Chapter 29. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 29.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes. January 22, 1923.[[H. R. 13615](/us/bill/67/hr/13615).][[Public, No. 385](/us/pl/67/385).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Second Deficiency Act, 1923.
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other1155wise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations Deficiency appropriations.for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes, namely: LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. To pay Georgia Durham Watson, widow of Honorable Thomas Thomas E. Watson.Pay to widow.E.
Watson, late a Senator from the State of Georgia, $7,500. For an assistant clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, at Appropriations Commitee.Assistant clerk.the rate of $3,000 per annum, from January 1, 1923, to June 30, 1924, both dates inclusive, $4,500. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation Anna Dawson.Services.for 1923 for compensation of officers, clerks, messengers and others, to Anna Dawson for services as clerk rendered the Honorable Smith W.
Brookhart, a Senator from the State of Iowa, from November 10, 1922, to December 1, 1922, at the rate of $2,500 per annum and additional compensation at the rate of $240 per annum. house of representatives.House of Representatives. To pay the widow of Charles R. Connell, late a Representative Charles R. Connell.Pay to widow.from the State of Pennsylvania, $7,500. To pay the widow of James R. Mann, late a Representative from James R. Mann.Pay to widow.the State of Illinois, $7,500.
To pay the widow of John I. Nolan, late a Representative from John I. Nolan.Pay to widow.the State of California, $7,500. The three foregoing sums shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. For payment to James I. Campbell for expenses incurred as contestant Contested election expenses.James I. Campbell.in the contested-election case of Campbell versus Doughton, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 2, $2,000. For payment to Jacob Gartenstein for expenses incurred as contestant Jacob Gartenstein.in the contested-election case of Gartenstein versus Sabath, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 3, $2,000.
For payment to Adolph J. Sabath for expenses incurred as contestee Adolph J. Sabath.in the contested-election case of Gartenstein versus Sabath, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 3. $2,000. The appropriations herein made for payment of expenses in contested-election cases shall be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, Stationery.$125. botanic garden.Botanic Garden.
For repairs and improvements to the main conservatory of the Botanic Repairs, improvements, etc.Garden, including the necessary personal services and materials, not to exceed $5,000; for replacing fence of the Botanic Garden, including other repairs made necessary by the connection of the Capitol power plant with the Botanic Garden, not to exceed $400; for fuel for New greenhouses,etc.the Botanic Garden, not to exceed $4,000; for the conversion into greenhouses of buildings situated on the tract of land lying along the site of the James Creek Canal, including labor and materials necessary therefor, not to exceed $15,000; in all, under the direction of the Joint Committee of the Library, $24,400. 1156 INDEPENDENT EXECUTIVE ESTABLISHMENTS.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. supreme court.Supreme Court. Miscellaneous expenses.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 Half from District revenues.Appeals, District of Columbia, fiscal year 1920, $15.99, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. national zoological park.Zoological Park.
Acquired land.Vol. 41, pp. 892, 1334.For an additional amount required to make payment for certain land acquired under the provisions of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Acts approved June 5, 1920, and March 4, 1921, respectively, $3,096.34. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.Tariff Commission. Salaries and expenses.Vol. 39, p. 795.For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, including purchase and exchange of labor-saving devices, the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, and periodicals as may be necessary, as authorized under Title *Ante*, pp. 911–947.VII of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September 8, 1916, and under sections 315, 316, 317, and 318 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved September 21, 1922, $150,000.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. forest service.Forest Service. Motor boat, Alaska.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase a motor boat in the administration of the Alaskan forests to replace boat sunk by striking rocks in Sumner Strait, $8,500. Insect infestation, Oregon and California.Appropriation continued.*Ante*, p. 331.The appropriation of $150,000 provided by the “First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1922,” approved December 15, 1921, for the prevention of loss of timber from insect infestation on public lands in Oregon and California shall remain available for the purposes authorized by such Act until December 31, 1923. pink bollworm.Pink bollworm of cotton.
Additional amount to meetemergency.For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the existence of the pink bollworm of cotton in Mexico; to prevent the movement of cotton and cotton seed from Mexico into the United States, including the regulation of entry into the United States of railway cars and other vehicles, and freight, express, baggage, or other materials from Mexico, and the inspection, cleaning, and disinfection thereof, $75,000, including the payment of rent outside the District of Columbia and the em1157ployment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere; any moneys received in payment of charges fixed by the Deposit of receipts for cleaning, etc.Secretary of Agriculture on account of such cleaning and disinfection at plants constructed therefor out of any appropriation made on account of the pink bollworm of cotton to be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. cooperative construction of rural post roads.Rural post roads.
For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to Additional amount for cooperative construction, etc.Vol. 39, p. 355; Vol. 40, p. 1201.provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes,” approved July 11, 1916, and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of such Act as amended, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended, being part of the sum of $50,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, by paragraph 1 of section 4 of *Ante*, p. 660.the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1923, approved June 19, 1922: *Provided*, That the *Provisos.*Approval of Secretary deemed a Federal obligation.Secretary of Agriculture shall act upon projects submitted to him under his apportionment of such authorization of $50,000,000, and his approval of any such project within three years shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of its proportional contribution thereto: *Provided further*, That Availability of appropriations.the appropriations heretofore and hereafter made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of such Act of July 11, 1916, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligations created by the approval of projects.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. bureau of lighthouses.Lighthouses Bureau. Damage claims: To pay the claims adjusted and determined by Payment of collision damages claims.Vol. 36, p. 537.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 vessels of the Lighthouse Service and for which the vessels of the Lighthouse Service were responsible, certified to the present Congress in House Document Numbered 489, $653.16.
Interior Department. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. bureau of indian affairs. Fort Sill Apache Indians, Oklahoma: For the relief of, and Apache Indians, Okla.Interior Department.Relief, etc., of, lately prisoners of war at Fort Sill.*Ante*, p. 991.purchase of lands for, certain of the Apache Indians of Oklahoma lately confined as prisoners of war at Fort Sill Military Reservation, as authorized by the Act of September 21, 1922, $42,500. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses.
Stationery: For stationery for the department and its several Stationery.bureaus and offices, fiscal year 1919, $2. 1158 Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal years that follow: For 1919, $3.10. For 1920, $2.01. miscellaneous objects, department of justice. Supreme Court costs in case of R. E. Kennington, etc.For the payment of costs taxed in the Supreme Court against the United States in the case of R.
E. Kennington and others against A. Mitchell Palmer and others (October term, 1921), $49.65. Conduct of customs cases.Conduct of customs cases: For the conduct of customs cases, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $133.90. Defending suits in claims.Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the year 1922, $1,174.96.
Detection, etc., of crimes.Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, $89.16. disrtrict judges.District Judges. Pay of additional.*Ante*, p. 837.For salaries of additional district judges authorized by the Act entitled “An Act for the appointment of an additional circuit judge for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, for the appointment of additional district judges for certain districts, providing for an annual conference of certain judges, and for other purposes,” approved September 14, 1922, $75,000. territorial court.
Hawaii.Additional circuit Judge.Territory of Hawaii: For salary of the additional circuit judge appointed December 20, 1921, $6,000. marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courts.United States courts. Marshals.For fiscal year 1923.United States marshals: For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1923, $2,000,000.
Prior years.United States marshals: For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: 1920, $2.17; 1921, $5,766.93; 1922, $172,246.34; in all, $178,015.44. District attorneys.United States district attorneys: For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $25,335.82.
Clerks.Salaries and expenses of clerks, United States district courts: For salaries of clerks of United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, expenses of travel and subsistence, and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, in accordance with Vol. 40, p. 1182.the provisions of the Act approved February 26, 1919, fiscal year 1922, $10,177.49. 1159 Fees of commissioners: For fees of United States commissioners Commissioners, etc.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).and justices of the peace acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes, for the fiscal years that follow: 1917, $39.90; 1919, $230; 1920, $948.90; 1922, $25,000; in all, $26,218.80.
Fees of jurors: For fees of jurors for the following fiscal years: Jurors.1921, $3,156.25; 1922, $16.178.92; in all, $19,335.17. Bailiffs: For bailiffs and criers, and so forth, including the same Bailiffs, etc.objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $7,531.11. Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may Miscellaneous.be authorized by the Attorney General for the United States courts and their officers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: 1917, $35.20; 1918, $55.55; 1919. $126; 1920, $782.38; 1921, $97.67; in all, $1,096.80.
Supplies for United States courts: For supplies, including the Supplies.exchange of typewriting and adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, fiscal year 1921, $140.02. Books for judicial officers: For purchase and rebinding of law Books for Judicial officers.books, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $300.05.
Such portion of the appropriation of $35,000 for “Books for Judicial For additional Judges.*Ante*, p. 1084.Officers,” contained in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1924, as may be necessary to provide books for such of the additional *Ante*, p. 837.judges authorized by the Act of September 14, 1922, as may be appointed and qualified prior to July 1, 1923, is hereby made immediately available. Supreme Court Reports:
For three hundred copies of volume 256 Supreme Court Reports.Volume 256.of the Supreme Court Reports, to complete sets now in the hands of various officials, at $1.75 per volume, $525. penal institutions.Penitentiaries. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the Leavenworth, Kans.Subsistence.same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1923, $12.067.43.
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the Clothing, etc.same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1923, $12,603.45. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified Miscellaneous.under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1923, $12,643.
For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and Hospital.so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1923. $2,643.90. For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $196.02. For salaries of guards, $3,060.Guards.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures, Atlanta. Ga.Miscellaneous.including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1923, $47,000. 1160 For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $11,010.85. McNeil Island, Wash.Subsistence.McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary:
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1923, $7,089.50. Clothing, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1923, $8,160. Support of prisoners.Support of United States prisoners:
For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: 1912. $143.50; 1913, $182.50; 1914, $200.80; 1915. $219; 1916. $219.60; 1917, $259; 1918, $305.60; 1919, $396.40; 1920, $219.60; 1921, $30,006.89; 1922, $249,297.72; in all, $281,450.61. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Collision damages claims.Vol. 36, 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 the present Congress in House Document Numbered 496, $6,969.46.
POSTAL SERVICE.Postal Service. office of postmaster general.Postmaster General. Rewards, etc.For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, fiscal year 1921, $7,750. office of first assistant postmaster general.First Assistant Postmaster General. Postmasters.For compensation to postmasters, fiscal year 1922, $1,399,508.03. Special delivery fees.To reimburse the postal revenues for the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriation for special-delivery fees, fiscal year 1921, $780.05.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. diplomatic and consular service.Diplomatic and Consular Service. Cuba.Pay of ambassador in addition to amount for minister, etc.*Ante*, p. 1069.The compensation of an ambassador to Cuba when hereafter appointed shall be the sum of $17,500 per annum, and the salary appropriated for the fiscal year 1923 and 1924 for an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Cuba is hereby made available for the salary of an ambassador, and there is hereby appropriated for that purpose for the fiscal year 1924 the additional *Provisos.*Restrictions not applicable.[R.
S., sec. 1223, p. 215](/us/rs/s1223/p215).Salary restriction not applicable.*Ante*, pp. 601, 1069.sum of $5,500: *Provided*, That the restrictions contained in section 1223. Revised Statutes, shall not apply in filling the existing vacancy at Havana, Cuba: *And provided further*, That the restrictions contained in the annual appropriation Acts for the State and Justice Departments, fiscal years 1923 and 1924, pertaining to salaries of ambassadors and ministers, shall not apply in filling the vacancy Aggregate pay restricted.at Havana, Cuba: *And provided further*, That the aggregate of all pay from all sources from the Government of the United 1161States to any person appointed to the foregoing office under the permissive authority contained in the first and second provisos of this paragraph shall not exceed the annual rate of $17,500.
For Pauline G. Swalm, widow of Albert W. Swalm, late consul Pauline G. Swalm.Payment to.to Hamilton, Bermuda, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while at his post of duty from illness incurred in the Consular Service, $4,500. contingent expenses, foreign missions. The general accounting officers are authorized to credit Boaz W. Boaz W. Long.Credit In accounts.Long in the settlement of his accounts as American minister to Salvador with the sum of $2,819.50 or such amount as they may find due on account of furniture and equipment purchased from him in Salvador for the legation building erected by the United States Government at San Salvador, for which an account in the above- mentioned sum has been approved by the Department of State under “Contingent Expenses, Foreign Missions, 1920.” cape spartel light.
For the annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Cape Spartel Light.Tangier Light, on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, for the fiscal wars that follow: For 1923, $96.50; For 1922, $164. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration. For an additional amount to meet the share of the United States International Bureau, Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 32, p. 1793.in the expenses for the calendar year 1921 of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration created under article 22 of the convention concluded at The Hague July 29, 1899, $329. transportation of diplomatic and consular officers.
For the transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going Transportation expenses.to and returning from their posts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $25,500. relief and protection of american seamen. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Relief etc., American seamen.including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1921, $21,421.33; For 1922, $10,694.48. international seismological association. For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligations International Seismological Association.of the United States as a member of the International Seismological Association for the year March 31, 1915, to March 31, 1916, fiscal years 1915 and 1916, $360. payments to chinese government. To pay to the Chinese Government as an act of grace and without Chinese Government.Payment for personal injuries by United States forces.reference to the question of the legal liability of the United States, in satisfaction of claims arising out of the negligent or un1162lawful acts in China of persons connected with the military and naval services of the United States, as follows:
Indemnity to the family of Li Shih Chi, $1,000; indemnity to the family of Chang Tsu Tsao, $1,000; indemnity to the family of a Chinese policeman murdered near Jehol, and expenses *Post*, p. 1487.of Chinese witnesses at the trial of the offender, $1,500; and damages resulting from the sinking of a Chinese junk by the United States ship Palos, October 23, 1917, on the Yangtze River, $2,413.79; in all, $5,913.79. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. bureau of internal revenue.Internal revenue.
Rebinding illegally collected taxes.*Ante*, p. 314.For refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisions of sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of February 24, 1919. for the fiscal year 1922 and prior fiscal years, *Proviso.*Report.Vol. 40, p. 1145.$42,430,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by the Act of February 24, 1919. WAR DEPARTMENT—MILITARY ACTIVITIES.War Department. sites for military puposes.Sites for military purposes.
Designated authorizations.*Ante*, p. 1069.For acquisition of real estate as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the acquisition of lands for military purposes in certain cases and making appropriations therefor, and for other purposes,” approved September 22, 1922, as follows: For Morgan general ordnance depot, South Amboy, New Jersey, $300; for Pig Point ordnance reserve depot, Virginia, $3,000; for Middletown air intermediate depot, Middletown, Pennsylvania, $165,000; for Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Maryland, $24,200'; for Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, Colorado, $1,500; for inland warehouses, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $575,000; in all, $769,000. national guard.National Guard.
Subsistence for Army enlisted men on duty with.During the fiscal year 1923 the cost of subsistence allowances for enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty with the National Guard shall be chargeable to the appropriation for subsistence of the Army. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. American dead in Europe.Acceptance of exclusive rights if title for burial places not obtainable.*Ante*, pp. 490, 757.The expenditures authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 44, approved April 1, 1922, as modified by War Department Appropriation Act approved June 30, 1922, for the purchase of real estate to establish suitable burial places in Europe for American military dead, may, when title to such real estate can not be secured, be made instead for the acquisition of the exclusive rights of burial in perpetuity in such lands. damage claims.Damages claims.
Previous appropriation repealed.*Ante*, p. 1052.The appropriation of $93,163.47, included in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved September 22, 1922, to provide for the payment of accrued claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army, is hereby repealed. 1163 JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States Courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs Payment of.Vol. 24, p. 505.of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, “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 504, and which have not been appealed, namely:Classification.
Under the Treasury Department, $45,781.74. Under the War Department, $4,576.64. In all, $50,358.38, 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 States Virginia eastern district.*Post*, p. 1578.by the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting in admiralty, and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 527 of the present session, under the Navy Department, $20,000.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims Payment of.and reported to Congress during the present session in House Documents Numbered 502 and 526, namely:Classification. Under the Interior Department (Indian Affairs), $386,597.89; Under the Navy Department, $40,283.78; Under the Post Office Department, $37,240.02; Under the Treasury Department, $13,300; Under the War Department, $217,872.73; In all, $695,294.42.
None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified Payment of, certified by General Accounting Office.*Ante*, p. 23.to be due by the General Accounting Office 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, 1874, Vol. 18, p. 110.and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1920 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 Vol. 23, p. 254.Numbered 501, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: independent offices.
For salaries and expenses. Committee on Public Information, Independent offices.$3.75. For fuel, lights, and so forth, State, War, and Navy Department Buildings, $1,629.24. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $1.38. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $22.58. For advisory committee for aeronautics, $105.03. For national security and defense, United States Shipping Board, $1,273.29. For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, $30.31.1164 For national security and défense, United States Fuel Administration, $71.95.
For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $2.18. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $3,459.19. department of agriculture. Department of Agriculture.For library, Department of Agriculture, $25. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $117.72. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $414.38. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $14.19. For general expenses, States Relations Service, 36 cents. For general expenses. Bureau of Markets, $1.50.
For enforcement of the United States Grain Standards Act, $7.11. For suppressing spread of pink bollworm of cotton, $2.73. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $1.50. For demonstrations on reclamation projects, $6. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $43.79. department of commerce. Department of Commerce.For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, $6. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $7.46. For pay, and so forth, of officers and men, vessels, coast survey, $9.90.
For preventing overcrowding of passenger vessels, $4.96. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $3,085.36. interior department. Interior Department.For increase of compensation, Interior Department, 26 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 73 cents. For scientific library, Patent Office, $7. For library, Bureau of Education, $133.82. For Yellowstone National Park, $27.65. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, $2,124.83. For contingent expenses of land offices, $3.
For surveying the public lands, $7.83. For surveying the public lands in Alaska, $1.68. For Geological Survey, $2.93. For operating mine-rescue cars, Bureau of Mines, $480. For maintenance and operation of fuel yards, District of Columbia, Bureau of Mines, $20.23. For increase of compensation, Indian Service, 67 cents. For surveying and allotting Indian reservations (reimbursable), $920.78. For irrigation, Indian reservations (reimbursable), $7.75. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $18.60.
For Indian schools, support, $34.13. For Indian school and agency buildings, $32.66. For industrial work and care of timber, $10.55. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies $709.63. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service. $1. For expenses of Indian commissioners. $3.25. For general expenses, Indian Service. $48.37. For inspectors, Indian Service. $5.40. For industry among Indians, $41.15. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $7.50.1165 For improvement, maintenance, and operation, Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho (reimbursable), $11.
For drainage assessments Indian lands in Minnesota (reimbursable). $9,567.62. For support of Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Montana, $39.08. For the support of Indians in Nevada, 71 cents. For education, Sioux Nation, South Dakota, $32.45. For maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington, $147.80. department of justice. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneous Department of Justice.items, 41 cents. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $79.81.
For maintenance and transportation of aliens, Department of Justice, $71.56. For national security and defense, Department of Justice, $426.10. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts. $212.35. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, 32 cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $5.90. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $12. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $120.20. For supplies for United States courts, $521.74.
For support of prisoners, United States courts. $84.93. department of labor. For salaries and expenses, commissioners of conciliation, $18.08.Department of Labor. For national security and defense, Department of Labor, $8.20. For expenses of regulating immigration, $45.87. For investigation of child welfare, Children’s Bureau, 40 cents. For women in industry, Department of Labor, 76 cents. For war emergency employment service, $2.49. For war labor administration, $4.99. For salaries and expenses first industrial conference, 41 cents. navy department.
For increase of compensation. Naval Establishment, $84.27.Navy Department. For pay, miscellaneous, $1,958.59. For aviation, Navy, $11,131.77. For care of lepers, and so forth. Island of Guam, $137.17. For pay, Marine Corps, $6,038.67. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $1,668.92. For contingent. Marine Corps. $1,859.90. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $10,194.19. For outfits for landsmen, Bureau of Navigation, $45. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $2,448.85.
For ordnance and ordnance stores. Bureau of Ordnance, $5,490.96. For experiments, Bureau of Ordnance, $5,006.25. For reserve ordnance supplies. Bureau of Ordnance, $102.46. For emergency expenses, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $2,032.15. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $615.40. For medical department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $489.93. For pay of the Navy, $84,228.75. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,226.76.1166 For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2.
For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $14,790.22. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $201.17. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $519.96. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $2,041.31. state department. Department of State.For national security and defense, $13,311.79. For enforcement of Act to prevent departure from or entry into the United States during time of war, $38.40. For entry of aliens into the United States, $832.35.
For War Trade Board section, Department of State, $498.95. For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, $112.53. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $3,156.63. For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $325. For clerks at embassies and legations, $2,055.01. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $3,510.39. For salaries, Consular Service, $7,080.87. For post allowance to diplomatic and consular officers, $5,008.78. For allowance to clerks at consulates, $1,445.60.
For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $4,679.06. For relief and protection of American seamen, $786.92. For legation building, San Salvador, Salvador, $491.60. For waterways treaty, United States and Great Britain, $22.65. treasury department. Treasury Department.For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $43. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Fuel, and so forth, $454.27. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Miscellaneous items, $16.50.
For expenses of loans, Act September 24, 1917, as amended, $1,696.45. For collecting the war revenue, $643.69. For enforcement of the National Prohibition Act (internal revenue), $5. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal Revenue Service, 55 cents. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $208.32. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $168.56. For allowance or drawback (internal revenue), $6,715.83. For Coast Guard, $318.44. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life Saving Service, $20.
For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $2.87. For pay, and so forth, commissioned officers and pharmacists, Public Health Service, $170. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $88.37. For care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $5.22. For books, Public Health Service, $11.20. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $809.86. For quarantine service, $3.36. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $8.33.
For field investigations of public health, $36.29. For interstate quarantine service, $1.12.1167 For contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $7.72. For payment of judgments against collectors of customs, $386.65. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $558.10. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $167.84. For vaults and safes for public buildings, $30.50. For general expenses of public buildings, $51.46. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $55.63.
For operating supplies for public buildings, $202.87. war department. For increase of compensation, War Department, $248.67.War Department. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $11,437.98. For civilian military training camps,$30.12. For registration and selection for military service, $717.68. For Signal Service of the Army, $8,577.53. For Air Service, Army, $93,978.34. For Air Service, production, $5,737.36. For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $6,465.32.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $696.16. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $585.87. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $377,646.77. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $125.64. For regular supplies, Quartermaster Department, $426.82. For transportation facilities, inland and coastwise waterways, $27,289.37. For or transportation of the Army and its supplies, $224.57. For barracks and quarters, $197.30. For vocational training of soldiers, $316.53.
For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $140,013.87. For inland and port storage and shipping facilities, $1.79. For Medical and Hospital Department, $1,591.48. For Ordnance Service, $2,205.92. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $347.35. For small-arms target practice, $33.90. For manufacture of arms, $14,268.38. For ordnance stores and supplies, $1,247.14. For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $1,273.99. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $978.83.
For casemates, galleries, and so forth, for submarine mines, $9,403.42. For fire control at fortifications, $165.59. For fortifications in insular possessions, $9,952.88. For armament of fortifications, $65,945.41. For armored motor cars, $228.86. For aviation, seacoast defenses, $80. For maintenance, and so forth, fire-control installations at sea-coast defenses, Signal Service, $1,042.60. For maintenance, and so forth, fire-control installations at sea-coast defenses, 915.74.
For maintenance, and so forth, fire-control installations at sea-coast defenses, insular possessions, $13,510.71. For maintenance, and so forth, fire-control installations at sea-coast defenses, Signal Service, $12,674.97. For repairs of arsenals, $75.22. For library, Surgeon General’s office, $261.28. For maintenance, United States Military Academy, $1,033.20. For military post exchanges, $2,500. For national security and defense, War Department, $85.1168 For Quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $232.42.
For replacing medical supplies, $555.45. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $58.72. For sewerage system, Fort Monroe, Virginia, $27,912.56. For aviation, seacoast defenses, Panama Canal, $2,492.09. For electric light and power plants, seacoast fortifications, Panama Canal, $7,452.06. For fire control, Panama Canal, $57,374.62. For fire control at fortifications, Panama Canal, $42,801.29. For land defenses, Panama Canal, $2,330.60. For seacoast batteries, Canal Zone, Panama Canal, $33,200.31.
For submarine mines, Panama Canal, $3,815.38. For submarine mine structures, Panama Canal, $4,591.87. For maintenance, and so forth, fire-control installations at sea-coast defenses, Panama Canal, $9,139.50. For maintenance, and so forth, fire-control installations at sea-coast defenses, Signal Service, Panama Canal, $5,206.94. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $60.97. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $19.72. For increase of compensation, rivers and harbors, $1,405.07. post office department postal service.
Postal Service.For balance due foreign countries, $941.32. For city delivery carriers, $321.45. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $628.43. For compensation to postmasters, $517.96. For indemnities, domestic mail, $7,629.29. For indemnities, international registered mail, $1,567.07. For mail messenger service, $202.09. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, purchases, $3. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $29.81.
For post-office equipment and supplies, $16.50. For power-boat service, $28.53. For railroad transportation. $2,620.85. For Railway Mail Service (salaries), $79.02. For rent, light, and fuel, $1,184.26. For Rural Delivery Service, $177.80. For shipment of supplies, $279.42. For special delivery fees, $73.44. For temporary city delivery carriers, $91.73. For temporary clerk hire, $160.40. For vehicle service, $1,735.24. Total audited claims, section 2, $1,267,449.36. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims.
Sec. 3. Payment of, certified by General Accounting Office.*Ante*, p. 23.Vol. 18, p. 110. 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 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 1920 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 House Document Numbered 528, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: 1169 INDEPENDENT OFFICES.
For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, Independent offices.$11.36. For housing for war needs, $975. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $3.50. For fuel, lights, and so forth, State, War, and Navy Department Buildings, $2.59. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $45. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $1.23.Department of Agriculture. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $13.11. For suppressing spread of pink bollworm of cotton, $20.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $9.Department of Commerce. For salaries, keepers of lighthouses, $40.45. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. For maintenance, House Office Building, $3.25.Interior Department. For irrigation, Indian reservations (reimbursable), $15. For Indian school and agency buildings, $30.50. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $42.61. For pumping plant, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $129. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $2.13.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $33.Department of Justice. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. For war emergency employment service, $2.20.Department of Labor. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $457.36.Department of State. For clerks at embassies and legations, $148.13. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $273.18. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $93.86. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $23.92.
For relief and protection of American seamen, $1,036.21. For national security and defense, Department of State, $189.62. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Fuel, and so Treasury Department.forth, $80.04. For expenses of loans, Act September 24, 1917, as amended, $1.14. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $1,000. For salaries and expenses of collections, and so forth, of internal revenue, $6.40. For restricting the sale of opium, and so forth, $9.95.
For allowance or drawback (internal revenue), $341.40.1170 For Coast Guard, $45.90. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $3.40. For maintenance, marine hospitals, Public Health Service, 24 cents. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $7.90. For operating supplies for public buildings, $133.81. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, 15 cents. WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department.For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $1,769.08.
For registration and selection for military service, $89.10. For Signal Service of the Army, $1,031.35. For Air Service, Army, $84.62. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $718.93. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $54.18. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $79,640.63. For barracks and quarters, $972.44. For vocational training of soldiers, $216.05. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $15,025.87. For medical and hospital department, $474.
For engineer operations in the field, $400.02. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $13.73. For ordnance stores and supplies, 29 cents. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $425.86. For fortifications in insular possessions, $7.50. For armament of fortifications, $1,420.36. For proving-ground facilities, $23.10. For increase of compensation, rivers and harbors, $202.97. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT—POSTAL SERVICE. Postal Service.For city-delivery carriers, $168.28. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $15.73.
For compensation to postmasters, $127.45. For railroad transportation, $1,734.07. For rent, light, and fuel, $33. For Rural Delivery Service, $237.76. For shipment of supplies, $34.50. For temporary clerk hire, $68.40. For temporary City Delivery Service, $118.80. Total, audited claims, section 3, $110,339.61. Sec. 4. Title of Act. This Act hereafter may be referred to as the “Second Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1923.” Approved, January 22, 1923.