Chapter 258. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and prior fiscal years, supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 258.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and prior fiscal years, supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes. July 1, 1922.[[H. R. 12090](/us/bill/67/hr/12090).][[Public, No. 263](/us/pl/67/263).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sumsThird Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1922.
Deficiency appropriations. are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and prior fiscal years, supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes, namely: LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. capitol power plant.Capitol power plant. For repair and replacement of existing equipment and for suchExpenses for connecting, with Government Printing Office and Washington Post Office, 1923. additional equipment, alterations, and other facilities as may be necessary to provide the Government Printing Office and the Washington City Post Office with heat, light, and power from the Capitol Power Plant, including labor and materials, and all other expenses necessary in connection therewith, fiscal year 1923, $271,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation for the public printing and bindingProviso.
Constructing connections with Government Printing Office from appropriation for 1922. Vol. 41, p. 1428. for the fiscal year 1922 is hereby made available during the fiscal year 1923 for payment of the cost of constructing necessary tunnels and conduits, laying pipes and cables, and for all other expenses, including labor and materials, necessary to connect the Capitol Power 768 Plant with the Government Printing Office for the purposes herein provided. Reimbursement for heat, etc., supplied during 1923.The Government Printing Office and the Washington City Post Office shall reimburse the Capitol Power Plant for heat, light, and power supplied during the fiscal year 1923, and the amounts so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriations for the said plant Post Office appropriation available. *Ante*, p. 654.and be available for the purposes named therein.
And the appropriation for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1923 for payment to the Government Printing Office for heat, light, and power, shall also be available for such purposes to reimburse the Capitol Power Plant when the connection herein provided for shall have been made. Senate.senate. Financial clerk. Increased salary, 1923.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation, “For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others,” for the fiscal year 1923, to the Financial Clerk in the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, a sum sufficient to make the salary of the position $4,500 per annum.
Appropriations Committee. Increased salary to Clerk, 1923.For additional compensation during the fiscal year 1923 to the clerk of the Committee on Appropriations, $1,000. Stationery.For stationery for Senators, committees, and officers of the Senate, $5,000. Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $50,000. Folding.For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $2,000. Fuel, oil, etc.For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $250.
Automobile, Vice President.For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President, $400. Inquiries and investigations.For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1.25 per printed page, $25,000. House of Representatives.house of representatives. Samuel M.
Brinson. Pay to daughter.To pay Mary Steele Brinson, daughter of Samuel M. Brinson, late a Representative from the State of North Carolina, $7,500, to be paid to her legally appointed guardian. Lucian W. Parrish. Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Lucian W. Parrish, late a Representative from the State of Texas, $7,500. The two foregoing sums shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Session employees from July 1, 1922, to close of session, etc.For the pay of session employees of the House of Representatives whose salaries were appropriated for for the period from December 5, 1921, to June 30, 1922, both inclusive, for the further period from July 1, 1922, to and including the last day of the month in which the second session of the Sixty-seventh Congress is adjourned sine die, such additional sum as may be necessary is appropriated.
Contested election expenses. John Paul.For payment to John Paul for expenses incurred as contestant in the contested-election case of Paul versus Harrison, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $2,000. Thomas M. Bell.For reimbursement to Thomas M. Bell, a Representative from the State of Georgia, for the amount expended by him for legal services as contestee in a contest initiated against him by O. L. Barnwell for the Sixty-seventh Congress, $500.
Robert L. Doughton.For payment to Robert L. Doughton for expenses incurred as contestee in the contested-election case of Campbell versus Doughton, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered Two, $2,000. 769 For payment to Thomas W. Harrison for expenses incurred as Thomas W. Harrison.contestee in the contested-election case of Paul versus Harrison, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $2,000. For reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees forStenographers to committees.
Expenses. the amounts actually expended and necessarily expended by them during the second session of the Sixty-seventh Congress up to and including June 30, 1922, $875 each, $3,500, of which $875 shall beM. R. Blumenberg. Pay to widow. paid to the widow of M. R. Blumenberg, late an official stenographer to committees. For maintenance, repair, and for exchange of an automobile forAutomobile, Speaker. the Speaker of the House of Representatives, fiscal year 1922, $2,500. For additional compensation during the fiscal year 1923 to the Appropriations Committee.
Increased salary to clerk, 1923.clerk of the Committee on Appropriations, $1,000. government printing office.Government Printing Office. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes,Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Charles C. Allen. and Charles C. Allen, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-seventh Congress, second session, for extra services, $700 each, $2,800. printing and binding.Public printing and binding. For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United Supreme Court.States, fiscal year 1922, $8,000; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ.
Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs,Patent Office. Weekly issue of patents, etc. trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, and annual indices, fiscal year 1922, $27,453.03. COLORADO RIVER COMMISSION.Colorado River Commission. For salaries and expenses, including printing and binding, lawSalaries and expenses, 1922, 1923. books, books of reference, traveling expenses, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and all other incidental expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled*Ante*, p. 171.
“An Act to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes,” approved August 19, 1921, $5,000, fiscal years 1922 and 1923: *Provided*, That*Proviso.* Available for incurred expenses. the appropriations made to carry out the provisions of said Act are hereby made available for the payment of salaries and expenses heretofore incurred since the appointment of the Governments representative in said matter, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere: *Provided further*, That appointments ofAppointments without reference to Civil Service laws. employees heretofore made and to be made hereunder may be without reference to the civil service laws and regulations.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. executive office.Executive office. Building inspection division: For the temporary employment ofBuilding inspection division. Assistant Inspectors, 1923. additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, fiscal year 1923, $20,000. 770 Insurance department.department of insurance. Salaries, 1923.Salaries: Examiner, $3,000; clerk-stenographer, $1,500; in all, fiscal year 1923, $4,500. Rent commission.rent commission.
Salaries and expenses, 1923. *Ante*, p. 544.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, as amended by the Act approved August 24, 1921, extending the Rent Commission until May 22, 1922, and the Act approved May 22, 1922, extending the said commission until May 22, 1924, fiscal year 1923, $72,500. Employees’ compensation fund.district of columbia employees’ compensation fund.
Payments from. Vol. 41, p. 104.For carrying 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 Vol. 39, p. 742.provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, fiscal year 1922, $6,000. Public Schools.public schools.
New Eastern High. Services, 1923.For the employment of necessary personal services at the New Eastern High School, fiscal year 1923, $10,000. Equipment, 1923.>For additional amount for the complete equipment of the New Eastern High School Building, fiscal year 1923, $250,000. Supreme court.supreme court. Jurors.For fees of jurors, fiscal year 1922, $3,000. Witness fees, etc.For fees of witnesses, and payment of the actual expenses of [R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, fiscal years 1922 and 1923, $25,000.
Miscellaneous.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, fiscal year 1922, $5,500. judgments. Payment of judgments.For payment of the judgments rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in House Document Numbered 328 of the present session, $2,551.20.
Sixty per cent from District revenues.Sixty per centum of the foregoing sums for the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum from the Treasury of the United States. General Accounting Office.general accounting office. Postal accounts. *Ante*, p. 24.In order to give effect to the provisions of the Act of June 10, 1921, and provide for the duties relating to Postal Service accounts being performed by the General Accounting Office, sums amounting to 771$892,820 shall be deducted from appropriations made for the PostTransfer from postal appropriations. *Ante*, p. 652.
Office Department for the fiscal year 1923 and be credited to the appropriation for the General Accounting Office, 1923, and are hereby appropriated therefor. For necessary employees to enable the General Accounting OfficeAuditing monthly payment of pensions, 1923. *Ante*, p. 505. to audit the accounts for the monthly payment of pensions, as follows: Four clerks at $1,400 each, eight clerks at $1,200 each, five clerks at $1,000 each, five clerks at $900 each, and one messenger at $840, fiscal year 1923, $25,540.
Contingent expenses: For office supplies (including stationery) andContingent expenses. For fiscal year 1923. equipment, repairs, and maintenance, and miscellaneous items in connection with the audit of monthly pension payments by the General Accounting Office, fiscal year 1923, $3,577. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. The operation of the following proviso, contained in the ActProvision suspended. *Ante*, p. 641. entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Executive and for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923.” is hereby suspended until July 1, 1923:
“*Provided further*, That the Interstate Commerce Commission mayEmploying stenographic reporters. employ by contract or otherwise expert stenographic reporters for its official reporting work: *And provided further*, That the commissionSale of copies. shall sell, at a rate per page equivalent to the cost of making them, copies of transcripts of its proceedings.” STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.State, etc., Department Buildings. building at 1800 e street nw.Building at 1800 E Street N.
W. Salaries: Engineer, $1,200; three guards, at $720Operating force, 1923. each; firemen, $720; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; five laborers, at $660 each; in all, fiscal year 1923, $8,820. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, fiscal year 1923,Operating expenses. *Proviso.* Placed under superintendent. $4,800: *Provided*, That the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings shall be charged with the responsibility for the maintenance, operation, and guarding of this building during the period that it is under lease by the Government.
UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAU.Veterans’ Bureau. For settlement of claims arising under Article IV of an Act entitledSettling soldiers’, etc., insurance claims. Vol. 40, p. 444. “An Act to extend protection to the civil rights of members of the Military and Naval Establishments of the United States engaged in the present war,” approved March 8, 1918, $25,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1923. Allotments of appropriations for medical and hospital services mayPublic Health Service.
Availability of allotments to, for care of Veterans’ Bureau beneficiaries. *Ante*, p. 649. be made during the fiscal year 1923 by the United States Veterans’ Bureau to the United States Public Health Service for the care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and incidental expenses, and such allotments shall also be available for expenditure by the United States Public Health Service for the necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the United States Public Health Service, clerical help in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including all personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers and others heretofore or hereafter detailed for duty to the United States Veterans’ Bureau. 772 Department of Agriculture.DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
Seed grain to farmers. Collecting loans for. Vol. 41, p. 1347. *Ante*, p. 467.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect moneys due the United States on account of loans made to farmers under the seed grain loan provisions of the Act of March 3, 1921, and the Seed Grain Loan Act of March 20, 1922, including the employment of such persons and moans in the city of Washington and elsewhere as may be necessary, fiscal year 1923, $50,000. Edible nuts. Investigating, growing, marketing, etc.,For the investigation, improvement, encouragement, and determination of the adaptability to different soils and climatic conditions of pecans, almonds, Persian walnuts, black walnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts, chestnuts, filberts, and other nuts, and for methods of growing, harvesting, packing, shipping, storing, and utilizing the same, fiscal year 1923, $5,000.
Citrus canker. Investigating, etc., methods of eradicating, etc., 1923.For conducting such investigations of the nature and means of communication of the disease of citrus canker, and for applying such methods of eradication or control of the disease as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, and cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations of growers, or individuals as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purpose, Local, etc., contributions required.fiscal year 1923, $100,000; and, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, no expenditures shall be made for these purposes until a sum or sums at least equal to such expenditures shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by State, county, or local authorities or by individuals or organizations for the accomplishment *Proviso*.
No payment for destroyed trees, etc.of such purposes: *Provided*, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed. Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Use of balance to pay salaries June, 1922. Vol. 41, p. 1298.The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to use any balance remaining in the appropriation for “Salaries, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 1922,”*to pay salaries of any employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce for the month of June, 1922, until such time as anticipated reimbursements shall have been received from officers of the department overseas.
Lighthouses Bureau.bureau of lighthouses. Payment of collision damage claim. Vol. 36, p. 537.To pay the claim adjusted and determined by the Department of Commerce under the provisions of section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 537), on account of damage occasioned to private property by collision with a vessel of the Lighthouse Service and for which the vessel of the Lighthouse Service was responsible, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 300 of the present session, $499.
Fisheries Bureau.bureau of fisheries. Mississippi River fish rescue station, 1923. *Ante*, p. 501.For the establishment of a fish-rescue station on the Mississippi River at a point to be selected by the Secretary of Commerce, construction of buildings and ponds, and for equipment, fiscal year 1923, $40,000. Employees, 1923.Fish-rescue station, Mississippi River Valley: District supervisor, $2,500; superintendent, $1,500; two field foremen at $1,200 each; four fish culturists at large at $960 each; engineer, $1,200; clerk, $1,200; two coxswains at large at $720 each; two apprentice fish culturists at $600 each; in all, fiscal year 1923, $15,280. 773 coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
For necessary alterations to United States ship Flamingo to convert“Flamingo,” U. S. ship. Conversion of, 1923. it from a mine sweeper to a surveying vessel, fiscal year 1923, $36,160. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. office of the secretary.Secretary’s Office. The appropriations for “miscellaneous printing” for the GeologicalMiscellaneous binding allowed from printing appropriations. *Ante*, p. 534. Survey, Bureau of Mines, and the Patent Office, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, are also made available for “miscellaneous binding.
” That portion of the appropriation for the Government PrintingPrinting and binding. Reappropriation to execute orders given during fiscal year. Vol. 41, p. 1429. Office for the fiscal year 1922 which may be necessary to execute printing and binding for the Interior Department under orders placed with the Public Printer during the fiscal year 1922, within the total allotments to the Interior Department, Geological Survey, and Patent Office, for that fiscal year, is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year 1923 for that purpose. general land office.Public lands.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the cooperation of theOregon-California railroad lands. Protection of revested. Vol. 39, p. 218. Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, as in his judgment may be most advisable, to establish 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 approved June 9, 1916, and the lands knownCoos Bay wagon road lands. as the Coos Bay wagon road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Co. against United States (No. 2711, in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit), fiscal year 1922, $5,726.85.
Registers and Receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers Registers and receivers. Salaries, etc., 1923. *Ante*, p. 208.of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, fiscal year 1923, $45,850; for clerk hire, rent and other incidental expenses of the*Ante*, p. 557. district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public money, fiscal year 1923, $30,000; in all, $75,850. pension office.Pension Office.
For additional employees from July 15, 1922, to June 30, 1923, Additional employees for monthly payment of pensions. *Ante*, p. 505.inclusive, to enable the Bureau of Pensions to carry out the provisions of the Act of May 3, 1922, for the monthly payment of pensions, at annual rates, as follows: Three supervising clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—thirteen at $1,800 each, seventeen at $1,600 each, forty-five at $1,400 each, eighty-two at $1,200 each; two messengers, at $840 each; three assistant messengers, at $720 each; in all, fiscal year 1923, $212,596.67.
Miscellaneous expenses: For an additional amount for printing,Miscellaneous expenses, 1923. stationery, and envelopes, and for purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, to enable the Bureau of Pensions to carry out the provisions of the Act of May 3, 1922, for the monthly payment*Ante*, p. 505. of pensions, fiscal year 1923, $45,875. indian affairs.Indian Department.
That the $150,000 reimbursable appropriated by section 2 of theGila River Reservation, Ariz. Dam, etc., for diverting water to Indian lands in. Act of February 14, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 417), for completing the construction of a dam with bridge superstructure 774Reappropriation for. Vol. 41, p. 416.and the necessary controlling works for diverting water from the Gila River for the irrigation of Indian lands on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Arizona, is hereby reappropriated for the fiscal year 1923 for such purposes.
Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. War frauds investigation, etc. Allotment for additional furniture, etc. *Ante*, p. 543.Not to exceed $5,000 of the appropriation of $500,000 contained in the Act entitled “An Act making an appropriation to enable the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute war frauds,” approved May 22, 1922, is made available for the purchase of furniture and repairs thereto, including floor coverings, file holders, and cases, in addition to any furniture secured from surplus war stores through the General Supply Committee.
Judicial.judicial. Supreme Court. Salary and expenses of Reporter to June 30, 1922. *Post*, p. 816. United States Supreme Court: For the salary of the Reporter from November 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922, $5,333.33; and for his expenses during that period for professional and clerical assistance and stationery, to be paid upon vouchers signed by him and approved by the Chief Justice, $2,333.33; in all, $7,666.66, from which shall be deducted such sums as may have been paid or allowed to the Reporter for work done in the preparation for printing and binding of reports of decisions rendered since the opening of the October, 1921, term of the court;
Reporter. Salary and expenses, 1923.For the salary of the Reporter for the fiscal year 1923, $8,000; and for his expenses for professional and clerical assistance and stationery during that fiscal year, to be paid upon vouchers signed by him and approved by the Chief Justice, $3,500; in all, $11,500. Printing and binding reports, etc., 1923.For printing and binding the official reports of the Supreme Court of the United States, and advance pamphlet installments thereof, during the fiscal year 1923, to be expended as required without allotment by quarters, $21,000.
Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT. Court costs. Payment of Supreme Court, D. C.Payment of Court Costs: For payment of court costs in suit brought by Samuel J. Smith against Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, and Luther E. Gregory, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in which suit judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, $45.20. Collision damages claims. Vol. 38, p. 607.Damage claims:
To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department under the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1911, on account of damages occasioned to private property by collisions with vessels of the United States Navy and for which naval vessels were responsible, certified to Congress in Senate Document Numbered 216 of the second session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, $3,995.06. Naval Establishment.NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Scrapping naval vessels. *Post*, p. 814.Scrapping of naval vessels:
For necessary expenses in connection with the care and preservation of ships whose construction has been suspended pending the taking effect of the treaty limiting naval armament, and for expenses of handling, preserving, and inventorying material on hand or in course of fabrication for said vessels, and toward payment of bills of subcontractors for material already completed for the vessels, fiscal year 1923, $5,000,000. Pittsburh-Des Moines Steel Company. Reimbursement.Reimbursement of Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company:
For reimbursement to the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company for ex-775penses incurred under contract dated March 27, 1919, for erection of radio towers at Croix de Hins, Gironde, France, and allowed by the General Accounting Office February 8, 1922, $2,167.24. Naval air station site, Cape May, New Jersey: Compensation for Cape May air station. Additional payment for site. Vol. 40, p. 344.property taken over by the President for the naval air station site at Cape May, New Jersey, in addition to the amount now available, $180,930.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office for theGovernment Printing Office. Heating, etc., Post Office, D. C. 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, fiscal year 1922, $6,000. POSTAL SERVICE.Postal Service. Out of the Postal Revenues. office of the postmaster general.Postmaster General.
For gas, electric power and light, and the repair of machinery,Equipment shops building. United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, fiscal year 1922, $1,000. office of the second assistant postmaster general.Second Assistant Postmaster General. For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes,Freight on postal cards, etc. newspaper wrappers, and empty mail bags, fiscal year 1921, $10,000. office of the third assistant postmaster general.Third Assistant Postmaster General.
For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of piecesIndemnity lost domestic mail. of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, fiscal year 1920, $150,000. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, fiscal year 1921, $1,000,000. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. bureau of internal revenue.Internal revenue. For refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisions ofRefunding illegally collected taxes.
Vol. 40, p. 1145. sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of February 24, 1919, for payment of claims accruing during the fiscal year 1921, $28,122,500: *Provided*, That a report snail be made*Proviso.* Report. to Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by the Act of February 24, 1919. Tax Simplification Board: For expenses of the Tax Simplification Tax Simplification Board.Board established in the Treasury Department under the provisions of section 1327 of the Revenue Act of 1921, approved NovemberExpenses, 1923. *Ante*, p. 317. 23, 1921, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, as authorized under paragraph 2
(e)of said Act and section, $7,500, this amount and also the $3,500 appropriated for expenses of the TaxUse for personal services. *Ante*, p. 454. Simplification Board by the Second Deficiency Act of March 20, 1922, being available for personal and other services and expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. Office of Director of the Mint: For contingent expenses of theDirector of the Mint. Contingent expenses. Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the direc-776tor: for assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, fiscal year 1921, $5.08. Examinations, etc.For examination of mints, expenses in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, fiscal year 1921, $10.80. Boise, Idaho, assay office. Wages, 1923.Boise, Idaho, assay office: For wages of workmen and other employees, fiscal year 1923, $1,000. Coast Guard.coast guard. Collision damages claims. Coal barge No. 9.“Frank Parish,” steamer.For payment of damages caused by collision of Coast Guard cutter Chenango with the British steamer Frank Parish, belonging to Messrs. Arthur Holland and Company (Limited), London, England, fiscal year 1922, $78.58. For payment of damages caused by collision of Coast Guard cutter Davey and coal barge Numbered nine, belonging to the New Orleans Coal Company, fiscal year 1922, $250. Engraving and Printing Bureau.bureau of engraving and printing. Number of sheets for checks increased. *Ante*, p. 378.The limitation in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923 as to the number of delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work to be executed is hereby increased by six hundred thousand sheets. Public Health Service.public health service. Ellis Island, N. Y., immigrant hospital. Operation, etc., by Public Health funds. *Ante*, p. 380.Immigration Service Hospital, Ellis Island, New York: The appropriation “Pay of Personnel and Maintenance of Hospitals, 1923,” carried under the Public Health Service in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, is also made available to enable the Public Health Service to operate the hospital of the Immigration Service at Ellis Island, New York, on the basis of the same items of expense shared by each service during Reimbursement by Immigration Service. the fiscal year 1922. The Immigration Service shall reimburse the Public Health Service on the basis of per capita rates fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the sums received by the Public Health Service from this source shall be covered into the Tresaury as miscellaneous receipts. Customs Division.customs division. Dye and Chemical Section. Expenses for 1923.Dye and Chemical Section: For expenses of the Dye and Chemical Section, including personal services in the District of Columbia, traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone, and miscellaneous items, fiscal year 1923, $26,500. Farm Loan Bureau.federal farm loan bureau. Reviewing appraisers, 1923.Salaries and expenses, Federal Farm Loan Board (reimbursable): For salaries of four reviewing appraisers at not to exceed $5,000 each per annum, and the traveling expenses of such reviewing appraisers, *Proviso.* Assessment on land banks to reimburse salaries, etc. *Post*, p. 1094.fiscal year 1923, in all, $35,000: *Provided*, That on the 1st day of January, 1923, and the 30th day of June, 1923, the Federal Farm Loan Board shall assess the salaries and expenses of the positions hereby provided for, and paid during the preceding half year, against the several Federal land banks and joint stock land banks in proportion to the gross assets of such banks at such times, and the funds collected by such assessment shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 777 office of treasurer of the united states.Treasurer’s Office. Salaries: For additional employees from August 1, 1922, toAdditional employees, 1323. June 30, 1923, inclusive, at the following annual rates: Clerks—Two at $1,800 each, nine at $1,500 each, six at $1,200 each; messenger boy, $720; in all, fiscal year 1923, $22,935. Contingent expenses: For the purchase of additional furniture, Additional furniture, etc., 1323.equipment, and labor-saving devices, including adding machines, year 1923, $3,800. Relief of John Burke: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to John Burke. Purchase of bonds, etc., for relief of. *Post*, p. 1591.purchase and deliver bonds of the issues described in Private Act Numbered 70, approved June 3, 1922, entitled “An Act for the relief of John Burke, former Treasurer of the United States, for loss of bonds without fault or negligence on the part of said former Treasurer,” and to further enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the amount of matured and accrued interest as may be due at the time of purchase and delivery of said bonds. The total cost of the bonds and the amount payable as interest shall not exceed the sum of $9,100, which sum is hereby appropriated. public buildings.Public buildings. Cape Charles, Virginia, Quarantine Station; For payment to theEmpire Machinery and Supply Corporation. Payment to. Empire Machinery and Supply Corporation, of Norfolk, Virginia, for balance due on account of materials furnished in connection with construction operations at the Cape Charles Quarantine Station, Craney Island, Virginia, $199.78. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps. Sites for military purposes: For completion of acquisition of realSites for military purposes. Completing acquisition of, etc. *Ante*, p. 418. estate as authorized by an Act approved March 8, 1922, entitled “An Act to amend the Army Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, so as to release appropriations for the completion of the acquisition of real estate in certain cases and making additional appropriations therefor,” as follows: For Army supply base, New Orleans, Louisiana, $282,000;Designated property. For Army supply base, Brooklyn, New York, $1,590,675.52; For Army supply base, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $766,937; For Army base, Charleston, South Carolina, $159,020; For Army supply base, Norfolk, Virginia, $190,000; For Army reserve depot, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, $92,500; For Army reserve depot, Schenectady, New York, $3,000; For quartermaster depot, Jeffersonville, Indiana, $225,000; For quartermaster warehouse, Baltimore, Maryland, $100,000; For quartermaster warehouses, Newport News, Virginia, $223,670; For Artillery range, Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, $7,533.67; General Hospital Numbered 19, Azalea, North Carolina, $58,000; For site for septic tank, Souther Field, Americus, Georgia, $750; For ordnance depot, Savanna, Illinois, $500; For ordnance depot, Pedricktown, New Jersey, $215,652.90; For sewer right of way for housing project, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, $275; For ordnance storage depot, Middletown, Pennsylvania, $50,000; For Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, $174,591.63; In all, $4,140,105.72. For completion of the acquisition of real estate and for payment ofCamp Grant, Ill. Completing purchase of real estate, rentals. *Ante*, p. 419. rentals, including interest, for land at Camp Grant, Illinois, as authorized by an Act approved March 8, 1922, entitled “An Act to 778 amend the Army Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, so as to release appropriations for the completion of the acquisition of real estate in certain cases and making additional appropriations therefor,” the sum of $65,803.71, or so much thereof as may be necessary, Balance available. Vol. 41, p. 118.of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Barracks and quarters, 1920,” is continued and made available for this purpose during the fiscal year 1923. Camp Bragg, N. C. Acquiring land for. Vol. 41, p. 454.For the completion of the acquisition of land for military purposes at Camp Bragg, North Carolina, $698,031.56. Medical Department.medical and hospital department. Walter Reed Hospital. Payment for additional land. Vol. 41, p. 122.For amount required to pay adjudicated awards for lands condemned for use by the War Department at Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, $44,109.22. Engineer Corps.corps of engineers. River and harbor contracts. Payment for work under, between April 6, 1917 and July 18, 1918. Vol. 40, p. 1290.Readjustment of contracts: For amounts found to be due various contractors under the provisions of section 10, River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1919, on certain contracts for work on river and harbor improvements entered into but not completed prior to April 6, 1917, for work performed between April 6, 1917, and July 18, 1918, as set forth in detail in reports of the Chief of Engineers forwarded to the Speaker of the House of Representatives by letters of the Secretary of War as published in House Documents Numbered 205 and 219, Sixty-seventh Congress, $210,535.66. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous. Paying specified awards.To pay the Cranford Paving Company, $16,766.66; Littlefield, Alvord and Company, $1,479.80; and Christian Heurich, $1,531.36, as adjudged by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia upon its findings of fact; in all, $19,777.82. Settlement of claims.settlement of claims. War contracts. Unexpended balances for settling, available until June 30, 1923, for claims of foreign governments only. *Ante*, p. 63. Vol. 40, p. 1272. *Post*, p. 1550.The provision contained in the second deficiency Act, fiscal year 1921, approved June 16, 1921, extending until June 30, 1922, the availability of the amounts of unexpended balances of appropriations chargeable with the settlement of claims resulting from the suspension or termination of contracts or other procurement obligations of the War Department and with the adjustment of claims under the Act of Congress approved March 2, 1919, where the contract or obligation was entered into subsequently to April 6, 1917, and prior to November 12, 1918, is hereby extended to June 30, 1923, subject to the restriction that the balances so extended shall be used exclusively to settle *Provisos*. Contracts between November 12, 1918, and June 30, 1919, included.the claims of foreign governments and their nationals for supplies or services furnished for the use of the American forces abroad: *Provided*, That the balances of appropriations herein extended may also be used to settle the claims of foreign governments and their nationals where the contract or obligation was incurred between November 12, Appropriations available until June 30, 1923.1918, and June 30, 1919, both dates inclusive: *Provided*, That such amounts of the appropriations of the War Department for the fiscal year 1920 as may be necessary to effect settlements of the claims of foreign governments and their nationals properly payable from said appropriations may be withheld from cover into the surplus funds of the Treasury and remain available until June 30, 1923: *Provided Amount limited, etc.further*, That the total amount of the appropriations herein extended shall not exceed $3,203,000, which amount shall constitute one fund 779on the books of the Treasury Department: *Provided further*, That inExpenses of commission to adjust claims. the event any commission or authorized committee is sent abroad to adjust the claims mentioned herein, such expenses (not to exceed 530,000) as are necessary for such commission or committee properly to perform its duties shall be payable from the funds herein extended, including compensation of employees in the United States and abroad, the cost of needed supplies, traveling expenses, and such allowances to civilian members of such commission or committee and employees sent therewith, for actual expenses in lieu of subsistence, not to exceed $10 per day, as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs ofPayment of. suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act ofVol. 24, 505. March 3, 1887, “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 357 and Senate Document Numbered 222, and which have not been appealed, namely: Under the War Department, $25,982;War Department. Under the Navy Department, $71,416.94;Navy Department. Under the United States Housing Corporation, $104,418.88;Housing Corporation. Interest. In all, $201,817.82, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. For payment of the judgment rendered against the United StatesNew York eastern district court. by the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York, sitting in admiralty, and certified to Congress in HouseVol. 41, p, 1489. Document Numbered 358 of the present session, under the Navy Department, $2,521.24. For payment of the judgment rendered against the United StatesVirginia eastern district court. by the District Court of the United States tor the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting in admiralty, and certified to Congress in HouseVol. 41, p. 1521. Document Numbered 358 of the present session, under the Navy Department, $31,006.43. For payment of the judgment rendered against the United StatesMassachusetts district court. by the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, sitting in admiralty, and certified to Congress in HouseVol. 41, p. 1521. Document Numbered 358 of the present session under the Navy Department, $11,934.25. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of ClaimsPayment of and reported to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 356 and Senate Documents numbered 221 and 226, namely: Under the Treasury Department, $14,350.83;Classification. Under the War Department, $367,655.05; Under the Navy Department, $67,740.57; Under the Department of Labor, $52,277.43; Under the Post Office Department, $17,927.02; Under the Department of Justice, $2,552.84; Under the United States Shipping Board, $3,000; Under the United States Housing Corporation, $18,880.55; In all, $544,384.29. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until theRight of appeal. right of appeal shall have expired. 780 Audited claims.AUDITED CLAIMS. Sec. 2. Payment of, certified by General Accounting Office. *Ante*, p. 23. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund Vol. 18, p. 110.under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service Vol. 23, p. 254.of the fiscal year 1919 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 359, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: Treasury Department.treasury department. For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $180. For national security and defense, Treasury Department, $1,601.73. For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $13.06. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department, stationery, $9.90. For collecting the revenue from customs, $63.09. For payment of judgments against collectors of customs, $5,435.45. For allowance or drawback, $57,273.99. For collecting the war revenue, $465.68. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal Revenue Service, $1,163.22. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $50. For Coast Guard, $1,183.13. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $106.65. For fuel, light, and water, Public Health Service, $242.76. For care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $22.95. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $430.62. For quarantine service, $18.19. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $47.40. For field investigations of Public Health Service, $1.10. For interstate quarantine service, $1.91. For suppressing Spanish influenza and other communicable diseases, $7.65. For expenses, Division of Venereal Diseases, Public Health Service, $58.73. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $23. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $28.37. For general expenses of public buildings, $12.77. For operating force for public buildings, $24.50. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $116.58. For operating supplies for public buildings, $625.77. War Department.war department. For contingent expenses, War Department, $80. For contingent expenses, public buildings and grounds, $24.80. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $6,229.44. For contingencies of the Army, $10.47. For civilian military training camps, $107.30. For registration and selection for military service, $1,395.10. For support of dependent families of enlisted men, $35.93. For signal service of the Army, $5,333.48. For Air Service, military, $733.70. For Air Service, production, $4,845.95. For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $1,553.66.781 For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $3,438.28. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $851.85. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $320.65. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $692,752.62. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $103.85. For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, $110.74. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $291.03. For barracks and quarters, $25,951.33. For roads, walks, wharves and drainage, $27.49. For construction and repair of hospitals, $4,381.32. For supplies, services and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $428,410.97. For inland and port storage and shipping facilities, $519.20. For medical and hospital department, $9,682.82. For engineer operations in the field, $82,026.63. For ordnance service, $541.17. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $218.68. For small arms target practice, $3,439.62. For manufacture of arms, $13.68. For ordnance stores and supplies, $332.22. For automatic rifles, $2. For encampment and maneuvers Organized Militia, $4.40. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $56. For arming and equipping the militia, $3,591.41. For electrical and sound-ranging equipment, and so forth, $11,318.73. For gun and mortar batteries, $13,623.31. For plans for fortifications, $8.10. For supplies for seacoast defenses, $32.38. For casemates, galleries, and so forth, for submarine mines, $1,531.37. For fire control at fortifications, $15,122.17. For armament of fortifications, $1,200,442.35. For proving ground facilities, $898.64. For barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses, $3,670.39. For aviation stations, seacoast defenses, $764,571.27. For fortifications in insular possessions, $5,096.92. For searchlights for harbor defenses, $30,789.45. For aviation, seacoast defenses, Panama Canal, $5,046.85. For increase of compensation. Rivers and Harbors, $66. For harbor at Buffalo, New York, $153,686.94. For national cemeteries, $48.70. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $2.70. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees, $227.67. For national security and defense, $50.95. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, $4.56. navy department.Navy Department. For increase of compensation, Naval Establishment, $59.27. For pay, miscellaneous, $2,283.30. For aviation, Navy, $54,718.41. For national security and defense, Navy Department, $38.75. For pay, Marine Corps, $8,141.50. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $2,961.19. For contingent, Marine Corps, $1,085.15. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $19,691.94.782 For arming and equipping Naval Militia, $184.06. For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, $5.65. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $3,036.21. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $1,921.91. For Naval War College, Bureau of Navigation, $1.27. For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia, $12.50. For recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, $2.40. For schools or camps of instruction for recruits and Naval Reserve Force, $9.25. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $13,348.87. For ammunition for vessels, Bureau of Ordnance, $73.47. For reserve ordnance supplies, Bureau of Ordnance, $20,602.51. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $158.72. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $340.68. For care of hospital patients, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $45.45. For pay of the Navy, $112,911.18. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,576.54. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $904.43. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,381.87. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $44,080.96. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $354.95. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $2,817.57. Interior Department.interior department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, $119.72. For national security and defense, Department of the Interior, $52.66. For scientific library. Patent Office, $14.35. For investigation of rural and industrial education, Bureau of Education, $16.26. For traveling expenses, Bureau of Education, $13.98. For Capitol power plant, $278.59. For contingent expenses of land offices, $3.49. For surveying the public lands, 20 cents. For Geological Survey, $168.54. For investigating mine accidents, $35.71. For operating mine rescue cars, Bureau of Mines, $3.99. For removal of mining experiment station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bureau of Mines, $2.85. For relieving distress, and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $11.35. For Indian schools, support, $78.64. For Indian school and agency buildings, $38.20. For industrial work and care of timber, $55.24. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $1,655.65. For general expenses, Indian Service, $3.87. For inspectors, Indian Service, $1.74. For industry among Indians, $60. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, $78. For support of Poncas, Oklahoma, $42. For probate attorneys, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $10. For asylum for insane Indians, Canton, South Dakota, $4. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence, and civilization, South Dakota, $1.80.783 legislative establishment. For salaries, officers and employees, House of Representatives, $28.House of Representatives. For salaries, Capitol police, House of Representatives, $6.25. For contingent expenses, miscellaneous items, House of Representatives, $4.09. state department. For national security and defense, Department of State, $1,007.79.State Department. For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, $3,242.23.Diplomatic and consular service. For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, $375. For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $116.23. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $694.37. For clerks at embassies and legations, $459.44. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $810.43. For rescuing shipwrecked American seamen, $70. For boundary line, Alaska and Canada and United States and Canada, $203.41. For salaries, Consular Service, $718.51. For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $1,522.55. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $416.78. For expenses, interpreters and guards in Turkish Dominions, and so forth, $305.60. For relief and protection of American seamen, $1,407.81. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $4,144.85. independent offices. For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration,Food Administration. $29.28. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $202.71.Interstate Commerce Commission. For Federal Board for Vocational Education, salaries and expenses,Vocational Education Board. $20.48. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of War Risk Insurance, $768.50.War Risk Insurance. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $3.24.Veterans’ Bureau. For salaries and expenses, Committee on Public Information,Public Information Committee. $7.44. For traveling expenses, Civil Service Commission, $45.Civil Service Commission. department of agriculture. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products,Department of Agriculture. $4.68. For library, Department of Agriculture, $4.80. For general expenses, Forest Service, $218.47. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $105.80. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $29.26. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $67.77. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $66.73. For general expenses, Bureau of Markets, $2.47. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $14.34. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $8.25. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $2.80. For general expenses, Bureau of Public Roads, 45 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates, 60 cents. For national security and defense, Department of Agriculture, $3.02.784 Department of Commerce.department of commerce. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $1.86. For national security and defense, Department of Commerce, $8.31. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $1.53. For promoting commerce, South and Central America, $26.56. For commercial attachés, Department of Commerce, $96.36. For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, $49.90. For enforcement of wireless communication laws, 85 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, 34 cents. For investigation of public utility standards, Bureau of Standards, $2.85. For military research, Bureau of Standards, $90.53. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $112.06. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $7,544.89. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $21.76. For protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, $31.75. department of labor. Department of Labor.For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $109.62. For salaries and expenses, commissioners of conciliation, $17.38. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $622.23. For expenses of regulating immigration, $21.04. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, $14.02. For investigation of child welfare, Children’s Bureau, 42 cents. For war labor administration, $145.87. For advanced transportation, United States Employment Service, $4,994.50. For national security and defense, Department of Labor, $291.51. department of justice. Department of Justice.For detection and prosecution of crimes, $8.49. For national security and defense, Department of Justice, $5. For books for judicial officers, $391.10. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $277. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $487.87. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $23.85. Total, audited claims, section 2, $3,881,905.11. Audited claims.AUDITED CLAIMS. Sec. 3. Payment of, certified by General Accounting Office. *Ante*, p. 23. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund Vol. 18, p. 110.under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1919 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, Vol. 23, p. 254.and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 219, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: treasury department. Treasury Department.For Coast Guard, $182.48. For pay, and so forth, commissioned officers and pharmacists, Public Health Service, $254.44.785 For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $21.67. For general expenses of public buildings, 55 cents. For operating supplies for public buildings, $3.75. war department. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $36.41.War Department. For registration and selection for military service, $1,598.10. For Signal Service of the Army, $23,872.50. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $122.29. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $5.60. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $1,600.31. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $12. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $2,817.01. For medical and hospital department, $49. For Ordnance Service, $10. For civilian military training camps, $29.28. For armament of fortifications, $16,500.22. navy department. For pay, miscellaneous, $42.62.Navy Department. For aviation, Navy, $222.78. For pay, Marine Corps, $12.97. For maintenance, Quartermaster–s Department, Marine Corps, $650.85. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $417.23. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $25.89. For pay of the Navy, $3,182.12. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $134.87. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $91.39. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $5,220.31. For engineering, Bureau or Steam Engineering, $298. interior department. For Indian schools, support, $10.Interior Department. For industrial work and care of timber, $12.50. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, $6.65. state department. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $6.60.State Department. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $123.86.Diplomatic and Consular Services. For emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, $100. independent offices. For salaries and expenses, Committee on Public Information,Public Information Committee. $15.50. department of commerce. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, 54 cents.Department of Commerce. department of labor. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $1.94.Department of Labor. For national security and defense, Department of Labor, $4.52. For war labor administration, $9.60. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, 95 cents. 786 Department or Justice.department of justice. For books for judicial officers, $5. postal service. Postal Service.For railroad transportation, $41,101.65. For Rural Delivery Service, $153.47. For balances due foreign countries, $128,672.87. For power boat and airplane service, $6.60. For compensation of postmasters, $23.07. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $160. For temporary clerk hire, $3.50. For star route service, $14.82. For special delivery fees, $3.36. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $156.17. For city delivery carriers, $492.22. For Railway Mail Service, $127.96. For indemnities, international registered mail, $15.18. For indemnities, domestic mail, $13.50. For star route service, Alaska, $255. For mail bags and equipment, $700.26. For shipment of supplies, $12.26. Total, audited claims, section 3, $229,624.19. Sec. 4. Title of Act. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “Third Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1922.” Approved, July 1, 1922.