Chapter 72. Making appropriations for the Executive office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 72.— An Act Making appropriations for the Executive office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes. February 13, 1923.[[H.R. 13695](/us/bill/67/hr/13695).][[Public, No. 409](/us/67/pl/409).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That theExecutive and independent establishments appropriations. following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Executive office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, namely:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.Executive. compensation of the president and vice president.Compensation. For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000.President. For compensation of the Vice President of the United States,Vice President. $12,000. office of the president.Executive office. Salaries: Secretary, $7,500; executive clerk, $5,000; appointmentSecretary, executive clerk, etc. clerk, $3,500; record clerk, $2,500; expert stenographers—one $3,000, one $2,500; accounting and disbursing clerk, $2,500; two cor-respondents at $2,500 each; clerks—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,000 each, seven of class four, two of class three, three of class two, two of class one; messengers—three at $900 each, three at $840 each; three laborers at $720 each; in all, $74,280: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Details of employees. employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the oilice of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be necessary.
Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of the ExecutiveContingent expenses. Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, special services, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $36,000. For printing and binding, $3,000.Printing and binding. Traveling expenses: For traveling and official entertainmentTraveling, etc., expenses of the President. expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000. executive mansion and grounds.Executive Mansion.
For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Care, repair, etc.Mansion, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine $50,000. For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $12,000.Fuel. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion,Greenhouses. $9,000. For repair and reconstruction of greenhouses, Executive Mansion,Grounds. $9,000. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds, $10,000. For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses,Lighting. including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600.
For extraordinary repairs to and refurnishing the ExecutiveExtraordinary repairs, etc. Mansion, $20,000. 1228 Plans for fireproofing, etc.For preparing plans and estimate for fireproofing the Executive Mansion, including plans for the renovation of the second and third *Proviso*.Under Supervising Architect.stories and the roof, $5,000: *Provided*, That this work shall be done by the Office of the Supervising Architect. White House police.white house podice. Salaries.*Ante*, p. 841.Salaries:
First sergeant, $2,140; two sergeants, at $1,800 each; and thirty privates, at $1,660 each; in all $55,540. Uniforms and equipment.For uniforming and equipping the White House police, including the purchase and issue of revolvers and ammunition, $3,350. Alien Property Custodian.ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN. Services, supplies, etc.Vol. 40, p. 415; Vol. 41, pp. 35, 977, 1147.*Ante*, p. 351.For expenses of the Alien Property Custodian authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October 6, 1917, as amended; including personal and other services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, law books, books of reference and periodicals, supplies and equipment, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-*Proviso*.Rent restriction.carrying vehicles, $280,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission.
Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $1,200. Efficiency Bureau.BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY. Salaries and expenses.Salaries and contingent expenses, including traveling expenses; per diem in lieu of subsistence; supplies; stationery; purchase and exchange of equipment; not to exceed $100 for law books, books of reference, and periodicals; and not to exceed $150 for street car fare; *Proviso*.Pay restriction.in all, $144,500: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
One at $7,500, one at $6,000, three at $4.250 each, eight at $4,000 each, three at $3,600 each, one at $3,500, two at $3,250 each, five at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, three at $2,400 each, and five at $2,000 each. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $500. Civil Service Commission.CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Commissioners, chief examiners, etc.Three commissioners, at $5,000 each; chief examiner, $3,500; secretary, $2,500; assistant chief examiner, $2,400; chiefs of divisions—one (who shall act as assistant secretary) $2,400, two at $2,000 each; certification clerk, $2,000; examiners—seven at $2,400 each, three at $2,000 each, six at $1,800 each; clerks—six of class four, twenty-eight of class three, thirty-nine of class two, fifty-two of class one, thirty-four at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720: skilled laborer, $720; four messenger boys, at $420 each; telephone switchboard operator. $720; in all, $296,480.
Additional employees.*Provisos*.Pay restriction.For additional employees for the Civil Service Commission, $107,500: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except six at $3,500 each;.five at $3,000 each; two at $2,200 each; and two at Expenses, investigation of applicants.$2,000 each: *Provided further*, That $40,000 of this amount may be expended only in connection with all expenses incident to investi-1229gations and research as to the character and training and experience of applicants for examination.
Field force: For salaries of the field force of the Civil ServiceField force. Commission, including employees heretofore detailed to the commission from other departments and offices, $272,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Fay restriction. That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except two at $3,300 each, three at $3,000 each, seven at $2,500 each, one at $2,400, two at $2,200 each, and six at $2,000 each. Except for one person detailed for part-time duty in the districtDetails from departments, etc., forbidden. office at New York City, no details from any executive department or independent establishment in the District of Columbia or else- where to the commission’s central office in Washington or to any of its district offices shall be made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924; but this shall not affect the making of details for service as members of boards of examiners outside the immediate offices of the district secretaries.
The Civil Service Commission shall haveTransfer of its employees. power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force or field force. For employment of expert examiners not in the Federal serviceExpert examiners. to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000. To carry out the provisions of section 13 of the Act entitled “AnCivil service retirement Act expenses.Vol. 41, p. 619.
Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, including personal services in the District of Columbia, stationery, purchase of books, office equipment, and other supplies, $30,000: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Pay restriction. person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,740 per annum except one at $2,000 and four at $1,800 each. For examination of presidential postmasters, including travel,Examining presidential postmasters. stationery, contingent expenses, additional examiners and investigators, and other necessary expenses of examinations, $32,500.
For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examinersTraveling expenses, etc. acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $20,000. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Civil ServiceContingent expenses. Commission, including furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; supplies; advertising; telegraph and telephone service; freight and express charges; street car fares not to exceed $200; stationery ; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, directories, newspaper’s, and periodicals, not to exceed $500; charts; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles; maintenance and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; garage rent; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries; special-delivery stamps; and other like miscellaneous expenses not hereinbefore provided for; in all, $39,540.
For rent of building for the Civil Service Commission, $16,875,Rent. if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in other buildings under the control of that commission. For printing and binding, $60,000.Printing and binding. COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS.Commission of Fine Arts. For expenses made necessary by the Act entitled “An ActExpenses.Vol. 38.p. 371. establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” approved May 17, 1910, includ-1230ing the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be *Provisos*.Pay restriction.disbursed on vouchers approved by the commission, $5,500: *Provided*, That no person shall receive compensation hereunder at a rate exceeding $1,800 per annum and only one person shall be Traveling expenses limited.employed at that rate: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be expended for traveling expenses other than those incurred by members of the commission for actual travel only in going to and returning from Washington to attend the meetings of the commission.
Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $500. Employees’ Compensation Commission.EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION. Salaries, etc.Salaries: Three commissioners, at $4,000 each; secretary, $3,000; attorney, $4,000; chief statistical!, $3,500 ; chief of accounts, $2,500; assistant chief of accounts, $1,600; accountant, $2,250; claim examiners—chief $2,250. assistant $2,000, assistant $1,800, five assistants at $1,600 each; special agents—two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each; clerks—seven of class three, twelve of class two, twentyseven of class one, three at $1,000 each; stockroom clerk, $1,000; messenger, $840; experts and temporary assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and temporary clerks, stenographers, or typists in the District of Columbia. to be paid at a nite not exceeding $100 per month, $1,800; in all, $116,740.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, Medical examinations.and supplies; traveling expenses; medical examinations, traveling and other expenses, and loss of wages payable to employees under Vol. 39, p. 747.sections 21 and 22 of the Act of September 7, 1916, and for miscellaneous items; in all, $12,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $4,000. Compensation fund.Allowances from.Vol. 39, pp, 743,745.Employees’ compensation fund:
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 and burial expenses provided by sections 9 and 11 and advancement of costs for the enforcement Recoveries.Vol. 37, p. 747.of recoveries provided in sections 26 and 27 where necessary, accruing during the fiscal year 1924 or in prior fiscal years, $2,300,000.
Federal Power Commission.FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION. Expenses.Vol. 41, p. 1063.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Federal Power Commission as authorized by law, including traveling expenses; per diem in lieu of subsistence; and not exceeding $500 for law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $40,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $4,000. Federal Trade Commission.FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Salaries.For five commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary $5,000; in all, $55,000.
All other expenses.Vol. 38, p. 722.For all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including personal and other services, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, garage rental, traveling expenses, including actual expenses at not to exceed $51231per day or per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, news-papers, foreign postage, and witness fees and mileage in accordance with section 9 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, $880,000.
For printing and binding, $20,000.Printing and binding. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE.General Accounting Office. Salaries: Comptroller General, $10,000; Assistant ComptrollerComptroller General, Assistant, assistants, chief of divisions, etc. General, $7,500; assistants to Comptroller General—four at $6,000 each (one of whom shall be designated as solicitor); chief clerk, $3,000; chiefs of divisions—seven at $3,000 each; chief of appointment division, $2,500; assistant chiefs of division—three at $2,750 each, four at $2,500 each; chief electrical accountant, $3,000; chiefs of sections—fourteen at $2.500 each, seventeen at $2,250 each, five at $2,000 each; assistant chiefs of sections—eleven at $2,000 each, one at $1,900; disbursing officer, $3,000; deputy disbursing officer. $1,800; private secretary, $1,800; attorneys—one $5,000, four atAttorneys, accountants, investigators, etc. $4,000 each, four at $3,600 each, seven at $3,000 each, one $2,750; law clerks—one $2,500, four at $2,400 each, four at $2,250 each, two at $2,200 each, nine at $2,000 each; accountants—one $2,500, two at $2,400 each, two at $2,100 each, three at $2,000 each; investigators— one $4,000, one $3,600, one $3,000, two at $2,750 each, three at $2.500 each, three at $2,250 each, and eleven at $2,000 each; principal clerks—three at $2,400 each; two at $2,250 each, twenty-four at $2,000 each; reviewers—eight at $2,100 each; clerks—two hundred and twenty-four of class four, two hundred and ninety-three of class three, three hundred and ninety-one of class two. three hundred and sixty-one of class one, one hundred and fifty at $1,000 each, eighty-four at $900 each; duplicating machine operator, $900; carpenters— one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman of messengers and laborer’s, $1,400; messengers—five at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, eighteen at $840 each; assistant messengers—twenty-eight at $720 each; skilled laborers—five at $900 each, sixteen at $840 each, nine at $720 each; laborers—thirty-two at $660 each; chauffeurs—one $900, two at $720 each; messenger boys—one $840, six at $540 each, fifteen at $480 each, three at $420 each; forewoman of charwomen, $660; charwomen—twenty- two at $240 each; and compensation for such number of employees of the General Accounting Office as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, $345,000; in all $2,989,440: *Provided*, That within thirty days after the approval*Proviso*.Army motor passenger vehicle. of this Act the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to deliver to the General Accounting Office without payment therefor one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle.
Contingent expenses: For traveling expenses, rent, telephoneContingent expenses. service, maintenance and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase and exchange of books and tabulating cards, office supplies (including stationery, other than printed forms and letterheads) and equipment, repairs and maintenance, and miscellaneous items, $349.573: *Provided*, That not exceeding*Proviso*.Rental of tabulating, etc., machines. $35,000 may be expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines.
For printing and binding, including monthly and annual editionsPrinting and binding. of selected decisions of the Comptroller General, $27,500. The General Accounting Office is hereby authorized to destroyGovernment checks.Destruction of paid, issued for designated objects, after six years. United States Government checks, that have been paid six full fiscal years, issued by the Bureau of Pensions for the payment of gensions, by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and the United tates Veterans’ Bureau for the payment of military and naval compensation on account of death or disability, and checks for the payment of salaries and wages of officers and employees of the1232Government of the United States, after all unpaid checks have been Claims barred.listed as outstanding as now required by law, and all claims on account of checks of the foregoing classes appearing as having been paid shall be barred if not presented to the General Accounting Office within six full fiscal years after the date of payment.
Grant Memorial Commission.GRANT MEMORIAL COMMISSION. Printing report of Memorial.For printing and binding report on construction and dedication Vol. 31, p. 803.of the Grant Memorial, to be immediately available, $1,800. Housing Corporation.HOUSING CORPORATION. Salaries in the District of Columbia for specified duties.Salaries: For officers, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia necessary to collect and account for the receipts from the sale of properties and the receipts from the operation of unsold properties of the United States Housing Corporation, the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, property commandeered by the United States through the Secretary of Labor, and to collect the amounts advanced to transportation facilities and others, *Proviso*.Pay restriction.$54,250: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum and only Contingent expenses.one person may be employed at that rate.
Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices at Washington, District of Columbia, including purchase of blank books, maps, stationery, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, freight and express charges; telegraph and telephone service; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, and necessary to collect moneys and loans due the corporation, $8,000. Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Housing Corporation, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,500.
Appraisal expenses.Appraisal: For the cost of appraisal under contract loans made to expedite transportation facilities, $10,000. Collections from sales, rents etc.Vol. 41, p. 224.Collections: For the collection of money due from the sale of real and other property under the provision of the Act approved July 19, 1919, the collection of rentals from unsold properties, including necessarv office and travel expenses outside of the District of Columbia, $33.700. Government hotel, D.C.Maintenance, etc.Washington, District of Columbia, Government hotel for Government workers:
For maintenance, operation, and management of the hotel and restaurants therein, including replacement of equipment, *Provisos*.Fay restriction.and personal services, $800,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum, and only one person may be employed at that rate: *Provided further*, Delivery of Army motor trucks.That within thirty days after the approval of this Act the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to deliver to the Housing Corporation without payment therefor, one one-ton motor truck, and one two-ton motor truck.
Maintenance, unsold property.Maintenance, unsold property: To maintain and repair houses, buildings, and improvements, which are unsold, $4,000. Miscellaneous expenses of sold property.Miscellaneous expenses account of property sold: To pay taxes, special assessments, and other utility, municipal, State, and county charges or assessments unpaid by purchasers and which have been assessed against property in which the United States Housing Corporation has an interest, and to defray expenses incident to foreclosing mortgages, conducting sales under deeds of trust, or reacquiring title or possession of real property under default proceeding, including1233attorney fees, witness fees, court costs, charges, and other miscellaneous expenses, $9,000: *Provided*, That the United States Housing*Proviso*.Allowance of equitable claims.
Corporation is hereby authorized. to allow as an offset any equitable claim in any collection made against any State or any political subdivision thereof. No part of the appropriations heretofore made and available forUse of former appropriations restricted. expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be expended for the purposes for which appropriations are made herein. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For eleven commissioners, at $12,000 each; secretary, $7,500; in all,Salaries. $139,500.
For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the executionExpenses.Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. of laws to regulate commerce, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $2,139,360, and no part ofNot available for care, etc., of building. this sum shall be available for the care, maintenance, protection, fuel, light, and so forth, for the Interstate Commerce Commission*Post*, p. 1240.
Building, of which sum there may be expended not exceeding $50,000 inCouncil, etc. the employment of counsel, not exceeding $3,000 for necessary books, reports, and periodicals; not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply schedule, and not exceeding $75,000 for rent ofRent, D. C. buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That this*Provisos*.Rental condition. appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission: *Provided further*, That the following proviso, contained inProvision for stenographic work, etc., repealed.*Ante*, p. 641, repealed. the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the executive and for other sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923,” is hereby repealed:
“*Provided further*, That the Interstate Commerce Commission may employ by contract or otherwise expert stenographicSale of copies of proceedings. reporters for its official reporting work: And *provided further*, That the commission shall sell, at a rate per page equivalent to the cost of making them, copies of transcripts of its proceedings.” To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce Enforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556; Vol. 41, p. 493.compliance with section 20 and other sections of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June 29, 1906, and as amended by the Transportation Act, 1920, including the employment of necessary special accounting agents or examiners, and including per diemPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section' 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved August 1, 1914, $550,000.
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p.943; Vol. 36, p.298.Accidents.Vol. 36, p. 350.Block signals, etc.Vol. 34, p. 838; Vol. 35, p. 324; Vol. 38, p. 212. regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test block-signal and train-control systems and appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906, and the provision of the Sundry Civil Act approved May 27, 1908, including the employment of inspectors, and per diem in lieu of subsistencePer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $400,000.
For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the ActSafe locomotive boilers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 913; Vol. >40, p. 616. of February 17, 1911, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” and amendmentVol. 38, p. 1192. of1234March 4, 1915, extending “the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender,” including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission may Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.deem necessary, and for per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $300,000.
Physical valuation of railroads.Vol. 37. p. 701; Vol. 40, p. 271.*Ante*, p, 624.Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof,” by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers Issue of stock, etc.subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved March 1, 1913, including per Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $1,250,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Rent, restriction.That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission.
Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $125,000, including not to exceed $10,000 to print and furnish to the States at cost report-form blanks. Lincoln Memorial Commission.LINCOLN MEMORIAL COMMISSION. Printing report of Memorial, etc.Vol. 36, p. 898.For printing and binding report on construction and dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, to be immediately available, $3,600. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS. All expenses.For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; traveling expenses of members and employees; office supplies and other miscellaneous expenses, including technical periodicals and books of reference; equipment, maintenance, Langley Laboratory.and operation of a research laboratory, known as the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory; maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; personal services in *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.the field and in the District of Columbia; in all, $270,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for clerical, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, shall not exceed $42,000.
Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including all of its offices, laboratories, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $13,000. Railroad Labor Board.RAILROAD LABOR BOARD. Salaries.For nine members of the Railroad Labor Board at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all $95,000. All other expenses.Vol. 41, p. 470.For all other authorized expenditures of the Railroad Labor Board in performing the duties imposed by law, including personal and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, supplies and equipment, law books and books of reference, periodicals, travel Rent.expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence, rent of quarters in the District of Columbia if space is not provided by the Public Buildings Commission, rent of quarters outside the District of Columbia, witness fees, and mileage, $235,000.
Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Railroad Labor Board, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $10,000. 1235 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For the system of internationalInternational exchanges. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $43,000.
American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches American Ethnology.among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archæologic remains under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $44,000. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For theInternational Catalogue of Scientific Literature. cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, clerk hire, purchase of neccessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500.
Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of the Astrophysical Observatory.Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $15,500. The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized toPlans authorized for building for National Gallery of Art, etc. prepare preliminary plans for a suitable fireproof building with granite fronts for the National Gallery of Art, including the National Portrait Gallery, and the history collections of the United States National Museum, said building to be erected when funds from gift or bequests are in the possession of the said Regents,Location. in sections or completely on the north side of the Mall between the Natural History Building, United States National Museum, and Seventh Street, leaving a space between it and the latter of not less than one hundred feet and a space of not less than one hundred feet between it and Seventh Street, with its south front on a line with the south front of the said Natural History Building. national museum.National Museum.
For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for theFurniture, etc. exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $20,000. For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonicHeating, lighting, etc. service, $70,000; For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collectionsPreserving collections, etc. from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, all other necessary expenses, and not exceeding $5,500 for drawings and illustrations for publications, $312.500.
For repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessaryRepairs, etc. labor and material, $10,000; For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference,Books, etc. $2.000; For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500;Postage stamps. In all, National Museum, $415,000. national gallery of art.National Gallery of Art. For the administration of the National Gallery of Art byAdministration expenses. the Smithsonian Institution, including compensation of necessary1236employees, purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, and necessary incidental expenses, $16,000. printing and binding.
Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Smithsonian Institution, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in *Proviso*.No pro rata restriction.Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $77,400: *Provided*, That the expenditure of this sum shall not be restricted to a pro rata amount in any period of the fiscal year. State, etc., Department Buildings.STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS. Administration.Deputy superintendent, and assistantOffice of the superintendent:
For the following employees to assist in the administration of the force under the superintendent: Deputy superintendent, $4,500; assistant to superintendent, $3,600; in all, $8,100. Main building.state, war, and navy department building. Operating force.Salaries: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—two of class one, one $1,000; chief engineer, $1,800; five assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; twenty-two watchmen, at $720 each; carpenter, $1,000; chief electrician, $1,400; electrician, $1,200; machinist, $1,000; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,000; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each: six skilled laborers or general mechanics, at $840 each; bricklayer, $1,200; messenger, $840; foreman of laborers, $840; chauffeur, $1,000; thirteen firemen, at $720 each; fifteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; two foremen or forewomen at $780 each: forty laborers, at $660 each; three attendants, at $480 each; in all, $100,900.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, and city directory, $54,000. Walker-Johnson Building.walkerjohnson building. Operating force.Salaries: Engineer, $1,200; three firemen at $720 each; three elevator conductors at $720 each; five watchmen at $720 each; general mechanic or skilled laborer, $840; five laborers at $660 each; attendant, $480; in all, $13,740. Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $8,480. Potomac Park buildings.potomac park office buildings.
Operating force.Salaries: For the following employees for the maintenance and protection of the buildings: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two, three of class one, two at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $720 each: chief engineer, $1,800; assistant engineers— one $1,600, four at $1,400 each; storekeeper, $1,200; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; fore-man carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; foreman painter, $1,400; painters—two at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each: plumbers—one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; steam fitters—two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; machinist, $1,400; four switchboard operators, at $1,200 each; four general mechanics, at $1,000 each; guards—captain, $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,080 each, three sergeants at $030 each, twenty-three at $780 each, twelve at $720 each; foreman of laborers, $1,400; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $960 each; six assistant foremen or forewomen, at $7801237each; one hundred and forty laborers, at $660 each; laborers and charwomen, $100,320; twenty female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $315,490.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, and city directory,Operating expenses. including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used for official purposes only, $164,000. mall office buildings.Mall buildings. Salaries: For the following employees for the maintenance andOperating force. protection of the temporary office buildings in the Mali (Units C, D, E, and F, located in Henry Mark, Seaton Park, and the Smithsonian Grounds):
Assistant superintendent, $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; clerks—one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, two at $1,000 each; two messengers at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant to chief engineer, $1.600; three assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; storekeeper, $1,200; foreman carpenter, $1.600; carpenters— four at $1.400 each, five at $1,200 each; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—two at $1.400 each, four at $1,200 each; foreman plumber, $1,400; two plumbers at $1,200 each; steam fitters—two at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,200; foreman painter, $1,400; two painters, at $1,200 each; eight general mechanics at $1,000 each; firemen—six at $840 each, seven at $720 each; captain of the guard, $1,600; lieutenants of the guard—three at $1,080 each; fire marshal. $1,080; sergeants of the guard—three at $930 each, one $840; guards—sixty-one at $780 each; foreman of laborers, $1,400; two assistant foremen of laborers at $960 each; nine foremen or forewomen at $780 each; fifty-eight laborers at $660 each; laborers and charwomen, $48,840; eight female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $233,550.
For fuel, lights, repairs, motor cycle and truck repairs, supplies,Operating expenses. and exchange of same, miscellaneous items, and city directory. $100,000. temporary building (1800 virginia avenue).Virginia Avenue and 18th Street. Salaries: For the following employees for the maintenance andOperating force. protection of the building: Clerk of class one; chief engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; six firemen, at $840 each; electrician, $1,200; carpenter, $1,200; general mechanic, $1,000; guards—three sergeants at $930 each, nine at $780 each; foreman of laborers, $840; foreman or forewoman, $780; ten laborers at $660 each; laborers and charwomen, $3,960; female laborer, $480; in all, $34,510.
For fuel, lights, repairs, ground rent, and miscellaneous items,Operating expenses. $19,000. temporary buildings.Temporary buildings. Salaries: For employees for the maintenance and protection of theBuildings designated. temporary office buildings known as follows: War Trade Building, between B and C Streets and Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets northwest; Food Administration Building Numbered One, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets and C and D Streets northwest; Food Administration Building Numbered Two, between New York Avenue and D Street and Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets north-west;
Fuel Administration Buildings Numbered One and Two. bounded by Virginia Avenue, Eighteenth and C Streets northwest ; Fuel Administration Building Numbered Three, on D Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets northwest: H. L. Pettus Building. on Nineteenth Street, between Virginia Avenue and D Street northwest; and Archie Butt Building, seventeen hundred and twenty-1238Operating force.five New York Avenue northwest: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, three of class one; two messengers at $840 each; electricians—one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; foreman carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each; plumbers—one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; steam fitter, $1,400; painters—three at $1,200 each; six general mechanics at $1,000 each; assistant engineers—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each; thirteen firemen, at $840 each; three coal passers, at $720 each; guards—captain $1,600, three lieu- tenants at $1,080 each, four sergeants at $900 each, fifty-three privates at $780 each; fire marshal, $1,200; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $840 each; six foremen or fore- women, at $720 each; twenty-six laborers, at $G60 each; four female laborers, at $480 each; laborers and charwomen, $38,280; in all, $172,700.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, ground rent, miscellaneous items, and city directory, $81,000. Interior Department Buildings.INTERIOR DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS. Main building.Operating force.Interior Department Building—Salaries: For the following employees, for maintenance and protection: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, two of class one; messenger, $720; three assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; seven firemen, at $720 each; electricians—one $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000; three sub-station operators, at $1,200 each; painters—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; plumbers—one $1,400, two at $1,000 each; steam fitter, $1,200; carpenters—one- $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000; three general mechanics, at $1,000 each; guards—captain $1,200, three lieutenants at $840 each, eighteen at $720 each; elevator conductors—six at $720 each, four at $G60 each; foreman of laborers, $1,200; forty-six laborers at $660 each, twenty-nine laborers at $600 each: three female laborers at $400 each; in all, $110,760.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, power, repairs, window washing, miscellaneous items, and city directory, $60,000. Pension, Patent, and General Land Office Buildings.Operating force.Pension Office, Patent Office, and General Land Office Buildings— Salaries: Clerks—one $1,500, two of class one, one $1,000; two messengers, at $840 each; engineer and electrician, $1,600; engineer, $1,200; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; two electricians, at $1,000 each; eleven firemen, at $720 each; machinist, $1,500; painters—one $1,200, one $1,000; plumber, $1,000; carpenters—two at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; three general mecnanicSj at $1,000 each; seven elevator conductors, at $720 each; guards—six lieutenants at $840 each, three sergeants at $780 each, forty-seven at $720 each; laborers—two foremen at $840 each, fifty-eight at $660 each, eighteen at $600 each, two at $400 each; in all. $133,220.
Operating expenses.For contingent expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, and protection, including fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $74,000. E and Eighteenth Streets.1800 e street nw. Operating force.Salaries: Engineer, $1,200; three, guards, at $720 each; firemen, $720; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; five laborers, at $660 each; in all, $8,820. Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $4,000. Lemon Building.lemon building, 172 0 new york avenue. nw.
Operating force.Salaries: Elevator conductor, $720; three guards at $720 each; three laborers at $660 each; in all, $4,860. 1239 For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $4,100.Operating expenses. For printing and binding, $2,000.Printing and binding. department of commerce building.Department of Commerce Building. The responsibility for the care, maintenance, and protection ofTransferred to jurisdiction of Superintendent of State, etc., Department Building. the building or buildings occupied by the Department of Commerce in the District of Columbia and the disbursement of the funds appropriated therefor, together with all the machinery, tools, equipment, and supplies used, or for use, in connection therewith, shall be transferred on July 1, 1923, from the Secretary of Commerce to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.
Department of Commerce Building—Salaries: For the followingOperating force. employees, for maintenance and protection: Engineer and electrician, $1,400; carpenter, $1,000; electrician, $1,000; three elevator conductors at $720 each; five guards at $720 each; three firemen at $720 each; assistant forewoman, $720; twenty-one laborers at $660 each; toilet attendant, $480; in all, $26,380. For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, and printing, $18,650:Operating expenses. *Provided*, That amounts aggregating $51,500 of the appropriations*Proviso*.Transfer of appropriations, etc.*Ante*, pp. 1110, 1111. made to the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1924 for care, maintenance, protection, fuel, light, and so forth, for the Department of Commerce Building are hereby transferred to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings and made available to the extent of $45,030 for payment of the salaries and expenses herein set forth, and the remainder ($6,470) shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the surplus fund. department of labor building.Department of Labor Building.
The responsibility for the care, maintenance, and protection of theTransferred to jurisdiction of Superintendent of State, etc., Department Buildings. building or buildings occupied by the Department of Labor in the District of Columbia and the disbursement of the funds appropriated therefor, together with all the machinery, tools, equipment, and supplies used, or for use, in connection therewith, shall be transferred on July 1, 1923, from the Secretary of Labor to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.
Department of Labor Building—Salaries: For the followingOperating force. employees, for maintenance and protection: Engineer, $1,200; general mechanic, $840; three elevator conductors at $720 each; three fire-men at $720 each; four guards at $720 each; twelve laborers at $660 each; toilet attendant, $480; in all, $17,640. For fuel, fights, repairs, miscellaneous items, and printing, $9,000:Operating expenses. *Provided*, That amounts aggregating $33,300 of the appropriations*Proviso*.Transfer of appropriations, etc.*Ante*, p. 1126. made to the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1924 for care, maintenance, protection, fuel, light, and so forth, for the Department of Labor Building are hereby transferred to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings, and made available to the extent of $26,640 for payment of the salaries and expenses herein set forth, and the remainder ($6,660) shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the surplus fund. department of justice building.Department of Justice Building.
The responsibility for the care, maintenance, and protection of theTransferred to jurisdiction of Superintendent of State, etc., Department Buildings. building or buildings occupied by the Department of Justice in the District of Columbia and the disbursement of the funds appropriated therefor, together with all the machinery, tools, equipment, and supplies used, or for use, in connection therewith shall be transferred on July 1, 1923, from the United States Attorney General to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. 1240 Operating force.Department of Justice Building—Salaries:
For the following employees, for maintenance and protection: Engineer, $1,200; electrician, $1,000; carpenter, $1,000; three firemen, at $720 each; five elevator conductors at $720 each; five guards at $720 each; fifteen laborers at $660 each; toilet attendant, $480; in all, $22,940. Operating expenses.*Proviso*.Transfer of appropriations, etc.*Ante*, pp. 1078, 1079.For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, and printing, $11,000: *Provided*, That amounts aggregating $42,550 of the appropriations made to the Department of justice for the fiscal year 1924 for care, maintenance, protection, fuel, light, and so forth, for the Department of Justice Building are hereby transferred to the Superintendent of the State, War. and Navy Department Buildings and made available to the extent of $33,940 for payment of the salaries and expenses herein set forth, and the remainder ($8,610) shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the surplus fund.
Civil Service Building.civil service commission building. Transferred to jurisdiction of Superintendent of State, etc., Department Buildings.The responsibility for the care, maintenance, and protection of the building or buildings occupied by the Civil Service Commission in the District of Columbia and the disbursement of the funds appropriated therefor, together with all the machinery, tools, equipment, and supplies used, or for use, in connection therewith, shall be transferred on July 1, 1923, from the United States Civil Service Com-mission to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.
Operating force.Civil Service Commission Building—Salaries: For the following employees, for maintenance and protection: Carpenter, $1,000; general mechanic, $840; two elevator conductors at $720 each; three Operating expenses.guards at $720 each; four laborers at $660 each; toilet attendant, $480; in all, $8,560; for fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, and printing, $4,000; in all, $12.560, which sum is hereby appropriated. Interstate Commerce Banking.interstate commerce commission building.
Transferred to jurisdiction of Superintendent of Stated etc., Department Buildings.The responsibility for the care, maintenance, and protection of the building or buildings occupied by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the District of Columbia and the disbursement of the funds appropriated therefor, together with all the machinery, tools, equipment, and supplies used, or for use. in connection therewith, shall be transferred on July 1, 1923, from the Interstate Commerce Commission to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.
Operating force.Interstate Commerce Building—Salaries: For the following employees, for maintenance and protection: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; engineer, $1,600; electrician, $1,600; carpenter, $1,400; three firemen, at $840 each ; six elevator conductors, at $720 each ; five Operating expenses.guards, at $720 each; assistant foreman. $1,000; assistant forewoman, $720; twenty-four laborers, at $660 each; toilet attendant, $480; for fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, and printing, $19,000; in all, $54,080, which sum is hereby appropriated.
Tariff Commission.TARIFF COMMISSION. Salaries and expenses.For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, including purchase and exchange of labor-saving devices, the purchase Vol. 39, p. 796.of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, *Ante*, pp. 941–947.and periodicals as may be necessary, as authorized under Title VII of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and. for other purposes,” approved September 8, 1916, and under sections1241315, 316, 317, and 318 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved September 21, 1922, $680,000.
For printing and binding, $20,000.Printing and binding. UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARD.Geographic Board. For printing and binding, $2,000: *Provided*, That all expendituresPrinting and binding.*Proviso*.Accounting. of the board shall be paid upon vouchers approved by it and signed by its secretary, who shall act as its disbursing agent without bond. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD.Shipping Board. For seven commissioners, at $12,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all,Salaries. $89,000.
For all other expenditures authorized by the Act approved All other expenses.Vol. 39, p. 728; Vol. 41, p. 988.September 7, 1916, as amended, and by the Act approved June 5, 1920, including the compensation of attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for all other expenses of the board, including the rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, law books, books of reference, periodicals, and actual and necessary expenses of members of the board, its special experts, andPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. other employees, or per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, while upon official business away from their designated posts of duty, and including the investigation of foreignInvestigating discriminations against American vessels, etc. discrimination against vessels and shippers of the United States and for the investigation of transportation of immigrants in vesselsTransporting immigrants. of the United States Shipping Board, $317,500.
For all printing and binding for the United States ShippingPrinting and binding. Board, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $5,000. No part of the moneys appropriated or made available by thisUsing funds for repairing, etc., Government vessels at other than navy yards, restricted. Act shall, unless the President shall otherwise direct, be used or expended for the repair or reconditioning of any vessel owned or controlled by the Government, if the expense of such repair or reconditioning is in excess of $100,000, until a reasonable opportunity has been given to the available Government navy yards or arsenals to estimate upon the cost of such repair or reconditioning if performed by such navy yards or arsenals within the limit of time within which the work is to be done: *Provided*, That this*Provisos*.Vessels only in American harbors affected. limitation shall only apply to vessels while in the harbors of the United States, and all expenditures in connection with such workEffective at once. are to be considered in estimating the cost: *And provided further*, That the provisions of this clause shall take effect upon the passage of this Act. emergency shipping fund.Emergency shipping fund.
For expenses of the United States Shipping Board EmergencyEmergency Fleet Corporation’s expenditures pavable from.Vol. 41, p. 988. Fleet Corporation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, for administrative purposes, miscellaneous adjustments, losses due to the maintenance and operation of ships, for the tie-up,Sources. reconditioning and repair of ships, and for carrying out the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920,
(a)the amount on hand July 1, 1923, but not in excess of the sums sufficient to cover all obligations incurred prior to July 1, 1923, and then unpaid;
(b)$50,000,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the payment*Proviso*.Payments limited. of claims other than those resulting from the current maintenance1242Operation receipts.and operation of vessels;
(c)the amount received during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, from the operation of ships. Payment of claims, etc.Balance of fund for. remaining unexpended July 1, 1923, to be covered into the Treasury.*Ante*, p. 647.Any part of the $50,000,000 appropriated by the Act approved June 12, 1922, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Executive and for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes,” for the payment of claims, damage charges, and miscellaneous adjustments, authorized under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, remaining unexpended or uncommitted on July 1, 1923, shall be covered into the United States Treasury. Publications forbidden.No part of the funds appropriated or made available in this Act for the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be expended for the preparation, printing, publication, or distribution of any newspapers, magazines, journals, or other periodicals, or for services in connection therewith, not including, however, the preparation and printing of documents and reports authorized and required to be issued by law. Attorneys subject to approval of Attorney General.No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any attorney, regular or special, for the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board . Emergency Fleet Corporation unless the contract of employment las been approved by the Attorney General of the United States. Pay restriction.No officer or employee of the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be paid a salary or compensation at a rate per annum in excess of $11,000 except the following: Six at not to exceed $25,000 each, and two at not to exceed $20,000 each. Auditing by Efficiency BureauNo part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be available for the payment of certified public accountants, their agents or employees, and all auditing of every nature requiring the services of outside auditors shall be furnished through the Bureau of *Proviso*.Outside auditors for claims in litigation.Efficiency: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall limit the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation from employing outside auditors to audit claims in litigation for or against the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Subsistence expenses.No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be used for actual expenses of subsistence exceeding $5 a day or per diem in lieu of subsistence exceeding $4 for any officer or employee of the United States Shipping Board or the United States “Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Rent in the District restricted.No part of the funds of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be available for the rent of buildings in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1924 if suitable space is provided for said corporation by the Public Buildings Commission. Claims not payable herefrom.Vol. 41, p.525.No part of the sum appropriated in this Act shall be used to pay any claims of the United States Navy Department against the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation arising prior to July 1, 1921, or to pay any final judgment rendered in any suit authorized by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty, suits for salvage services, and providing for the release of merchant vessels belonging to the United States from arrest and attachment in foreign jurisdictions, and for other purposes,” approved March 9, 1920. 1243 UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAU.Veterans’ Bureau. For carrying out the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act toSalaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 147. establish a Veterans’ Bureau and to improve the facilities and service of such bureau and to further amend and modify the War Risk Insurance Act approved August 9, 1921,” including salaries and expenses of the central office at Washington, District of Columbia, and regional offices and suboffices, and including salaries, stationery and minor office supplies, furniture, equipment and supplies, rentals and alterations, heat, light, and water, miscellaneous expenses, including telephones, telegrams, freight, express, law books, books of reference, periodicals, ambulance service, towel service, laundry service, repairs to equipment, storage, ice, taxi service, car fare, stamps and box rent, traveling and subsistence, salaries and expenses of employees engaged in field investigation,Vehicles. passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, including purchase, maintenance, repairs, and operation of same, salaries and operating expensesArlington Building expenses. of the Arlington Building and annex, including repairs and mechanical equipment, fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items; and including the salaries and allowances,Hospital employees. where applicable, wages, travel and subsistence of civil employees at the United States veterans’ hospitals, supply depots, dispensaries, clinics, and vocational schools, $49,984,063: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Monthly detailed statement to Congress of employees, etc. on or before the fifteenth day of each month when Congress is in session, the Director of the Veterans’ Bureau shall transmit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a statement giving in detail
(a)the total number of positions at a rate of $2,000 or more per annum,
(b)the rate of salary attached to each position,
(c)the number of positions at each rate in the central office and in each district office or suboffice, and
(d)a brief statement of the duties of each position. Such portion of this appropriation as may be necessary shall beAllotment to Public Health Service details. allotted from time to time by the United States Veterans’ Bureau to the Public Health Service and shall be available for expenditure by the Public Health Service for necessary personnel, the pay and allowances, and travel of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service detailed to the United States Veterans’ Bureau for duty. For printing and binding for the United States Veterans’ Bureau,Printing and binding. including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, D. C., and elsewhere, $300,000. Compensation: For military and naval compensation for deathMilitary and naval compensation. or disability, $118,450,000. Medical and Hospital Services: For medical, surgical, dental,Medical, surgical, hospital, etc., services to beneficiaries. dispensary, and hospital services and facilities, convalescent care, necessary and reasonable after care, welfare of, nursing, prosthetic appliances, medical examinations, funeral and other incidental expenses (including transportation of remains), traveling expenses, and supplies, and not exceeding $100,000 for library books, magazines, and papers for beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, including 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, $48,683,710. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the United StatesDisbursement of allotted appropriations. Veterans’ Bureau, and such portion thereof as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time to the Public Health Service, the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the War, Navy, and Interior Departments, and transferred to their credit for disbursement by them for the purposes set forth in the foregoing paragraph. 1244 Use for new hospitals, sites, etc., forbidden.No part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site for a new hospital, for or toward the construction of any new hospital, or for the purchase of any hospital; and not Amount for alterations, etc.more than $5,781,00 of this appropriation may Be expended to alter, improve, or provide facilities in the several hospitals under the jurisdiction of the United States Veterans’ Bureau so as to furnish adequate accommodations for its beneficiaries, of which $1,673,000 shall be immediately available. Expenditures authorized from allotments to other agencies.The allotments made to the Public Health Service, War. Navy, Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and Interior Department and other governmental agencies shall be available for expenditure for care and treatment of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and for necessary minor repairs and improvements of existing facilities, under the various headings of appropriations made to said departments as may be necessary. Vocational rehabilitation.Expenses of, for discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 617, 1179;Vol. 49, pp. 159, 1379.Vocational rehabilitation: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other *Provisos*.Army camps restriction.purposes,” approved June 27, 1918, as amended, $120,743,000: *Provided*, That no part of the foregoing sum shall be used for the establishment, maintenance, or operation of training schools at any Army camp or cantonment acquired for use as a training center, Construction work limitation.except Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio: *Provided further*, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be expended for construction work except necessary extensions, additions, and repairs: *Provided further*, Use for embossed literature for the blind.That this appropriation shall be available for the purchase and distribution of embossed literature in Revised Braille for the use of blinded ex-service men and for procurement of equipment and supplies for the production of such literature. Military and naval insurance.Moneys from work, etc., to be credited to appropriation.For military and naval insurance, $90,000,000. All moneys hereafter refunded or received in connection with the proper conduct of the work of the United States Veterans’ Bureau shall be covered into the appropriation for the work from or on account of which the collection is made and be available for the purpose Proviso.Detailed report of amounts, etc., to Congress.of such appropriation: *Provided*, That on the first day of each regular session of Congress the Director of the Veterans’ Bureau shall transmit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a statement giving in detail the amount of moneys so refunded or received and the appropriations into which the same are covered. Minor purchases without advertising.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733.](/us/rs/sec3709/p733)Hereafter section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered in the United States Veterans’ Bureau when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50. Approved, February 13, 1923.