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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 42 STAT. · June 30, 1923 · Chapter 55

Chapter 55. Making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 55.— An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes. February 17, 1922.[[H. R. 9724](/us/bill/67/hr/9724).][[Public, No. 145](/us/67/pl/145).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Treasury Department.Appropriations for salaries and expenses That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, namely:
Secretary’s Office.OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. Secretary, Undersecretary.Appointment, duties, etc., of Undersecretary.Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, $12,000; Undersecretary of the Treasury, to be nominated by the President and appointed by him, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall367receive compensation at the rate of $7,500 per annum and shall perform such duties in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury as may be prescribed by the Secretary or by law, and under the provisions of section 177, Revised Statutes, in case of the death,[R.
S., sec. 177, p. 28](/us/rs/s177/p28). resignation, absence, or sickness of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall perform the duties of the Secretary until a successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease, $7,500; three AssistantAssistant Secretaries, actuary, clerks, etc. Secretaries, at $5,000 each; clerk to the Secretary, $3,000; executive clerk, $2,400; stenographer, $1,800; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at $1,800 each; Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, $4,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, two of class two, one of class one; chief messenger, $1,100; two assistant chief messengers, at $1,000 each; messengers— three at $900 each, four at $840 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $73,260. office of chief clerk.Chief clerk’s office.
Salaries: Chief clerk, including $300 as superintendent of TreasuryChief clerk, assistant, clerks, etc. Building, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assistant Secretaries of the department, $4,000; assistant chief clerk, $3,000; assistant superintendent of Treasury Building, $2,500; administrative clerk, $2,000; clerks— one $2,000, four of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, one $1,000; operator of photographic copying machine, $800; two messengers at $840 each; two assistant messengers at $720 each; mimeograph operator, $720; messenger boy, $420; storekeeper, $1,200; telegraphers—one $1,400, one $1,200; telephone and telegraph operator, $1,200; three telephone switchboard operators at $720 each; mechanical superintendent, $2,250; chief engineer,Mechanical superintendent, engineers, etc. $1,400; four assistant engineers, at $1,000 each (including one for outside buildings); eight elevator conductors, at $720 each, and the use of laborers as relief elevator conductors during rush hours is authorized; eight firemen, at $720 each; coal passer, $600; chief electrician, $1,600; locksmith and electrician, $1,400; captain of theWatchmen, laborers, etc. watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watchmen, at $720 each; foreman of laborers, $1,200; assistant foreman of laborers, $840; eight chauffeurs, at $720 each; four automobile truck laborers, at $660 each; skilled laborer—one $840, two at $720 each; two electricians at $1,200 each; wireman, $900; thirty-nine laborers at $660 each; plumber, $1,100; painter, $1,100;
Plumber’s assistant, $780; attendant for emergency relief room, $660; head of char force, $720; eighty-five charwomen, at $240 each; two carpenters at $1,000 each. Winder Building and annex: Engineer,Operating force.Winder Building. $1,000; three firemen, at $720 each; elevator conductor, $720; four watchmen at $720 each; three laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor), at $660 each; forewoman of char force, $480; twelve charwomen, at $240 each; female laborer for ladies’ toilets, $660.
Cox Building, seventeenCox Building. hundred and nine New York Avenue: Two watchmen, at $720 each; laborer, $660. Auditors’ Building: Forewoman of char force, $480;Auditors’ Building. twenty-five charwomen, at $240 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; seven laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor), at $660 each; female laborer, $660; skilled laborer, $840; in all, $217,310. For the operating force of the Liberty Loan and Register’s AnnexLiberty Loan, Register’s, and Internal Revenue Bureau buildings.
Buildings, and buildings for the accommodation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and the necessary clerical assistance in the office of the chief clerk and superintendent, $100,000: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Pay restriction. person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. 368 Buildings for bureaus, etc.Operating force.For employees for the care and protection of buildings for the accommodation of such bureaus of the department as may be assigned thereto, as follows:
Three elevator conductors, at $720 each; nine firemen, at $720 each; female laborer, $660; four laborers (including three to assist elevator conductors when required), at $660 each; forewoman of charwomen, $4S0; twenty charwomen, at $240 each; eight watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $22,980. Madison Place Annex.Operating force.Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place: Two assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; plumber, $1,200; three firemen, at $720 each; coal passer, $660; oiler, $900; four elevator conductors, at $720 each; five watchmen, at $720 each; eight male laborers, at $660 each (three of whom to attend toilets and relieve elevator conductors); two female laborers, at $660 each; janitor, $1,000; wireman, $1,000; carpenter, $1,200; head of char force, $720; twenty-five charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $30,320.
Treasury garage.Mechanics, etc.Treasury garage: Automobile mechanic, $1,400; two assistant automobile mechanics, at $1,000 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $4,840. Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets NW.Operating force.Treasury Department Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets north-west: Carpenter, $1,200; plumber, $1,200; electrician, $1,200; two mechanics, at $900 each; captain of the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; twenty-one watchmen, at $720 each; janitor, $1,200; head of char force, $660; two assistant heads of char force, at $480 each; seventy charwomen, at $240 each; eight male laborers, at $660 each; four female laborer's, at $660 each; in all, $51,260.
Contingent expenses.contingent expenses, treasury department. Reference books, etc.For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $500. Freight, etc.For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $16,000. Rent.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Treasury Department, $17,050. Automobile for Secretary.For the purchase of an automobile for the official use of the Secretary of the Treasury, $5,000.
Motor vehicles.For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, and maintenance and repair of one passenger automobile, to be used for official purposes only, $5,000. File holders, etc.For purchase of file holders and file cases, $6,000. Fuel, etc.For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils, and grease, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $22,500. Lighting, etc..For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas and electric light fixtures, electric light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $24,000.
Miscellaneous office supplies.For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car fares not exceeding $500, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in the District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treas-369ury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $16,000.
For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same,Labor-saving machines, etc. including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $5,000. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats,Carpets, etc. rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $500.
For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers,Furniture. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, type-writers, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, wash-stands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $5,000. For operating expenses of the Treasury Department Annex Operating expenses.Madison Place Annex.Numbered 1 (Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $14,000.
For operating expenses of Treasury Department Annex NumberedAnnex, Fourteenth and B Streets N W. 2 (Fourteenth and B Streets northwest): For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, removal of trash, and miscellaneous expenses, $37,500. Darby Building: For heating, electric current, electrical equipment,Darby Building. ice, and miscellaneous items, $4,500. general supply committee.General Supply Committee. Salaries: Superintendent of supplies, $2,500; clerks—chief, $2,000,Superintendent, clerks, etc. three of class four, three of class three, one $1,500, three of class two, five of class one; twelve temporary clerks for four months, at $75 each per month; assistant messenger, $720; laborer, $660; messenger boy, $480; in all, $31,860.
For salaries of employees, office equipment, fuel, light, electricSalaries and expenses transferring surplus office supplies, for departments, etc. current, telephone service, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities, $120,000: *Provided*, That no person*Proviso*.Pay restriction. shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,500 per annum, and not more than three persons shall be employed at a rate in excess of $1,800 per annum each: *Provided further*, ThatService continued to Juno 30, 1923. the said Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1923, without modification, except that the price charged shall be the current market value at time of issue, less a discount for usage, but in no instance shall the discount be more than 25 per centum, and that the proceeds from the transfer of appropriations thereunder shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*,Cooperation of deferments, etc., In transfers, etc.
That the heads of the executive departments and independent establishments and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall cooperate with the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with the storage and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment transferred under the foregoing order: *Provided further*, That typewriters andUse of unfit type-writers, etc., for exchange. computing machines transferred to the General Supply Committee as surplus, where such machines have become unfit for further use, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be issued to other Government departments and establishments at exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies or sold commercially.
Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billingRepairs of type-writers by General Supply Committee. machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may370be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counter warrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “General Supply Committee, Transfer of Office Material, Supplies, and Equipment.” Typewriting machines.Prices of standard machines established for 1923.No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1923 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machine, except book keeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following, to wit:
For correspondence models with carriages which will accommodate paper ten inches in width, $70; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twelve inches in width, $75; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper fourteen inches in width, $77.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper sixteen inches in width, $82.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper eighteen inches in width, $87.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty inches in width, $94; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-two inches in width, $95; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-four inches in width, $97.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-six inches in width, $103.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-eight inches in width, $104; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper thirty inches in width, $105; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper thirty-two inches in width, $107.50.
All purchases to be from surplus stock of General Supply Committee.All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1923 by executive departments and independent establishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Immediate inventory, etc., of War Department stock.Supply Committee. The War Department shall furnish the General Supply Committee, immediately upon the approval of this Act, a complete inventory of the various makes, models, and classes of typewriters in its possession, the condition of such machines, and the point Of storage, and shall turn over to the General Supply Committee such typewriting machines in such quantities as the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time may call for by specific requisition for Unserviceable machines allowed for exchanges.sale to the various services of the Government.
If the General Supply Committee is unable to furnish serviceable machines to any such service of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines at current exchange prices and such machines shall then be applied by the service of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices Acceptance in part payment.fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewriting ma-chines to the various services the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies.
Accounts and Deposits Office.office of commissioner of accounts and deposits. Commissioner, accountant, etc.Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits, $6,000; accountant, $4,000; principal clerk, $2,500; clerk, $2,000; stenographer, $1,800; messenger, $840; in all, $17,140. Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.division of bookkeeping and warrants. Chief of division, assistants, etc.Salaries: Chief of division, $4,000; assistant chiefs of division— one $3,000, one $2,500; estimate and digest clerk, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,500; two principal bookkeepers, at $2,100 each; eleven bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—two at $2,000 each, eighteen of class four, nineteen of class three, seventeen of class two, four of371class one; four messengers, at $840 each; three assistant messengers, at $720 each; messenger boy, $480; in all, $142,100.
Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expensesContingent 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, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised[R.S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/pp718).
Statutes, also including examinations of cash account at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $140,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coinsRecoinage of gold coins. in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section 3512 of the Revised Statutes,[R.S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696). $2,500. Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecoinage of minor coins. to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $7,500. division of deposits.Deposits Division.
Salaries: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chief of division,Chief of division, assistant, etc. $2,500; clerks—one, $2,250, one $2,000, one of class four, two of class three, one of class two; messenger, $840; in all, $17,490. public debt service.Public Debt Service. For necessary expenses connected with the administration of anySalaries of designated officers. public debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is chained, including rent in the District of Columbia, and including the salaries of the Commissioner of the Public Debt at $6,000, Chief of the Division of Loans and Currency at $3,500, two Assistant Chiefs of the Division of Loans and Currency at $3,000 each, Register of the Treasury at $4,000, Assistant Register of the Treasury at $2,500, Chief of the Division of Public Debt Accounts and Audit at $3,000, and the salaries of suchOther employees. assistants, accountants, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, $3,700,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder*Provisos*.Pay restriction. at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except as above provided and except the following:
Two at not exceeding $4,500, one at not exceeding $3,500, ten at not exceeding $3,000, four at not exceeding $2,700, twenty-three at not exceeding $2,500, one at not exceeding $2,400, five at not exceeding $2,250, twenty-six at not exceeding $2,200, and forty-eight at not exceeding $2,000: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may allot suchAllotment to Post Office Department for Treasury savings securities expenses. amount of this appropriation as in his judgment may be necessary, not exceeding $100,000, for expenditure in the Post Office Department in connection with the distribution, sale, and keeping of accounts of Treasury savings securities, as provided in the DeficiencyVol. 40, p. 1035.
Appropriation Act approved November 4, 1918, and no person shall bePay restriction. employed under such allotment at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum, and only one person shall be employed at a rate exceeding $1,800 per annum. 372 Expenses under specified laws.Vol. 41, p. 456.Vol. 40, p. 451; Vol.41, pp. 359,1145.Vol. 40, pp. 35, 288, 504, 844, 1312.For expenses incident to the discharge of the duties imposed upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the Transportation Act, 1920, the Federal Control Act, approved March 21, 1918, as amended, and for expenses arising in connection with loans and credits to foreign Governments under the Liberty Loan Acts and the Victory Liberty Loan Act and in connection with credits granted or conditions Vol. 41, p. 548.entered into under the Act providing for the relief of populations in Vol. 41, p. 949.Europe and contiguous countries, and in connection with credits granted or conditions entered into under the Act providing for the sale of surplus war material, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $25,000.
Distinctive paper, securities.Quantities authorized.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, not exceeding one hundred and fifty million sheets, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, Personal services.and other necessary expenses, 8963,281.31; expense of officer detailed from the Treasury Department, $50 per month when actually on duty, 8600; three registers, at 81,380 each; six counters, at $800 each; guards—one $1,000, four at $900 each; three skilled laborers, at $840 each; in all, $979,941.31.
Appointments division.division of appointments. Chief of division, assistant, etc.Salaries: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, six of class three, eight of class two, eight of class one, three at 81,000 each, one $900; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $50,310. Printing and Stationery Division.division of printing and stationery. Chief of division, assistant, etc.Salaries: Chief of division, $2,500; assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, four of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; bookbinder, $1,400; multigraph operators—one $1,200, one $1,000; three messengers, at 3840 each; assistant messenger, 8720; skilled laborer, $840; laborers—four at $720 each, three at $660 each; messenger boys—two at $480 each, two at $420 each; in all, $48,440.
Stationery for Department, etc.For stationery, including tags, labels, and index cards printed in course of manufacture, for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $160,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting Additional deducted from bureaus, etc.to $228,450 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1923, as follows: Contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $700; contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, $300; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $300; contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $700; materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $10,000; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $1,100;
Public Health Service, $8,000; expenses of Coast Guard, $10,000; general expenses of public buildings, $6,000; collecting the revenue from customs, $75,000; collecting internal revenue, $116,350; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $160,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, with the exception of held officers located in foreign countries, for the fiscal year 1923.
Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including printing required by the Federal Farm Loan Act, $500,000. Postage.For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,500. Bookbinding.For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Department, $250. 373 division of mail and files.Mailsand Files Division. Salaries: Chief of division, $2,500; registry clerk, $1,800; twoChief of division, etc. distributing clerks, at $1,400 each; reading and routing clerk, $1,400; clerks—one of class two, one of class one; assistant file clerk, $1,100; mail messenger, $1,200; assistant mail messenger, $900; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $16,340. office of disbursing clerk.
Salaries: Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; Disbursing clerk, deputy, etc.clerks—four of class four, five of class three, five of class two, two of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $31,190. CUSTOMS SERVICE.Customs Service. Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,500; two assistant chiefsCustoms Division.Chief of division, assistants, etc. of division, at $3,000 each; law clerks—four at $2,500 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, five at $1,000 each; two messengers, at $840 each; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $68,500.
For collecting the revenue from customs, including not exceedingCollecting customs revenue.*Ante*, p. 372. $200,000 for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, $11,300,000. Scales for customs service: For construction and installation ofAutomatic scales. special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, $110,000. Compensation in lieu of moieties:
For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs laws, $50,000. bureau of the budget.Budget Bureau. Director, $10,000: *Provided*, That section 2 of the Act makingDirector.*Proviso*.Restriction on pay to retired officers not applicable to Bureau officials.Vol. 28, p. 205. appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, and for other purposes, approved July 31, 1894, shall not be construed as having application to retired officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard who may be appointed to the offices created by section*Ante*, p. 205. 207 of the Budget and Accounting Act. 1921, approved June 10, 1921, within the meaning of precluding payment to such officers of the difference in pay prescribed for such offices and their retired pay;
Assistant Director, $7,500; for all other necessary expenses of theAssistant Director, and all other expenses. bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia, printing, binding, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, street car fares, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for officers and employees while absent from the seat of government on official duty, $137,300; in all, $154,800. federal farm loan bureau.Federal Farm Loan Bureau.
Salaries: Four members of the board, at $10,000 each; assistantMembers of Board, assistant secretary, etc. secretary, $3,000; four private secretaries, at $2,000 each; custodian of securities, $2,500; examiners of securities (not to exceed six in number) at not more than $3,000 per annum each, $14,700; twelve registrars, at $4,000 each; chief land bank examiner, $5,000; supervising appraiser, $3,600; three land bank examiners, at $3,000 each; accountant, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, one of class three,374five of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each; stenographers— three at $1 ,400 each; three messengers, at $840 each; in all, $162,720;
Contingent expenses.For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers and employees; per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4; and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including books of reference and, maps, and exclusive of stationery and printing and binding, $17,500; Examinations.For the examination of national farm loan associations, including *Provisos*. Pay restriction.personal services and traveling expenses, 875,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation Clerk hire in the District.exceeding $2,500 per annum: *Provided further*, That $2,500 of this sum may be expended for clerk hire in the District of Columbia;
In all, Federal Farm Loan Bureau, 8255,220. Treasurer’s Office.OFFICE OF TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES. Treasurer, assistant, cashier, etc.Treasurer, 88,000; Assistant Treasurer, $3,600; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, $3,200; cashier, $3,600; assistant cashier, 83,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—two at $3,000 each, three at $2,500 each; three assistant chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500; two tellers, at $2,500 each; assistant tellers—two at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; five section chiefs, at $2,000 each; assistant bookkeepers—two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each; interest teller, $2,000; vault-clerk, bond division, $2,000; clerk for Treasurer, $1,800; coin clerk, $1,400; clerks—twenty-five of class four, twenty-eight of class three, eight at $1,500 each, thirty-two of class two, eight at $1,300 each, one hundred and fifteen of class one, eighty-five at $1,000 each, twenty at Expert counters, etc.$900 each; expert counters—forty at $1,200 each, ten at $1,100 each, forty-four at $1,000 each, ninety at $900 each, ten at $800 each; addressograph operator, $1,400; two skilled laborers, at $1,200 each; silver piler, $1,000; fourteen messengers, at $840 each; eight assistant messengers, at $720 each; twenty-three laborers at $660 each; messenger boys—eight at $600 each, fourteen at $480 each, eight at $360 each; in all, $731,950.
Temporary employees.*Provisos*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $122,090: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Three at $2,250 each, three at $2,100 each, and six at $2,000 each. Temporary force.Temporary force: To provide for the redemption of the 1918 war-savings stamps maturing January 1, 1923, and notes of the Victory Liberty loan maturing May 20, 1923, $15,000.
Redemption of Federal reserve and national currency.For the force employed in redeeming the Federal reserve and national currency (to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks): Superintendent, $3,500; teller, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant tellers—one $2,250, one $2,000; assistant book-keeper, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, nine of class two; expert counters—thirty-five at $1,200 each, fifty-six at $1,000 each, fifty-two at $900 each; two messengers, at $840 each; four assistant messengers, at $720 each; four charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $197,770.
Temporary employees, redemption of currency.For compensation of temporary employees in the Office of the Treasurer of the United States in redeeming Federal reserve and national currency, $280,620, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve *Proviso*.Pay restriction.and national banks: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except the following: One at $3,000, two at $2,750 each, one at $2,200, and one at $2,000.
Postal Savings System.Postal Savings System: Accountant, $2,000; clerks—three of class two, two of class one, three at $1,000 each; expert counter, $900; in all, $12,500. 375 For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the Office of theCutting machines. Treasurer of the United States, $200. OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY.Office of Comptroller of the Currency. Comptroller, $5,000; deputy comptrollers—one $3,500, one $3,000;Comptroller, deputies, etc. chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, two at $2,200 each, general bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; vault clerk, $2,000; clerks—four at $2,000 each, fifteen of class four, additional to bond clerk $200, twenty-one of class three, twenty-three of class two, twenty-seven of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; stenographer, $1,600; multigraph operators—one $1,400, one $1,200; clerk-counters—two at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; six counters, at $840 each; three messengers at $840 each; five assistant messengers, at $720 each; three laborers, at $660 each; messenger boys—one $480, one $420; in all, $206,440.
The Comptroller of the Currency may designate a national bankChief of examining division. examiner to act as chief of the examining division in his office. For expenses of Federal reserve and national currency (to beFederal Reserve and national currency expenses. reimbursed by the Federal Reserve and National Banks): Superintendent, $2,500; principal clerk, $2,000; teller, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; engineer, $1,000; clerk counters— three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each; counters—thirty-five at $1,000 each, twelve at $840 each; assistant messenger, $720; fireman, $720; messenger boy, $420; two charwomen at $240 each; in all, $86,220.
For special examinations of national banks and bank plates,Special examinations. keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $5,000. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE.Internal Revenue Service. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Commissioner,Commissioner, assistant to, deputies, etc. $10,000; assistant to the commissioner, $5,000; five deputy commissioners, at $5,000 each; chemists—chief $3,000, one $2,500; assistant chemists—two at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,400; heads of divisions—one $3,500, five at $2,500 each, five at $2,250 each; three assistant heads of divisions, at $2,000 each; attorney, $3,600; law clerk, $2,000; insurance expert, $2,000; railroad export, $2,000; superintendent of stamp vault, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—four at $2,000 each, fifty-two of class four, sixty of class three, ninety-eight of class two, eighty-three of class one, seventy-six at $1,000 each; fifty mail messengers at $900 each; forty-eight messengers at $840 each; twenty-one assistant messengers at $720 each; in all, $709,590.
For one stamp agent, $1,600, to be reimbursed by the stamp Stamp agent.manufacturers. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputyCollectors, gaugers.Salaries, expenses, etc. collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, and storekeeper-gaugers, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone service, injuries to horses not exceeding $250 for any horse crippled or killed, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses in collecting internal-revenue taxes, $4,000,000: *Provided*, That for*Provisos*.Distilled spirits may be removed to warehouses for bottling in bond. purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of the Commissioner of internal Revenue and under regulations prescribed by him, distilled spirits may be removed from any internal-revenue bonded warehouse to any other such warehouse, and may be bottled in bond in any such warehouse before or after payment of the tax, and the commissioner shall prescribe the form and penal sums of bond covering376distilled spirits in internal-revenue bonded warehouses, and in transit Witness fees.between such warehouses: *Provided further*, That no part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before *Post*, p. 616.any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” Assessing, collecting, etc., taxes.Expenses.For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, including the employment of the necessary officers, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, *Ante*, p. 372.printing, stationery, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia *Proviso*.Punishing violations of revenue laws.and the several collection districts, $34,409,690: *Provided*, That not more than $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation.
Enforcing prohibition and narcotic Acts.Vol. 41, p. 305.*Ante*, p. 298.Vol. 38, p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 1130.For expenses to enforce the provisions of the “National Prohibition Act” and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” approved December 17, 1914, as amended by the “Revenue Act of 1918,” including the employment of executive officers, agents, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, necessary printing and binding, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the District of Columbia and several field offices, and *Provisos*.
Rent in the District.for rental of necessary quarters, $9,250,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $49,500 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in other buildings under the control Narcotics enforcement.of that commission: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $750,000 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for enforcement of the provisions of the said Act of December 17, 1914: *Provided further*, That not to Advances to disbursing agents.[R.S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).exceed $25,000 of the total amount appropriated shall be available for advances to be made by special disbursing agents when authorized by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding.
No pay increase hereby.No part of the appropriations made herein for the Internal Revenue Service shall be used to increase the compensation of any class or grade of officers or employees. Refunding collections.Vol. 35, p. 325.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May 27, 1908, $250,000. Refunding illegally collected taxes.*Ante*, p. 314.Vol. 40, p. 1145.*Proviso*.Report to Congress.For refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisions of sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of February 24, 1919, including the payment of claims accruing prior to July 1, 1920, $12,000,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by the Act of February 24, 1919. 377 COAST GUARD.Coast Guard.
Office of the commandant: Two chiefs of divisions, at $3,000 each;Office of commandant.Civilian personnel. two assistant chiefs of divisions, at $2,200 each; title and contract clerk, $2,000; law and contract clerk, $1,800; civil engineer, $2,250; topographer and hydrographer, $1,800; topographical draftsman, $1,500; draftsman, $1,500; tracing draftsman, $1,400; chief accountant, $2,000; private secretary for captain commandant, $1,400; clerks—eight of class four, fourteen of class three, fifteen of class two, fifteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; two messengers at $840 each; two assistant messengers at $720 each; laborer, $660; in all, $117,430.
The services of skilled draftsmen, and such other technical servicesTechnical services. as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard cutters, to be paid from the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard cutters”: *Provided*, That the*Post*, p. 378.*Proviso*.Limit. expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $8,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each snail be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
For every expenditure requisite for an incident to the authorizedService expenses. work of the Coast Guard, as follows, including not to exceed $600 for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers,Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men. cadets and cadet engineers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks and surfmen. substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, $6,297,398;
For rations or commutation thereof for warrant officers, pettyRations.*Post*, p. 1098. officers, and other enlisted men, $817,163; For eleven clerks to district superintendents at such rate as theClerks to superintendents. Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed $1,200 each, $11,917.50; For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge,Fuel, etc. $760,270; For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same,Outfits, stores, etc. $678,000;
For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge,Stations, houses of refuge, etc. temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $250,000; For carrying out the provisions of the Acts of March 26, 1908,Death allowances.Vol. 35, p. 46; Vol. 41, p. 825. and June 4, 1920, $15,000; For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of theTraveling expenses. Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $175,000;
For draft animals and their maintenance, $35,000;Draft animals. For coastal communication lines and facilities and their Coastal communication.maintenance, $35,000; For compensation of civilian employees in the field, $61,940;Civilian employees. For contingent expenses, including communication service,Contingent expenses. subsistence of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $10,000; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising,*Ante*, p. 372. surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for378statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, 8145,000;
Repairs to cutters.For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $475,000; Total Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $9,756,688.50. Engraving and Printing Bureau.BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. Director, assistant, etc.Office of Director: Director, $6,000; assistant director, $3,500; chief of division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing agent, $2,400; cost accountant, $2,000; stenographer, $1,800; storekeeper, $1,600; assistant storekeeper, $1,000; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, eight of class three, sixteen or class two, fourteen of class one, twelve at $1,000 each; nine attendants, at $600 each; three messengers at Watchmen, etc.$840 each; five assistant messengers at $720 each; captain of watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of watch, at $900 each; eighty watchmen, at $720 each; two forewomen of charwomen, at $540 each; twenty-five day charwomen, at $400 each; seventy-seven morning and evening charwomen, at $300 each; four laborers, at $660 each; eighty-five laborers, at $540 each; in all, $252,040.
Work authorized for the fiscal year.For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, during the fiscal year 1923 of not exceeding one hundred and forty-two million five hundred thousand delivered sheets of United States currency, national-bank and Federal reserve currency, seventy-seven million five hundred thousand delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, three hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred delivered sheets of customs stamps, one million one hundred and thirty-three Vol. 38, p. 785;
Vol. 40, p. 113.*Ante*, p. 295.*Post*, p. 776.thousand six hundred and ninety delivered sheets of opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, and seven million two hundred and thirty-live thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: Salaries.For salaries of all necessary employees, other than plate printer’s and plate printers’ assistants, $2,512,140, to be expended under the Custody of dies, etc.direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, including $8,400 for custody *Provisos.*Large notes.of dies, rolls, and plates: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, Vol. 31, p. 45.except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the Office administrative employees.United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March 14, 1900: *Provided further*, That not more than $90,000 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for compensation of employees required for administrative work of the bureau of the class Wages.specified in the preceding paragraph for the office of the director.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $2,016,795, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of *Proviso*.Large notes.the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements Vol. 31, p. 45.of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March 14, 1900.
Materials, etc.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-379revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of*Ante*, p. 372. necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, 31,292,265, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year 1923 all proceeds derived from workProceeds of work to be credited to Bureau. performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction or the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by theVol. 24, p. 227.
Act of August 4, 1886 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 227), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year 1923. SECRET SERVICE.Secret Service. Secret Service Division, salaries: Chief, $4,500; assistant chief, whoChief of division, assistant, etc. shall discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,500; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, three of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $23,440. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes:
For expenses incurredSuppressing counterfeiting, etc.*Ante*, p. 372. under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, Federal Reserve notes, Federal Reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign Governments, as well as the coms of the United States and of foreign Governments, and other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; hire and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem in lieu of subsistence,Per diem subsistence. when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for no other purpose whatever,Vol. 38, p. 680. except in the protection of the person of the President and the Protecting person of the President.members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $390,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount*Provisos*.Witness fees. be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of*Post*, p. 616. witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, That no personPay restriction. shall be employed hereunder at a compensation greater than that allowed bylaw, except not exceeding three persons, who may be paid not exceeding $12 per day.
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.Public Health Service. Office of Surgeon General: Chief clerk, $2,250; private secretary toOffice personnel. the Surgeon General, $2,000; principal bookkeeper, $2,000; statistician, $2,000; technical assistant, $2,000; assistant editor, $1,800; librarian, $1,600; clerks—five of class four, six of class three, fifteen of class two (one of whom shall be translator), nineteen of class one, six at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; elevator conductor, $840; three messengers, at $840 each; three assistant messenger’s, at $720 each; telephone operator, $720; three laborers, at $660 each; in all, $92,970.
For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissionedPay, etc., Surgeon General, etc. medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistant surgeon generals at large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $913,560. 380 Acting assistant surgeons.For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $300,000. Other employees.For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $840,000. Freight, travel, etc.For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $50,000.
Hygienic Laboratory.Transporting remains or officers.For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $45,000. For preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in the line of duty, $3,000. Books.For journals and scientific books, $500. Medical examinations, hospital services to beneficiaries, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885.For medical examinations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917, medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for beneficiaries (other than patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau) of the Public Health Service, including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, General expenses.personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, planting, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles, transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any *Proviso*.Uses forbidden.patient dying in hospital), $5,627,394: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow.
Disposal of receipts.All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscal year 1923, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Quarantine service.Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including not exceeding $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $739,000.
Prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, influenza, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $400,000.
Field investigations.Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $300,000. Interstate quarantine service.Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $25,000.
Rural sanitation.Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation *Proviso*.Subject to local cooperation.of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $50,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expense of such demonstration work. 381 Biologic products:
To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses,Biologic products.Regulating sale, etc. serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $50,000. For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of VenerealVenereal Diseases Division.Maintenance.Vol. 40, p. 886. Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, Chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918, including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $400,000, of which sum $225,000Allotment to States. shall be allotted to the States for cooperative work in the prevention and control of such diseases.
MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.Mints and assay offices. office of director of the mint.Office of Director of the Mint. Salaries: Director, $5,000; examiner, $3,000; computer and adjusterOffice personnel. of accounts, $2,200; assayer, $2,200; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class one; private secretary, $1,400; assistant in laboratory, $1,200; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $23,680. For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,Freight on bullion and coin. between mints and assay offices, $10,000.
For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent expenses. under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $1,000. For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeExaminations. of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual productionPrecious metals statistics. and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $6,000. carson city, nevada, mint.Mints.
Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties ofCarson City, Nev. melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800. For wages of workmen and other employees, $1,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $600. denver, colorado, mint. Salaries: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent,Denver, Colo. melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weight clerk, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, one $1,400; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $44,800.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $90,000. For incidental and contingent expenses including new machinery*Ante*, p, 372. and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $50,000. new orleans, louisiana, mint. Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties ofNew Orleans, La. melter, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,500; in all, $4,000.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $3,720. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. 382 philadelphia mint. Philadelphia, Pa.Salaries: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2 500; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant assayer, $2,200; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,500; assistant book-keeper, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; curator, $1,800; clerks—one $2,000, one $1,700, eight at $1,600 each, one $1,500, six at $1,400 each, one $1,300, three at $1,200 each, one $1,000; in all, $66,600. *Ante*, p, 372.For wages of workmen and other employees, $300,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $120,000. san francisco, california, mint. San Francisco, Calif.Salaries:
Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistant cashier, $1,800; assistant bookkeeper, $1,800; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, three at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, one $1,400, two at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $48,400. For wages of workmen and other employees, $175,000. *Ante*, p. 372.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $50,000.
Assay offices.boise, idaho, assay office. Boise, Idaho.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $900. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. deadwood, south dakota, assay office. Deadwood, S. Dak.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $1,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $300. helena, montana, assay office. Helena, Mont.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $900. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. new york assay office. New York, N. Y.Salaries: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weight clerk, and assistant assayer, at $2,500 each;383assayer’s assistant, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,350; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,250, seven at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $53,400.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $170,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*, p. 372. and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $100,000. salt lake city, utah, assay office. Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties ofSalt Lake City, Utah. melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800. For wages of workman and other employees, $1,500.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $300. seattle, washington, assay office. Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of Seattle, Wash.melter, $2,750; assistant assayer. $2,000; clerks—one $1,700, one $1,600; in all, $8,050. For wages of workmen, and other employees, $8,200. For incidental and contingent expenses, $5,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGS.Public buildings. office of supervising architect.Supervising Architect’s office. Salaries: Supervising Architect, $5,000; executive officer, $3,250;Supervising Architect and office personnel. technical officer, $3,000; drafting division—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,750; mechanical engineering division— superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; structural division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; superintendents—computing division, $2,750, repairs division $2,400, accounts division $2,500, maintenance division $2,500;
Oles and records division—chief $2,500, assistant chief $2,250; head draftsman, $2,500; eight administrative clerks, at $2,000 each; four technical clerks, at $1,800 each; clerks—nine of class four, additional to one of class four as bookkeeper $100, four at $1,700 each, fourteen of class three, six at $1,500 each, thirteen of class two, eight at $1,300 each, twenty-one of class one, four at $1,100 each, seven at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, two at $840 each-photographer, $2,000; foreman, duplicating gallery, $1,800; two duplicating paper chemists, at $1,200 each; five messengers, at $840 each; messenger boys—one $600, two at $480 each, two at $360 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each, seven at $960 each, one $900, one $840; laborers—one $660, one $600; in all, $218,380. public buildings, construction and rent.
Alexandria, Louisiana: For additional for rent of temporaryAlexandria, La., rent. quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000. Amarillo, Texas, post office and customhouse: That of the Amarillo, Tex.Vol. 38, p. 822.unexpended balance of the appropriation for the construction of the post-office building at Amarillo, Texas, not exceeding $10,400 is made available for enlarging the mailing platform and for making certain interior changes in said building.
Boston, Massachusetts, immigrant station: For protection of siteBoston, Mass., immigrant station. and building and approach work, $73,000. 384 Detroit, Mich.Detroit, Michigan, post office and courthouse: For extension of mailing vestibule and platforms, $105,000. New York, N. Y.Assay office.New York, New York, assay office building: For installation of a ventilating and dust-collecting apparatus in the deposit melting room of the refinery, $15,000. Barge office.New York, New York, barge office:
For constructing pent house on bridge, 82,000. Post office.Vol. 39, p. 110.New York, New York, post office: For shelter over driveway, in addition to the amount of 85,000 appropriated in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved June 12, 1917, $50,000. Oswego, N. Y.Oswego, New York, post office: For restoration of stone cornice and wall facing, replacing roof construction and covering, new gutters, downspouts, and so forth, $35,000. Richmond, Va.Alterations, etc.Richmond, Virginia, post office, courthouse, and customhouse;
For installation of lift and construction of driveway, including alterations of buildings on land recently acquired, $40,000, and the sum Vol. 40, p. 636.of $15,000, appropriated in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved July 1, 1918, for alterations, and so forth, is hereby reappropriated and made available hereunder. Washington, D. C.Treasury Annex No. 2.Washington, District of Columbia, Treasury Annex Numbered 2: For resurfacing present roof, calking windows, and miscellaneous repairs, $15,000.
Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings.Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling, enlarging, and extending completed and occupied public buildings, including any necessary and incidental additions to or changes in mechanical equipment thereof, so as to provide or make available additional space in emergent cases, not to exceed an aggregate of $20,000 at any one building, $375,000. Public Health hospitals.hospitals. Oteen, N. C.Oteen, North Carolina, Public Health Service Hospital Numbered 60;
For repair work, including repairs to mechanical equipment, and exterior and interior kalsomining, $100,000. Perryville, Md.Perryville, Maryland, Public Health Service Hospital Numbered 42: For miscellaneous repair work, and painting exterior and interior of all buildings, 8150,000. West Roxbury, Mass.West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Public Health Service Hospital Numbered 44: For exterior and interior painting of all buildings, and repairs to plumbing, $50,000. Palo Alto, Calif.Palo Alto, California, Public Health Service Hospital Numbered 24:
For remodeling and repairs, and so forth, $50,000. Quarantine stations.quarantine stations. Astoria, Oreg.Columbia River (Astoria), Oregon, Quarantine Station: For repairs to wharf, $11,000. Port Townsend. Wash.Port Townsend, Washington, Quarantine Station: For water tank on tower, underground water system, salt-water system for sanitary uses and fire protection, electric-lighting system, wharf protection shed for passengers, in addition to the amount of $14,000 appropriated Vol. 41, p. 875.in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved June 5, 1920, $26,000.
Supervision of work.The foregoing work under “Hospitals” and “Quarantine Stations” shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. 385 public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses.Expenses. Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of allRepairs and preservations. completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof, under the control of the Treasury Department, and tor wire partitions and fly screens therefor, Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and theSitka, Alaska.
Secretary of the Treasury may, in renting said wharf, require that the lessee shall make all necessary repairs thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 15 per centum of the annual rentals of such building: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not*Provisos*.Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc. exceeding 8125,000 may be used for the repair and preservation of marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations and completed and occupied outbuildings (including wire partitions and fly screens for same), and not exceeding $28,000 for the Treasury,Treasury Department buildings.
Treasury Annex, Treasury Annex Numbered Two, Liberty Loan, Butler, Winder, and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided further,* That this sum shall not be available for the paymentPersonal services restriction. of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $773,000. Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanicalMechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, etc. equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in Buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 10 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein*Provisos*.Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc. appropriated, not exceeding $60,000 may be used for the installation and repair of mechanical equipment in marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations, and not exceeding $40,000 forTreasury Department buildings. the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Treasury Annex Numbered Two, Liberty Loan, Butler, Winder, and Auditors Buildings, in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors Building, and not exceeding $10,000 forPneumatic tube service, New York City. the maintenance, changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessary incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment ofPersonal services restriction. personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $560,000.
Vault and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairsVaults, sales, etc. thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the386control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $75,000.
General expenses.Additional salary, Supervising Architect.Vol. 35, p. 537.Technical services.General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page 537): For foremen draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,500 per annum; structural engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,500 per annum; mechanical, sanitary, electrical, heating and ventilating, and illuminating engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $1,200 to $2,400 per annum; computers and estimators, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,500 per annum; the expenditures under all the foregoing classes for which a minimum and maximum rate of compensation is stated, not to Superintendents, etc.exceed $125,000; supervising superintendents; superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, at rates of Expenses of superintendence.pay from $2,000 to $3,500 per annum, not to exceed $195,000; expenses of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total Office rent, supplies, etc.expenditure of $4,500; office rent and expenses of superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telegraph and telephone *Proviso*.Restriction on transporting supplies.service; freight, expressage, and postage: *Provided*, That no expenditures shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings; not to exceed $6,000 for stationery; not to *Ante*, p. 372.exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals Salamanca, N.Y.and journals; ground rent at Salamanca, New York; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $424,600.
Operating expenses.public buildings, operating expenses. Personal services, assistant custodians, etc.Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the387Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductor's, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed, $3,800,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing*Provisos*.Buildings for which available. appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices.
Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, andFurniture, etc. repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extensions of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or establishments of the Government, $500,000: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Personal services restriction. foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency, and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by the United StatesUse of present furniture. in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not.
Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heatingOperating supplies.Fuel, light, power, water, etc. purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodian forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice-cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodian forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishing in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings and for the transportation of articles or supplies authorized herein (including the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), $2,800,000.
The appropriation made herein for gas388Gas governors.shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by *Provisos*.Rentals.the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than 35 per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall Advance fuel contracts authorized.direct: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department in advance of the availability of the appropriation for the payment thereof.
Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current fiscal year. Custody of lands, etc.[R. S. secs., 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/s3750/p739).Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $150.
Miscellaneous.MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, TREASURY DEPARTMENT. American Printing House for the Blind.american printing house for the blind. Expenses.To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the Vol. 41, p. 272.blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 4, 1919, $40,000. Approved, February 17, 1922.
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