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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 42 STAT. · June 30, 1923 · Chapter 292

Chapter 292. 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, 1924, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 292.— 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, 1924, and for other purposes. March 4, 1923.[[H. R. 14408](/us/bill/67/hr/14408).][[Public, No. 543](/us/67/pl/543).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following Third Deficiency Act, 1923.sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not Deficiencies appropriations.otherwise appropriated, 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, 1924, and for other purposes, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. For additional compensation to John C. Crockett, reading clerk John C. Crockett. Pay increase.of the Senate, fiscal year 1924, $500. 1528 Assistant and ActingAssistant Doorkeeper. Increased pay.On and after March 1, 1923, the salaries of the Assistant Doorkeeper and Acting Assistant Doorkeeper shall be at the rate of $4,200 per annum each, and there is hereby appropriated the sum of $1,600 to carry out said purpose. Floor assistants. Increased pay.On and after March 1, 1923, the salaries of the two floor assistants shall be at the rate of $3,600 per annum each, and there is hereby appropriated the sum of $2,933.34 to carry out said purpose.
Charles F. Redmond.Compiling compilation of Treaties, etc.To pay Charles F. Redmond, as compensation for compiling a revised supplement to the compilation entitled “Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, and Protocols Between the United States and Other Powers,” containing such instruments to which the United States has become a party since January 1, 1910, under resolution of the Senate (S. Res. 130, Sixty-seventh Congress, first session), $2,500. C. Brooks Fry. Services.For payment to C.
Brooks Fry for expert personal services in connection with the investigation of the fiscal relations of the District of Columbia and the United States and the preparation of the reports relating thereto, $1,000. Thomas A. Hodgson. Services.For payment to Thomas A. Hodgson for expert personal services in connection with the investigation of the fiscal relations of the District of Columbia and the United States, $1,000. Alexander K. Meek. Services.To pay Alexander K. Meek for extra and expert services rendered to the Committee on Pensions during the third and fourth sessions of the Sixty-seventh Congress as an assistant clerk to said committee, by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200.
Leslie L. Biffle. Services.For payment to Leslie L. Biffle for services rendered various committees of the Senate, in addition to his regular duties, $900. Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, for fiscal year 1923, $50,000. Stationery.For stationery for Senators, committees, and officers of the Senate for fiscal year 1923, $5,000. Senate kitchens and restaurants.For personal and other services, supplies and equipment for Senate kitchens and restaurants, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $7,000.
Messenger at card door. Laborer at private passage. Increased pay.For additional compensation to messenger at card door, $200. After July 1, 1923, the salary of the laborer in charge of private passage, under office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, shall be at the rate of $1,100 per annum, and there is hereby appropriated the sum of $200 to carry out such purpose. House of Representatives.house of representatives. Sherman E. Burroughs. Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Sherman E.
Burroughs, late a Representative from the State of New Hampshire, $7,500. W. Bourke Cockran. Pay to widow.To pay the widow of W. Bourke Cockran, late a Representative from the State of New York, $7,500. Nestor Montoya. Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Nestor Montoya, late a Representative from the State of New Mexico, $7,500. Henry Z. Osborne. Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Henry Z. Osborne, late a Representative from the State of California, $7,500. The four foregoing sums shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House.
John W. Rainey. Contested election expenses.For payment to John W. Rainey for expenses incurred as contestee in the contested-election case of Golombiewski versus Rainey, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 2, $2,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. Stanley H. Kunz. Contested election expenses.For payment to Stanley H. Kunz for expenses incurred as contestee in the contested-election case of Parrillo versus Kunz, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 1, $2,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. 1529 For payment to Dan Parrillo for expenses incurred as contestant Don Parillo.
Con tested-election expenses.in the contested-election case of Parrillo versus Kunz, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 1, $2,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. For the employment of competent persons to assist in continuing Compiling laws, etc., of the United States.the work of compiling, codifying, and revising the laws and treaties of the United States, $4,000, to be expended under the direction of the Member-elect to the Sixty-eighth Congress who was chairman of the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives during the Sixty-seventh Congress, and to remain available until June 30, 1924.
For the amount required to pay the following employees from Designated employees.March 4 to June 30, 1923, inclusive: Substitute telephone operator, at $2.50 per diem, $297.50; janitor to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, authorized in the resolution of December 16, 1922, $234; clerk to the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers, authorized in the resolution of May 9, 1921, $650; legislative clerk to the majority leader, authorized in the resolution of March 24, 1922, $1,170; two attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms, at $390 each, authorized in the resolution of September 14, 1922; in all, $3,131.50.
To continue the employment, under the direction of the Clerk Special employees.of the House, of the person named in the resolution of February 13, 1923, from March 4, 1923, to June 30, 1924, inclusive, $3,312.51. For the amount required to pay the chief janitor of the House Chief Janitor. Increased pay.of Representatives the additional compensation authorized in the resolution of February 24, 1923, from March 4, 1923, to June 30, 1924, inclusive, $397.50. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous items, etc.exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, and including reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually and necessarily paid out by them for transcribing hearings, fiscal year 1923, $55,000. architect of the capitol.Architect of the Capitol.
Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs Capitol buildings. General repairs.thereof, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year 1923, $17,250. Senate Office Building: For emergency repairs to the elevators Senate Office Building Emergency repairs, etc.in the Senate Office Building and for compensation of employees during the remainder of the fiscal year 1923, $10,000; for construction of additional suites within the Senate Office Building authorized by the Committee on Rules, $10,000.
Library of Congress Building: The appropriation of $1,100 for Library of Congress Building.*Ante*, p. 1274. amended.the fiscal year 1924 for extra services of employees under the Architect of the Capitol for the opening of the Library Building on Sundays and legal holidays is amended to read as follows: " “For extra services of employees under the Architect of the Sunday opening.Capitol to provide for the opening of the Library Building on Sundays and on holidays. $1,100.” " For constructing conduits and installing all mains, cables, apparatus, Botanic Garden.
Capitol power plant, connection to.and so forth, including personal services, necessary to provide the Botanic Garden with neat and light from the Capitol power plant; the work to be done under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, fiscal year 1923, $40,093. 1530 Government Printing Office.government printing office. Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes and Charles C. Allen.To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Charles C. Allen, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-seventh Congress, fourth session, for extra services, $800 each, fiscal year 1923, $3,200.
Executive.EXECUTIVE. office of the president. Travelling, etc., expanses of the Présidait.*Ante*, p. 636.The appropriation of $25,000 for traveling and other expenses of the President of the United States for the fiscal year 1923 is hereby continued and made available for the same purposes until expended. Alien Property Custodian.Alien Property Custodian. Austro Hungarian Government. Expenses caring for, etc., property of.To enable the Alien Property Custodian to pay the expenses incurred and to be incurred in caring for, insuring, and returning to their owners, certain valuable works of art loaned to the Panama Pacific International Exposition upon a request made of the AustroHungarian Government, by the Secretary of State? which works of art were seized by the Alien Property Custodian in 1918, and are now to be returned, fiscal year 1923, $8,324.93.
Employees’ Compensation Commission.EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION. Allowances from compensation fund.Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745.For the payment of compensation provided by “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, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section 9, and the transportation Recoveries. Vol. 39, p. 747.and burial expenses provided by sections 9 and 11 and advancement of cost for the enforcement of recoveries provided in sections 26 and 27, where necessary, accruing during the fiscal year 1923 or in prior fiscal years, $475,000.
Coal Commission.UNITED STATES COAL COMMISSION. Expenses of. *Ante*, p. 1023.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a commission to be known as the United States Coal Commission for the purpose of securing information in connection with questions relative to interstate commerce in coal, and for other *Ante*, p. 1448.purposes,” approved September 22, 1922, as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, fiscal years 1923 and 1924, $400,000.
Veterans’ Bureau.UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAU. Military and naval Insurance.For military and naval insurance, fiscal year 1923, $13,235,000. District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. General expenses.general expenses. Plumbing Inspection Division.Plumbing Inspection Division: For temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, fiscal year 1923, $1,000. Surveyor’s Office.Temporary drafts-men, etc.Surveyor’s Office:
For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, and additional field party when required, purchase 1531 of supplies, care or hire of teams, fiscal year 1923, $3,000, all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the commissioners. contingent and miscellaneous expenses.Contingent expenses. For postage for strictly official mail matter, fiscal year 1923, Postage.$4,000. The recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia is hereby Recorder of deeds.
Rent of additional rooms by, authorized.authorized to lease one additional floor in the Century Building, located at 412 Fifth Street northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, consisting of nine rooms, for the use and occupancy of his office; and he is authorized and directed to pay for said use and occupancy, out of the fees and emoluments of his office, not to exceed $1,500 per annum. The recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia is hereby Book typewriters.authorized to acquire by purchase five additional Elliot-Fisher book typewriters, and to pay for said machines out of the fees and emoluments of his office, not exceeding $1,790. improvements and repairs.
For current work of repairs to suburban roads and suburban Suburban roads and streets. Current repairs.streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, fiscal year 1923, $25',000. Francis Scott Key Bridge: For miscellaneous supplies and expenses Francis Scott Key Bridge. Maintenance, etc.of every kind necessarily incident to the maintenance of the bridge and approaches, fiscal year 1923, $1,000. sewers.Sewers. For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, Pumping service.including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks used in this work, fiscal year 1923, $20,000.
For suburban sewers, including the maintenance of motor vehicles Suburban.used in this work, fiscal year 1923, $32,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, fiscal year 1923, $50,000.Assessment and permit work. streets.Streets. The appropriation of $16,800, included in the District of Columbia Fifteenth Street NW.Repaving H to I street repealed.*Ante*, p. 679, repealed.Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, approved June 29, 1922, for repaving Fifteenth Street northwest, H Street to I Street, seventy feet wide, is hereby repealed.
To enable the commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing City refuse.law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $50,000. eletrical department.Electrical department. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, Supplies, etc.and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $2,500. 1532 Lighting streets, etc.Lighting:
For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lamp-posts, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $15,000. Public schools.public schools. Eastern High. Assistant principal, etc.*Proviso*. Basic salary. For assistant principal and dean of girls of the Eastern High School at $2,400 per annum from March 1 to June 30, 1923, inclusive, $800:*Provided*, That said assistant principal shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years.
Principals of grade school buildings.Vol. 34, p. 320.For allowance to principals of grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, fiscal year 1923, $2,000. Retirement fund annuities.Teachers’ retirement fund:
For anadditional amount for payment Janitors, etc.of annuities, fiscal year 1923, $4,500. Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: For two additional janitors, at the rate of $720 per annum each, from March 1 to June 30, 1923, inclusive; for amount required to increase the compensation of four janitors from $720 to $1,000 per annum each from March 1 to June 30, 1923, inclusive; in all, $853.33. Fuel, light, and power.For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, fiscal year 1921, $492.14.
Supplies to pupils. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $15,000. Replacing fire losses.For amount required to replace textbooks and supplies for the public schools which were destroyed or damaged by fire, fiscal year 1923, $15,000. Police.metropolitan police. Fuel. For fuel, fiscal year 1923, $1,000.
Motor vehicles.For maintenance of motor vehicles, fiscal year 1923, $3,025. Policemen, etc., relief fund.policemen and firement’s relief fund. Payments from.To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, a further sum not to exceed $90,000 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund, fiscal year 1923. Fire Department. fire department. Fuel.For fuel, fiscal year 1923, $1,000. Health department.health department. Repairs to tuberculosis, etc., dispensary.For replacing roof of building belonging to the United States and used by the health department as a dispensary for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, fiscal year 1923, $300.
Courts. courts. Courthouse, repairs, etc.Courthouse: For repairs and improvements to the Courthouse and the Court of Appeals Building, District of Columbia, to be ex- 1533 pended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, fiscal years 1923 and 1924, $7,500. Supreme Court, District of Columbia: For fees of jurors, fiscal Supreme Court. Jurors.year 1923, $15,000. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Miscellaneous expenses.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 1923, $15,500.
Police court: For compensation of jurors, fiscal year 1923, Police court.Jurors.$4,000. Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs Lunacy writs.Expenses of executing.de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1921, $18.75; For 1922, $1,123.99. Municipal Court. For contingent expenses including books, law Municipal court.
Contingent expenses.books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, fiscal year 1923, $1,000. charities and corrections.Charities and corrections. Workhouse: For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, fiscal Workhouse. Fuel.year 1923, $10,000. Board of Children’s Guardians: Authority is granted to pay during Board of Children’s Guardians.Additional allotments to sectarian institutions.the fiscal year 1923 not more than $4,500, in addition to the amount heretofore authorized, to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control for board and care of children committed to the guardianship of said board.
For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), Feeble-minded children.fiscal year 1923, $2,000. Saint Elizabeths Hospital: For support of indigent insane of the Indigent insane.District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, fiscal year 1923, $105,000. superintendent of the washington asylum and jail.Superintendent, Washington Asylum and Jail. The superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail appointed Execution of Judgments in capital cases by, required. *Ante*, p. 1355.by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia is hereby directed, authorized, and required to execute the judgments of the law heretofore pronounced and hereafter to be pronounced in the District of Columbia by the courts thereof in all capital cases, and the power and authority heretofore given to and now vested in such commissioners to appoint such superintendent and all appointments to the position of such superintendent made by such commissioners are hereby ratified and confirmed; and any failure on the part Failure to provide salary not to repeal position, etc.of Congress, either heretofore or hereafter, to make a specific appropriation for the salary or compensation of such superintendent shall not be construed either as an abolition of such position of superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail or as a repeal of the power and authority of such commissioners to appoint such superintendent. refund of erroneous collections.Refund of erroneous collections.
For amount required to make refunds of assessments paid for Payments authorized from.improving roadways, based upon court decisions in the cases of the 1534 District of Columbia against Knox Appeals, Numbered 3737, and Bradbury against the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, equity Numbered 39529, $3,967.46. judgments. Payment of judgments.Payment of Judgments.For payments of the judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in House Document Numbered 571 of the present session, $19,069.14, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same become due until date of payment.
Audited claims. Audited claims. audited claims. Payment of, certified by District accounting officers.Vol. 18, p. 110.For the payment of following claims, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, being for the service of the fiscal year 1920 and prior years: Contingent expenses.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.
District of Columbia: Free Public Library, contingent expenses, $7; Coroner’s Office, contingent expenses, $6; Streets.Streets, District of Columbia: Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal, $23.10; Electrical department.Electrical department, District of Columbia: General supplies, $342.38; Schools.Public schools, District of Columbia: Laboratories, $63.60; Fire department.Fire department, District of Columbia: Fuel, $49; Courts.Courts, District of Columbia: Reports of opinions, Court of Appeals, $55;
Juvenile Court, compensation of jurors, $3; In all, audited claims, $549.08. Proportion from District revenues, 1921-1923.Sixty per centum of the foregoing sums for the District of Columbia for the service of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1921, June 30, 1922, and June 30, 1923, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the For 1920 and prior years.United States; and such sums as relate to the fiscal year 1920 and prior fiscal years, unless herein otherwise specifically provided, shall be paid 50 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 50 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States.
Water department. water department. Extending distribution system.For extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, fiscal year 1923, to be paid from the revenues of the water department, $50,000. Temporary services.temporary services. Personal services, limitation increased.*Ante,* p. 711.The limitation of $100,000 on the employment of personal services under section 2 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, is increased to $115,000. *Ante*, p. 712.The limitation of $15,000 on the employment of personal services under section 4 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, is increased to $20,000. 1535 miscellaneous.
To enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to maintain Mystic Shrine convention. Expenses of maintaining order, etc., during.*Ante*, pp. 1218, 1371.public order and protect life and property in the District of Columbia from May 25, 1923, to June 10, 1923, both dates inclusive, including the employment of personal services, the payment of allowances, traveling expenses, hire of means of transportation, and other incidental expenses in the discretion of the said commissioners, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, From District revenues.fiscal year 1923, $50,000.
For the construction, rent, maintenance, and for incidental expenses. Temporary public convenience stations, etc.in connection with the operation of temporary public convenience stations, first-aid stations, and information booths, including the employment of personal services in connection therewith, from May 25, 1923, to June 10, 1923, both dates inclusive, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1923, $4,000. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. bureau of plant industry.Plant Industry Bureau.
For applying such methods of eradication or control of the white White pine blister rust. Eradication and control methods.pine blister rust as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, including the payment of such expenses and the employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, in cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations, or individuals as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, and in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture no expenditure shall be made for these purposes Local contributions required.Until a sum or sums at least equal to such expenditures shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by States, county, or local authorities, or by individuals or organizations for the accomplishment of such purposes, fiscal year 1923, $30,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.No pay for destroyed trees, etc.That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed. forest service.Forest Service.
For fighting and preventing forest fires, fiscal year 1923, $375,000.Fighting forest fires.Oregon and California Railroad lands, etc. Protection of the so-called Oregon and California railroad lands and Coos Bay wagon road lands: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to Fire protection, etc., of revested.Vol. 39, p. 219.guard against and check fires upon the land revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916, and the lands known as Coos Bay Wagon, Road lands.the Coos Bay wagon road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company against United States (Number 2711) in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, fiscal year 1923, $16,480. miscellaneous.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect moneys due the Seed grain to farmers. Collecting loans of, for seeds.Vol. 41, p. 1347.United States on account of loans made to farmers under the seed-grain loan provisions of the Act of March 3, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes *Ante,* p. 467at Large, pages 1315, 1347), and the Seed Grain Loan Act of March 20, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 467), including the employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere as may be necessary, fiscal year 1923, $25,000. 1536 Entomology Bureau.bureau of entomology.
Japanese beetle.Emergency expenses in preventing spread of.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the occurrence of the Japanese beetle in the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and to provide means for the control and prevention of spread of this insect in these States and to other States, in cooperation with the States concerned, and with organizations or individuals, as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary *Proviso*.Contribution of States, etc.expenses, $25,000, fiscal year 1923: *Provided*, That 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 States, county, or local authorities, or by individuals or organizations for the accomplishment for such purposes.
Insecticides. Use of airplanes in distributing, for control of boll weevil, etc.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Secretary of War, to investigate and develop the use of the airplane as a means of distributing insecticides for the control of the boll weevil and other cotton insects, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, to remain available until June 30, 1924, $40,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. printing and binding. Printing and binding. For printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of the Census, fiscal year 1923, $38,750. Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.bureau of foreign and domectic commerce. Crude rubber.Investigating sources of production, etc.Investigating sources of crude rubber: To enable the Department of Commerce to investigate and report upon the possibilities of developing the rubber plantation industry in the Philippine Islands and Latin America; to investigate the conditions of production and marketing of other essential raw materials for American industries including nitrates and sisal; and to investigate related problems in the development of the foreign trade of the United States in agricultural and manufactured products, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $500,000, to remain available until June 30, 1924: *Provided*, That of this sum such *Proviso*.
Exploration of rubber producing regions, etc. amount as the President may in his discretion direct, not exceeding $100,000, shall be made available to the Department of Agriculture for such exploration of rubber-producing regions and such studies and experiments with rubber-producing plants in the United States, the Philippine Islands, and elsewhere, as may be found advisable. Customs statistics.Expenses of operation, section of, in New York customhouse,etc.*Ante*, p. 1109Customs statistics:
For all expenses necessary for the operation of the section of customs statistics now located in the customhouse, New York, New York, transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved January 5, 1923, and in addition to the appropriations made available by said Act, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including add-1537ing, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographing, multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; subsistence and traveling expenses of officers and employees while traveling on official business; freight, express, and drayage; tabulating cards, stationery and miscellaneous office supplies, furniture and equipment, ice, water, heat, light, and power, street-car fare, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not included in the Available until June 30, 1924.foregoing, $150,000, to remain available until June 30, 1924. bureau of lighthouses.Lighthouses Bureau.
For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field Retired pay.service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, fiscal year 1923, $9,000. Damage claims: To pay claims adjusted and determined by theCollision damage claims.Vol. 36, p. 537. 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 Documents Numbered 555 and 567, $606.75. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Damage claims: To pay claims adjusted and determined by the Damages to property. Payment of claims for. Vol. 41, p. 1054.Department of Commerce under the provisions of the Act approved June 5, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1054), on account of damage occasioned by acts for which the Coast and Geodetic Survey has been found to be responsible, certified to the present Congress in House Document Numbered 537, $188,25. bureau of fisheries. Fisheries Bureau. For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing Alaska general service.Protecting seal fisheries, food to natives, etc.of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expense of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries Vol. 36, p. 326.of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved April 21, 1910, and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, fiscal year 1923, $29,800.
Not to exceed $100,000 of the appropriation for Alaska general Proportion tor 1924 immediately available.service and not to exceed $10,000 of the appropriation for maintenance *Ante*,p. 1125.of vessels contained in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes,” approved January 5, 1923, shall be immediately available tor the procurement of supplies and equipment required for shipment to the Pribilof Islands for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924.
The appropriation of $40,000 for the fiscal year 1923 for the Mississippi Valley rescue stations. Reappropriation. *Ante*, p. 772.establishment of a fish-rescue station on the Mississippi River made by the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved July 1, 1922, is hereby continued and made available during the fiscal year 1924. 1538 Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Secretary’s Office.Office of the Secretary. Chief Clerk. Full salary to be paid. *Ante*, p. 1174.The appropriation of $4,000 for the fiscal year 1923 for the salary of the chief clerk of the Department of the Interior shall be paid to the person holding that office, notwithstanding that the responsibility for the care, maintenance, and protection of certain buildings of the department has been transferred from the Secretary of the Interior to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.
Printing and binding.printing and binding. Patent Office.For the Patent Office : For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, bimonthly, and annual indices, fiscal year 1923, $55,000. Alaska.territory of alaska. Care of insane.For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, fiscal year *Proviso*.
Sanitarium Company.1923, $15,000: *Provided,*, That authority is granted to the Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, not to exceed $600 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1923. Reimbursement of Territory for repairs to governor’s residence.To reimburse the Territory of Alaska for moneys advanced to the Governor of Alaska for repairs to his residence at Juneau, Alaska, necessitated by a fire in the building, fiscal year 1923, $857.
Indian Service. bureau of indian affairs. Purchase of supplies, etc.For expenses necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Indian Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $201,759.69. Telegraphing and telephoning.For telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1921, $49.86; For 1922, $547.02. Payment for destroyed diseased animals, etc.For reimbursing Indians for live stock which may be hereafter destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Indian Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, $449. Arizona.arizona. Navajos and Hopis. Water supply for, on Navajo, etc., reservations.For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo and Hopi Indians on the Navajo, Moqui, Pueblo, Bonita, San Juan, and Western Navajo Reservations, fiscal year 1921, $222.79, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available.
Support of Indians. Transfer of appropriations for New Mexico.Vol. 41, p. 422.The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the sum of $1,058.87 from the appropriation “Support of Indians in New Mexico, 1921,” to the appropriation “Support of Indians in Arizona, 1921, and to use the same for settlement of certain audited accounts which are properly payable from the last-named appropriation. 1539 For payment to the Allied Contractors, Incorporated, of Omaha, Allied Contractors.
Payment for bridge Little Colorado River at Leupp, Ariz.*Ante*, p. 1288.Nebraska, as additional compensation for the construction of a bridge across the Little Colorado River near the Leupp Indian Agency, Arizona, $17.471.25, as authorized by the Act approved February 26, 1923 : *Provided*, That said amount shall be reimbursable *Proviso*. Reimbursement.to the United States from any funds now or hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Navajo Indians in Arizona, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said tribe of Indians until paid. idaho.Idaho.
For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall Fort Hall Irrigation system.irrigation system, fiscal year 1921, $278.96. montana.Montana. For the purchase of seed, fence wire, stoves, harness, wagons, flour Blackfeet Reservation.Civilization, etc., of Indians of.mill, and agricultural implements and machinery, and repair parts therefor; the purchase of material and supplies for gopher eradication work; for the Indians of the Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1924: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Reimbursement.
Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, require that payment be made by individual Indians under the reimbursable regulations of August 7, 1918, for articles received by them. new mexico. New Mexico. For the purpose of promoting civilization and self-support among Mescalero Reservation.Promoting civilization., etc.the Indians of the Mescalero Reservation, in New Mexico, to be ex-pended or distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $75,000, to remain *Ante*, p, 1222.available until June 30, 1924, and to be reimbursed to the United States before June 30, 1935, from the sale of timber on said reservation. north dakota.North Dakota.
For repairing, reconstructing, and reequipping the shop building Fort Totten School.at Fort Totten Indian School, Fort Totten, North Dakota, recently destroyed by fire, $10,000. washington.Washington. For support and civilization of the Makahs, including pay Makahs. Support, etc.of employees, fiscal year 1921, 25 cents. For the completion of the road on the Quiniault Reservation, Quiniault Reservation.Completing road on.Vol. 40, p. 588.Washington, fiscal year 1922, $20.15, reimbursable from the tribal funds of said Indians on the same terms and conditions as provided in the Indian Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919.
For continuing construction and enlargement of the Wapato irrigation Yakima Reservation. Enlarging, etc., Wapato irrigation project on.and drainage system, to make possible the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), for forty acres of each Indian allotment Vol. 38, p. 604.under the. Wapato irrigation project on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Indian Appropriation Acts, for the fiscal years 1919, 1921, and 1922, for the fiscal years that follow:
Repayment.For 1919, $840.11; for 1921-1922, 74 cents; reimbursable under the Vol. 39, p. 154.conditions and terms of the Act of May 18, 1916. 1540 Wyoming.wyoming. Shoshone Reservation.Payment to Indians of.For making payments to Indians of the Wind River Reservation in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to ratify and amend an agreement with the Indians residing on the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation in the State of Wyoming and to make appropriations for carrying the same into effect,” Vol. 33, p. 1021.approved March 3, 1905 (Thirty-third Statutes, page 1021), $50, reimbursable from the receipts from the sale of the lands ceded and relinquished pursuant to such Act.
Extending Irrigation System for additional lands.For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $208.94, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1905. Pension Office.pension office. Army and Navy pensions.Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, *Proviso*.Navy from naval pension fund.fiscal year 1923, $16,000,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that Separate accounting.purpose: *Provided further,* That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.
Examining surgeons.Fees.For an additional amount for the payment of fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services rendered within the fiscal year 1923, $177,015. Patent Office.patent office. International bureau, Bertie.For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the international bureau at Berne, Switzerland, fiscal year 1921, $775. Reclamation Service.reclamation service. Columbia River. Investigation of irrigation problems on.*Ante*, p. 1281.For investigations of the feasibility of irrigation by gravity or pumping, water sources, water storage, and related problems on the Columbia River and its tributaries, and for cooperative and miscellaneous investigations of the feasibility of reclamation projects, including personal services in the District of Columbia and else-where; purchase, repair, maintenance, hire and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger carrying vehicles; and for all other expenses; reimbursable in the case of any project if and when Distribution of amounts.adopted for construction by the United States or other agency; to remain available until December 31, 1924, as follows:
Columbia Basin project, $100,000; Umatilla Rapids project, $50,000; cooperative and miscellaneous investigations of reclamation projects, $125,000; in all, $275,000. National parks.national park service. Zion, Utah.Zion National Park: For continuing the construction, reconstruction, improvement, widening, and surfacing, inclusive of necessary bridges, of highways and trails in Zion National Park, including $40,000 for construction of a bridge across the Virgin River on public lands outside the boundaries of said park, fiscal years 1923 and 1924, $133,000. 1541 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice.
The aggregate of the amounts of $3,500 and $500 for salary of Chief Jerk. Full salary to be paid. *Ante*, p. 1078.the chief clerk and administrative assistant and superintendent of buildings, Department of Justice, provided in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and the judiciary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, is hereby made available for the salary of the chief clerk and administrative assistant. contingent expenses, department of jusice.Contingent expenses.
For stationery for department and its several bureaus, fiscal year Stationery.1923, $1,000. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, Miscellaneous.lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street-car fares not exceeding $300, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, fiscal year 1923, $10,000. For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, fiscalPrinting and binding. year 1923, $4,500.
For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, Traveling, etc., expenses.including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of section 3648, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, [R. S., sec. 3648, p.718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).fiscal year 1923, $500. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous objects. Defending suits in claims against the United States:
For necessary Defending suite in claims.expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses, and 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, $15,000. 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 fiscal year 1922, $1,587.40.
Detection and prosecution Detection and prosecution of crimes.of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, $143.99. united states supreme court.United States Supreme Court. For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United Printing and binding.States, fiscal year 1923, $8,000, and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order.
For printing and binding the official reports of the Supreme Supreme Court Reports.Court of the United States, and advance pamphlet installments thereof, during the fiscal year 1923, to be expended as required with-out allotment by quarters, $6,000. To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to procure for the Chief Justice White.Bust and portrait of the late.court room of the Supreme Court of the United States a marble bust, with a pedestal, and for the robing room an oil portrait of the late Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, to remain available until June 30, 1924, $4,500. 1542 Court of Claims. court of claims.
Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, fiscal year 1923, $9,500. United States courts.marshals, district attorneys, clerks and other expenses of united states courts. District courts. Expenses of additional assignments.*Ante*, p. 830.Expenses of additional district courts: For expenses of courts held in any judicial district pursuant to assignment under the Act approved September 14, 1922, or other laws, of a judge from with-out that district, to be immediately available and to remain available *Provisos*.Supplementary to regular appropriation for 1923 and 1921 for court expenses.until June 30, 1924, $100,000: *Provided,*, That this appropriation shall be construed as additional and supplementary to the several appropriations for the judiciary, for the fiscal years 1923 and 1924, for the employment and expenses of assistant district attorneys, deputy marshals, deputy clerics, and all other officers and employees of the courts, the payment of rent of court rooms, fees of witnesses and jurors, pay of bailiffs, and all other necessary expenses connected with or incident to the holding of court in any judicial district by a judge other than the judge or judges appointed for the judicial district in which the court is held:
Determination as to transfer to regular appropriations.*Provided further*, That expenditures shall not be required to be made directly from this appropriation, but the expenses of courts held in any judicial district by a visiting judge shall be determined by the Attorney General from time to time, under such regulations as he may prescribe, his determination of the amount of such expenses in any case to be conclusive, and to the extent that he finds any expenses are so incurred he may direct payment from such regular appropriations and the transfer thereto from this additional appropriation Additional court rooms in public buildings.of the amount of such expenses: *Provided further*, That so much as may be necessary of this sum may be used, under the direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, in providing additional court rooms in public buildings already erected to accommodate the additional judges recently appointed in holding court therein.
Marshals, etc.For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, and 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, $475,000. For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $21.50.
District attorneys.For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, and 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, $65,000. Clerks of courts.For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals and United States district courts, their deputies and other assistants, and 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, $50,000.
Commissioners, etc.[R. S. sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).For fees of the United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes of the United States, fiscal year 1923. $170,000. Jurors.For fees of jurors, fiscal year 1923, $200,000. 1543 For fees of witnesses, and for payment of the actual expenses Witnesses. [R. S. sec. 350, p. 160](/us/rs/s350/p160).of witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, fiscal year 1923, $100,000.
For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial Rent of court rooms.officers, fiscal year 1923, $5,000. For bailiffs, and criers, and so forth, including the same objects Bailiffs, etc. 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, $25,000. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Miscellaneous.Attorney General for the United States courts and their officers, and 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, $50,000.
For such miscellaneous expenses as may 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: For 1920, $74; For 1921, $3.48. For supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and adding Supplies.machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, fiscal year 1923, $15,000.
For one hundred and eighty-one copies of volume 13 of the DigestFederal Reporter Digest.Volume 13. of the Federal Reporter, to continue sets now furnished various officials at $5 per volume, fiscal year 1923, $905. For fifteen copies of volume 67 of the lawyers’ cooperative edition Lawyers’ Edition, Supreme Court Reports.Volume 67. of the United States Supreme Court Reports, including advance parts thereof, to continue sets now furnished officials, at $7.50 per volume, fiscal year 1923, $112.50. penal institutions.Penal institutions.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For the erection of a warehouse Atlanta, Ga.Warehouse for textile mill.for storing the supplies and products of the textile mill at the United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, $50,000, payable from the fund entitled “United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, working capital.” McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For a new wharf ofMcNeil Island. New wharf. concrete piling to replace the present unsafe wooden wharf, $10,250. For support of United States prisoners, and so forth, including Support of prisoners.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, $450,000.
For the 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: For 1919. $1,015.95; For 1921, $833.67. Department of Labor.DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. bureau of immigration.Immigration Bureau. For refund of immigration fine erroneously assessed and collected Charles Martin and Company.Refund of fine. Wightman and Crane. Refund of fine.from Charles Martin and Company, at Port Arthur, Texas, $20.
For refund of immigration fine erroneously assessed and collected from Wightman and Crane, at San Francisco, California, $100. 1544 Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT. miscellaneous. Paying claims for damages to private property.*Ante*, p. 1066.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Navy Department under the provisions of the Act approved December 28, 1922 (Public, Numbered 375, Sixty-seventh Congress), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 550 and Senate Document Numbered 316, reported to Congress at its present session, $25,195.15.
Collision damages claims.To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department under the provisions of the Act approved June 24, 1910, as *Ante*, p. 1006.amended by the Act approved December 28, 1922 (Public, Numbered 374, Sixty-seventh Congress), on account of damages for which naval vessels were found to be responsible, certified to the present Congress in House Document Numbered 580, and Senate Document Numbered 323, $27,336.30. Battleships. Increasing range of turret guns of designated.For making such changes as may be permissible under the terms of the treaty providing for the limitation of naval armament, concluded on February 6, 1922, published in Senate Document Numbered 126 of the Sixty-seventh Congress, second session, in the turret guns of the battleships Florida, Utah, Arkansas, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Oklahoma, Nevada, New York, Texas, Mississippi, Idaho, and New Mexico, as will increase the range of the turret guns of such battleships, to remain available until December 31, 1924, $6,500,000.
Limits of cost increased of specified vessels.The limits of cost of the vessels heretofore authorized and herein below enumerated are increased as follows: Battleship Colorado, from $17,000,000 to $17,600,000; scout cruisers numbered 9 and 10, from $8,250,000 to $8,400,000 each; and destroyer tender numbered 3, from $3,400,000 to $4,500,000. Scrapping naval vessels.*Ante*, p. 814.Scrapping of naval vessels: The Secretary of the Navy may use, pursuant to the provisions of the Act approved July 1, 1922, entitled “An Act authorizing the President to scrap certain vessels in conformity with the provisions of the treaty limiting naval armament, *Ante*, p. 794.and for other purposes,” the unexpended balance on the date of approval of this Act under the appropriation heretofore made on account of scrapping of naval vessels, together with the sum of Specified uses.$12,500,000, which is hereby appropriated, for necessary expenses in connection with the care and preservation of vessels whose construction has been or shall be suspended or discontinued on account of the treaty limiting naval armament, and for expenses of handling, preserving, transporting, and inventorying material on hand or in course of fabrication for said vessels, and toward payment of bills for material already completed for said vessels and toward payment of any amounts payable as a result of the modification or cancellation of contracts and purchase orders on account of said vessels, their machinery, materials, and equipment, and for reimbursement to contractors of carrying charges heretofore or hereafter approved by the Secretary of the Navy, to cover additional expenses resulting from the deferring of deliveries or payments under said contracts and purchase orders, and for reimbursement to contractors for work done and for such portion of running and overhead expenses and other in-direct charges as may be approved by the Secretary of the Navy on Additional amount.account of contracts under which settlement is deferred on account of the treaty limiting naval armament, and a further sum of $8,450,000 is hereby appropriated for the payment of any amounts payable as a result of the modification or cancellation of contracts and orders, including incidental expenses, for the armament, armor, ammunition, and ordnance outfits (including material required in connection 1545 therewith) of vessels whose construction has been or shall be suspended or discontinued on account of the treaty limiting naval armament, and for settlement of contracts and orders for material for destroyer-type torpedoes in excess of requirements for the number of such torpedoes that may be completed under the provisions of the naval appropriation Act approved July 1, 1922; in all $20,950,000. to remain available until June 30, 1924.
To reimburse Mr. Gus Potter the sum of $113, which was advanced Gus Potter.Reimbursement to.by him as a money deposit accompanying his bid for the purchase of the vessel Albert Brown, which bid was subsequently canceled by the Navy Department after the money had been deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay a claim of the Netherlands Netherlands Government.Reimbursement for expense of interned officers.Government for reimbursing for expenditures, with interest to date of payment, incurred in connection with Navy and Marine Corps officers interned in Holland in 1918, not to exceed $425. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation and recruiting: For travel allowance of enlisted Transportation, etc.men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $87,325.78. Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of naval training Great Lakes training station.station, labor and material, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $861.59. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completion Construction and repair of vessels, etc.of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $125,000. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post Office Department. out of the revenues. Contingent expenses, Post Office Department: For fuel and repairs Contingent expenses.to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, fiscal year 1923, $9,000.
Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of Damage claims.privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Post Office Department under the provisions of the Act approved December *Ante,* p. 1066.28, 1922 (Public, Numbered 375, Sixty-seventh Congress), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 564, reported to Congress at its present session, $1,266.71. POSTAL SERVICE.Postal service. Out of the Postal Revenues. office of first assistant postmater general.First.
Assistant Post-maker General. For compensation to postmasters, fiscal year 1922, $50,682.24.Postmasters. For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second Clerks, etc.class post offices, including substitutes for clerks and employees absent without pay, fiscal year 1923, $2,000,000. 1546 Temporary, auxiliary, and substitute clerk hire.For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices, and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, fiscal year 1923, $1,500,000 Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices of the first and second class, fiscal year 1923, $75,000.
City delivery. Carriers.For pay of letter carriers at offices already established, including substitutes for letter carriers absent without pay, City Delivery Service, fiscal year 1923, $300,000. Car fare, etc.For car fare and bicycle allowance, fiscal year 1923, $20,000. Special delivery, fees.For fees to special-delivery messengers, fiscal year 1921, $1.04. J. Leo Skelley Payment to. Second Assistant Post master General.For payment of the claim of J. Leo Skelley allowed by the General Accounting Office, as covered by certificate of settlement, under appropriation the balance of which has been exhausted, and for the service of the Post Office Department, fiscal year 1918, $4,380.67.
Second Assistant Postmaster General.office of the second assistant postmaster general. Railway Mail Service.Division superintendents, etc.Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen assistant division superintendents, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $1,000,000. Railroad routes.For inland transportation by railroad routes, fiscal year 1923, $3,500,000.
Railroad Adminigtration. Payment to, for transporting mails.For an additional amount required for payment of the obligations of the Post Office Department to the United States Railroad Administration for the transportation of the mails during the twenty-six months of Federal control of railroads from January 1, 1918, to and including February 29, 1920, in accordance with the increased rates fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission in its order dated June 13, 1921, increasing the rate of pay 25 per centum on minimum pay routes, fiscal year 1920 and prior years, $330,817.
Third Assistant Post-master General. office of the third assistant postmaster general. Indemnity, lost domestic mail.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, fiscal year 1922, $1,000,000. Indemnity for loss of international mails.p. 658, amended.The appropriation of $75,000 for the fiscal year 1923 for the “payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international registered, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, in accordance with convention stipulations,” is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Provisions for, modified.“For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $75,000.”" Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.office of the fourth assistant postmaster general. Vehicle allowance.Vehicle service: For additional amount required for vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection services, fiscal year 1923, $500,000. 1547 DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. contingent expenses, foreign missions.Diplomatic and consular service.
For contingent expenses, foreign missions, including the same Contingent expenses, missions.objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $88.03; For 1919, $81.44. realief and protection of american seamen. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Relief of 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, $1,516.49; For 1922, $10,536.88. international latitude observatory at ukiah, california.Latitude Observatory, Ukiah, Calif. For the maintenance of the international observatory at Ukiah, Maintenance.California, and for the continuance of the work thereof during the fiscal year 1924, or until some other provision is made for the continuance of the work of the station, $2,000. mixed claims commission, united states and germany. For the expenses of determining the amounts of claims against United States and Germany Mixed Claims Commission.Expenses of.*Post*, p. 2200.Germany by the Mixed Claims Commission established under the agreement concluded between the United States and Germany on August 10, 1922, for the determination of the amount to be paid by*Post*, p. 1939.
Gemany in satisfaction of the official obligations of Germany under the treaty concluded between the Governments of the United States and Germany on August 25, 1921, including the expenses which under the terms of such agreement of August 10, 1922, are chargeable in part to the United States, and the expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of claims and the presentation thereof before said mixed commission, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia, printing and binding, contingent expenses, traveling and subsistence expenses, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, fiscal year 1924, $222,300. adornment of the peace palace at the hague.Peace Palace at The Hague.
The appropriation of $20,000 to enable the United States to contribute Adornment contribution.Vol. 37, p. 695.to the adornment of the Peace Palace at The Hague, made by the Diplomatic and Consular Act, approved February 28, 1913, including the same objects specified under this head, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal years 1923 and 1924. third pan american scientific congress. The appropriation of $20,000 for the expenses of the delegates Pan American Scientific Congress, Third.of the United States to the Third Pan American Scientific Congress to be held at the city of Lima, Peru, made by the Act making appropriations *Ante*, p. 608.for the Departments of State and Justice and for the 1548judiciary, approved June 1, 1922, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1924.
Extraterritoriality in China.inquiry into extraterritoriality in china. Unexpended balance for inquiry regarding, continued available.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $21,000 to enable the United States Government to carry out its obligations arising under Resolution Numbered 5, adopted by the Conference on the *Ante*, p. 610.Limitation of Armament December 10, 1921, regarding extraterritoriality in China, made by the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary, approved June 1, 1922, is made available for the purposes therein described for the fiscal year 1924. seventeenth international congress against alcoholism.
International Congress Against Alcoholism, Seventeenth.For expenses of delegates, not exceeding ten in number, to be designated by the President to the Seventeenth International Congress Against Alcoholism, at Copenhagen, Denmark, to be held in 1923, including the cost of secretarial and stenographic work and transcription of the report, $7,500. revision of chinese customs tariff.Chinese customs tariff. Unexpended balance for revising, etc., continued available.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $47, 750 to enable the United States Government to carry out its obligations arising under the treaty relating to the Chinese customs tariff made in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and *Ante*, p. 610.Justice and for the judiciary, approved June 1, 1922, is made available for the purposes herein described for the fiscal year 1924.
Minister to Luxemburg.minister to luxemburg. Appropriation for minister to Netherlands and Luxemburg available for minister to Netherlands.*Ante,* pp. 600, 1069.The balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1923 and the appropriation for the fiscal year 1924 for the salary of the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Netherlands and Luxemburg shall be available for the salary of the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Netherlands. Rio de Janeiro Exposition.international exposition at rio de janeiro, brazil.
Expenses of participating in available for 1924.The appropriation of $1,000,000 authorized by Joint Resolution Numbered 25, approved November 2, 1921, for the expenses of taking part in an international exposition to be held at Rio de Janeiro, *Ante*, pp. 337, 651.Brazil, which was made by the First Deficiency Act fiscal year 1922, approved December 15, 1921, is hereby made available for the fiscal year 1924, and the Secretary of State may expend not to exceed $15,000 of the balance of the appropriation, not required for the Altering building, etc., for embassy residence.expenses of participation in the exposition, for the alteration, adaptation, and furnishing of the exposition building and improvement of the grounds thereof for permanent use as residence and offices of the diplomatic representative of the United States to Brazil;
Purchase of additional land.and not to exceed $35,000 for the purchase of additional land adjoining the site now owned by the United States upon which the exposition building is situated. 1549 TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. contingent expenses, treasury department.Contingent expenses. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grate baskets Fuel, etc.and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, fiscal year 1923, $7,500. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, Lighting, etc.gas and electric light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, fiscal year 1923, $1,000. division of bookkeeping and warrants.Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.
Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1923, $15,000. Bureau of Internal Revenue.Internal Revenue.
For refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisions of Refunding illegally collected taxes. Vol. 40, p. 1145. *Ante*, p. 314.sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Acts of February 24, 1919, and November 23, 1921, for the fiscal year 1923 and prior fiscal years, $78,675,000: *Provided*, That a report shall *Proviso*. Report to Congress.be made to Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by the Acts of February 24, 1919, and November 23, 1921.
Coast Guard.Coast Guard. For payment of damages caused by collision of Coast Guard Payment of collision damages.“Sea Lion” and “Sea Fox,” tugboats.cutter Shawnee with the tugboats Sea Lion and Sea Fox, belonging to the Shipowners and Merchants Tugboat Company, San Francisco, California, $664. For payment of damages caused by collision of Coast Guard “Stromboli,” steamer.Cutter Mackinac with the Italian steamer Stromboli, belonging to the Navigazione Generale Italiana, Genoa, Italy, $425.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.Engraving and Printing Bureau. For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except Materials, etc.distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, fiscal year 1923, $11,250; and the limitation Limitation for internal revenue stamps increased. *Ante*, p. 376.for the fiscal year 1923 as to the number of delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps is hereby increased by seven million five hundred thousand sheets.
Public Health Service.Public Health Service. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned Pay, etc., of Surgeon General, etc.medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistant surgeon generals at large, not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, fiscal year 1923, $174,273.84. Office of Supervising Architect.Public buildings. Boston, Massachusetts, post office and subtreasury building: For Boston, Mass. Remodeling poet office, etc.flooring over the former subtreasury room and adjoining stairways 1550at the third-floor level, and alterations, renovation, and remodeling of the building incident thereto, including mechanical equipment, $90,000; for flooring over the upper part of the former subtreasury room and the adjoining stairways at the fourth-floor level, and alterations, renovation, and remodeling of the building incident thereto, including mechanical equipment, $60,000; in all, $150,000.
Denver, Colo. Mint.Denver, Colorado, mint building: For additional vault facilities, $50,000. Carville, La. Additions to Lepers Home.National Leper Home, Carville, Louisiana: For the erection of additional suitable buildings in accordance with the authority contained *Ante*, p. 1264.in the Act approved February 20, 1923 (Public, Numbered , 430, Sixty-seventh Congress), $500,000, and in addition the Secretary of the Treasury may incur obligations for the foregoing purposes in amounts not exceeding $145,000.
West Roxbury, Mass.Additional use of amount for hospital at.*Ante*, p. 384.West Roxbury. Massachusetts, Public Health Service Hospital Numbered 44: That the sum of $50,000 appropriated in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes,” approved February 17, 1922, for exterior and interior painting of all buildings and repairs to plumbing at the Public Health Hospital, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, is hereby made available for mechanical equipment, in addition to the items already authorized.
Operating supplies. Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1923, $75,000. Contractors .etc. Payment of, claims for war condition losses.Vol. 41, p. 281.Relief of contractors: For an additional amount for the payment of claims of contractors, and so forth, arising under the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of contractors and subcontractors for the post offices and other buildings, and work under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and for other purposes,” approved August 25, 1919, as amended, $100,000.
War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT. Paying claims for damages to private property.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the War Department under the provisions of the Act approved December 28, 1922 *Ante*, p. 1066.(Public Numbered 375, Sixty-seventh Congress), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 539, reported to Congress at its *Proviso*. Correction in name.present session, $3,672.65: *Provided*, That the necessary correction may be made in the initials of the claimant in item numbered 1 in such document.
War contracts. Use of balance for settling claims under, continued.*Ante*, p. 778.The unexpended balance on June 30, 1923, of the appropriation “Settlement of claims of foreign governments and their nationals, 1923,” contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved July 1, 1922, is extended until June 30, 1924, for use only in settling the claims of foreign governments and their nationals for supplies or services furnished for use of the American forces abroad. John R. Kissinger.That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to continue on the rolls of the War Department the name of John R.
Kissinger, Continuance of payment and pension to.Vol. 36, p. 1906.late of Company D, One hundred and fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and also late of the Hospital Corps of the United States Army, and continue to pay him the sum of $100 per month during his natural life pursuant to the Act of Congress approved February 15, 1911, notwithstanding the fact that certain payments of pension money may have heretofore been made to said John R. Proposed reduction revoked.Kissinger under a special Act of Congress approved March 2, 1907; and that return of such sums as have been paid contrary to law to *Ante*, p 1417.said John R.
Kissinger under said Act of March 2, 1907, shill not 1551 be demanded, nor shall any deduction on account of such payment be made from moneys due and payable to him under said Act of February 15, 1911. For payment of amount due to the American Red Cross for the American Red Cross.Pay of claims for equipping nurses, etc.equipment of nurses with uniforms and clothing and for other supplies and equipment, fiscal year 1923, $848,067.29: *Provided,*, That *Proviso*.Acceptance as payment in full for all claims.the sum herein appropriated shall be accepted as payment in full for all claims of the American Red Cross against the War Department on account of transactions growing out of the World War.
That $1,800 from the appropriations for the rental of buildings Lemon Building, D.C.Use of rental appropriations for military purposes for, 1923, 1924. p. 733.*Ante*, p. 1394.and parts of buildings, for military purposes in the District of Columbia, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, is hereby made available for the rental of the Lemon Building for the period beginning April 1, 1923, and ending June 30, 1923; and $5,400 from *Ante*, p. 1394.the appropriations for the rental of buildings and parts of buildings, for military purposes in the District of Columbia, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, is hereby made available for the rental of the Lemon Building for the fiscal year 1924, without regard to the particular official purposes for which it is to be used. inland and coastwise waterways service.Waterways transportation.
For additional expenses incurred in the operation of boats, barges, Expenses operating.tugs and other transportation facilities on the inland, canal, and coastwise waterways acquired by the United States in pursuance of the fourth paragraph of section 6 of the Federal Control Act of Vol. 40, p. 456.Vol. 41, p. 458.March 21, 1918, and operated in pursuance of section 201 of the Transportation Act approved February 28, 1920, to remain available Avallatole to June 30, 1924.until June 30, 1924, $500,000. muscle shoals.Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Land for Nitrate Plant Numbered 2: For amount required to Payment for lands condemned for.pay awards for land condemned for use by the War Department at the United States Nitrate Plant Numbered 2, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, $30,000. international shooting competition.International shooting competition. To meet the expenses incident to holding an international shooting Expenses of holding. In the United States.competition in the United States in connection with the national matches, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, to be immediately available, and to remain available until December 31, 1923: *Provided*, That the rifles, pistols, equipment, ammunition, and personal effects of the visiting riflemen from foreign countries be admitted to the United States without the imposition of duty, $25,000.
Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps. national cemetries. Natchez National Cemetery, Miss. For repairing the roadway to the Natchez National Cemetery, Mississippi, Repairs.fiscal year 1923, $13,500. roads. For the construction or improvement of roadways on the Fort Fort Riley, Kans. Construction of road way on.Riley, Kansas, Military Reservation, known as the “Golden Belt Highway,” and the Beatrice, Nebraska, Junction City line running 1552 north and south through said reservation, $100,000, to remain available until June 30, 1924.
Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.national home for disable volunteer soldiers. Support, etc.For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: For “Current expenses,” “Subsistence.” “Household,” “Hospital,” and “Repairs.” at the following branches, including the same objects respectively specified in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923 under each of such heads for the Central Branch, namely: Milwaukee, Wis.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
Current expenses, $6,000; household, $37,000; hospital, $32,000; in all, $75,000. Togus, Me.Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: Household, $22,000. Hampton, Va.Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: Subsistence, $15,000; household, $40,000; hospital, $20,000; in all, $75,000. Leavenworth, Kans.Western Branch Leavenworth, Kansas: Current expenses, $13,500; household, $34,500; hospital, $16,000; repairs, $1,000; in all, $65,000. Santa Monica, Calif.Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California:
Subsistence, $65,000; hospital, $80,000; in all, $145,000. Judgments, United States courts.JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Payment of.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of Vol. 24, p. 505.suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” as amended, certified to Congress during the present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered 573 and Senate Document Numbered 314 and which have not been appealed, namely:
Housing Corporation.Under the United States Housing Corporation, $437.50; War Department.Under the War Department, $401,836.62; in all, $402,274.12, together Interest.with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective j udgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. Judgments, Court of Claims.JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Payment of.For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 575 and Senate Documents Numbered 312 and 324, namely:
Interior Department.Under the Department of the Interior, $430; Navy Department.Under the Navy Department, $1,561.02; Treasury Department.Under the Treasury Department, $8,500; War Department.Under the War Department, $249,257.57; Right of appeal.In all, $259,748.59. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. Audited claims. AUDITED CLAIMS. Sec. 2. 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, and which have been certified to Congress under section 15532 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House DocumentVol. 23, p. 254.
Numbered 574, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: independent offices. For traveling expenses, Civil Service Commission, $1.25.Independent offices. For salaries and expenses, United States For Administration, $4.20. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $227.65. For salaries and expenses, United States Shipping Board, $1,407.81 For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $1.56. department of agriculture. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $86.09.Department of Agriculture.
For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $243.54. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $1.44. For general expenses, Bureau of Soils, $1.39. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $12.32. For general expenses, Bureau of Public , $8.82. For enforcement of the United States Grain Standards Act, $1.87. For general expenses, Federal Horticultural Board, 66 cents. department of commerce. For national security and defense, Department of Commerce, $8.89.Department of Commerce.
For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $7.76. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $10.01. For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, $4.57. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $7.50. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $3.30. department of the interior. For increase of compensation, Department of the Interior, 60 Interior Department.cents. For scientific library, Patent Office, $4.95. For Geological Survey, $278.08. For investigating mine accidents, $1.83.
For operating mine-rescue cars, Bureau of Mines, 50 cents. For maintenance and operation of fuel yards, District of Columbia, Bureau of Mines, $247.50. For Capitol power plant, $127.92. For Glacier National Park, $112.75. For Freedmen’s Hospital, $1. For increase of compensation, Indian Service, $514.67. For industrial work and care of timber, $33.90. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $278.10. For industry among Indians, $45. For support of Indians in California, $9.45.
For Indian School, Fort Bidwell, California, $88.32. For Indian School, Riverside, California, $102.29. For Indian School, Lawrence, Kansas, $12.54. For Indian School, Wahpeton, North Dakota, $2.25. For agency buildings and equipment, Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, $93.15. For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, 10 cents. 1554 For diversion dam and distribution and drainage system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), $1.50. For support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, $11.90.
For Indian School, Hayward, Wisconsin, $210.07. department of justice. Department of Justice.For United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, $5. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $99.20. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $93.80. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $648.40. department of labor. Department of Labor.For advanced transportation, United States Employment Service. $13.73. For War Emergency Employment Service, $27.30. department of state.
State Department.For national security and defense, Department of State, $20.93. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $376. For salaries, Consular Service, $2,060.49. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $476.19. For salaries and expenses of interpreters and guards to consulates, $310. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $3,951.12. For relief and protection of American seamen, $58.59. For entry of aliens into the United States, $50. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $1,298.63.
For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $443.33. For representation of interests of foreign governments growing out of hostilities in Europe, $1,757.54. treasury department. Treasury Department.For collecting the revenue from customs, $1.27. For expenses of loans, act September 24, 1917, as amended, $1,769. For collecting the war revenue, $124.33. For allowance or drawback (internal revenue), $867.31. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $164. For Coast Guard, $6.22.
For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $11.15. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $50.09. For pay of acting assistant surgeons, Public Health Service, $1. For maintenance of marine hospitals, Public Health Service, 85 cents. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $206.27. For quarantine service, $149.34. For contingent expenses, assay office at New York, 24 cents. For general expenses of public buildings, $4.20.
For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $17.85. For operating supplies for public buildings, $12.80. war department. War Department.For registration and selection for military service, $356.88. For civilian military training camps, $54.56. 1555 For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $663.55. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $395.53. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $108,869. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $56,047.37.
For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $157,090.38. For horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, $18,090. For barracks and quarters, $3,975.43. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $5,116.13. For construction and repair of hospitals, $2,695.02. For Signal Service of the Army, $1,017.67. For maintenance, and so forth, fire-control installations at sea-coast defenses, Signal Service, $235.45. For Air Service, Army, $4,327.06. For Air Service, military, $4,618.47.
For medical and hospital department, $689.73. For Engineer operations in the field, $787.38. For contingent expenses, seacoast fortifications, $360. For ordnance service, $544.92. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $24.61. For ordnance stores and supplies, $563.19. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $5.95. For armament of fortifications, $14,978.81. For armored motor cars, $3.39. For proving grounds, Army, $113. For proving-ground facilities, $99. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $2,327.12.
For maintenance, United States Military Academy, $297.01. For increase of compensation. Military Establishment, $7,711.21. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $32.52. For increase of compensation, rivers and harbors, $460. pot office department postal service. For balances due foreign countries, $298,072.78.Post Office Department. For city delivery carriers, $670.89. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $552.76. For clerks, third-class post offices, $170.
For compensation to postmasters, $83.25. For indemnities, domestic mail, $3,009.30. For indemnities, international registered mail, $962.71. For mail messenger service, $30.41. For post-office equipment and surplus, $6.50. For power-boat service, $630.02. For railroad transportation, $180.60. For special delivery fees, 72 cents. For temporary clerk hire, $164.86. For vehicle service, 35 cents. Total audited claims, section 2, $716,380.66. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 3.
That for the payment of the following claims, certified to Payment of, certified by General Accounting*Ante*, p. 23.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 1556 for the service of the fiscal year 1920 and prior years unless other-wise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section Vol. 23, p. 254.2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 313, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: independent offices.
Independent offices.For salaries and expenses, Federal Board for Vocational Education, $22.82. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $7.67. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, 53 cents. department of commerce. Department of Commerce.For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $9.76. department of the interior. Interior Department.For scientific library, Patent Office, $2.50. For maintenance and operation of fuel yards, District of Columbia, Bureau of Mines, $88.11. For increase of compensation, Indian Service, $24.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $55.09. For Indian School, Riverside, California, $161.14. department of justice. Department of Justice.For detection and prosecution of crimes, $49.99. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $153.20. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $3,906.61. department of labor Department of Labor.For expenses of regulating immigration, $4. For enforcement of laws against alien anarchists, $238.25, department of state.
State Department.For salaries of secretaries, diplomatic service, $110.76. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $41.06. For salaries, Consular Service, $340.18. For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $304.16. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $95.11. For national security and defense, Department of State, $101.11. treasury department. Treasury Department.For expenses of loans, Act September 2–1, 1917, as amended, $88.35. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $38.53.
For collecting the war revenue, $110.73. For allowance or drawback (internal revenue), $144. For Coast Guard, $358.54. war department War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $10.67. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $7.68. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $8,015.53. 1557 For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $85,587.76. For barracks and quarters, $75. For Air Service, Army, 30 cents. For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $6.87.
For medical and hospital department, $73.29. For Ordnance Service, $16.50. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $8.37. For ordnance stores and supplies, $100.86. For armament of fortifications, $1,925.42. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $471.91. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $950.84. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, $6.76. post office department—postal service. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $299.42.Post Office Department.
For power boat service, $65.37. For unusual conditions at post offices, $100. Total, audited claims, section 3, $104,178.75. Sec. 4. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “ThirdTitle of Act. Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1923.” Approved, March 4, 1923.
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