. Under the Navy Department, $29,076.13. Under the Interior Department, $215.76. In all, $116,630.69. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. Sec. 2. That section 7 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Additional $240 to employees.Vol.40, p.1267, amended.Limitation for employees in the Philippines.Appropriation Act, approved March 1, 1919, is amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph thereof, the following additional proviso:
“*Provided further,* That no employee of the Federal Government Limitation for employees in the Philippines. shall, for services in the Philippine Islands, receive additional compensation under this section at a rate which is more than 20 per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee.” Sec. 3. That the Bureau of Efficiency is directed to investigate the Statistics.Methods of collecting, etc., to be investigated.scope and character of statistics needed by the Government, and the methods of collecting, compiling, and presenting statistical informa-344tion by the several executive departments and independent Government establishments and submit to Congress a report of its findings together with such recommendations as it deems proper.
AUDITED CLAIMS. Audited claims.Claims certified by accounting officers. Sec. 4. 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 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 1917 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress Vol. 23, p. 254.under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 94, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For collecting the revenue from customs, 58 cents. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $243.06. For care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $63. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $3.75. For Quarantine Service, $2.78. For refunding internal revenue collections, $5. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal Revenue Service, $7.18. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $191,314.82.
For redemption of stamps, $3,287.29. For payment of judgments against internal revenue officers, $147,874.77. For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, $5,314.56. For Coast Guard, $4,683.73. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving-Service, 95 cents. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $3,441.35. For contingent expenses, assay office at New York, 69 cents. For operating supplies for public buildings, $15.41.
For furniture and repairs or same for public buildings, $259.61. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $12.32. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $2.45. For general expenses of public buildings, $35.01. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For contingencies of the Army, 1918, $5,000. For Signal Service of the Army, $434.86. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $438,866.44. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $1,018.70.
For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $121.12. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $29,629.48. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $39.54. For barracks and quarters, $15,346.45. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $56.67. For roads, wharves, walks, and drainage, $2,541.01. For quarters for hospital stewards, $5. For transportation of rifle teams to national matches, $108.88. 345 For encampments and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $124.80.
For civilian military training camps, $828.44. For medical and hospital department, $10. For burial of indigent soldiers, $81. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $234.38. For maintenance of channel, South Pass, Mississippi River, 1918, $900. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For contingent expenses, Navy Department, 1918, $16,271.73. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Observatory, 50 cents.
For pay, miscellaneous, $18.75. For pay, Marine Corps, $228.80. For contingent, Manne Corps, $837.20. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $1,036.08. For pay of the Navy, $1,779.59. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $20.67. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $15.15. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 1918, $2,102.05. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.
For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, $135.95. For scientific library, Patent Office, $59.20. For return of funds of patients, St. Elizabeth Hospital, $7.60. For Capitol power plant, 1919, $10,000. For surveying public lands, $554. For Geological Survey, $8.38. For investigating mine accidents, $92.47. For books and publications, Bureau of Mines, $37.39. For testing fuel, Bureau of Mines, $138.80. For enforcement of the Act to regulate explosives, Bureau of Mines, 1919, $25.05.
For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $42. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $6.60. For Indian schools, support, $27.47. For Indian school and agency buildings, $218.40. For Indian school transportation, $11.58. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1918, $15,617.62. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $786.80. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1918, $231.93. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 19 cents.
For general expenses, Indian Service, $28.98. For water supply, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, 1918, $69.45. For Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, repairs and improvements, 1918, $612.35. For Indian school, Fort Bidwell, California, 1918, $2.90. For support of nonreservation Indians in Nevada, 1918 and 1919, $1.87. For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, repairs and improvements, 1919, $22.23. For Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, $88.33. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $26.07. 346 For Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, repairs and improvements, 1918, $69.33.
For education, Sioux Nation, South Dakota, $60.90. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For stationery, furniture, and so forth, Department of State, 1918, $5.40. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1919, $1,267.14. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $1,786.45. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, 1919, $6,632. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, 1918, $52,620.95.
For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $10,229.33. For salaries, Consular Service, $2,897.61. For post allowances, to diplomatic and consular officers, $100. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $415.20. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, 1919, $43,229.61. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, 1918, $96,859.54. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $466.50. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1918, $2,359.68. For relief and protection of American seamen, $251.27.
For Smithsonian Institution, preservation of collections, National Museum, $16.95. For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1919, $354.06. For support of convicts, District of Columbia, 1919, $24,039. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $44.73. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $50.13. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, 50 cents. For general expenses, Forest Service, $1,404.20. For enforcement of the food and drugs Act, $22.84.
For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $3.45. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $294.88. For general expenses, Office of Markets and Rural Organization, $161.28. For general expenses, Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, $25.25. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $10. For Library, Department of Agriculture, $16.10. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $2,061.20. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $15.22. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $133.
For expenses of regulating immigration, $24. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, stationery, 1919, $81. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, transportation, 1919, $95.62. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneous items, 1919, $270.94. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneous items, $4. For books for judicial officers, $11.50. For inspection of prisons and prisoners, 1919, $358.38. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $157.80.
For fees of clerks, United States courts, 1918, $1,073.95. For fees of clerks, United States courts, $63.50. 347 For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1918, $1,113.91. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $9.85. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $4. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $8.75. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $24.30. For supplies for United States courts, 1918, $28.84. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $20. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.
For shipment of supplies, $22.43. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $208.89. For Star Route Service, special mail carriers, $47.92. For indemnities, international registered mail, $996.25. For railroad transportation, $2,943.63. For Rural Delivery Service, $174.06. For rent, light, and fuel, $845.49. For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $6.73. For village delivery service, $490.50. For office appliances, $45.50.
For clerks, first and second class post offices, $43.75. For city delivery, incidental expenses, $15.70. For city delivery carriers, $17.27. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $50.89. For compensation to postmasters, $72.05. For indemnities, domestic mail, $19.51. Total, audited claims, section 4, $1,160,333.82. AUDITED CLAIMS. Audited claims. Sec. 5. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to Additional claims certified by accounting officers.be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section Vol. 18, p. 110.5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1917 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully Vol. 23, p. 254.set forth in Senate Document Numbered 126, 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, $2.10. Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $20. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $123,690.81. For redemption of stamps, $496.41. For allowance or drawback, $13.18. For Coast Guard, $2,129.29. For operating supplies for public buildings, $6.79. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $119.50. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $168.24. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $42.13. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $508.76. 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, $170.50. 348 For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $1,258.53. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $2.71. For civilian military training camps, $29.17. For headstones for graves of soldiers, 62 cents. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $60.96. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For contingent, Marine Corps, $128.80. For pay of the Navy, $1,130.25. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 25 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 1918, $30.73. For collecting statistics, Bureau of Education, $44.32. For Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, 1919, $1,040.20.
For Hawaii National Park, 1919, $1.85. For protection of national monuments, 1919, $451.85. For reproducing plats of surveys, General Land Office, 1919, $144.50. For Geological Survey, $6.50. For mineral mining investigations. Bureau of Mines, $1,729.70. For investigations, petroleum and natural gas, Bureau of Mines, $5.11. For inspecting mines in Alaska, $1.75. For enforcement of the Act to regulate explosives, Bureau of Mines, 1919, $1,410.80. For relieving distress, and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $8.99.
For Indian school and agency buildings, $61.70. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1918, $655.58. For pay of Indian police, $100.98. For water supply, Navajo and Hopi Indians, Arizona, (reimbursable), 1918 and 1919, $499.08. For Indian school, Riverside, California, 1919, $109.28. For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, 1919, $53.57. For Indian school, Cherokee, North Carolina, 1919, $1.02. For Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, $11.55. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, 1919, $5.09.
For support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, 1919, $86.50. For Indian school, Hayward, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, 1918, $17.94. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For contingent expenses, Executive Office, 50 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of State, 1919, $383.25. For stationery, furniture, and so forth, Department of State, 1919, $868.43. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $1.15.
For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1919, $3,759.70. For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $1,968.75. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $269.70. 349 For contingent expenses, United States Consulates, 1918, $8,411.07. For contingent expenses, United States Consulates, 1919, $13,310.14. For relief and transportation of destitute American citizens in Mexico, $18. For Board of Mediation and Conciliation, 31 cents. For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1919, $592.37.
For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $8.57. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $4.27. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $131.55. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $2.85. For color standardization, Bureau of Standards, $13.11. For equipping chemical laboratory building, Bureau of Standards, $70. For radio research, Bureau of Standards, $61.87. For testing miscellaneous materials, Bureau of Standards, $8.20. For testing structural materials, Bureau of Standards, $10.05.
For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $11,700. For expenses of regulating immigration, $1,164. For expenses of regulating immigration, 1917 and 1918, $47,028.35. For general expenses, Children’s Bureau, $7.78. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $127.61. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneous items, 1919, $596.84. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, transportation, 1919, $46.35. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $98.76.
For support of prisoners, United States courts, $80.85. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $39. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1918, $65.60. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For indemnities, international mail, $273.45. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For railroad transportation, $1,140.43. For Star Route Service, special mail carriers, $4.77. For shipment of supplies, $20.18.
For Railway Mail Service, $2.40. For equipment, City Delivery Service, $18.68. For unusual conditions at post offices, $110.89. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $202.01. For clerks, third-class post offices, $37.50. For city delivery carriers, $20.70. For Rural Delivery Service, $3.33. For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $1.72. For foreign mail transportation, $124,777.87. Total audited claims, section 5, $353,920.50. Sec. 6. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “First Title of Act.Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920.
” Approved, November 4, 1919.