Chapter 21. Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 21.— An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes. January 3, 1923.[[H. R. 13232](/us/bill/67/hr/13232).][[Public, No. 377](/us/pl/67/377).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Departments of State and Justice appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, namely:
TITLE I—Department of State. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. office of secretary of state. Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assistants.Counselor to be designated Undersecretary.Salaries: For Secretary of State, $12,000; Undersecretary of State, and the “counselor for the department” shall hereafter be designated “Undersecretary of State,” to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, $7,500; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at Director of Consular Service, officers on drafting work.$4,500 each;
Director of the Consular Service, $4,500; officers to aid in important drafting work—eight at $4,500 each, five at $4,000 each, fifteen at $3,500 each, fifteen at $3,000 each, seventeen at $2,500 each, to be appointed by the Secretary, any one of whom may be Assistant solicitors.employed as chief or assistant chief of division or as chief of bureau, or upon other work in connection with the foreign relations; assistant solicitors of the department, to be appointed by the Secretary— *Post*, p. 1076.one $4,500 (who shall also represent the interests of the United States in all matters or investigations before the International Joint Vol. 36, p. 2448.Commission created by the treaty of January 11, 1909, between the United States and Great Britain), five at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 Chiefclerk, law clerks, clerks, etc.each; chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $3,000; law clerks—one $2,500, two at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; law clerk and assistant, to be selected by the Secretary to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at $2,500 and $1.500, respectively; two translators, at $2,100 each; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; private secretary to the Undersecretary, $2,000; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, thirty of class three, forty of class two, sixty-three of class one (three of whom shall be telegraph operators), forty at $1.000 each, ten at $900 each; lithographer, $1,400; chief messenger, $1.000: eight messengers at $840 each; twenty-seven assistant messengers at $720 each; four messenger boys at $420 each; packer, $720; seven laborers at $660 each; four telephone switchboard operators at $720 each; chauffeur, $1,080; in all, $605,740.
Temporary employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Department of State, $260,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $2.500 per annum and not more, than eight persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. contingent expenses, department of state. Contingent expenses.For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, including exchange of same, repairs and material for repairs, $27,000.
Library.For books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the library, $4,000. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenses, including maintenance, repair, and storage of motor-propelled passenger vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagons, including storage, repair, 1069and exchange of same; street car fare not exceeding $150, and other items not included in the foregoing, $13,200. printing and binding. For all printing and binding in the Department of State, including Printing and binding.all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $160,750. passport bureaus.Passport bureaus.
For salaries and expenses of maintenance, including rent outside Salaries and expenses.the District of Columbia, of passport bureaus at New York City, New York; San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; Seattle, Washington; and New Orleans, Louisiana, $54,250. Diplomatic Service.Diplomatic service. ambassadors and ministers. Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Argentina, Ambassadors.Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and Turkey, at $17,500 each, $227,500;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China, Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.*Post*, pp. 11 to, 1548.Cuba, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, at $12,000 each, $36,000; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Albania, Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and V Venezuela, at $10,000 each, and to the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, $10,000; in all, $320,000;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Esthonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, $10,000; Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, $5,000;Minister resident.Agent, etc., Tangier.*Proviso.*Salary restriction.*Post*, p. 1160. Agent and consul general at Tangier, $7,500; *Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Total, ambassadors and ministers, $606,000. chargés d’affaires ad interim.
For salaries for charges d’affaires ad interim, $50,000.Chargés d’affaires. secretaries in the diplomatic service. For salaries of secretaries in the Diplomatic Service, as provided Secretaries, Diplomatic Sendee.Vol. 38, p. 805; Vol. 39, p. 252.in the Act of February 5, 1915, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” as amended by the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, approved July 1, 1916, and the Act making Vol. 41, p. 740.appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, approved June 4, 1920, $386,875;
Japanese secretary of embassy to Japan, $5,500;Designated secretaries, Japan, Turkey, and China. Turkish secretary of embassy to Turkey, $5,500; Chinese secretary of legation to China, $5,500; Chinese assistant secretary of legation to China, $4,000; Japanese assistant secretary of embassy to Japan, $4,000; Turkish assistant secretary of embassy to Turkey, $4,000; Total, $415,375. 1070 clerks at embassies and legations. Clerks at embassies and legations.For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, who shall be citizens, whenever hereafter appointed, of the United States, $350,000; and so far as practicable shall be appointed under civil-service rules and regulations. interpreters to embassies and legations.
Interpreters.Persia.Siam.Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $2,000; Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, $2,000; Student interpreters.China, Japan, and Turkey.For fifteen student interpreters at the legation to China and the embassies to Japan and Turkey, who shall be citizens of the United States and whose duty it shall be to study the language of the country to which assigned with a view to supplying interpreters to the legation or embassy and consulates in such country, at $1,500 each, *Provisos.*Nonpartisan selection.Term of service.$22,500: *Provided*, That the method of selecting said student interpreters shall be nonpartisan: *And provided further*, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as an interpreter at the legation, embassy, or consulate in the country to which assigned so long as his services may be required within a period of five years;
Tuition.For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters in China, Japan, and Turkey, at the rate of $350 per annum each, $5,250; Salary restriction.No person drawing the salary of interpreter or student interpreter as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer; Total, $31,750. quarters for student interpreters at embassies. Quarters for student interpreters.For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Japan, $1,200;
For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Turkey, $600; Total, $1,800. contingent expenses, foreign missions. Contingent expenses, missions.To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repairs, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, translators, Dispatch agents.and the compensation of and rent for dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for loss Loss by exchange.on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, including such loss on bills of exchange to officers of the United States Court for China and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby *Proviso.*No payment for clerical services to persons not Americans.authorized: *Provided*, That no part of this sum appropriated for contingent expenses, foreign missions, shall be expended for salaries or wages of persons not American citizens performing clerical services, whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any foreign mission, $730,000. 1071 steam launch for embassy at constantinople.
For hiring of steam launch for use of embassy at Constantinople, Steam launch, Turkey.$1,800. ground rent of embassy at tokyo, japan. For annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the Ground rent, Japan.year ending March 15, 1924, $250. Consular Service.Consular service. salaries of the consular service. For salaries of consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls, as provided Consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls.Vol. 38, p. 805.Citizenship required.in the Act approved February 5, 1915, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” $1,900,000.
Every consul general, consul, vice consul, and wherever practicable every consular agent, shall be an American citizen; For salaries of seven consular inspectors, at $5,000 each, $35,000; Consular inspectors.Total, $1,935,000. expenses of consular inspectors. For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses Expenses, consular inspectors.of consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, $25,000: *Provided*, That inspectors *Proviso.*Subsistence allowance.shall not be allowed actual and necessary expenses for subsistence, itemized, exceeding an average of $8 per day. salaries of consular assistants.
For fifteen consular assistants, $17,724.Consular assistants. allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates. For allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under Clerk hire at consulates.the direction of the Secretary of State, $1,400,000. Clerks, whenever hereafter appointed, shall, so far as practicable, be appointed under civil-service rules and regulations. salaries and expenses of interpreters and guards to consulates. For interpreters and guards to be employed at consulates, to be Interpreters and guards at consulates.expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $96,200. contingent expenses, united states consulates.
For expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and Contingent expenses, consulates.other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), repairs to consular buildings owned by the United States, postage, furniture, including typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, Loss by exchange.and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $969,500. 1072 relief and protection of american seamen.
Relief, etc., of American seamen.For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the *Proviso.*Passage rates restricted.Philippine Islands, and the Virgin Islands, $200,000: *Provided*, That hereafter the amount agreed upon between the consular officer and the master of the vessel in each individual case not in excess of the lowest passenger rate of such vessel and not in excess of 2 cents per mile, together with such additional compensation for transporting sick or disabled seamen as is now provided by law, shall in each case constitute the lawful rate for transportation on steam vessels. expenses, passport-control act.Passport control.
Expenses regulating alien entries.Vol. 40, p. 559.For expenses of regulating entry into the United States, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 22, 1918, $259,500. Diplomatic and Consular. salaries, diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and in transit. Instruction and transit pay.To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, vice consuls, and other officers of the United States for the period actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making [R.
S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309).transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes, $50,000. transportation of diplomatic and consular officers. Transportation expenses.To pay the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of diplomatic and consular officers and clerks in embassies, legations, and consulates, including officers of the United States Court for China, and their families and effects in going to and returning from their posts, or of such officers and clerks when traveling under orders of the *Proviso.*Passage on foreign ships restricted.Secretary of State, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, $300,000: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be paid for transportation on foreign vessels without a certificate from the Secretary of State that there are no American vessels on which such officers and clerks may be transported. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service.
Emergencies.To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary Neutrality Act.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes, $400,000. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic or consular officers who die abroad.
Allowance for officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311).For payment under the provisions of section 1749 of the Revised Statutes of the United States to the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $2,500. 1073 For Louise Carroll Masterson, widow of William W. Masterson, Mrs. Louise Carroll Masterson.Payment to.late consul to Plymouth, England, $4,500, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while at his post of duty from illness incurred in the Consular Service. transporting remains of diplomatic and consular officers, consular assistants, and clerks to their homes for interment.
For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic Bringing home remains of officers.and consular officers of the United States, including consular assistants and clerks, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, $5,000. emabssy, legation, and consular buildings and grounds.Diplomatic and consular premises.
For the improvement of the legation buildings and grounds at Bangkok.Bangkok, $14,000. For the purchase of land at Mukden, China, for consular purposes, Mukden.$3,000. post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers.Post allowances. To enable the President, in his discretion, and in accordance with Special allowances to officers to meet living expenses.such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to diplomatic and consular officers and consular assistants and officers of the United States Court for China in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $150,000.
International Obligations, Commissions, Bureaus, and so forth. cape spartel light, coast of morocco. For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Cape Spartel Light.Tangier Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, $250. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen. For expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of Life saving testimonials.the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe at sea, $3,000. international bureau of weights and measures.
For contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau International Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 1714.of Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May 20, 1875, the same to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, $3,000. international bureau for publication of customs tariffs. To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for International Customs Tariffs Bureau.Vol. 26, p. 1518.the year ending March 31, 1924, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, pursuant to the convention proclaimed December 17, 1890, $2,187. 1074 international boundary commission, united states and mexico..
Mexican Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512; Vol. 34, p. 2963.To enable the President to perform the obligations of the United States under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, and 1906, between the United States and Mexico, including not to exceed $900 for rent, $25,913.50. boundary line, alaska and canada, and the united states and canada. Boundary, Alaska and Canada.Vol. 32, p. 1961.To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and make the surveys incidental thereto between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada, in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, draftsmen, Boundary, United States and Canada.Vol. 35, p. 2003.and clerks as are necessary; and for the more effective demarkation and mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April 11, 1908, between the United States and Great Britain, of the land and water boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, as established under existing treaties, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including the salaries of the commissioner and the necessary engineers, surveyors, draftsmen, computers, and clerks in the field and at the seat of government, expense of necessary traveling, for payment for timber necessarily cut in determining the boundary line not to exceed $500, and commutation to members of the field force while on field duty or actual expenses not exceeding $5 per day each, to be expended in accordance with regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of State, *Proviso.*Subsistence when absent from Washington.$43,570: *Provided*, That when the commissioner is absent from Washington and from his regular place of residence on official business he shall not be allowed actual and necessary expenses of subsistence in excess of $8 per day. international prison commission.
International Prison Commission.For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commission, including preparation of reports, $2,550. pan american union. Pan American Union.*Proviso.*Use of moneys from other Republics.Pan American Union, $100,000: *Provided*, That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the union shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit, in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the chairman of the governing board of the union for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the union and of carrying out the orders of the said governing board.
Printing and binding.Monthly Bulletin.For printing and binding for the Pan American Union, and the Public Printer is authorized to print an edition of the monthly bulletin not to exceed 6,000 copies per month, for distribution by the union during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, $20,000. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration. International Bureau, Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 32, p. 1793.To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendar year 1922 of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article 22 of the convention concluded at The Hague, July 29, 1899, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, $2,000. 1075 bureau of interparliamentary union for promotion of international arbitration.
For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance Interparliamentary Union for Promoting International Arbitration.of the Bureau of the Interparliamentary Union for the promotion of international arbitration, $4,000. international commission of annual tables of constants, and so forth. To the International Commission on Annual Tables of Constants International Commission on Tables of Constants, etc.and Numerical Data, Chemical, Physical, and Technological, as established by the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry in London and as continued by the eighth congress in New York, as a contribution by the United States toward the publication of annual tables of constants, chemical, physical, and technological, $500. international institute of agricultural at rome, italy.International Institute of Agriculture.
For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support Quota.of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1924, $19,577; For salary of the one member of the permanent committee of the Member of committee.International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1924, $5,000; For the payment of the quota of the United States for the cost of Translating publications.translating into and printing in the English language the publications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, $5,000;
Total, $29,577. international sanitary bureau. For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance International Sanitary Bureau.of the International Sanitary Bureau for the year 1924, $11,000. international office of public wealth. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the year International Office of Public Health.Vol. 35, p. 2061.Vol. 35, p. 1834.*Post*, p. 1823.1924 toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome, December 9, 1907, in pursuance of article 181 of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December 3, 1903, $3,860. arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the united states and great britain.
For the expenses of the arbitration of outstanding pecuniary British-American Pecuniary Claims Commission.Salaries and expenses.Vol. 37, p. 1635.claims between the United States and Great Britain, in accordance with the special agreement concluded for that purpose August 18, 1910, and the schedules of claims thereunder, including salary and expenses of the tribunal and of the agent, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, counsel, joint secretary and other assistants, contingent expenses, and personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $66,370. international radiotelegrahic convention.
For the share of the United States for the calendar year 1924, as International Radio-telegraphic Convention.Vol. 37, p. 1569.a party to the international radiotelegraphic conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotélégraphie service of the international Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, $5,750. 1076 united states section of the inter-American high commission. Inter-American High Commission.United States Section.Vol. 39, p. 8.To defray the actual and necessary expenses on the part of the United States section of the inter-American High Commission, $15,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain.International Joint Commission.
Canadian Boundary Waters.*Ante*, p. 1068.For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, cost of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, and necessary traveling expenses, and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Vol. 36, p. 2448.Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January 11, 1909, $35,500, to be disbursed *Provisos.*Subsistence when absent from Washington.under the direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for subsistence of the commission or secretary, except for actual and necessary expenses, not in excess of $8 per day each, when absent from Washington and from his regular place of residence on official business: *Provided further*, Rent, District of Columbia.That a part of this appropriation may be expended for rent of offices for the commission in the District of Columbia in the event that the Public Buildings Commission is unable to supply suitable office space. payment to the government of panama.
Panama.Annual payment to.Vol. 33, p. 2238.To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Panama the twelfth annual payment, due on February 26, 1924, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article 14 of the treaty of November 18, 1903, $250,000. payment to the government of colombia. Colombia.Payment to.To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Colombia the second payment from the Government of the United *Post*, p. 2124.States to the Republic of Colombia under article 2 of the treaty of April 6, 1914, $5,000,000. international research council.
International research Council, etc.To pay the annual share of the United States, as an adhering member of the International Research Council and of the Associated Unions, organized at Brussels, July 18–28, 1919. as follows: International Research Council $240; International Astronomical Union, $1,440; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, $540; International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, $2,496; International Union of Mathematics, $120; International Union of Scientific Radiotelegraphy, $192; in all, $5,028, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. international hydrographic bureau.
International Hydrographic Bureau.For the third annual contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the International Hydrographic Bureau, $3,860. 1077 foreign hospital at cape town. For annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital Somerset Hospital, Cape Town.(a foreign hospital), at Cape Town, $50, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital. international trade-mark registration bureau, quota of united states.
For the annual share of the United States for the expenses of the International Trade-Mark Registration.Habana Bureau expenses.Vol. 39. p. 1680.Vol. 41, p. 533.maintenance of the International Trade-Mark Registration Bureau at Habana, including salaries of the director and counselor, assist ant director and counselor, clerks, translators, secretary to the director, stenographers and typewriters, messenger, watchmen, and laborers, rent of quarters, stationery and supplies, including the purchase of books, postage, traveling expenses, and the cost of printing the bulletin, $4,961. international bureau of the union for the protection of industrial property.
For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the Industrial Property Bureau.International Bureau of the Union for the protection of industrial property, at Berne, Switzerland, $1,700. Judicial. united states court for china. Judge, $8,000; district attorney, $4,000; marshal, $3,000; clerk, United States Court for China.Salaries.$3,000; stenographer and court reporter, $2,400; court expenses, including reference law books, $8,500; The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when Sessions at other than Shanghai.the sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries their necessary actual expenses during such session, not to exceed $8 per day each, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, is appropriated;
Total, $28,900. prisons for american convicts. For expenses of maintaining at Shanghai, under charge of the Consular prisons.United States marshal for China, an institution for incarcerating American convicts and insane in China, $2,000; for salary of deputy marshal, $1,800; salaries of three assistant deputy marshals, at $1,200 each; in all, $7,400; For paying for the keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners Keeping, etc., prisoners.in China and Turkey and of those declared insane by the United States Court for China, $5,600;
For rent of prison for American convicts in Smyrna, Turkey, Rent, etc., of prisons.and for wages of keepers of the same, $1,000; For rent of prison for American convicts in Constantinople, Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, $1,000; Total, $15,000. 1078 bringing home criminals. Bringing home criminals.Rent restriction.For actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, $2,000. No portion of the sums appropriated in Title I of this Act shall, unless expressly authorized, be expended for rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States.
TITLE II.—Department of Justice. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. office of the attorney general. Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants.Salaries: Attorney General, $12,000; Solicitor General, $10,000; assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; six Assistant Attorneys General, at $7,500 each; Solicitor for the Department of the Interior, Solicitors of Departments, etc.Attorneys, etc.$5,000; Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $5,000; Solicitor for the Department of State, $5,000; four attorneys at $5,000 each, one of whom shall have charge of all condemnation proceedings in the District of Columbia and supervise the examination of titles and matters arising from such condemnation proceedings in which the United States shall lie a party or have an interest, and no special attorney or counsel, or services of persons other than of those provided for herein, shall be employed for such purposes; attorneys—one $4,500, one $3,750, four at $3,500 each, one $3,250, fourteen at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,500, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, five at $2,500 each, one $2,400, two at $2,000 Chief clerk, clerks, etc.*Post*, p. 1541.each; assistant examiner of titles, $2,000; chief clerk and administrative assistant and ex officio superintendent of buildings, $3,500; superintendent of buildings, $500; assistant chief clerk, $3,000; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General, $3,600; clerk to the Attorney General, $1,800; stenographer to the Solicitor General, $1,600; law clerks—three at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each; clerk Pardon attorney.
Superintendent of prisons.in the office of Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $1,800; attorney in charge of pardons, $4,200; superintendent of prisons, $4,000; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,000; librarian, $1,800; Clerks, messengers, etc.clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, twelve of class two, twenty-seven of class one, sixteen at $1,000 each, eleven at $900 each; chief messenger $1,000; packer, $900; messenger $960; six messengers at $840 each; thirteen assistant messengers at $720 each; seven laborers at $660 each; seven watchmen at $720 each; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; two telephone switchboard operators, at $720 each; four firemen, at $720 each; four elevator conductors, at $720 each; head charwoman, $480; twenty-four Division of Accounts.charwomen, at $240 each.
Division of Accounts: Chief, $3,000; administrative accountant, $3,000; chief bookkeeper and record clerk, $2,200; examiners—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each; clerks—three of class four, six of class three, seven of class two, five of class one; in all, $474,010. Solicitor of the Treasury.Office of Solicitor of the Treasury: Solicitor, $5,000; two assistant solicitors, at $3,000 each; chief clerk, who shall also discharge the duties of chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two docket clerics, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two; assistant messenger, $720; laborer, $660; in all, $30,230.
Solicitor, Department of Commerce.Office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce: Solicitor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two. one of class one; messenger, $840; in all $21,040. Solicitor, Department of Labor.Office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor: Solicitor, $5,000; law clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $13,840. 1079 contingent expenses, department of justice.Contingent expenses.
For furniture and repairs, including floor covering, file holders, Furniture, etc.and cases, $6,500. For books for law library of the department, including their Law books, etc.exchange, $3,000. For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories, for library of department, including their exchange. $500. For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce, $500. For law books, including their exchange, for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, $500.
For law books, books of reference, and their exchange, for office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor, $500. For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $15,000.Stationery.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 $300, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $40,000.
For official transportation, including the maintenance, repair, and Vehicles, etc.operation of a motor-driven passenger car, delivery truck, and motor cycle, to be used only for official purposes, and purchase and repair of bicycles, also for the purchase of a motor cycle, $2,700. The War Department is hereby authorized to turn over to the Motor truck from Army.Department of Justice one motor truck in exchange for the motor truck now in use. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Rent.Columbia, $75,000, if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in buildings under the control of that commission.
For printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the Printing and binding.courts of the United States, $165,000. For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, Traveling, etc,, expenses.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of section 3648, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous.
Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000; Conduct of customs cases.Assistant Attorney General, attorneys, etc.Vol. 36, p. 108.special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by subsection 30 of section 28 of the Act of August 5, 1909; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at Services, supplies, etc.the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, Supreme Court sports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all $83,100.
For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnesses Witnesses, Board of General Appraisers.before the Board of United States General Appraisers, $1,000. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary Defending suits In claims.expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses, procuring evidence, employment of experts, and such other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including Indian Indian depredations.depredation claims, and including not exceeding $500 for law books, which shall be available to keep current existing sets of United States Supreme Court reports, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $60,000. 1080 Detection and prosecution of crimes.Detection and prosecution of crimes:
For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, and clerks of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United State 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, and also, when requested by the presiding judge, the official acts, records, Protection of the President.and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts; for the protection of the person of the President 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 Vehicles, etc.directed by the Attorney General; hire, maintenance, upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, firearms and ammunition, including not to exceed $10,000 for taxicab hire to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in this paragraph and to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, whose certificate as to the expenditure thereof shall be conclusive on the General Accounting Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.Office; per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, including not to exceed $250,000 for necessary employees at Bureau of Investigation.the seat of government, and including a Director of the Bureau of Investigation at not exceeding $7,500 per annum, to be expended *Provisos.*Advances.under the direction of the Attorney General, $2,245,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for advances to be made by the disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice when authorized and approved by the Attorney General, the provisions of section [R.
S., sec. 3618, p. 718](/us/rs/s3618/p718).Special agents authorized.3648 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided further. That for the purpose of executing the duties for which provision is made by this appropriation, the Attorney General is authorized to appoint officials who shall be vested with the authority necessary for the execution of such duties: *Provided further*, Control of automobile.*Ante*, p. 613.That the automobile purchased from the appropriation for detection and prosecution of crimes for the fiscal year 1923 shall hereafter be for the exclusive use of the Bureau of Investigation under the control of the Attorney General.
Enforcing antitrust laws.Vol. 38, p. 730.Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including not exceeding $10,000 for clerical services and not exceeding $40,000 for compensation of attorneys at the seat of government, *Provisos.*Use for prosecuting labor organizations, etc., forbidden.$200,000: *Provided*, however, That no part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours, or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof, not in itself Associations of farmers, etc.unlawful: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products and associations of farmers who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products.
Enforcing interstate commerce laws.Vol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 701: Vol. 38, p. 219; Vol. 40, p. 272; Vol. 41, p. 474.Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce: For salary and expenses of assistant to the Solicitor General in representing the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February 4, 1887, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees in the District of Columbia, $10,000. 1081 Investigation and prosecution of war frauds:
For the investigation Investigation and prosecution of war frauds.*Ante*, p. 543.and prosecution of alleged frauds, either civil or criminal, or other crimes or offenses against the United States, growing out of or arising in connection with the preparation for or prosecution of the late war, including the institution and prosecution of suits for the recovery of moneys which contain no element of fraud but arose incident to the investigation of alleged frauds, to be available for the employment of counsel and other assistants, rent, and all other purposes in connection therewith, whether in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, including not to exceed $10,000 for communication service, the purchase of furniture, law books, books of reference, and other necessary equipment and supplies at the seat of government; $500,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Attorney General: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of *Provisos.*Rent, D.
C.buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission: *Provided further*, That not Pay restriction.more than one person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $10,000 per annum. JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states supreme court.United States Supreme Court.Salaries. Salaries: Chief Justice, $15,000; eight associate justices, at $14,500 each; marshal, $4,500; nine law clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $3,600 each; nine stenographic clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $2,000 each; in all, $185,900.
For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United Printing and binding.States, $21,000. and the printing and binding for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order; and for printing and binding the official reports of the Supreme Court reports.*Ante*, p. 816.Supreme Court of the United States, and advance pamphlet installments thereof, during the fiscal year 1924, to be expended as required, without allotment by quarters, $25,000; in all, $46,000.
For the salary of the Reporter, $8,000; and for his expenses for Reporter.professional and clerical assistance and stationery, to be paid upon vouchers signed by him and approved by the Chief Justice, $3,500; in all, $11,500. circuit court of appeals.Circuit Court of Appeals. Salaries: Thirty-three circuit judges, at $8,500 each, $280,500.Judges. district courts.District courts. Salaries: One hundred and twenty-five district judges, at $7,500 Judges.each, $937,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available *Proviso.*Availability.for the salaries of all United States district judges lawfully entitled thereto for the fiscal year 1924.
Territory of Hawaii: Two judges, at $7,500 each; reporter, $1,200; Hawaii.in all, $16,200. Porto Rico: District judge, $7,500.Porto Rico. retired judges. For salaries of judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Retired judges.Vol. 40, p. 1257.Code (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1161), $140,000. national park commissioners.National park Commissioners. For commissioners in the Crater Lake, Glacier, Mount Rainier. Salaries.Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Sequoia and General Grant National1082Vol. 29, p. 184.Parks, at $1,500 each, $9,000.
The provisions of section 21 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 28, 1896, shall not be construed as impairing the rights of said commissioners to receive the salaries provided herein. court of customs appeals.Court of Customs Appeals. Salaries.Salaries: Presiding judge and four associate judges, at $8,500 each; marshal. $3,000; clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; five stenographic clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographic reporter, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $62,340.
Rent and miscellaneous expenses.For rent of necessary quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $7,000; books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; heat, light, and power service; drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture, pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees not otherwise specifically provided for; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $3,460; in all, $10,460. court of claims.Court of Claims.
Salaries.Salaries: Chief justice, $8,000; four judges, at $7,500 each; chief clerk, $5,000; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks—two at $1,600 each (one of whom shall be a stenographer), one at $1,400; two at $1,200 each; four stenographers, at $1,200 each; chief messenger, $1,000; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; three firemen, at $720 each; three watchmen, at $720 each; elevator conductor, $720; two laborers, at $660 each; two charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $68,080.
Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, $35,000. Auditors, etc.For auditors and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary, in the Court of Claims, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $12,000. Contingent expenses.For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles, fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $6,600. Reporting decisions.For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the printing of the fifty-eighth volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to be paid on the order of the court to the reporter, [R.
S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 28, p. 205.notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes or section 2 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved Vol. 39, p. 123.July 31, 1894, or section 6 of the Legislative. Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916. Custodian.[R. S., sec. l765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p315).Vol. 18, p. 109.For custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims, $500, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes or section 3 of the Act of June 20, 1874. territorial courts.Territorial courts.
Alaska.Alaska: Four judges, at $7,500 each; four attorneys, $5,000 each; four marshals, at $4,000 each; four clerks, at $3,500 each; in all, $80,000. Hawaii.Hawaii: Chief justice, $7,500; two associate justices, at $7,000 each; in all, $21,500. For judges of circuit courts, at $6,000 each, $48,000. marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courts.United States courts. Marshals.Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1560.For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States mar1083shals in the District of Alaska, and hereafter the Attorney General Alaska.shall pay the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska from the appropriation, “Salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies,” services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and Vehicles, District of Columbia.operation of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the office of United States marshal for the District of Columbia, $2,300,000: *Provided*, That there shall be paid hereunder *Provisos.*Keeping attached vessels, etc.any necessary cost of keeping vessels or other property attached or libeled in admiralty in such amount as the court, on petition setting forth the facts under oath, may allow: *Provided further*, That Per diem subsistence.marshals and office deputy marshals (except in the District of Alaska) may be granted a per diem of not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, instead of, but under the conditions prescribed for, the present allowance for actual expenses of subsistence: *Provided further*, That Two motor cycles to marshal, District of Columbia.the Postmaster General, or the Coordinator of the General Supply Committee, is authorized and directed upon the approval of this Act, if available, to deliver to the office of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, without payment therefor. two passenger-carrying motor cycles.
For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys.Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. I860.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, $925,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso.*Per diem subsistence.United States district attorneys and their regular assistants may be granted a per diem of not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, instead of, but under the conditions prescribed for, the present allowance for actual expenses of subsistence.
For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are Regular assistants.appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $600,000: *Provided*, That except as otherwise prescribed by law *Proviso.*Compensation.Vol. 29 p. 181.the compensation of such of the assistant district attorneys authorized by section 8 of the Act approved May 28, 1896, as the Attorney General may deem necessary, may be fixed at not exceeding $3,500 per annum. For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district Assistants in special cases.attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, including not to exceed $50,000 for clerical help for such assistants, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General Foreign counsel.Oath.[R.
S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/62p).in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section 366, Revised Statutes of the United States). $850,000, to be available for expenditure in the District of Columbia. For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals Clerks of courts.Salaries and expenses.and 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 Vol. 40, p. 1182.*Ante*, p. 16.approved February 26, 1919, and the Act approved June 1, 1922. making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923: *Provided*, *Provisos.*Per diem subsistence.That per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4 per day may be granted to deputy clerks and clerical assistants to clerks of United States district courts, instead of but under conditions applicable to the allowance for actual expenses of subsistence, as provided in the above-mentioned Act of February 26, 1919: *Pro*1084Deputy clerks, Hawaii.*vided further*, That hereafter the number and compensation of deputy clerks in Hawaii shall he fixed by the Attorney General as in other judicial districts, $1,400,000.
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, $375,000. Jurors.For fees of jurors, $1,250,000. 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, $1,100,000. Rent of court rooms.For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, $02,500.
Bailiffs, etc.For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the *Proviso.*Attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).northern district of Illinois: *Provided*, That all persons employed under section 715 of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts, Traveling expenses, judges.but no such person shall be employed during vacation; expenses of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United States in Alaska, Porto Rico, and Vol. 36, p. 1161.Hawaii, as provided by section 259 of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary.” approved Jury expenses.March 3, 1911; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by In Alaska.Vol. 31, p. 363.the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, Title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900; and compensation Jury commissioners.for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $275,000.
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, and in courts other than Federal courts, $650,000. Supplies.For supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and adding machines, for the United States courts and judicial officers, including firearms and ammunition therefor, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $70,000.
Books for judicial officers.For purchase and rebinding of law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the Ignited States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under the direction of the *Proviso.*Transmittal to successors.Attorney General: *Provided*, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be marked plainly, “The property of the United States,” $35,000, of which not to exceed 10 per centum, in the discretion of the Attorney General, may be used for the purchase of United States Reports and the Federal Reporter.
Federal Reporter.For one hundred and eighty-one copies of continuations of the Federal Reporter, as issued, estimated at ten volumes per year, to continue sets now furnished various officials, at $2 per volume, $3,620. penal institutions.Penal institutions. Leavenworth, Kans.Subsistence.Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including supplies from the prison stores for warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $206,000;
Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including materials for making clothing at the penitentiary; gratuities for 1085prisoners at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on official duty; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped prisoner's, and for rewards for their recapture, $99,000;
For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney Miscellaneous.General, fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; not exceeding $500 for maintenance and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; blank books, blank forms, type-writing supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; labor and materials for repairing steam heating plant, electric plant, and water circulation, and drainage; labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings, general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyards, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies; lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints, and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; advertising in newspapers; fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental conditions of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in case of emergency; pay of extra guards or employees when deemed necessary by the Attorney General; one motor car for official use, $2,000: *Provided*, That live *Proviso.*Live stock.stock may be exchange or traded when authorized by the Attorney General, $173,000;
For hospital supplies, Hospital.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, $11,000; For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains— Salaries.one $1,500, one $1,200; physician, $1.800; pharmacist and physician’s assistant. $1,000; chief clerk, $1,800; record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; Clerks—one $1,200, one $1,000, four at $900 each; head cook, $1,000; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; three captains of watch, at $1,500 each; guards, $131,000; two teamsters, at $600 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; in all, $165,200.
Foremen: Blacksmith, laundryman, tailor, printer; in all, four at $1,200 each, $4,800; For construction of physician’s residence, $4,000.Physician’s residence. In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $663,000. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the Atlanta, Ga.Subsistence.same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $220,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including Clothing, transportation, etc.the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $112,000;
For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified Miscellaneous.under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas (including the special provision for motor car), and not exceeding 1086$500 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $130,000; Hospital.For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $7,000; Salaries.For salaries:
Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains— one $1,500, one $1,200; chief clerk, $1,800; physician, $1,800; pharmacist, $1,000; record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; clerks— one $1,200, one $1,000, four at $900 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; two teamsters, at $600 each; head cook, $1,000; three captains of watch, at $1,500 each; guards, $91,800; in all, $126,000;
Foremen: Carpenter, laundryman, tailor, and shoemaker, when necessary. $4,000; Working capital fund reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 619.The appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year 1923, for a working capital fund, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1924; and the said working capital fund and all receipts credited thereto may be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1924; In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $599,000. McNeil Island, Wash.Subsistence.McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary:
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $44,500; Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $31,000; Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas (excepting the special provision for motor car), $37,100;
Hospital.For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $2,000; Salaries.For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, $1,600; steward and cook, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; captain of watch, $1,500; engineer and electrician, $1,200; superintendent of boats, $1,200; chaplain and teacher, $1,000; guards, $28,600; in all, $41,400. In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $156,000.
National Training School for Boys, D. C.Salaries.National Training School for Boys: Superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent, $1,500; teachers and assistants, $12,900; chief clerk, $1,000; nurse, $900; matron of school and nurse, at $600 each; storekeeper and steward, $720; farmer, $660; baker, $660; tailor, $720; parole officer, $900; office clerk, $720; assistant office clerk, $480; physical director, $720; six matrons of families, at $240 each; foremen of shop and skilled helpers, $4,200; assistant farmer and assistant engineer, at $420 each; laundress, $360; teamster, $420; florist, $540; engineer and shoemaker, at $600 each; cook, $600; dining-room attendants—boys $300, officers, $240; housemaid, $216; seamstress, $240; assistant cook, $300; eight watchmen, at $420 each; secretary and treasurer, $900; in all, $40,736.
Maintenance, etc.For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books and periodicals, stationery, entertainments, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, fencing, roads, all repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $2,000, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $19,700;
In all, National Training School for Boys, $60,436. 1087 Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shall New buildings restricted.not be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building, other than those specifically provided for herein, at any Federal penitentiary. Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, Support of prisoners.including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and not exceeding $2,500 for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including side-walks, $1,100,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $5,000 of this amount *Proviso.*Additional inspection.Inspection of prisons and prisoners.shall be available for additional inspection of prisons and prisoners.
Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of United States prisons and prisoners, and for the collection, classification, and preservation or criminal identification records and their exchange with the officials of State and other institutions, including salary of the assistant superintendent of prisons, $2,500; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $12,000. Approved, January 3, 1923.