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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 42 STAT. · June 30, 1924 · Chapter 22

Chapter 22. Making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 22.— An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes. January 3, 1923.[[H. R. 13180](/us/bill/67/hr/13180).][[Public, No. 378](/us/pl/67/378).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following Treasury Department appropriations.sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.Secretary’s Office. Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury. $12,000; Undersecretary of Secretary.Undersecretary.Appointment and duties of.the Treasury, to be nominated by the President and appointed by him, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall receive compensation at the rate of $7,500 per annum and shall perform such duties in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury as may be prescribed by the Secretary or by law, and under the provisions of section 177, Revised Statutes, in case [R.
S., sec. 177, p. 28](/us/rs/s277/p28).of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall perform the duties of the Secretary until a successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease, $7,500; three Assistant Secretaries, actuary, clerks, etc.Assistant Secretaries, at $5,000 each; clerk to the Secretary, $3,000; executive clerk, $2,400; stenographer, $1,800; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at $1,800 each;
Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, $4,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, two of class two. one of class one; chief messenger, $1,100; two assistant chief messengers, at $1,000 each; messengers—three at $900 each, four at $840 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $73,260. 1088 office of chief clerk.Chief clerk’s office. Chief clerk, assistant, clerks, etc.Salaries: Chief clerk, including $300 as superintendent of Treasury Building, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assistant Secretaries of the department, $4,000; assistant chief clerk, $3,000; assistant superintendent of Treasury Building, $2,500; administrative clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, four of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, one $1,000; operator of photographic copying machine, $800; two messengers, at $840 each; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; messenger boy, $420; storekeeper, $1,200; telegraphers—one $1,400, one $1,200; telephone and telegraph operator, $1,200; four telephone switch-board Mechanical superintendent, engineers, etc.operators, at $720 each; mechanical superintendent, $2,250; chief engineer, $1,400; four assistant engineers, at $1,000 each (including one for outside buildings); eight elevator conductors, at $720 each, and the use of laborers as relief elevator conductors during rush hours is authorized; eight firemen, at $720 each; coal passer, $600; chief electrician, $1,600; locksmith and electrician, Watchmen, laborers, etc.$1,400; captain of the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watchmen, at $720 each; foreman of laborers, $1,200; assistant foreman of laborers, $840; eight chauffeurs, at $720 each; four automobile truck laborers, at $660 each; skilled laborer—one $840; two, at $720 each; two electricians, at $1,200 each; wireman, $900; thirty-nine laborers, at $660 each; plumber, at $1,100; painter, $1,100; plumber’s assistant, $780; attendant for emergency relier room, $660; head of char force, $720; eighty-five charwomen, at Operating force.Winder Building.$240 each; two carpenters, at $1,000 each.
Winder Building and annex: Engineer, $1,000; three firemen, at $720 each; elevator conductor, $720; four watchmen, at $720 each; three laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor)., at $660 each; forewoman of char force, $480; twelve charwomen, at $240 each; female laborer for ladies’ toilets, $660. Cox Building.Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine New York Avenue: Auditors’ Building.Two watchmen, at $720 each; laborer, $660. Auditors’ Building:
Forewoman of char force, $480; twenty-five charwomen, at $240 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; seven laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor). at $660 each; female laborer, $660; skilled laborer, $840; in all, $217,310. Liberty Loan, Register’s. and Internal Revenue Bureau buildings.For the operating force of the Liberty Loan and Register’s Annex Buildings, and buildings for the accommodation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and the necessary clerical assistance in the office *Proviso.*Pay restriction.of the chief clerk and superintendent, $80,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
Buildings for bureaus, etc.For employees for the care and protection of buildings for the accommodation of such bureaus of the department as may be assigned thereto, as follows: Three elevator conductors, at $720 each; nine firemen, at $720 each; female laborer, $660; four laborers (who shall assist elevator conductors when required), at $660 each; forewoman of charwomen, $480; twenty charwomen, at $240 each; eight watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $22,980. Madison Place Annex.Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place:
Two assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; plumber. $1,200; three firemen, at $720 each; coal passer, $660; oiler, $900; four elevator conductors, at $720 each; five watchmen, at $720 each; eight male laborers, at $660 each (three of whom to attend toilets 1089and relieve elevator conductors); two female laborers, at $660 each; janitor, $1,000; wireman, $1,000; carpenter, $1,200; head of char force, $720; twenty-five charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $30,320. Treasury garage: Automobile mechanic, $1,400; two assistant Treasury garage.automobile mechanics, at $1,000 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $4,840.
Treasury Department Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets northwest: Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets N. W.Carpenter, $1,200; plumber, $1,200; electrician, $1,200; two mechanics, at $900 each; captain of the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; twenty-one watchmen, at $720 each; janitor, $1,200; head of char force, $660; two assistant heads of char force, at $480 each; seventy charwomen, at $240 each; eight male laborers, at $660 each; four female laborers, at $660 each; in all, $51,260. contingent expenses, treasury department.Department contingent expenses.
For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories, Reference bocks, etc.and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $500. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $13,000.Freight, etc. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Rent.Treasury Department, $17,050. For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, Motor vehicles.and maintenance and repair of one passenger automobile for the Secretary of the Treasury, all to be used for official purposes only, $5,000.
For purchase of file holders and file cases, $5,000.File holders, etc. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils, and grease, grate baskets Fuel, etc.and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $24,000. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, Lighting, etc.gas and electric light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $24,000.
For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and Miscellaneous supplies, etc.fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish. baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car fares not exceeding $300, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in the District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $15,000.
For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, Labor saving machines, etc.including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $6,000. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, Carpets, etc.rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $500.
For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, Furniture.desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, type1090writers, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $5,000. Operating expenses.Madison Place Annex.For operating expenses of the Treasury Department Annex Numbered 1 (Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $14,000.
Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets N. W.For operating expenses of Treasury Department Annex Numbered 2 (Fourteenth and B Streets northwest): For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, removal of trash, and miscellaneous expenses, $33,500. Darby Building.Darby Building: For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, and miscellaneous items, $4,000. general supply committee.General Supply Committee. Superintendent, clerks, etc.Salaries: Superintendent of supplies, $2,500; clerics—chief, $2,000, three of class four, three of class three, one $1,500, three of class two, five of class one; twelve temporary clerks for four months, at $75 each per month: assistant messenger, $720; laborer, $660; messenger boy, $480; in all, $31,860.
Salaries and expenses transferring office supplies for departments, etc.For salaries of employees, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, telephone service, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse *Provisos.*Pay restriction.because of the cessation of war activities, $120,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,500 per annum, and not more than three persons shall be employed at a rate in excess of $1,800 per Service continued to June 30, 1924.annum each: *Provided further*, That the. said Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1924, without modification, except that the price charged shall be the current market value at time of issue, less a discount for usage, but in no instance shall the discount be more than 25 per centum, and that the proceeds from the transfer of appropriations thereunder shall be covered into the Cooperation of departments, etc., in transfers, etc.Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That the heads of the executive departments and independent establishments and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall cooperate with the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with the storage and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment transferred Use of unfit type-writers, etc., for exchanges.under the foregoing order: *Provided further*, That typewriters and computing machines transferred to the General Supply Committee as surplus, where such machines have become unfit for further use, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be issued to other Government departments and establishments at exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies or sold commercially.
Repairs to type-writers by Supply Committee.Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counter warrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “General Supply Committee, Transfer of Office Material, Supplies, and Equipment.” Typewriting machines.Prices of standard machines established for 1924.No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1924 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machine, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit:
Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; four1091teen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50. All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1924 All purchases to be from surplus stock of committee.by executive departments and independent establishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Supply Committee.
The War Department shall furnish Immediate inventory, etc., of War Department stock.the General Supply Committee, immediately upon the approval of this Act, a complete inventory of the various makes, models, and classes of typewriters in its possession, the condition of such machines, and the point of storage, and shall turn over to the General Supply Committee such typewriting machines in such quantities as the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time may call for by specific requisition for sale to the various services of the Government.
If the General Supply Committee is unable to furnish serviceable Unserviceable machines allowed for exchange.machines to any such service of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines at current exchange prices, and such machines shall then be applied by the service of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewriting machines to the various services Acceptance in part payment.the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies. office of commissioner of accounts and deposits.Accounts and Deposits office.
Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits, $6,000; accountant, Commissioner, accountant, etc.$4,000; principal clerk, $2,500; clerk, $2,000; stenographer, $1,800; messenger, $840; in all $17,140. division of bookkeeping and warrants.Bookkeeping and Warrants Division. Salaries: Chief of division, $4,000; assistant chiefs of division— Chief of division, assistants, etc.one $3,000, one $2,500; estimate and digest clerk, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,500; two principal bookkeepers, at $2,100 each; eleven bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—two, at $2,000 each, eighteen of class four, nineteen of class three, seventeen of class two, four of class one; four messengers, at $840 each; three assistant messengers, at $720 each; messenger boy, $480; in all, $142,100.
Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses under Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised Statutes, [R.
S., sec. 3640, p. 718](/us/rs/s3640/p718).also including examinations of cash account at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $140,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins in Recoinage of gold coins.the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section 3512 of the Revised Statutes, [R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696).$2,500. Recoinage of minor coins:
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Recoinage of minor coins.to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to re1092imburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $7,500. division of deposits.Deposits Division. Chief of division, assistant, etc.Salaries: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chief of division, $2,500; clerks—one $2,250, one $2,000, one of class four, two of class three, one of class two; messenger, $840; in all, $17,49O. public debt service.Public Debt Service.
Salaries of designated offices.For necessary expenses connected with the administration of any public debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including rent in the District of Columbia, and including the salaries of the Commissioner of the Public Debt at $6,000, Deputy Commissioner of the Public Debt at $4,000, Chief of the Division of Loans and Currency at $3,500, two Assistant Chiefs of the Division of Loans and Currency at $3,000 each, Register of the Treasury at $4,000, Assistant Register of the Treasury at $2,500, Chief Clerk Office of the Register of the Treasury at $3,000, Chief of the Division of Public Debt Accounts and Audit at $3,000, Chief of the Other employees.Division of Paper Custody at $3,000, and the salaries of such assistants, accountants, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, *Provisos.*Pay restriction.$3,250,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except as above provided and except the following:
One at not exceeding $4,500, one at not exceeding $3,500, eight at not exceeding $3,000, four at not exceeding $2,700, twenty-three at not exceeding $2,500, one at not exceeding $2,400, five at not exceeding $2,250, twenty-six at not exceeding $2,200, and forty-eight at not exceeding $2,000: Allotment to Post Office Department for Treasury savings certificates.Vol. 40, p. 1035. *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may allot such amount of this appropriation as in his judgment may be necessary, not exceeding $85,000, for expenditure in the Post Office Department in connection with the distribution, sale, and keeping of accounts of Treasury savings securities, as provided in the Deficiency Pay restriction.Appropriation Act approved November 4, 1918, and no person shall be employed under such allotment at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum, and only one person shall be employed at a rate exceeding $1,800 per annum.
Expenses under specified laws.Vol. 41, p. 456.Vol. 40, p. 451; VoL 41, pp. 359, 1145.Vol. 40, pp. 35, 288, 504, 844, 1312.VoL 41, p. 548.For expenses incident to the discharge of the duties imposed upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the Transportation Act, 1920, the Federal Control Act, approved March 21, 1918, as amended, and for expenses arising in connection with loans and credits to foreign governments under the Vol. 41, p. 949.Liberty Loan Acts and the Victory Liberty Loan Act and in connection with credits granted or conditions entered into under the Acts providing for the relief of populations in Europe and contiguous countries, and in connection with credits granted or conditions entered into under the Act providing for the sale of surplus war material, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $20,000.
Distinctive paper, securities.Quantities authorised.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, not exceeding one hundred and forty-four million nine hundred thousand sheets, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, $921,538.75; Personal services.expense of officer detailed from the Treasury Department, $50 per month when actually on duty, $600; three registers, at $1,380 each;1093six counters, at $800 each; guards—one $1,000, four at $900 each; three skilled laborers, at $840 each; in all, $938, 198.75. world war foreign debt commission.World War Debt Commission.
For expenses of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, including Expenses.*Ante*, p. 383.personal services in the District of Columbia, and printing and binding, $20,000. division of appointments.Appointments Division. Salaries: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, Chief of division, etc.$2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, six of class three, eight of class two, eight of class one, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $49,410. division of printing and stationery.Printing and Stationery division.
Salaries: Chief of division, Chief of division, assistant, etc.$2,500; assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, four of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; book-binder, $1,400; multigraph operators—one $1,200, one $1,000; three messengers, at $840 each; assistant messenger, $720; skilled laborer, $840; laborers—four at $720 each, three at $660 each; messenger boys—two at $480 each, two at $420 each; in all, $48,440.
For stationery, including tags, labels, and index cards printed in Stationery for Department, etc.course of manufacture, for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $144,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting Additional deducted from bureaus, etc.to $205,815 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924, as follows: Contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $700; contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, $300; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $300; contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $700; materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $9,000; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $1,000;
Public Health Service, $7,200; expenses of Coast Guard, $9,000; general expenses of public buildings, $5,400; collecting the revenue from customs, $67,500; collecting internal revenue, $104,715; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $144,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, with the exception of field officers located in foreign countries, for the fiscal year 1924.
For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including Printing and binding.all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $930,000. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union Postage.countries and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000. For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Bookbinding.Department, $250. division of mail and files.Mail and Files Division.
Salaries: Chief of division, $2,500; registry clerk, $1,800; two distributing Chief of division, assistant, etc.clerks, at $1,400 each; reading and routing clerk, $1,400; clerks—one of class two, one of class one; assistant file clerk, $1,100; mail messenger, $1,200; assistant mail messenger, $900; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $16,340. 1094 office of disbursing clerk. Disbursing clerk, deputy, etc.Salaries: Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, five of class two, two of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $31, 190.
CUSTOMS SERVICE.Customs Service. Customs Division.Chief of division, assistants, etc.*Post*, p. 1453.Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,500; two assistant chiefs of division, at $3,000 each; law clerks—four at $2,500 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, five at $1,000 each; two messengers, at $840 each; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $68,500. Collecting customs revenue.*Ante*, p. 1093.For collecting the revenue from customs, including not exceeding $300,000 for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, $12,100,000, of which $350,000 shall be immediately available, and $35,000 of the $12,100,000 to be available for expenditure in the District of Columbia in addition to the sums *Proviso.*Pay restriction.herein and heretofore authorized: *Provided*, That no person shall be paid at a rate in excess of $3,000 per annum and not more than four persons may be paid at a rate of $3,000 per annum each from the said sum of $35,000.
Automatic scales.Scales for customs service: For construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, $100,000. Compensation in lieu of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs laws, $50,000. BUREAU OF THE BUDGET.Budget Bureau. Director, assistant, and all other expenses.Director, $10,000; assistant director, $7,500; for all other necessary expenses of the bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, street car fares, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for officers and employees while absent from the seat of government on official duty, $135,300; in all, $152,800.
FEDERAL FARM LOAN BUREAU.Federal Farm Loan Bureau. salaries and expenses. Members of the board, secretary, etc.*Post*, pp. 1473, 1563.Salaries: Four members of the board, at $10,000 each; secretary, $3,000; four private secretaries, at $2,000 each; custodian of securities, $2,500; examiners of securities (not to exceed six in number) at not more than $3,000 per annum each, $14,700; twelve registrars, at $4,000 each; chief land bank examiner, $5,000; supervising appraiser, $3,600; three land bank examiners, at $3,000 each; accountant, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, five of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each; stenographers—three at $1,400 each; three messengers, at $840 each; in all $162,720;
Reviewing appraisers.*Ante*, p. 776.*Proviso.*Assessment on land banks for salaries, etc.For salaries of four reviewing appraisers at not to exceed $5,000 each per annum, and the traveling expenses of such reviewing appraisers, $35,000: *Provided*, That on January 1 and June 30, 1924, respectively, the Federal Farm Loan Board shall assess the salaries and expenses of the positions provided in this paragraph, and paid during the preceding half year, against the several Federal land banks and joint-stock land banks in proportion to the gross assets1095of such banks at such times, and the funds collected by such assessment shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts;
For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers Contingent expenses.and employees; per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4; and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including books of reference and maps, and exclusive of stationery and printing and binding. $20,000; For the examination of national farm loan associations, including Examinations.*Provisos.*Pay restriction.personal services and traveling expenses, $84,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum: *Provided further*, That $2,500 Clerks in the District.of this sum may be expended for clerk hire in the District of Columbia;
In all, Federal Farm Loan Bureau, $301,720. OFFICE OF TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES.Treasurer’s Office. Treasurer, $8,000; Assistant Treasurer, $3,600; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, assistant, cashier etc.Treasurer, $3,200; cashier, $3,600; assistant cashier, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—two at $3,000 each, three at $2,500 each; three assistant chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500; two tellers, at $2,500 each; assistant tellers—two at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; five section chiefs, at $2,000 each; assistant bookkeepers—two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each; interest teller, $2,000; vault clerk, bond division, $2,000; clerk for Treasurer, $1,800; coin clerk, $1,400; clerks— twenty-seven of class four, twenty-eight of class three, seventeen at $1,500 each, thirty-two of class two, eight at $1,300 each, one hundred and twenty-one of class one, eighty-five at $1,000 each, twenty at $900 Expert counters.each; expert counters—forty at $1500 each, ten at $1,100 each, forty-four at $1,000 each, ninety at $900 each, ten at $800 each; addressograph operator, $1,400; two skilled laborers, at $1,200 each; silver piler, $1,000; fourteen messengers, at $840 each; eight assistant messengers, at $720 each; twenty-three laborers, at $660 each; messenger boys—eight at $600 each, fourteen at $480 each, eight at $360 each; in all, $756,550.
For temporary employees in the office of the Temporary employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.Treasurer of the United States, $100,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Three at $2,250 each, three at $2,100 each, and six at $2,000 each. For the force employed in redeeming the Federal reserve and Redemption of Federal reserve and national currency.Superintendent, etc.national currency (to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks):
Superintendent, $3,500; teller, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant tellers—one $2,250, one $2,000; assistant book-keeper, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, nine of class two; expert counters—thirty-five at $1,200 each, fifty-six at $1,000 each, fifty-two at $900 each; two messengers, at $840 each; four assistant messengers, at $720 each; four charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $197,770. For compensation of temporary employees in the office of the Temporary employees, redemption of currency.Treasurer of the United States in redeeming Federal reserve and national currency, $210,000, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed *Proviso.*Pay restriction.hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except the following:
One at $3,000, two at $2,750 each, one at $2,200, and one at $2,000. Postal Savings System: Accountant, $2,000; clerks—three of Postal Savings System.class two, two of class one, three at $1,000 each; expert counter. $900; in all, $12,500. 1096 Canceling machines.For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $200. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY.Office of Comptroller of the Currency. Comptroller, depnties, etc.Comptroller, $5,000; deputy comptrollers—one $3,500, one $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, two at $2,200 each; general bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; vault clerk, $2,000; clerks—four at $2,000 each; fifteen of class four, additional to bond clerk $200, twenty-one of class three, twenty-three of class two, twenty-seven of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; stenographer, $1,600; multigraph operator’s— one $1,400, one $1,200; clerk-counters—two at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; six counters, at $840 each; three messengers, at $840 each; five assistant messengers, at $720 each; three laborers, at $660 each; messenger boys—one $480, one $420; in all, $206,440.
Chief, examining division.The Comptroller of the Currency may designate a national bank examiner to act as chief of the examining division in his office. Federal reserve and national currency expenses.Superintendent, etc.For expenses of Federal reserve and national currency (to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks): Superintendent, $2,500; principal clerk, $2,000; teller, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; engineer, $1,000; clerk-counters—three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each; counters—thirty-five at $1,000 each, twelve at $840 each; assistant messenger, $720; fireman, $720; messenger boy, $420; two charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $86,220.
Special examinations.For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $2,250. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE.Internal Revenue. Commissioner, assistant to, deputies, etc.Office of Commissioner of Internal, Revenue: Commissioner, $10,000; assistant to the commissioner, $5,000; five deputy commissioners, at $5,000 each; chemists—chief $3,000, one $2,500; assistant chemists—two at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,400; heads of divisions—one $3,500, five at $2,500 each, five at $2,250 each; three assistant heads of divisions, at $2,000 each; attorney, $3,600; law clerk, $2,000; insurance expert, $2,000; railroad expert, $2,000; superintendent of stamp vault, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—four at $2,000 each, fifty-two of class four, sixty of class three, ninety-eight of class two, eighty-three of class one, seventy-six at $1,000 each; fifty mail messengers at $900 each; thirty-eight messengers at $840 each; twenty-one assistant messengers at $720 each; in all, $701,190.
Stamp agent.For one stamp agent, $1,600, to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Collectors, gaugers, etc.Salaries, expenses, etc.For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, and storekeepergaugers, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone service, injuries to horses not exceeding $250 for any horse crippled or killed, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses in collecting internal-revenue taxes, $3,900,000: *Provided*, That for *Provisos.*Distilled spirits may he removed to warehouse for bottling in bond.purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and under regulations prescribed by him, distilled spirits may be removed from any internal-revenue bonded warehouse to any other such warehouse, and may be bottled in bond 1097in any such warehouse before or after payment of the tax, and the commissioner shall prescribe the form and penal sums of bond covering distilled spirits in internal-revenue bonded warehouses, and in transit between such warehouses: *Provided further*, That no part Witness fees.of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United *Ante*, p. 1084.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.
” Tax Simplification Board: For expenses of the Tax Simplification Tax Simplification Board.Expenses.*Ante*, p. 317.Board established in the Treasury Department under the provisions of section 1327 of the Revenue Act of 1921, approved November 23, 1921, as authorized under paragraph 2
(e)of said Act and section, $7,500, to be available for personal and other services and expenses in the District pf Columbia and elsewhere. For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue Assessing, collecting, etc., taxes.Expenses.taxes, including the employment of the. necessary officers, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, stationery, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the*Ante*, p. 1093. District of Columbia and the several collection districts, $31.200,000: *Provided*, That not more than $100,000 of the total amount appropriated *Proviso.*Detecting, etc., violations of internal revenue laws.herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation. For expenses to enforce the provisions of the National Prohibition Prohibition and Narcotic Acts.Enforcement expenses.Vol. 41, p. 305.*Ante*, p. 298.Act and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, their Vol. 38, p. 786; Vol. 40, p. 1130.salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” approved December 17, 1914, as amended by the Revenue Act of 1918, including the employment of executive officers, agents, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the District of Columbia and several field offices, and for rental of necessary quarters, $9,000,000: *Provided* That not to exceed $750,000 of the foregoing *Provisos.*Narcotics enforcement.sum shall be expended for enforcement of the provisions of the said Act of December 17, 1914: *Provided further*, That not to Advances to disbursing agents.exceed $25,000 of the total amount appropriated shall be available for advances to be made by special disbursing agents when authorized by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the provisions of section 3648 of the [R. S., sec. 3643, p. 718](/us/rs/s3643/p718).Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. No part of the appropriations made herein for the Internal Revenue No pay increased hereby.Service shall be used to increase the compensation of any class or grade of officers or employees. 1098 Refunding collections.Vol. 35, p. 325.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections under the provisions of the Act approved May 27, 1908, $250,000. Refunding taxes illegally collected.*Ante*, p. 314.For refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisions of sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of Vol. 40, p. 1145.February 24, 1919, including the payment of prior year claims, *Proviso.*Report to Congress.$12,000,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by the Act of February 24, 1919. COAST GUARD.Coast Guard. Civilian personnel.Office of the commandant: Two chiefs of divisions, at $3,000 each; two assistant chiefs of divisions, at $2,200 each; title and contract clerk, $2,000; law and contract clerk, $1,800; civil engineer, $2,250; topographer and hydrogrnpher, $1,800; topographical draftsman, $1,500; draftsman, $1,500; tracing draftsman, $1,400; chief accountant, $2,000; private secretary for captain commandant, $1,400; clerics—eight of class four, fourteen of class three, fifteen of class two, fifteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; two messengers at $840 each; two assistant messengers at $720 each; laborer, $660; in all, $117,430. Technical services.The services of skilled draftsmen, and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the *Post*, p. 1099.*Proviso.*Limit, etc.construction and repair of Coast Guard cutters, to be paid from the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard cutters”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1924 shall not exceed $8,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the Budget. Service expenses.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Coast Guard, as follows, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.*Post*, p. 1130.For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, cadets and cadet engineers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks and surfmen, substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, $8,300,000, of Transfer of funds.*Ante*, p. 377.which $640,000 shall be immediately available, and not to exceed $397,000 of the amount appropriated for the fiscal year 1923 for “Rations, or commutation thereof,” is hereby transferred and made immediately available for expenditures for “Pay and allowances”; Rations.For rations or commutation thereof for petty officers and other enlisted men, $423.000; Fuel, etc.For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $800,000; Outfits, stores, etc.For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, $700,000; Stations, houses of refuge, etc.For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $250,000; Death allowances.Vol. 41, p. 825.Traveling expenses.For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920, $15,000; For mileage, and expenses allowed by law, for officers; and actual traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $155,000; Draft animals.For draft animals and their maintenance, $27,000; Coastal communication.For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance, $50,000; 1099 For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including Field employees.clerks to district superintendents, $78,100; For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistence Contingent expenses.of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $15,000; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for *Ante*, p. 1093.statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $155,000; For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $375,000;Repairs to cutters. Total Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $11,328,100. BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.Engraving and Printing Bureau. Office of Director: Director, $6,000; assistant director, $3,500; Director, assistant, etc.chief of division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; disbursing agent, $2,400; cost accountant, $2,000; stenographer, $1,800; assistant storekeeper, $1,000; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, eight of class three, sixteen of class two, fourteen of class one, twelve at $1,000 each; nine attendants, at $600 each; three messengers, at $840 each; five assistant messengers, at $720 each; captain of watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of watch, at Watchmen, etc.$900 each; eighty watchmen, at $720 each; two forewomen of charwomen, at $540 each; twenty-five day charwomen, at $400 each; seventy-seven morning and evening charwomen, at $300 each; four laborer’s, at $660 each; eighty-five laborers, at $540 each; in all, $247,940. Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to print Use of power presses authorized.from plates of more than four subjects each upon power presses the fronts and backs of any paper money, bonds, or other printed matter now or hereafter authorized to be executed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; and the Secretary shall, in the exercise of Reduction of force.the authority conferred upon him by this paragraph, reduce the number of persons employed in the operation of plate-printing presses by not less than two hundred and eighteen. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, Work authorized for the fiscal year.during the fiscal year 1924 of not exceeding one hundred and thirty-eight million delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency, one hundred and two million two hundred and forty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty-five delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, sixty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty delivered sheets of customs stamps, eight hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred delivered sheets of opium orders and special-tax Vol. 38, p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 113.*Ante*, p. 295.stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, and eight million five hundred and sixty-two thousand six hundred and thirty-six delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: For salaries of all necessary employees, other than plate printers Salaries.and plate printers’ assistants, $2,454,400, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, including $8,400 for custody Custody of dies, etc.*Provisos.*Large notesof dies, rolls, and plates: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements Vol. 31, p. 45.of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March 14, 1900: *Provided further*, That not more than Office administrative employees.1100$75,000 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for compensation of employees required for administrative work of the bureau of the class specified in the preceding paragraph for the office of the director. Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work’, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $1,230,420, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Proviso.*Large notes.of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be ex pended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements Vol. 31, p. 45.of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March 14, 1900. Materials, etc.*Ante*, p. 1083.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,600,000, of which $355,000 shall be immediately available, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Proceeds of work to be credited to Bureau.During the fiscal year 1924 all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by Vol. 24, p. 227.the Act of August 4, 1886 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, be credited when received to the appropriation for the fiscal year 1924. SECRET SERVICE.Secret Service. Chief of division, assistant, etc.Secret Service Division, salaries: Chief, $4,500; assistant chief, who shall discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,500; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, three of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $23,440. 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 of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes. Federal reserve notes, Federal reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign Governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign Governments, and other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; hire and operation of motor-propelled Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriations Act approved August 1, 1914, and for no other Protecting person the President.purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen *Provisos.*Witness fees.to be President of the United States, $425,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount, be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the *Ante*, p. 1084.Pay restriction.appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a com1101pensation greater than that allowed by law, except not exceeding three persons, who may be paid not exceeding $12 per day. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.Public Health Service. Office of Surgeon General: Private secretary to the Surgeon General, Office personnel.$2,000; principal bookkeeper, $2,000; statistician, $2,000; technical assistant, $2,000; assistant editor, $1,800; librarian, $1,600; clerks—five of class four, six of class three, fifteen of class two (one of whom shall be translator), nineteen of class one, six at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; elevator conductor, $840; three messengers, at $840 each; three assistant messengers, at $720 each; telephone operator, $720; three laborers, at $660 each; in all, $90,720. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned Pay, etc., Surgeon General, tients etc.medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistant surgeon generals at large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $1,115,354.84. For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical Acting assistant surgeons.officer’s), $300,000. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth) $840,000.Other employees. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the Freight, travel, etc.expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $37,500. For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $45,000.Hygienic Laboratory. For preparation for shipment and transportation to their former Transporting remains of officers.homes of remains of officers who die in the line of duty, $3,000. For journals and scientific books, $500.Books. For medical examinations, including the amount necessary for the Medical examinations, hospital services to beneficiaries, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885.medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917, medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for beneficiaries (other than patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau) of the Public Health Service, and persons detained under the Immigration Laws and Regulations at Ellis Island Immigration Station, including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal General expenses.services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation *Ante*, p. 1093.and travel, maintenance and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles, transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $4,869,925: *Provided*, That the Immigration *Provisos.*Use of Ellis Island Immigration Station hospital.Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients, free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost for fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and moneys collected by the Immigration Receipts to be covered into the Treasury.Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained under the immigration laws and regulations at Ellis Island Immigration Station shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall Uses forbidden.be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscal Disposal of receipts.year 1924, except allotments and reimbursements on account of pa1102tients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Quarantine service.Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including not exceeding $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $488,000. Prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, influenza, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $335,042.78. Field investigations.Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $279,436. Interstate quarantine service.Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $23,000. Rural sanitation.Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation *Proviso.*Subject to local cooperation.of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles. $50,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expenses of such demonstration work. Biologic products.Regulating sale, etc.Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $41,500. Venereal Diseases Division.Maintenance.Vol. 40, p. 880.For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, Chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918, including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $227,353, of which sum $100,000 Allotment to States.shall be allotted to the States for cooperative work in the prevention and control of such diseases. MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.Mints and assay offices. office of director of the mint. Director of the Mint, assistant, etc.Salaries: Director, $5,000; chief clerk and assistant, $3,000; examiner, $3,000; computer and adjuster of accounts, $2,200; assayer, $2.200; clerks—two of class four, One of class three, one of class one; private secretary, $1,400; assistant in laboratory, $1,200; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $26,680. Freight on bullion and coin.For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $5,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $1,000. Eliminations, etc.For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for specials ex1103aminations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual Precious metals statistics.production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $5,500. carson city, nevada, mint.Mints. Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties Carson City, Nev.of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $1,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $600. denver, colorado, mint. Salaries: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, Denver, Colo.melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weight clerk, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, one $1,400; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $43,200. For wages of workmen and other employees, $90,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery *Ante*, p. 1093.and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment or bullion and the manufacture of coin, $50,000. new orleans, lousiana, mint. Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of New Orleans, La.melter, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,500; in all, $4,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $3,720. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. philadelphia mint. Salaries: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000; assayer, $3,000; Philadelphia, Pa.superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant assayer, $2,200; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,500; assistant book-keeper, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; curator, $1,800; clerks—one $2,000, one $1,700, eight at $1,600 each, one $1,500, six at $1,400 each, one $1,300, three at $1,200 each, one $1,000; in all, $66,600. For wages of workmen and other employees, $300,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery *Ante*, p. 1093.and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $120,000. san francisco, california mint. Salaries: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, San Francisco, Calif.melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistant cashier, $1,800; assistant bookkeeper, $1,800; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, three at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, 1104one $1,400, two at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $48,400. *Ante*, p. 1093.For wages of workmen and other employees, $175,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $50,000. boise, idaho, assay office.Assay offices. Boise, Idaho.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $1,900. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. deadwood, south dakota, assay office. Deadwood, S. Dak.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees. $1,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $300. helena, montana, assay office. Helena, Mont.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $900. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. new york assay office. New York, N. Y.Salaries: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weight clerk, and assistant assayer, at $2,500 each; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,350; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,250, seven at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $53,400. *Ante*, p. 1393.For wages of workmen and other employees, $170,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $100,000. salt lake city, utah, assay office. Salt Lake City, Utah.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workman and other employees, $1,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $300. seattle, washington, assay office. Seattle, Wash.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $2,750; assistant assayer, $2,000; clerks—one $1,700, one $13500; in all, $8,050. For wages of workmen, and other employees, $8,200. For incidental and contingent expenses, $5,000. 1105 PUBLIC BUILDINGS.Public buildings. office of supervising architect.Supervising Architect’s office. Salaries: Supervising Architect, $5,000; executive officer, $3,250; Supervising Architect and office personnel.technical officer, $3,000; drafting division—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,750; mechanical engineering division— superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; structural division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; superintendents—computing division $2,750, repairs division $2,400, accounts division $2,500, maintenance division $2,500; files and record division—chief $2,500, assistant chief $2,250; head draftsman, $2,500; eight administrative clerks, at $2,000 each; four technical clerks, at $1,800 each; clerks—nine of class four, additional to one of class four as bookkeeper $100, four at $1,700 each, fourteen of class three, six at $1,500 each, thirteen of class two, eight at $1,300 each, twenty-one of class one, four at $1,100 each, seven at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, two at $840 each; photographer, $2,000; foreman, duplicating gallery, $1,800; two duplicating paper chemists, at $1,200 each; five messengers at $840 each; messenger boys—one $600, two .at $480 each, two at $360 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each, seven at $960 each, one $900, one $840; laborers—one $660, one $600; in all. $218,380. public buildings, construction and rent.Construction and rent. Alexandria, Louisiana: For additional for rent of temporary Alexandria, La., rent.quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,000. Baltimore, Maryland, customhouse: For new roof over call room, Baltimore, Md., construction.$6,000. Brooklyn, New York, post office: For extension of lookout system, Brooklyn, N, Y.. post office.$15,000. Buffalo, New York, post office: For extension of lookout system, Buffalo, Y., post office.$3,500. Camden, New Jersey, post office, customhouse, and so forth: For Camden, N. J., post office, etc.extension of lookout system. $3,000. New York, New York, courthouse and post office: For interior New York City, courthouse, etc.painting and repairs incident thereto; repairs to mailing platform and shed; $40,000. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, post office and courthouse: For extension Philadelphia, Pa., post office, etc.of lookout system, $15,000. For repairs to roof, and so forth. $80,000. Pottsville, Pennsylvania, post office: For extension of lookout system, Pottsville, Pa., post office.$250. Washington, District of Columbia, Auditors’ Building: For alterations Washington, D. C.Auditors’ Building.and repairs to roof. $10,000. Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling, enlarging, Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings.and extending completed and occupied public buildings, including any necessary and incidental additions to or changes in mechanical equipment thereof, so as to provide or make available additional space in emergent cases, not to exceed an aggregate of $20,000 at any one building, $375,000. hospitals. Louisville. Kentucky, Marine Hospital: For fire escapes and passenger Louisville, Ky., marine hospital.elevator $15,000. 1106 public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses.Repairs, equipment, etc. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor; Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging Sitka, Alaska.adjacent thereto; buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the Secretary of the Treasury may, in renting said wharf, require that the lessee shall make all necessary repairs thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 15 per centum of the *Provisos.*Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc.annual rentals of such building: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $125,000 may be used for the repair and preservation of marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook) and completed and occupied outbuildings (including wire partitions and fly screens for Treasury Department buildings.same), and not exceeding $28,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Treasury Annex Numbered Two, Liberty Loan, Butler, Winder, and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, Personal service restriction.That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $773,000. Mechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, etc.Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 10 per centum *Provisos*Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc.of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated, not exceeding $60,000 may be used for the installation and repair of mechanical equipment in marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Treasury Department buildings.Hook), and not exceeding $40,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Treasury Annex Numbered Two, Liberty Loan. Butler, Winder, and Auditors’ Buildings, in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors’ Building, and Pneumatic-tube service, New York City.not exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance, changes in, and repairs of pneumatictuhe system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and sub-surface necessary incident to or resulting from such maintenance, Personal service restriction.changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building. $560,000. 1107 Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs Vaults, safes, and locks.thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary, safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $75,000. General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute General expenses.Additional pay, Supervising Architect.Vol. 35, p. 537.Technical services.and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page 537): For foremen draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,500 per annum; structural engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,500 per annum; mechanical, sanitary, electrical, heating and ventilating, and illuminating engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $1,200 to $2,400 per annum; computers and estimators, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,500 per annum; the expenditures under all the foregoing classes for which a minimum and maximum rate of compensation is stated, not to exceed $125,000;-supervising superintendents, superintendents, and Superintendents, etc.junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, at rates of pay from $2,000 to $3,500 per annum, not to exceed $195,000; expenses of Expenses of superintendence, etc.superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarter of supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, not in excess of five, thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total expenditure of $4,500; office Office rent, supplies, etc.rent and expenses of superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and ex change of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telegraph and telephone service; freight, expressage, and postage incident to shipments of drawings, superintendent’s furniture and supplies, testing instruments, and so forth, including articles and supplies not usually payable from other appropriations: *Provided*, That no expenditures shall be made hereunder for transportation *Provisos.*Transporting supplies.*Ante*, p. 1093.of operating supplies for public buildings; not to exceed $6,000 for stationery; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; ground rent at Salamanca, Salamanca, N. Y.New York; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including Objects excluded.heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $413,540. 1108 public buildings, operating expenses.Operating expenses. Personal services, assistant custodians, etc.Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters,Compensation restricted. plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services *Proviso.*Buildings for which available.are employed, $3,800,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing, appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices. Furniture, etc.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and Buildings excluded.repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric-lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extensions of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments *Provisos.*Personal service restriction.or establishments of the Government, $530,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency, and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at Use of present furniture.any one building: *Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies.Fuel, light, power, water, etc.Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodian forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodian forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishing in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings and for the transportation of articles or supplies authorized herein (including the customhouse in Buildings excluded.the District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District 1109of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), $2,900,000. The appropriation made herein for gas shall Gas governors.include the rental and use of gas governors when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall *Provisos.*Rentals.not be paid for such gas governors greater than 35 per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct: *Provided further*, that the Secretary of the Treasury is Advance fuel contracts authorized.authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department in advance of the availability of the appropriation for the payment thereof. Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current fiscal year. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, Custody of lands, etc.protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the [R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739).United States acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $150. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Miscellaneous. american printing house for the blind.American Printing House for the Blind. To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately Expenses.Vol. 41, p. 272.to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 4, 1919, $40,000. Approved, January 3, 1923.
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