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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 42 STAT. · June 30, 1921 · Chapter 23

Chapter 23. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 23.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes. June 16, 1921.[[H. R. 6300](/us/bill/67/hr/6300).][[Public, No. 18](/us/pl/67/18).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Second Deficiency Act, 1921.Deficiency appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN.Alien Property Custodian. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer,Army passenger vehicle transferred to office of. without payment therefor, to the office of the Alien Property Custodian one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle. BOTANIC GARDEN.Botanic Garden. That portion of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial AppropriationArmy motor vehicles transferred to.Vol, 41, p. 1261, amended. *Proviso*.Passenger vehicle added. Act for the fiscal year 1922 which provides for the transfer of motor vehicles from the War Department to the Botanic Garden is amended to read as follows:
“*Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to deliver to the Botanic Garden, without payment therefor, one three-ton truck and one passenger-carrying motor vehicle.” BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.Efficiency Bureau. To enable the Bureau of Efficiency to perform the duties imposedSalaries and expenses.Vol. 39, p. 15; Vol. 41, p. 641.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. upon it by the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $10,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed from the appropriation for the Bureau of Efficiency for the fiscal year 1922 at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
One at $7,500, one at $6,000, one at $4,250, six at $4,000 each, three at $3,600 each, one at $3,500, two at $3,250 each, five at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, three at $2,400 each, and five at $2,000 each. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission, For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examinersTraveling expenses. acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, $5,000.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia, general expenses. Executive office: The accounting officers of the District ofExecutive office.J. Thilman Hendrick.To be paid as Commissioner. Columbia are authorized to pay to J. Thilman Hendrick the salary of a Commissioner of the District of Columbia for the period from September 17, 1920, to March 4, 1921, inclusive, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1761 of the Revised Statutes of the United[R. S, sec. 1781, p. 313](/us/rs/s1781/p313).
States. District of Columbia Employees’ Compensation Fund: For carryingEmployees’ Compensation Fund.Payments from.Vol. 41, p. 104. out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employeesVol. 39, p. 742. of the 30United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for the other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, $600.
Rent Commission.Salaries and expenses.Vol. 41, p. 299.Rent Commission: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses authorized by section 103, Title II, of “The Food Control and the District of Columbia Rents Act,” approved October 22, 1919, $15,000, to continue available during the life of the commission. Free Public Library.Contingent expenses.Miscellaneous, Free Public Library, including Tacoma Park branch: For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles; and other contingent expenses; $750. contingent and miscellaneous expenses.Miscellaneous.
Contingent expenses.For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery; surveying instruments, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $2,500. Car fare allowance, 1921, increased.Vol. 41, pp. 843, 1156.The limitation on the purchase of car fares from appropriations contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921 is increased from $7,500 to $8,000.
Superintendent of Weights, etc.Vehicle repairs.Advertising.Office of Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets: For maintenance and repair of four motor vehicles, $400. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $2,500. Printing reports.For printing all annual and special reports of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, for submission to Congress, $601.04. sewers.Sewers.
Cleaning, etc.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, and the maintenance of motor vehicles, $5,000. electrical department.Electrical department. Contingent expenses.For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $1,000. public schools.Schools. Night schools.Additional pay to teachers, etc.Night schools:
For payment of teachers and janitors of night schools who served during the period from January 29 to February 28, 1921, at the rate of pay they were receiving on January 28, 1921, $15,520.06; this payment to be in addition to the nominal sum of $1 which such teachers and janitors received during such period. Fuel, etc.For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $20,000. Tubercular pupils.*Proviso*.Car fares.For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular children, $350, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That expenditures for car fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of car fares covered by this Act.
Blind children.For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $369.50, or so much thereof as may be necessary:*Proviso*.Supervision. *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. 31 fire department.Fire department. For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medicalContingent expenses. and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, cost of installation and maintenance of telephones in the residences of the superintendent of machinery and the fire marshal, $4,000.
For fuel, $4,000.Fuel. health department.Health department. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spreadPrevention of contagious diseases, etc.Vol. 29, p. 635.Vol. 34, p. 889. of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907, and an Act to provide for registration of all casesVol. 35, p. 126. of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908, under the direction of the health officer of said District, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $6,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Increase for personal services, 1921.Vol. 41, p. 860.
That the limitation of $25,000 in such Act on the employment of personal services from the appropriation for this purpose is increased to $31,000. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the poundVehicle for pound. service, $200. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatmentTuberculosis and venereal dispensaries. of persons suffering from tuberculosis and of persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service, rent, and supplies, $250. courts.Courts.
Juvenile court: For compensation of jurors, $800.Juvenile court.Jurors.Contingent expenses. For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $375. Municipal court: For contingent expenses, including books, lawMunicipal court.Contingent expenses. books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1921, $1,000; For 1922, $1,000.For 1922. For additional employees from June 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922,Additional employees. inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Jury clerk, $1,600; four enrolling clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographer and typist, $1,400; in all, $10,183.34. For compensation of jurors from June 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922,Jurors. $10,000. For lodging, meals, and accommodations for jurors and deputyLodging, meals, etc. United States marshals, while in attendance upon them, when ordered by the court, from June 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922, $100.
For alterations and repairs to buildings, $1,000, to continue availableBuilding repairs. until June 30, 1922. For furniture and equipment, $1,200, to continue available untilFurniture. June 30, 1922. Police court: For compensation of jurors, fiscal year 1919, $1,799.Police court.Jurors. 32 Lunacy writs.Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquire do and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, including the employment of an alienist at not exceeding $1,500 per annum, and a clerk at $900 who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, $1,000. courts and prisons.Courts and prisons.
Support of convicts, etc.Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the. United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $40,000. Supreme court.Witness fees.[R.
S., sec. 850, p. 100](/us/rs/s850/p100).Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses and payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $3,500. Bailiffs, etc.Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, $1,500.
Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $5,000. charities and corrections.Charities and corrections.
National Training School for Girls.National Training School for Girls: For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $5,000. medical charities.Medical charities. Tuberculosis Hospital.Tuberculosis Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books, and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary items, $3,000.
Columbia Hospital, etc.Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $3,000. child-caring institutions.Child-caring institutions. Feeble-minded children.Board of Children’s Guardians:For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $2,000. Board, etc., of children.For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, $5,000.
Industrial School.Industrial Home School: For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, $5,000. 33 temporary homes. Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of theSupport of indigent insane. District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $85,000. judgments.Judgments. For payment of judgments, including costs, rendered against thePayment of. District of Columbia, as set forth in House Documents Numbered 6, 18, and 66 and Senate Document Numbered 24 of the Sixty-seventh Congress, 822,709. 91, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. refunds.Refund of erroneous collections.
The commissioners are authorized to pay from the appropriationAlex Mosher.Ella M. Chumm. “Refund of erroneous collections, District of Columbia, fiscal year 1921,” to Alex Mosher, junior, the sum of $25, and to Mrs. Ella M. Chumm the sum of $56.39. audited claims.Audited claims. For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due byPayment of, certified by District accounting officers. the accounting officers of the District of Columbia under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the act of June 20, Vol. 18, p. 110.1874, being for the service of the fiscal year 1918 and prior years, unless otherwise stated:
For Public Utilities Commission, expenses, fiscal year 1920, $383.57;Utilities Commission. For Public Utilities Commission, expenses, $1.90; For general advertising, fiscal year 1920, $278.66;Advertising. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of District offices,Contingent, etc., expenses. $16.70; For coroner’s office, expenses, $102;Coroner’s office. For field party, and so forth, vault space, $3.35;Vault space. For Free Public Library, contingent expenses, $5.56;Public Library.
For construction and repair of bridges, $7.10;Bridges. For repairs to streets and avenues, $837.63;Streets, etc. For streets, cleaning, $6.60; For Rock Creek Park, care and improvement, $1.44;Rock Creek Park. Public schools: For kindergarten supplies, fiscal year 1920, $3.09;Schools. for textbooks and supplies, $275.84; for fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $2,643.40; for manual training, $123.48; for school gardens, $6.50; for chemical and biological laboratories, $7.20; for contingent expenses, $3; for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $97.18;
For Metropolitan police, contingent expenses, $1.22;Police. Fire Department: For repairs to engine houses, fiscal year 1920,Fire department. $47.64; for contingent expenses, $2.88; Health department: For contagious-disease service, expenses,Health department. $15.57; for maintenance of chemical laboratory, 51 cents; For maintenance of public crematorium, $9.42;Crematorium. Courts: For reports of opinions, court of appeals, $55; for juvenileCourt expenses. court, meals for jurors and bailiffs, fiscal year 1920, $3.85; municipal court—for contingent expenses, fiscal year 1919, $335.12; for contingent expenses, $33.28; for writs of lunacy, fiscal year 1920, $212.10;
For emergency fund, $44.64;Emergency fund. For support of prisoners, $4;Support of prisoners. 34 Home for Aged and Infirm.Home for the Aged and Infirm: For maintenance, fiscal year 1920, $259.11; for maintenance, $528.91; Insane.For Hospital for the Insane, fiscal year 1920, $8,163.71; Workhouse.Workhouse: For maintenance, $49.06; for fuel for maintenance and operation, $3.45; In all, audited claims, $14,573.67. Proportion from District revenues, 1921, 1922.Sixty per centum of the foregoing sums for the District of Columbia for the service of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1921, and June 30, 1922, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, and For 1920, and prior years.40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States; and such sums as relate to the fiscal year 1920, and prior fiscal years, shall be paid 50 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 50 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States.
FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.Vocational Education Board. Rehabilitation of discharged, disabled soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 617 ,1179.Vol. 41, p. 159.Vocational rehabilitation: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June 27, 1918, as amended, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $15,000,000:*Provisos*.Payment to dependents or trainees. *Provided*, That payments for the support and maintenance of persons dependent upon any trainee of the Board as provided by section 2 of the Act may, in the discretion of the Board, be paid Time limit for applications.either direct to such dependent or dependents or to the trainee upon whom they are dependent: *And provided further*, That any person entitled under the provisions of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended, to take vocational training must make application therefor within eighteen months from the date of the approval of this Act.
FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION.Federal Power Commission. Printing allowance.Vol. 41, p. 1380.Not exceeding $5,000 of the appropriation of $100,000 for the Federal Power Commission, contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, may be used for necessary printing and binding. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. Henry Jones Ford.Pays as Commissioner.For payment to Henry Jones Ford, on account of services rendered as Interstate Commerce Commissioner from June 11, 1920, to March 4, 1921, $8,800.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.Library at Congress. Card indexes.Distribution of card indexes: For services of assistants at salaries less than $1,000 per annum and for piecework and work by the hour, including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $2,700. SHIPPING BOARD.Shipping Board. Increased pay to commissioners, 1920.Vol. 41, pp. 180, 990.Not to exceed $787.50 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for salaries of commissioners for the fiscal year 1920 is made available for the payment of difference in compensation between the 35rates of $7,500 and $12,000 per annum to such commissioners as were in office on June 5, 1920, if otherwise entitled thereto.
Not to exceed $3,750 of the unexpended balance of the appropriationFor 1921. for salaries of commissioner’s tor the fiscal year 1921 is made available for the payment of difference in compensation between the rates of $7,500 and $12,000 per annum to such commissioners as were in office June 5, 1920, if otherwise entitled thereto. Not to exceed $10,500 of the unexpended balance of the appropriationBoard created under Merchant Marine Act.Vol. 41, pp. 891, 990. for salaries of commissioners for the fiscal year 1921 is made available, for the payment of compensation to the entire board of seven members created under the Merchant Marine Act, 1920,William S.
Benson. at the rate of $12,000 per annum, and also for the compensation of William S. Benson, as agent of the President, at the rate of $12,000 per annum, from March 4, 1921, to the date of the termination of his services as such agent. Not to exceed $17,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriationSalaries of commissioners not confirmed by the Senate. for salaries of commissioner’s tor the fiscal year 1921 is made available, and in addition thereto the sum of $3,633.33 is appropriated, for payment of salaries of the following commissioners at the rate of $12,000 per annum for the period while acting as such commissioners, notwithstanding their nominations were not confirmed by the Senate:
William S. Benson, Frederick I. Thompson. John A. Donald, Joseph N. Teal, Guy D. Goff, Charles Sutter, Chester H. Rowell. emergency shipping fund.Emergency shipping fund. Toward the completion of vessels now under construction, $36,852,000:Construction of vessels.*Proviso*.Available for prior expenses. *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for any authorized expenditure of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in an amount not to exceed the sums expended by such corporation from April 1, 1921, to the date of the approval of this Act on account of vessels under construction during that period.
For the completion of vessels now under construction, fiscal yearCompleting vessels. 1922, 825,000,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Relief and protection of American seamen: For the reliefRelief and protection of American seamen. 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, and the Philippine Islands, $100,000.
Contingent Expenses, Foreign Missions: The Secretary of State isDispatch agents. authorized to make payment of rent for dispatch agencies in theRent allowed. United States from the appropriation for “Contingent expenses,Vol. 41, p. 1217. foreign missions,” made by the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1921, notwithstanding the provision of section 2 of such Act. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all suchContingent expenses, missions. 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, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $92,000. 36 TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. office of the secretary.Office of Secretary.
Additional officers, etc., for 1922.For the salaries of officers and employees during the fiscal year 1922 at annual rates as follows (now being paid from the appropriation “Expenses of Loans”): Commissioner of the Public Debt, $6,000; Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits, $6,000; Division of Deposits.Division of Deposits: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chief of division, $2,500; clerks—one $2,250, one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $16,610.
Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.Transferred force, 1922.Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants: For the force to be transferred to this division on account of the transfer of duties from the Division of Public Moneys, at annual rates of compensation during the fiscal year 1922, as follows: Assistant chief of division, $2,500; clerks—two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; two messengers, at $840 each; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $24,300.
Expenses under specified laws.Vol. 41, p. 456.Vol. 40, p. 451.For expenses incident to the discharge of the duties imposed upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the Transportation Act, 1920, and the Federal Control Act, approved March 21, 1918, as amended, and for expenses arising in connection with loans and credits to Vol. 40, pp. 35, 289, 504, 841,1312.foreign Governments under the Liberty Loan Acts and the Victory Liberty Loan Act and in connection with credits granted or conditions Vol. 41, p. 548.entered into under the Act providing for the relief of populations in Europe and contiguous countries, including personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1922, $25,000.
Expenses of loans.Vol. 41, p. 1266.Appropriation available for war savings stamps, etc., expenses by Commissioner of Public Debt, and Post Office Department.Vol. 40, p. 1035.The appropriation for “Expenses of loans,” contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, is hereby made available for expenditures in the Office of the Commissioner of the Public Debt and for expenditures in the Post Office Department in connection with the distribution, sale, and keeping of accounts of war savings and thrift stamps, as provided in the Public debt issues after Juno 30, 1921.Expenses of, to be paid as authorized, In Liberty Bond Acts.Vol. 40, pp. 37,292.Deficiency Appropriation Act approved November 4, 1918.
The appropriation for ’‘Expenses of loans” contained in section 8 of the first Liberty Bond Act and in section 10 of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, is hereby made applicable to any operations arising in connection with any public debt issues made subsequently to June 30, 1921, pursuant to the authority contained in the First Vol. 41, p. 646.Liberty Bond Act or the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended and supplemented, the provisions of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, approved May 29, 1920, to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided*, That with respect to operations on account of any such issue hereafter made such appropriations shall be available only until the close of the fiscal year next following the fiscal year in which such issue was made. office of comptroller of the currency.Comptroller of the Currency.
Redemption of Federal reserve and national currency.Additional employees. 1922.For expenses of Federal reserve and national currency (to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks): For additional employees during the fiscal year 1922 at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerk counters—three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each; seven counters at $1,000 each; in all, $14,800. 37 internal revenue.Internal revenue. For the purchase, at not more than par and accrued interest,Joseph Matthews.Relief of estate of. of second Liberty loan *4* per cent bonds, to the face value of 81,000, and for the payment of an amount of interest equivalent to the interest on $1,000 face amount of such bonds from November 15, 1917, to the interest-payment date next preceding the delivery of such bonds, for the relief of the estate of Joseph Matthews, of Solvay, New York, $1,050, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For expenses to enforce the provisions of the “National ProhibitionEnforcing National Prohibition and Narcotics Acts.Vol. 41, p. 305.Vol. 38. p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 1130. 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, al persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” approved December 17, 1914, as amended by the “Revenue Act of 1918,” including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921,8200,000. bureau of war risk insurance.War Risk Insurance Bureau.
Salaries: Not to exceed $75,000 of the appropriation for “stationeryField expenses.Transfer of allotment to, fiscal year 1921. and minor office supplies, fiscal year 1921, is made available for “salaries and expenses of employees engaged in field investigations and expenses of not more than eight temporary branch offices” during such fiscal year. The third proviso of the paragraph making appropriations for thePay restrict ion, 1922,Vol. 41, p. 1267, amended. Bureau of War Risk Insurance, as contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, is hereby amended to read as follows:
“*Provided further*, That noModification of allowances. person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Three at not exceedingNumber increased. $7,500 each, nine at not exceeding $5,000 each, twenty-eight at not exceeding $4,500 each, thirty-six at not exceeding $4,000 each, forty-two at not exceeding $3,500 each, forty-nine at not exceeding $3,000 each, sixty-eight at not exceeding $2,500 each, and two hundred and fifteen at not exceeding $2,000 each.
” Medical and Hospital Services: For medical, surgical, and hospitalMedical and hospital services for beneficiaries. services, medical examinations, funeral expenses, traveling expenses, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $8,710,272. Hospital Facilities: The following provision contained in the lastHospital facilities for ex-soldiers, etc.Restriction on amount for remodeling, etc., plants, repealed.Vol. 41, p, 1365. paragraph of the Act entitled “An Act providing additional hospital facilities for patients of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Division of Rehabilitation, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1921, to wit, “of which sum not to exceed $6,100,000 shall be used for remodeling or extending existing plants,” is hereby repealed.
The total amount appropriated by the said Act shall be available for the purposes specified in the said Act and allotments may be made from saidAllotments to Volunteer Soldiers' Home. amount at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to be transferred to its credit and disbursed by it under the approval and direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for the purposes of the said Act: *Provided*, That the surplus property notProviso.Surplus Army and Navy property to be transferred. required by the War Department mentioned in said Act and any suitable surplus property of the Navy Department not required for its use shall be transferred for use in constructing, equipping, and supplying any of such hospitals. 38 public buildings.Public buildings.
New York, N. Y.Quarantine station.New York, New York, Quarantine Station: For improvements, including the water supply system, power plant, and additional barracks, $500,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1922. Baltimore, Md.Quarantine station.Baltimore, Maryland, Quarantine Station: For improvements, including rebuilding of wharves, to continue available during the fiscal year 1922, $25,000. Boston, Mass.Quarantine station.Boston, Massachusetts, Quarantine Station:
For improvements, including additional barracks, $150,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1922. General expenses.Amount for transporting supplies, etc., increased.Vol. 41, p. 977.General expenses: The limitation upon the amount which may be expended from the appropriation ‘‘General expenses of public buildings, fiscal year 1921,” for transporting drawings, miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, is increased from $10,000 to $20,000. Operating force.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, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $35,000. Furniture, etc.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $30,000.
Birmingham, Ala.Furniture.Birmingham, Alabama, post office and courthouse (new): For furniture, $55,000. Columbia, S. C.Furniture.Columbia, South Carolina, post office: For furniture, $23,000. Honolulu, Hawaii.Furniture.Honolulu, Hawaii, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For furniture, $65,000. Billings, Mont.Furnishings.Billings, Montana, Federal building: For furnishings for court room and chambers for judge, clerk, marshal, attorney, and jury, $3,200. Operating supplies.Operating supplies:
For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $550,000. public health service.Public Health Service. 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, 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 *Proviso*.Detailed report.laws which may be then in force, $309,000: *Provided*, That a detailed report of the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress'.
Quarantine stations.Fees to be promulgated.On and after July 1, 1921, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to promulgate such a schedule of fees to be charged vessels at each of the national quarantine stations as will be fair *Proviso*.Restriction.and reasonable for the services rendered by each station: *Provided*, That this authority shall not be applicable to any quarantine station where the fees are now fixed by law. 39 division of loans and currency.Loans and Currency Division.
Distinctive paper for United States securities: For additionalDistinctive paper.Additional payment for. amount necessary to complete the purchase of one hundred and thirty-six million sheets of distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, $56,708.13. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. The limitation for the fiscalNumber of sheets for currency, etc., notes, 1021, Increased.Vol.41, p. 880, amended. year 1921 as to the number of delivered sheets of United States currency, national-bank notes, and Federal reserve currency is increased from one hundred and twenty-three million two hundred and fifty thousand to one hundred and thirty-six million. coast guard.Coast Guard.
Not to exceed $20,000 of the amount appropriated for the fiscalTransfer of allotment to contingent expenses.Vol. 41, p. 879. year 1921 under the subhead “Rations” is transferred and made available for expenditure during that fiscal year under the subhead “Contingent expenses.” contingent expenses, treasury department. For purchase of file holders and file cases for use of the CoastFile holders, etc. Guard and the accounting bureaus of the department, $2,500. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park: For costChickamauga and Chattanooga Park.Missionary Ridge boulevard on. of examination and preparation of report upon the improvement and maintenance of the Government boulevard on Missionary Ridge, in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, as directed in an Act approved February 2, 1921, $500.Vol. 41, p. 1095. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishmentShiloh Park.Establishing. of the park, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $3,000.
Barracks and Quarters, Insular Possessions: The unobligatedPhilippine Islands.Barracks and quarters in.Balance continued.Vol. 41, p. 611. balance of the appropriation for continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for the Seacoast Artillery and for temporary cantonments for overseas garrisons in the Philippine Islands, contained in the Fortification Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, is continued and made available for the same purposes until June 30, 1922.
Engineer Department: The sum of $110,000 of the unexpendedEngineer Department.Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. amount of the appropriation “Engineer operations in the field, 1919,” shall remain upon the books of the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation until June 30, 1922, to permit payments to be made to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company for searchlight mirrors under its contract therefor dated July 30, 1918. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses.
For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, andFurniture, etc. cases, $7,500. 40 For books for law library of the department, including their exchange, $500. For stationery for the department and its several bureaus, $2,500. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care, of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street car fares not exceeding $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1920, $4,352.23; For 1921, $15,000. Automobile.For the purchase of an automobile for the official use of the Attorney General, in exchange for old car now in use, $6,857. Library stacks.For purchase of library stacks, $1,900. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous. Detection and prosecution of crimes.Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, §150,000, including not to exceed $25,000 in addition to the amount heretofore authorized for necessary employees at the seat of government.
Federal Reporter Digest.Volume 12,Federal Reporter Digest: For one hundred and eighty-one copies of volume 12 of the Federal Reporter Digest, to continue sets now furnished various officials, $905. Supreme Court Reports.Volume 253.For three hundred copies of volume 253 of the Supreme Court Reports, being the allotment under the law for the Department of Justice, $525. Traveling, etc., expenses.Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made Advances allowed.by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of section [R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p. 718).3648, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, fiscal year 1920, $55.50. Digest of Opinions of the Attorney General.Expenses of editing, etc.[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 718](/us/rs/s1765/p718).Vol. 39, p. 120.To enable the Attorney General to employ, at his discretion and irrespective of the provisions of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes, section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, approved May 10, 1916, or other law, such competent person or persons as will in his judgment best perform the service, to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of a supplemental digest of the Opinions of the Attorneys General, covering volumes 26 to 32, inclusive, 1906-1921, §1,500.
JUDICIAL.Judicial. Edward Douglass White.Pay to widow of late Chief Justice.To pay the widow of Edward Douglass White, late Chief Justice of the United States, $15,000. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States Courts. Assistants in special cases.For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special Foreign counsel.cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take [R.
S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62).oath of office in accordance with section 366, Revised Statutes of the United States), to be available for expenditure in the District of Columbia, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1919, $300; For 1921, $150,000. 41 For salaries of clerks of United States district courts, their deputies,Clerks.Vol. 40, p. 1182. and other assistants, expenses of travel and subsistence, and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 26, 1919, $5,000: *Provided*, That clerks of United States district courts, their deputies*Provisos*.Pay allowed, if appointed commissioners. and assistants, who are or may be appointed United States commissioners, may receive compensation for both offices in an aggregate amount not exceeding the rate of $2,000 per annum: *Provided further*, That the acceptance of payment for personal services fromOffice vacated if pay received from private litigants. private litigants shall be deemed a vacation oi their appointments as clerks, deputy clerks, or clerical assistants.
For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceCommissioners.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189). acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes of the United States, $75,000. For fees of jurors, $100,000.Jurors. For supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and addingSupplies. machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $15,000. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing Support of prisoners.and medical aid, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $50,000.
For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by theMiscellaneous. Attorney General for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the district of Alaska, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1920, $1,059.88; For 1921, $40,000: *Provided*, That there shall be allowed under*Proviso*.Allowance to attorney for Tennessee middle district. this appropriation the amounts aggregating $72.68, paid by the United States district attorney for the middle district of Tennessee from his personal resources, incident to effecting the attendance of witnesses essential to the prosecution of cases involving the embezzlement of platinum belonging to the Government.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For clothing, transportation, andAtlanta, Ga., penitentiary.Clothing, etc. traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921 for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $5,000. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objectsMiscellaneous. specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920 for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $463.11.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedJohn J. Mitchell.Credit in accounts.to allow in the account of John J. Mitchell, as United States marshal for the district of Massachusetts, for the quarter ending December 31, 1919, charges covering disbursements aggregating $19.15 for the purchase of folders and the printing of cash slips, all for the use of the clerk of the United States district court for said district. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed Joseph E.
Lachance.Pay allowed.Vol. 41, p. 923.to allow under the appropriation “Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, 1921,” the statutory compensation of Joseph E. Lachance for services as United States marshal for the district of New Hampshire from January 1, 1921, to March 7, 1921. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedO. T. Wood.Credit in accounts. to allow in the account of O. T. Wood, as United States marshal for the district of Kansas for the quarter ended December 31, 1919, charges aggregating $30.05, covering the excess over $5 per day on account of actual expenses of subsistence paid to J.
C. Shearman, who served the Government as an expert in handwriting. Books for judicial officers: For purchase and rebindingBooks for Judicial officers. of law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, 42district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit court of appeals, to be expended Proviso.Transmittal to successors.under the direction of the 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,” for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1918, $10; For 1920, $258.35. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. Contingent expenses.Heating, lighting, etc.Contingent expenses, Post Office Department: For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $10,000. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $1,000, of which sum not exceeding $500 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $500 may be expended for the purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the department.
Government Printing Office.Heating, etc., City Post Office.For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $17,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. POSTAL SERVICE.Postal service. out of the postal revenues. office of the first assistant postmaster general.First Assistant Postmaster General.
Vehicle service.For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection services, $1,500,000. office of the’ second assistant postmaster general.Second Assistant Postmaster General. Aircraft service,New York to San Francisco.For the operation and maintenance of the aero plane mail service between New York and San Francisco, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $125,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.
Canceling, labor saving, etc., machines.For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other labor-saving devices, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $3,500. audited settlements. Special delivery.Fees.For fees to special-delivery messengers for the following fiscal years: For 1919, $14.16; For 1920, $3,108.18. 43 NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department.
Bureau of Yards and Docks: The limitation specified in the Legislative,Bureau of Yards and Bocks.Allowance for technical services, 1921, increased.Vol. 41, p. 1287, amended. Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921 on expenditures for the pay of skilled draftsmen and other technical services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks from appropriations and allotments under said bureau is increased from $200,000 to $202,838.65. Damage claims: To pay the claims adjusted and determinedCollision damage Claims.Vol. 36, p. 607. by the Navy Department under the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1911 on account of damages occasioned to private property by collisions with vessels of the United States Navy and for which naval vessels were responsible, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 26 of the present session, $5,421.05.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous. For commissions and interest, transportation of funds, exchange,Designated expenses. and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $750,000. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay to Mrs. T. E. S.Mrs. T. E. S. Cates.Payment to. Cates, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $63 for rent of quarters furnished to Lieutenants James E.
Maher and L. E. Myers of the United States Navy while on submarine duty. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to pay from the appropriationAdvertising.Boston Post, and Herald. “Pay, miscellaneous, 1920,” the sum of $42.30 to the Boston Post, and the sum of $28.08 to the Boston Herald, both of Boston, Massachusetts, for their services in advertising for employees for the United States naval hospital, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during the months of March and April, 1920. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works.
Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For dry dock and accessories:Norfolk, Va., dry dock.George Leary Construction Company. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay the George Leary Construction Company, under contract numbered 2258, and changes thereto, for completion of Dry Dock Numbered Four, in full compensation for the construction of such dry dock, $167,500; and toGiant Portland Cement Company. the Giant Portland Cement Company, subcontractor, for loss sustained by it on cement furnished for this work, $75,517.94, or so much thereof as may be shown by audit of the subcontractor’s books by the Navy Department; in all, $243,017.94. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: The limitationMaintenance.Allowance for chemical, etc., services, 1921, increased.Vol. 41 p. S26, amended. specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921 on expenditures for pay of chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the supply and accounting department of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year 1921, is further increased by $400,000.
Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts; For all freightFreight. and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,500,000. Fuel and transportation: For coal and other fuel for steamers’Fuel and transportation. and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery44of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $6,000,000.
James W. Elwell and Company.Refund to.For refund to James W. Elwell and Company, charterers of the United States ship Sterling, the excess freight charges collected from A. Iseline and Company on ten thousand bags of coffee and six hundred and seventy-two bags of castor beans, arriving in New York on September 25, 1918, which sum was turned over to the Navy and deposited in the Treasury to the credit of ‘‘Miscellaneous receipts,” $163.79. International Mercantile Company.Reimbursement to.For reimbursement to the International Mercantile Company for shortage in a shipment of green peas, cargo of the steamship Harrisburg, arriving at Liverpool, England, from New York, July 2, 1918, freight on the full amount of the shipment having been turned over to the Navy and deposited in the Treasury to the credit of “Miscellaneous receipts,” $121.52.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. Capitol Buildings.Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs thereof, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1§21, $22,000. Capitol, etc., grounds.Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, $5,000. General Land Office.Additional employees, 1922.General Land Office:
For additional employees during the fiscal year 1922 at annual rates of compensation as follows: Law examiners—four at $2,000 each, eight at $1,800 each, twenty at $1,600 each; eight clerks at $1,400 each; in all, $65,600. public lands service.Public lands. Oregon and California Railroad lands.Protecting.For the protection of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad lands and Coos Bay Wagon Road lands: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the cooperation of the Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, as in his judgment may be most advisable, to establish Vol.30, p. 218.and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the Act Coos Bay Wagon Road lands included.approved June 9, 1916, and the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Vol. 40, p. 1179.Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company against United States (numbered 2711, in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit), $5,000. patent office.Patent Office.
Furniture, etc.For furniture and filing cases, $10,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1922. bureau of mines.Mines Bureau. Inquiries, etc., concerning mining non-metallic minerals.For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of heavy clay products, cement, feldspar, slate, and other nonmetallics; including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence; *Proviso*.Private work forbidden.fiscal year 1922, $35,000: *Provided*, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party. indian affairs.Indian Department.
Claims allowed by accounting officers.For payment of claims found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury for the fiscal years 1919, 1920, and 1921, as follows: Supplies, 1919.Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1919, $11,924.71; 45 Telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1919, $74.15;Telegraphing, etc., 1919. Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, repairs and improvements,Mount Pleasant School, 1919. 1919, 95 cents; Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1919, $165.49;Albuquerque School.
Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, repairs and improvements, 1919, $352.15; Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona, 1919, $625.08;Phoenix School. Indian school, Salem, Oregon, repairs and improvements, 1919,Salem School. $27.04; Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, 1919, $687.85;Tomah School. Indian school, Truxton Canyon, Arizona, repairs and improvements,Truxton Canyon School. 1919, $362.09; Road, Quiniault Reservation, Washington, reimbursable, 1918–1919,Quiniault Reservation road. $79.83;
Suppressing contagious diseases among live stock of Indians, 1919,Livestock diseases. $109.09; Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1920, $9,343.73;Supplies, 1920. Telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1920, $55.91;Telegraphing, etc., 1920. Support of Indians, Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, 1920, $36;Warm Springs Agency, Oreg. Cherokee Orphan Training School, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma,Cherokee Orphan School. 1920, $122.36; Indian school, Carson City, Nevada, irrigation system, 1920,Carson City School. $17.76;
Indian school, Cherokee, North Carolina, 1920, $189.47;Cherokee School. Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, 1920, $214.41;Fort Totten School. Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, 1920, $158.76;Mount Pleasant School, 1920. Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, repairs and improvements,Rapid City School. 1920, $48; Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, repairs and improvements, 1920, $25.27; Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, 1920, $176.63;Wahpeton School, 1920.
Bams, Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, $6.47;Fort Berthold Reservation, barns. Maintenance and operation, waterworks, Papago Indian villages,Papago villages, waterworks. Arizona, 1920, $29.50; Highway from Mesa Verde National Park to Gallup, New Mexico,Highway to Gallup. reimbursable, 1920, $12.09; Surveying and allotting Indian reservations, reimbursable,Surveying and alloting, 1920. 1920, $272.48;' Water supply, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, 1920, $197.67;Papago villages, water supply.
Support of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, North Dakota,Turtle Mountain Chippewas. 1921, $359.44; Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, 1921, $3,485.87;Genoa School. Indian school, Greenville, California, 1921, $41.68;Greenville School. Indian school, Hayward, Wisconsin, 1921, $911.60;Hayward School. Indian school. Mount Pleasant, Michigan, 1921, $2,543.45;Mount Pleasant School, 1921. Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, 1921, $110.55;Wahpeton School, 1921. Maintenance and operation, Modoc Point irrigation system, KlamathModoc Point Irrigation system.
Reservation, Oregon, reimbursable, 1921, $1.78; Roads and bridges, Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico, reimbursable, Mescalero Reservation, roads, etc.1921, $666.68; Roads and bridges, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, reimbursable, Shoshone Reservation, roads, etc.1921, $2.34; Water supply, Pueblo Indians, New Mexico, 1921, $23.40;Pueblos, N. Mex., water supply. In all, $33,461.73. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay to the DallasOzark Forest, Ark.Advertising for road construction in.
Morning News, Dallas, Texas, $44.28; the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas, $34; and the Gazette Publishing Com-46pany, Little Rock, Arkansas, $18.40; in all, $96.88, from the appropriation “Cooperative construction, and so forth, of roads and trails, National Forest Fund,” representing costs of advertisements inserted in the respective publications calling for bids on road machinery to be used in the construction of the Ozark Forest Road in Pope and [R. S., sec.3828, p.749](/us/rs/s3828/p749).Newton Counties, Arkansas, the provisions of section 3828 of the Revised Statutes notwithstanding.
Ray Moon.Payment to, from rural post roads fund.Vol. 40, p. 1202.The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay to Ray Moon, of Toledo, Ohio, S64.40 from any funds on hand under the provisions of section 9 of the Post Office Appropriation Act, approved February 9, 1919, for services in road building, said amount to be deducted from the allotment to North Carolina for the fiscal year 1921. bureau of animal industry. Animal Industry Bureau. Indemnity for slaughtered tubercular animals.Vol. 41, p. 698,General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry:
To enable the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, to perform the duties imposed upon it by the Agricultural Appropriation Act approved May 31, 1920, for the payment of indemnities on account of cattle slaughtered during the current fiscal year, in connection with the eradication of tuberculosis from animals, $405,000. Peter G. Ten Eyck.Payment to.The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay to Peter G. Ten Eyck, from the appropriation “Meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, 1921,” the sum of $84, representing rent remaining unpaid by the Department of Agriculture for the use and occupancy of a room in the SpencerTrask Building, Albany, New York, from and including November 1, 1920, to February 28, 1921, the provisions of Vol. 35, p. 1109,section 114 of the Penal Code notwithstanding. forest service.Forest Service.
Fighting forest fires.Fighting and preventing forest fires: For fighting and preventing forest fires endangering the national forests, $50,000. Olympic National Forest, Wash.Emergency fire protection expenses, 1922.Olympic National Forest: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $100,000 for emergency expenditures incident to the disposal of windthrown and intermingled or adjoining timber on the Olympic National Forest and for emergency measures necessary to protect from fire the timber on the Olympic National Forest, made Reappropriation.Vol. 41, p. 1177.in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved March 1, 1921, is reappropriated and made available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1922. miscellaneous expenses.Miscellaneous.
Fuel for Department power plant.For an additional amount required to meet the increased cost of fuel for the central power plant of the Department of Agriculture, $9,000. Experiment vineyards.Fresno, Calif.Vol. 41, p. 1205.For the purchase, as authorized by law, of riot to exceed twenty acres of land occupied by the Department of Agriculture’s experiment vineyard near Fresno, California, now maintained under contract with the owners of said land, $12,000. Oakville. Calif.Vol. 41, p. 1205.For the purchase, as authorized by law, of not to exceed twenty acres of land occupied by the Department of Agriculture’s experiment vineyard near Oakville, California, now maintained under contract with the owners of said land, $15,000.
Consolidating mailing, etc., expenses.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to pay all necessary expenses, including labor and material, involved in consolidating the addressing, duplicating, and mailing work of the Department of Agriculture in the District of Columbia, $5,000, to remain available during the fiscal year 1922. 47 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. STEAMBOAT-INSPECTION SERVICE.Steamboat Inspection Service. Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and otherContingent expenses. expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, Deputy Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other[R.
S., Title LII, pp. 862–869](/us/rs/tLII/pp852–869). thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of Title 52, Revised Statutes, $5,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1922. bureau of navigation.Navigation Bureau. Wireless communication laws: To enable the Secretary of CommerceWireless communication on steam vessels.Vol. 36, p. 829.Vol. 37, p. 199. to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers” and “to regulate radio communication,” and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $20,000; andAmount for employees in the District increased.Vol. 41, p. 1300, amended. the amount which may be expended during such fiscal year for salaries of employees in the District of Columbia is increased from $8,400 to $10,900. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau.
Steamer Gannet: Master, 81,400; engineer, $1,200; fireman, $840;Vessels, 1922. two seamen at $780 each; in all, fiscal year 1922, $5,000. Steamer Phalarope: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,200; fireman, $780; two seamen at $810 each; cook, $870; in all, fiscal year 1922, $5,970. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches,Maintenance of vessels. including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $4,422.
Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska,Alaska.Protecting seal fisheries. and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $9,353. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. Salaries: For additional employees during the fiscal year 1922Additional employees, 1922. at annual rates of compensation as follows: Two assistant directors, at $4,000 each; expert on commercial laws in foreign countries, $4,000; in all, $12,000.
Promoting commerce: Not more than four trade commissionersPromoting commerce.Details of commissioners to department duty, 1922. employed under the appropriation for “Promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, fiscal year 1922,” may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned to duty in the Department of Commerce. To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommerceExport industries.Investigation, etc., of foreign problems relating to, 1922. to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution, and marketing in so far as they relate to the important export industries of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and all necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, fiscal year 1922, $250,000. bureau of standards.Standards Bureau.
The sum of $250,000 of the appropriation of $1,000,000 for the Transfer of Census appropriation to, for specified uses, 1922.Vol. 41, p. 1291. Bureau of the Census for the fiscal year 1922 is transferred to the48Bureau of Standards and made available during that fiscal year for the following purposes and in the following amounts, respectively: Structural materials investigations.For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in *Proviso*.Disseminating Information as to constructing farm buildings, etc.the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000: *Provided*, That as much of this sum as necessary shall be used to collect and disseminate such scientific, practical, and statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to show approved methods in building, planning, and construction, standardization, and adaptability of structural units, including farm buildings, building materials, and codes, economy in the manufacture and utilization of building materials and supplies, and such other matters as may tend to encourage, improve, and cheapen construction and housing;
Industrial development investigations.For technical investigations m cooperation with the industries upon fundamental problems involved in industrial development following the war, with a view to assisting in the permanent establishment of the new American industries developed during the war, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $100,000; Cooperative testing, etc., of mechanical devices used in industries, and by the Government.To enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate with Government departments, engineers, and manufacturers in the establishment of standards, methods of testing, and inspection of instruments, equipment, tools, and electrical and mechanical devices used in the industries and by the Government, including the practical specification for quality and performance of such devices, and the formulation of methods of inspection, laboratory, and service tests, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $100,000.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. immigration service.Immigration Service. Enforcing laws regulating immigration of aliens.For enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States, including the same objects specified under this head hi the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $336,000. Commissioners of conciliation.Vol. 37, p. 738.Commissioners of Conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $15,000. employment service.Employment Service.
Advanced transportation, 1919.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 696.The sum of $125,207.97 of the appropriation “Advanced Transportation, United States Employment Service, 1918 and 1919,” is reappropriated and made available to enable the Secretary of Labor to complete the payment of obligations covering transportation incurred during the fiscal year 1919 by the War Emergency Employment Service. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations.For 3d session 66th Congress, to include Army, Navy, and Second Deficiency Acts of 1st session 67th Congress.The statement of appropriations, and so forth, for the third session of the Sixty-sixth Congress shall include the Army, Naval, and Second Deficiency Appropriation Acts passed during the first session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, and all other appropriations made at the latter session shall be compiled and published with the statement of appropriations for the second session of the Sixty-seventh Congress.
Public Building Commission.Credited for automobile expenses.Vol. 40, p. 1270.Public Buildings Commission: The Accounting Officers of the Treasury are authorized to credit to the account of the Disbursing Officer of the Public Buildings Commission the sum of $354.51, heretofore expended for the repair and upkeep of an automobile, 49and charge the same to the appropriation for the Public Buildings Commission. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous House Office Building.Maintenance.items, and for all necessary services, $18,500.
Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and HouseCapitol power plant.Maintenance. Office Buildings, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $18,000. senate.Senate. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation,Austin Jackson.Services. “For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers and others” for the fiscal year 1921, to Austin Jackson for services rendered as assistant clerk to the Honorable Tasker L.
Oddie, Senator from the State of Nevada, at the rate of $1,500 per annum from March 4, 1921, to March 20, 1921, both dates inclusive. Contingent expenses: For maintaining, exchanging, and equippingContingent expenses.Motor vehicles. motor vehicles for carrying the mails, and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor,Fuel, etc. $250. Senate Office Building:
For maintenance, miscellaneous items Senate Office Build.Maintenance.and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $16,245. house of representatives.House of Representatives. To pay the widow of William H. Frankhauser, late a RepresentativeWilliam H, Frankhauser.Pay to widow. from the State of Michigan, $7,500, to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives.
Office of Doorkeeper: For folding speeches and pamphlets,Folding. at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $8,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1922; and the appropriation for this purposeReappropriation.Vol. 41, p. 1030. contained in the Third Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1920, is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1922. Committee employees: For an assistant clerk at $4,000 and fourAppropriations Committee.Assistant clerks, 1922. assistant clerks at $3,000 each, for the Committee on Appropriations, fiscal year 1922, $16.000.
Office of the Sergeant at Arms: For six policemen for the HouseHouse Office Building.Police force, 1922. Office Building, at the rate of $1,050 each, during the fiscal year 1922, $6,300. Contingent expenses: For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste,Contingent expenses. twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding,Folding materials. for use of Members, the Clerk’s office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under provisions of the Act approved JanuaryVol. 28, p. 624. 12, 1895, $3,500.
For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $85,000. For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, $10,000.Furniture. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisionsPay for holidays. of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $16,383.63. 50 Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Charles C.
Allen.To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Charles C. Allen, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-seventh Congress, first session, for extra services, $700 each, $2,800. Army passenger vehicle for.The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer, without payment therefor, to the Government Printing Office one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle. public printing and binding.Public printing and binding. Treasury Department.For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including printing required by the Federal Farm Loan Act, $65,000.
Smithsonian Institution.For printing and binding for the Smithsonian Institution, including $26,702.70 for the National Museum, $10,000 for the Bureau of American Ethnology, and $5,000 for the Annual Reports of the American Historical Association, fiscal years 1921 and 1922, $41,702.70. Interior Department.For printing and binding for the Interior Department, $50,000. Patent Office.For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trademarks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $70,000.
Department of Justice.For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, $10,000. Post Office Department.For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $100,000. Agricultural Department.For printing and binding for the Department of Agriculture, $125,000, to continue available durLibrary of Congress.ing the fiscal year 1922. Supreme Court.For printing and binding for the Library of Congress, including the copyright office and the publication of the catalogue of title entries of the copyright office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, $18,000.
For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States, $6,000, and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. office of superintendent of documents.Superintendent of Documents. Contingent expenses.For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $7,500.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States courts. Payment of.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits,Vol. 24, p. 505. which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress during the present session by the Attorney General in House Document Classification.Numbered 78, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the War Department, $3,283.45; Under the Navy Department, $8,129.59; Interest.In all, $11,413.04, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. District of Columbia supreme court.For payment of the judgment rendered against the United States by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and certified to Congress by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered 82 of the present session, $10,374.75, together with a sufficient sum to pay interest thereon at the rate of 6 per centum per annum from October 2, 1918, to the date this appropriation is made. 51 For payment of the judgments rendered against the United States South Carolina eastern district.by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina and certified to Congress by the Attorney General in Senate Document Numbered 17 of the present session, $440,000, togetherVol. 40, p. 276. with a sufficient sum to pay interest thereon at the legal rate per annum from May 3, 1921, to the date this appropriation is made.
For payment of the judgments rendered against the United StatesVirginia eastern district.Vol. 41, pp. 1457, 1461. by the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District oi Virginia, sitting in Admiralty, and certified to Congress by the Attorney General in Senate Documents Numbered 31 and 32 of the present session, under the Navy Department, $35,233.93. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims andPayment of. reported to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 77 and Senate Document Numbered 26, namely:Classification.
Under the Treasury Department, $3,237.10; Under the War Department, $157,071; Under the Navy Department, $878.68; In all, $161,186.78. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until Right of appeal.the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certifiedPayment of, certified by accounting officers. to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of theVol. 18, p. 110.
Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1918 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forthVol. 23, p. 254. in House Document Numbered 71, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department. For collecting the revenue from customs, $255.68.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.
For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $50.01. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, 1919, $814.18. For Quarantine Service, 32 cents. For Interstate Quarantine Service, $5.75. For field investigations of public health, 1919, $48.12. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $1.25. For collecting the war revenue, $643.52. For collecting the income tax, $2.26. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal Revenue Service, $257.94.
For restricting the sale of opium, and so forth, $17.91. For refunding internal revenue collections, $462.50. For redemption of stamps, $1,856.61. For allowance or drawback (Internal Revenue), $830.74. For Coast Guard, $15,684.53. For contingent expenses, Assay Office at New York, $1.14. For operating supplies for public buildings, $14.15. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $3.80. 52 For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $44.50. The mechanical equipment for public buildings, $75.74.
For general expenses of public buildings, $2.05. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For additional employees, War Department, $16.50. For national security and defense, $13. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $157.81. For registration and selection for military service, $1,515.98. For contingencies, Military Intelligence Division, General Staff Corps, 1920, $195,222.91. for Signal Service of the Army, $33.33.
For extra duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $333. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $8,636.10. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $673.98. For pay of the Army, War with Spain, $2.31. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $45,965.93. For subsistence of the Army, $17.25. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Department, $224.20. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $48.70.
For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $167.11. For construction and repair of hospitals, $1,182.18. For shooting galleries and ranges, $2,434.74. For medical and hospital department, $38. For Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia, $1.20. For ordnance service, $16,761.38. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $52.50. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $306.48. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $1,860.74. For civilian military training camps, $87.42.
For headstones for graves of soldiers, $71.51. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $41. For arming and equipping the militia, $1,060.80. For payment of claims for loss of firearms, and so forth, taken by United States troops during labor strikes in 1914 in Colorado, $1,041.04. For sodium nitrate storage, $30,695.64. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For contingent expenses, Navy Department, $550.65.
For pay, miscellaneous, $199.71. For pay, miscellaneous, 1920, $4,224.13. For pay. Marine Corps, $3,631.41. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $3,776.34. For contingent, Marine Corps, $4,584.85. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $929.91. For gunnery and engineering exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $3,115. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $332.88. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $500. For Naval War College, Bureau of Navigation, 15 cents.
For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $2.50. For pay of the Navy, $18,342.65. 53 For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,250.87. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $8,405.31. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 1919, $10,126.93. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 1920, $7,614.30. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $758.83. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $34.32. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.
For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, $14.56.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For library, General Land Office, 1920, $31. For Scientific Library, Patent Office, $33.22. For traveling expenses, Bureau of Education, 1921, $422.24. For Capitol power plant, $323.71. For education of natives of Alaska, $240. For medical relief in Alaska, 1919, $30. For Glacier National Park, 1919, $70. For contingent expenses, Territory of Alaska, 57 cents. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $450.
For surveying the public lands, 65 cents. For Geological Survey, $14.81. For general expenses, Bureau of Mines, 82 cents. For expenses, mining experiment stations, Bureau of Mines, 46 cents. For investigating mine accidents, $12.77. For investigations, petroleum and natural gas, Bureau of Mines $1.10. For enforcement of the Act to regulate explosives, Bureau of Mines, 1919, $2.81. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $250. For Indian schools, support, $1,391.53.
For Indian school and agency buildings, 50 cents. For industrial work and care of timber, $10.15. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $188.82. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, $5.56. For pay of Indian police, $170.65. For general expenses, Indian Service, 31 cents. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, 40 cents. For Indian school, Greenville, California, $10.75. claims allowed by the auditor for state and other departments. For national security and defense, executive, $675.06.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.
For salaries and expenses, Office of Alien Property Custodian, $128.09. For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, $1,991.34. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $3,127.09. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1919, $1,432.41. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $942.91, For clerks at embassies and legations, $200. For salaries, Consular Service, $1,272.14. For salaries and expenses, United States Court for China, 1920, $15. For salaries, interpreters to consulates, 1920, $3,196.61.
For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $1,020.12. For salaries, consular assistants, $1,147.83. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $915.24. 54 For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $1,480.93. For relief and protection of American seamen, $84.66. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1919, $133.92. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1920, $13,194.66. For Council of National Defense, $120.84. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $636.56.
For State, War, and Navy Department buildings, fuel, lights, and so forth, $199.68. For salaries and expenses, United States Shipping Board; $10.34. For national security and defense, United States Shipping Board, $3,227.72. For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, $180.34. For national security and defense, United States Food and Fuel Administrations, educational, $125.75. For salaries, Department of Agriculture, $23.53. For library. Department of Agriculture, $59.45.
For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $77.42. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $131.78. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $533.75. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $4.53. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $4,756.43. For general expenses, Forest Service, $32.90. For general expenses. Bureau of Chemistry, $38.62. For enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act, $7.80. For general expenses, Bureau of Soils, 43 cents.
For general expenses, States Relations Service, 78 cents. For enforcement of the United States Cotton Futures Act, $4.33. For enforcement of the United States Grain Standards Act, $2,73. For suppressing spread of pink boll worm of cotton, $7.80. For national security and defense, Department of Commerce, $21,886.80. For expenses of the Thirteenth Census, $2. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $1.93. For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $10.96. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $2.01.
For military research, Bureau of Standards, $506.18. For testing structural materials, Bureau of Standards, $5.43. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $716.54. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $43,040.36. For salaries, lighthouse vessels, $586.50. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $58.03. For salaries and expenses, Commissioners, of Conciliation, $1. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $2.22. For national security and defense, Department of Labor, $258.13.
For investigation of child welfare, $1.01. For expenses of regulating immigration, $656.07. For expenses of interned aliens, $36. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, $6.79. For enforcement of the child-labor law, 90 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice: Books for offices of solicitors, $4. For increase of compensation, Department of Justice, 83 cents. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $115.02. For national security and defense, Department of Justice, $267.14.
For fees of clerks, United States courts, 1919, $252.45. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $58.40. 55 For enforcement of antitrust laws, $3,276.63. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1920, $823.30. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $9. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $128.60. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $33. For support of prisoners, United States courts, 1919, $641.55. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.
For railroad transportation, $68,548.36.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For indemnities, international mail, $1,016.17. For equipment. City Delivery Service, $1,000. For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $2.78. For village delivery service, $37.26. For temporary city delivery carriers, $2.10. For special delivery fees, 24 cents. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $303.45. For payment of rewards, $50. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, services, $2.38.
For censorship of foreign mails, $118.08. For canceling machines, $14. For temporary clerk hire, $538.74. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $360.12. For Rural Delivery Service, $56.27. For Star Route Service, $14,396.75. For city delivery—car fare and bicycle allowance, $2,011.99. Mail Messenger Service, $325. For separating mails, third and fourth class post offices, $111. For rent, light, and fuel, $510.54. For clerks, contract stations, $86.02. For compensation to postmasters, $521.87.
For unusual conditions at post offices, $995.09. For shipment of supplies, $86.92. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $2,563.88. Total, audited claims, section 2, $610,982.88. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certifiedPayment of certified by accounting officers. to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5Vol. 18, p. 110. of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1918 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forthVol. 23, p. 254. in Senate Document Numbered 27, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For collecting the revenue from customs, 38 cents. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service,Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. $45.76. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, 1920, $128.31. For maintenance, Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health Service, $53.01. For care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $50. 56 For control of biologic products, Public Health Service, $17.49. For field investigations of public health, 1919, $71.77.
For collecting the war revenue, $124.05. For refunding internal revenue collections, $50. For payment of judgments against internal revenue officers, $1,219.87. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $123.03. For Coast Guard, $240.43. For operating supplies for public buildings, $7.50. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $24.56. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $65.79.
For registration and selection for military service, $433.35. For contingencies, Military Intelligence Division, General Staff Corps, 1920, $31,594.72. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $25,809.73. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth (Certified Claims), 1921, $85.40. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $1,811.71. For Medical and Hospital Department, $10.95. For engineer depots, 1919, $15,282.47. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $2.40.
For pay of Military Academy, $4.24. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Observatory, $2.71. For contingent expenses, Navy Department, $293.60. For pay, miscellaneous, $210. For pay, Marine Corps, 8755.01. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $1,432.74. For contingent, Marine Corps, $363.65. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $1.64. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $41.88.
For pay of the Navy, $4,456.37. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $271.49. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 55 cents. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,269.39. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $1,888. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $387.50. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 1919, $61,347.34. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 1920, $1,000. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For salaries and expenses, Employees’ Retirement Act, Bureau of Pensions, 1921, $350.32. For public use of inventions and defending suits, Patent Office, 1921, $138.15. For Capitol Building and repairs, 1921, $3.25. For medical relief in Alaska, 1919, $60. 57 For Lafayette National Park, 1920, $806.05. For Geological Survey, 85 cents. For investigating mine accidents, Bureau of Mines, $3.78. For testing fuel, Bureau of Mines, $4.21.
For operating mine rescue cars, Bureau of Mines, $1.46. For investigations, petroleum and natural gas, Bureau of Mines, 87 cents. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $7.26. For additional support, Indian schools, $4.71. For Indian schools, support, $13.38. For Indian school and agency buildings, $291.96. For general expenses, Indian Service, 20 cents. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1919, $1.53. For industry among Indians. $43.75.
For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, 1920, $1,351.54. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $33.35. For Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, repairs and improvements, $1.96. For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, repairs and improvements, 35 cents. For Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, repairs and improvements, 88 cents. For Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, heating plant, $1.73. For support of Indians, Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, $18.74.
For Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, repairs and improvements, $15.13. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, repairs and improvements, $11.27. For Indian school, Sante Fe, New Mexico, repairs and improvements, $16.71. For Indian school, Sante Fe, New Mexico, repairs and improvements, 1920, $672.45. For Indian school, Cherokee, North Carolina, 1920, $16.64. For support of Indians, Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota, 1920, $4.99. For Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, repairs and improvements, $6.74.
For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, repairs and improvements, $165.88. For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, 1920, $30.31. For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, 1921, $2,259.70. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, repairs and improvements, $47.63. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, repairs and improvements, 1920, $7.90. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, 1921, $1,426.77. For support of Pawnees, schools, Oklahoma, $1.39. For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, repairs and improvements, $193.30.
For Cherokee Orphan Training School, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, repairs and improvements, $17.10. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $2.33. For Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota, repairs and improvements, $93.39. For Indian school, Pierre, South Dakota, repairs and improvements, $132.01. For Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, repairs and improvements, 77 cents. 58 For Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, 1921, $1,514.38.
For asylum for insane Indians, Canton, South Dakota, $2.72. For education, Sioux Nation, South Dakota, $26.19. For Toppenish and Simcoe Creek Irrigation Project, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), 1920, $1,155.71. For Indian school, Hayward, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, $36.73. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, $4.04. For Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, repairs and improvements. $1.10. claims allowed by the auditor for state and other departments.
Claims allowed by Auditor tor State, etc., Departments.For national security and defense, Executive, $92.70. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $313. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1919, $2,276.16. For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $106.67. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $93.32. For salaries, Consular Service, $58.63. For allowances for clerks at consulates, $560.42. For salaries, consular assistants, $301.52.
For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $284.42. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1920, $1,661.52. For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, $16.53. For library, Department of Agriculture, $45.13. For miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, $2.23. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $102.63. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $25.75. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $21.53. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $380.63.
For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $3.60. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, 40 cents. For general expenses, Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, $1.08. For general expenses, Bureau of Markets, 35 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates, 75 cents. For enforcement of the United States Grain Standards Act, 94 cents. For general expenses, Federal Horticultural Board, $17.79. For experiments and demonstrations in live-stock production, 30 cents.
For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $2.01. For gauge standardization, Bureau of Standards, $20.15. For testing structural materials, Bureau of Standards, $93.60. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $9.58. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $87.20. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, 40 cents. For national security and defense, Department of Labor, $1. For expenses of regulating immigration, $1.84. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, $1.98. .
For general expenses, Children’s Bureau, $46.80. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States Courts, $62.70. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States Courts, $171.69. 59 For fees of commissioners, United States Courts, 1920, 35,167.37. For fees of jurors, United States Courts, $12. For support of prisoners, United States Courts, $67.80. For support of prisoners, United States Courts, 1919, $637.25. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.
For railroad transportation, $5,448.85.Claims allowed by Auditor tor Post Office Department. For indemnities, domestic and international mail, $24.80. For Star Route Service, $66.17. For shipment of supplies, $36.08. For rent, light, and fuel, $363.33. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $36.29. For clerks, third class post offices, $42. For compensation of postmasters, $19.24. For unusual conditions at post offices, $500. Total audited claims, section 3, $182,270.48. EMERGENCIES.Emergencies.
Sec. 4. For emergency appropriations and purposes as follows:Emergency appropriations, etc. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission. For travel, printing, stationery, contingent expenses, additionalContingent expenses, 1922. employees, and other necessary expenses of examinations, fiscal year 1922, $75,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed*Proviso*.Pay restriction. hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except one at $3,000. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. public schools.Public schools.
Buildings and Grounds: For the erection of an eight-room extensibleBuildings and grounds.Mott School.Building near. building on the site in the immediate vicinity of the Mott School, 8140,000; For the purchase of additional land adjoining the John Eaton School, John Eaton School.Additional land and building.$12,000; For the erection of an eight-room addition to the John Eaton School, $140,000; For beginning the erection of a junior high school north of TaylorJunior High School.Building, north of Taylor Street and east of Fourteenth Street.
Street and east of Fourteenth Street, on the land now owned by the District of Columbia, $100,000, and the commissioners are authorized Contract, etc.to enter into contract or contracts for said building at a cost not to exceed $300,000; For the purchase of a site for a junior high school building inJunior High School. the vicinity of the Gage, Emery, and Eckington Schools, $50,000; For beginning the erection of a junior high school on the siteSite and building, near Gage, etc., Schools. in the vicinity of the Gage, Emery, and Eckington Schools, $100,000,Contracts, etc. and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for said building at a cost not to exceed $300,000;Smothers School.
For a new site in the vicinity of the Smothers School, $5,000;Site and building to replace. For the erection of a four-room building on the site to be purchased in the vicinity of the Smothers School to replace the Smothers School, $70,000; For the purchase of a site for a sixteen-room extensible building inLincoln Park.Site and building north of. the vicinity of and north of Lincoln Park, $30,000; 60 Monroe School.Addition.For the erection of an eight-room extensible building on the site to be purchased in the vicinity of and north of Lincoln Park, $140,000;
For the erection of a four-room addition to the Monroe School, $75,000; Lovejoy School.Site adjoining.Ingleside section.Site in west of Sixteenth street.Phillips School.Land adjoining.Buchanan School.Site and building adjoining.For the purchase of a site adjoining the Lovejoy School, $6,500; For the purchase of a site west of Sixteenth Street northwest, in the Ingleside section, $40,000; For the purchase of land adjoining the Phillips School, $9,000; For the purchase of a site for a sixteen-room building adjoining the Buchanan School, $30,000:
For the erection of an eight-room extensible building adjoining the Buchanan School, $140,000; Bell School.Site and building to replace.For the purchase of a new site in the vicinity of the Bell School, $20,000; For the erection of an eight-room building on the site to be purchased in the immediate vicinity of the Bell School, to ultimately replace the Bell School, $140,000; Tubercular pupils.Building for.For the erection of a building for the care of tubercular pupils, $150,000;
Harrison School.Repairs, etc.For repairs and alterations of the Harrison School, now used for colored tubercular children, $17,000; Woodley Park.Site near.Armstrong Manual Training.Adjoining land.Hayes School.Adjoining land.For the purchase of a site in the vicinity of Woodley Park, $40,000; For the purchase of land adjoining the Armstrong Manual Training School, $20,000; For the purchase of additional land north of the Hayes School, $5,000; Emery School.Adjoining land.For the purchase of additional land adjoining the Emery School, $8,000;
Peabody School.Adjoining land.For the purchase of additional land adjoining the Peabody School, $20,000; Adams School.Adjoining land.For the purchase of additional land adjoining the Adams School, $20,000; Webb School.Adjoining land.For the purchase of additional land adjoining the Webb School, $1,500; Harrison School.Adjoining land.Accounting, etc.For the purchase of additional land adjoining the Harrison School, $15,000; in all, fiscal year 1922, $1,544,000, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Buildings and grounds, public schools,’’ and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. free public library.Free Public Library.
Site for southeastern branch of.For the purchase of a site for a branch of the free Public Library in the southeastern section of the District of Columbia, 810,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and authority is hereby conferredAcceptance of gift for erection of building. upon the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to accept from the Carnegie Corporation of New York not less than 850,000 for purpose of erecting a suitable branch library building on such a Supervision of construction.site, subject to the approval of said commissioners and the board of library trustees.
Authority is hereby conferred upon a commission to consist of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, the president of the board of library trustees, and the chairman of the committee on branch libraries of the library trustees to supervise the erection of said branch library building. Sixty per cent to be paid out of District revenues for buildings and grounds.Sixty per centum of the sums contained in this section for the District of Columbia shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States. 61 INTERDEPARTMENTAL SOCIAL HYGIENE BOARD.Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board.
The duties and powers conferred upon the InterdepartmentalAuthority conferred.Vol. 40, p. 886. Social Hygiene Board by Chapter XV of the Army Appropriation Act approved July 9, 1918, with respect to the expenditure of the appropriations made therein are extended and made applicable to the appropriations for similar purposes made in this Act; For expenses of the board, including personal services in the DistrictExpenses, 1922. of Columbia and elsewhere, books of reference and periodicals, printing and binding, traveling, and other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1922, $25,000;
For assisting the States in protecting the military and navalAssistance to States. forces of the United States against venereal diseases, fiscal year 1922, $200,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended*Proviso*.Venereal institutions excluded. in assisting reformatories, detention homes, hospitals, or other similar institutions in the maintenance of venereally infected persons; In all, Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board, $225,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State.
Passport Bureaus: For salaries and expenses of maintenance ofPassport bureaus, 1922.Salaries and expenses, at designated places. passport bureaus, fiscal year 1922, as follows: At New York, New York, $20,820; At San Francisco, California, $7,500; At Chicago, Illinois, $17,500; At Seattle, Washington, $4,500; At New Orleans, Louisiana, $7,500; In all, $57;820. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. office of the secretary.Office of Secretary. Undersecretary of the Treasury, to be nominated by the PresidentUnder secretary.Appointment and salary.Duties, etc. and appointed by him, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 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,[R.S., sec. 177, p. 28](/us/rs/s177/p28). and under the provisions of section 177, Revised Statutes, in case 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, fiscal year 1922, $10,000.
Division of Printing and Stationery: Clerks—one $1,400,Printing and Stationery Division.Additional employees, 1922.Vol. 41, p. 1267. one $1,200, one $1,000, one $900; multigraph operators—one $1,200, one $1,000; skilled laborer, $840; four laborers, at $720 each; two messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, fiscal year 1922, $11,380. Division of Mail and Files: Distributing clerk, $1,400; readingMails and Files Division.Additional employees. 1922.Vol. 41, p. 1267. and routing clerk, $1,400: assistant file clerk, $1,100; assistant mail messenger, $900; in all, fiscal year 1922, $4,800. office of the comptroller of the currency.Office of Comptroller of the Currency.
For salaries, fiscal year 1922, at annual rates of compensationAdditional employees. 1922.Vol. 41, p. 1270. as follows: Clerks—four at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, four at $1,000 each, five at $1,400 each; clerk-counters—two at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; two messengers at $840 each; in all, $37,880. The Comptroller of the Currency may designate a national bankChief of examining division. examiner to act as chief of the examining division in his office. 62 office of auditor for the post office department.Office of Auditor tor Post Office Department.
Employees auditing accounts, etc.Balances reappropriated.Vol. 40, p. 1229; Vol. 41, p. 64S.The unencumbered balances in the appropriations for compensation of employees to audit the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service in the fiscal years 1920 and 1921, are reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year 1922. And not exceeding S975 per annum may be expended out of the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses for rental of telephones in the fiscal years 1921 and 1922. public buildings.Public buildings.
Chicago, III.Broadview Hospital.Designated improvements, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1304; Vol. 41, pp. 45, 378, 508, 1163.Chicago, Illinois; Broadview Hospital. For recreation building, walks, and roads, water softening apparatus, additional water-supply, planting and improving of grounds, and for superintendence and technical services necessary for said work at customary rates of compensation to be employed within or without the District of Columbia and without regard to civil-service rules and regulations, *Provisos*.Technical services, etc.$500,000: *Provided*, That the expenditures for such superintendence and technical services shall not exceed 3 per centum of the total Construction contracts, etc.amount expended hereunder: *And provided further*, That in carrying the foregoing authorization into effect the Secretary is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to enter into contracts or to employ labor and purchase materials in the open market, all of said work to be performed under the supervision and direction of the.
Secretary of the Treasury. Dawson Springs, Ky.Erection of sanatorium.Dawson Springs, Kentucky; Sanatorium. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the principal buildings for the Dawson Limit of cost increased.Vol. 40, p. 1304.*Proviso*.Supervision, etc., under Supervising Architect of the Treasury.Springs, Kentucky, Sanatorium to be erected of fireproof construction and as originally designed, $750,000, and the limit of cost heretofore fixed for said sanatorium is hereby increased from $1,500,000 to §2,250,000: *Provided*, That from and after the passage of this Act the completion of the buildings and approaches for said sanatorium shall be under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, the compensation of the superintendent of construction and such technical and clerical assistance as may be necessarily employed in the superintendence of the completion of said buildings and approaches to be chargeable to the appropriation for the field force of the office of the Supervising Architect.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Assistant Secretary.Salary, 1922.Vol. 41, p. 765.Office of the Secretary: For additional amount required for the salary of the Assistant Secretary of War in accordance with section 5a of the Act “To amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,’ approved June 3, 1916, and to establish military justice,” fiscal year 1922, §5,000. Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.Water system, 1922.Water System, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii:
For installation of a pipe line to replace the present water main from Koolau Reservoir to Schofield Barracks, fiscal year 1922, $600,000. Camp Benning, Ga.Additional amount for land.Infantry School.Quartermaster Corps: To complete the acquisition of land required for the Infantry School at Camp Benning, Georgia, there may be expended from the appropriation “General Appropriations, Quartermaster Corps,” for the fiscal year 1919, the sum of $400,000, which amount shall be in addition to the sum of S515,252, the expenditureVol. 41, p. 453. of which for the same purpose was authorized by the Act approved February 28, 1920, entitled “An Act to amend the Army Appropriation Act of 1920, and for the purchase of land and to provide for construction work at certain military posts, and for other 63purposes.
” The said sum of $400,000 herein authorized to be expendedAvailable until June 30, 1922. shall remain on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation “General Appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, 1919,” until June 30, 1922. Unexpended balances: Such amounts of the unexpended balancesWar contracts.Unexpended balances for settlement of, continued available until June 30, 1922. of the appropriations chargeable with the settlement of claims resulting from the suspension or termination of contracts or other procurement obligations of the War Department, consequent upon the suspension of hostilities, and with the adjustment of claims under the Act entitled “An Act to provide relief in cases of contracts connectedVol. 40, p. 1272.Vol. 41, p. 1026. with the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes,” approved March 2, 1919, shall remain upon the books of the Treasury to the credit of the respective appropriations and be available for similar*Post*, pp. 778, 1550. purposes until June 30, 1922, and of said amounts, not to exceed $250,000 shall also be available for such personal services as in theAmount for personal services. discretion of the Secretary of War are necessary to properly protect the interests of the United States in making such settlements and adjustments: *Provided*, That no part of said amounts shall be used*Proviso*.Restriction on claims. to pay any claims arising out of any contract or other obligation unless such contract or obligation was entered into subsequently to April 6, 1917, and prior to November 12, 1918.
Ogden Arsenal, Utah: Of the $5,000,000 which the Chief of Ordnance,Ogden Arsenal Utah.Water supply.Vol. 41, p. 510. United States Army, was authorized in the Second Deficiency Act, approved March 6, 1920, to expend during the fiscal year 1921 for the construction of storage facilities for ammunition and components thereof, $100,000 is hereby made available during the fiscal year 1922 for the development of a water supply for Ogden Arsenal,*Proviso*.Purchase of land and water rights.
Utah: *Provided*, That not to exceed $30,000 of the amount herein made available for this purpose may be expended for the purchase of such land and water rights as may be necessary to provide a suitable water supply for Ogden Arsenal. POSTAL SERVICE.Postal Service. out of the postal revenues. office of the second assistant postmaster general.Second Assistant Postmaster General. When any damage is done to person or property by or through theDamages to persons or property through postal operations. operation of the Post Office Department in any branch of its service and such damage is found by the Postmaster General upon investigation to be a proper charge against the United States, the PostmasterPayment of claims for.
General is hereby invested with power to adjust and settle any claim for such damage when his award for such damage in any case does not exceed $500; and the sum of $35,000 is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year 1922 to carry out the provisions of this paragraph. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau. Expenses of advisory committee: For the expenses of an advisoryAdvisory committee, Expenses of, to report on needs of the service. committee of not to exceed two members from the Atlantic coast, two members from the Pacific coast, and four members from the inland waters, Great Lakes, and Alaskan sections of the United States, to be designated from time to time by the Secretary of Commerce, to consist of men prominently identified with the various branches of the fishery industry, qualified in aquatic research, and experienced in fish culture, who shall visit the Bureau of Fisheries at 64such times as the Secretary of Commerce may deem necessary and report to the Secretary of Commerce on the condition and needs of the service, the members to serve without compensation, but to be paid the actual expenses incurred in attending the meetings, fiscal year 1922, $2,500.
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. Promoting commerce.Services in Washington, 1922.Vol. 41, p. 1298.Commercial Attachés.Allowance of clerks to, 1922.Vol. 41, p. 1298.Not more than $25,000 of the appropriation for “Promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, fiscal year 1922,” may be used for personal services in Washington, District of Columbia. Commercial Attachés; The appropriation for “Commercial attachés, fiscal year 1922,” shall be available for the compensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercial attaché at the rate of not to exceed $2,500 per annum for each person so employed.
And not to Assignment to Department duty.exceed two commercial attachés employed under said appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned for duty in the Department of Commerce without loss of salary. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. Committee on Finance.Assistant clerk.Committee employee: For an assistant clerk to the Committee on Finance, fiscal year 1922, $2,100. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. Departments, etc., to discontinue printing their reports.In order to keep the expenditures within or under the appropriations for the fiscal year 1922 for printing and binding, the heads of the various executive departments and Government establishments are hereby authorized to discontinue the printing of any annual or *Proviso*.Originals to be kept for public inspection.special reports under their respective jurisdiction: *Provided*, That where the printing of said reports is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the heads of the respective departments or Government establishments for public inspection.
Sec. 5. Title of Act. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1921.” Approved, June 16, 1921.
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