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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 43 STAT. · June 30, 1925 · Chapter 204

Chapter 204. Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes May 28, 1924.[[H

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CHAP. 204.— An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes May 28, 1924.[[H. R. 8350](/us/bill/68/hr/8350).][[Public, No. 153](/us/pl/68/153).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the followingAppropriations for Departments of State and Justice and Judiciary, and for Departments of Commerce and Labor. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, namely:
TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State. office of secretary of state. Salaries: For Secretary of State, $12,000; Undersecretary of State,Secretary, Undersecretary, and office personnel. and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including temporary employees, $1,057,600; in all, $1,069,600: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488. or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade or class thereof in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act: *Provided*, That this restriction shall notNot applicable to clerical-mechanical service. apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensationFixed salaries not reduced. is fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or
(3)to prevent the payment of a salary underPayments at higher salaries permitted. any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923 and is specifically authorized by other law. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including stationery,Contingent and miscellaneous expenses. furniture, fixtures, typewriters, exchange of same, repairs and material for repairs; books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the library, not exceeding $4,000; maintenance, repair, and storage of motor-propelled vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagons, including storage, repair, and exchange of same; street-car fare not exceeding $150: and other miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing; $40,000. printing and binding. For all printing and binding in the Department of State, includingPrinting and binding. all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $154,785. 206 Passport bureaus.passport bureaus. Salaries and expenses.For salaries and expenses of maintenance, including rent outside the District of Columbia, of passport bureaus at New York City, New York; San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; Seattle, Washington; and New Orleans, Louisiana. $49,130. Diplomatic Service.Diplomatic Service Ambassadors and ministers.ambassadors and ministers. Ambassadors.Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and Turkey, at $17,500 each, $227,500; Belgium and Luxemburg.For ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Belgium and envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Luxemburg, $17,500; Ministers.China and Netherlands.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China, and the Netherlands, at $12,000 each, $24,000; Other countries.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Albania, Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras. Hungary, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each, and to the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, $10,000; in all, $320,000; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Esthonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, $10,000; Minister resident.Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, $5,000; Agent, etc., Tangier.Agent and consul general at Tangier, $7,500; *Proviso*.Salary restriction.*Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Total, ambassadors and ministers, $611,500. charéges d’affaires ad interim Charges d’affaires.For salaries for charges d’affaires ad interim, $40,000. secretaries in the diplomatic service Secretaries, Diplomatic Service.Vol. 38, p. 805; Vol.39, p. 252.For salaries of secretaries in the Diplomatic Service, as provided in the Act of February 5, 1915, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” as amended by the Act making appropriationsVol. 41, p. 740.*Ante*, p. 140. for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, approved July 1, 1916, and the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, approved June 4, 1920, $386,875; Designated salaries, Japan, Turkey, and China.Japanese secretary of embassy to Japan, $5,500; Turkish secretary of embassy to Turkey, $5,500; Chinese secretary of legation to China, $5,500; Chinese assistant secretary of legation to China, $4,000; Japanese assistant secretary of embassy to Japan, $4,000; Turkish assistant secretary of embassy to Turkey, $4,000; Total, $415,375. clerks at embassies and legations Clerks at embassies and legations.For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the207 United States, $350,000; and so far as practicable shall be appointed under civil-service rules and regulations. interpreters to embassies and legations.Interpreters. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $2,000;Persia. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam,Siam. $2,500; For fifteen student interpreters at the legation to China and theStudent interpreters, China, Japan, and Turkey.*Ante*, p. 140. embassies to Japan and Turkey, who shall be citizens of the United States and whose duty it shall be to study the language of the country to which assigned with a view to supplying interpreters to the legation or embassy and consulates in such country, at $1,500 each, $22,500: *Provided*, That the method of selecting said student interpreters*Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service. shall be nonpartisan: *And provided further*, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as an interpreter at the legation, embassy, or consulate in the country to which assigned so long as his services may be required within a period of five years; For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpretersTuition. in China, Japan, and Turkey, at the rate of $350 per annum each, $5,250; No person drawing the salary of interpreter or student interpreterSalary restriction. as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer; Total, $32,250. quarters for student interpreters at embassies For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached toQuarters for student interpreters. the embassy to Japan, $1,200; For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Turkey, $600; Total, $1,800. contingent expenses, foreign missions To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all suchContingent expenses, missions. stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repairs, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, operation and maintenance of launch forLaunch, Constantinople. embassy at Constantinople not exceeding $2,500, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, translators, and the compensation of and rent for dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, andDispatch agents. New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for loss on bills of exchange to and fromLoss by exchange. embassies and legations, including such loss on bills of exchange to officers of the United States Court for China, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $720,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.No payment for clerical services to persons not Americans. no part of this sum appropriated for contingent expenses, foreign missions, shall be expended for salaries or wages of persons not American citizens performing clerical services, whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any foreign mission. ground rent of embassy at tokyo, japan For annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for theGround rent, Japan. year ending March 15, 1925, $250. 208 Consular Service.CONSULAR SERVICE salaries of the consular service Consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls.Vol. 38, p. 805.*Ante*, p. 140.For salaries of consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls, as provided in the Act approved February 5, 1915, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” $1,940,000. Every consulCitizenship required general, consul, vice consul, and wherever practicable every consular agent, shall be an American citizen; Consular inspectors.For salaries of seven consular inspectors, at $5,000 each, $35,000; Total, $1,975,000. expenses of consular inspectors Expenses, consular inspectors.For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions*Proviso*.Subsistence allowances. from the Secretary of State, $22,000: *Provided*, That inspectors shall not be allowed actual and necessary expenses for subsistence, itemized, exceeding an average of $8 per day. salaries of consular assistants Consular assistants.*Ante*, p. 140.For fifteen consular assistants, $19,424. allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates Clerk hire, consulates.For allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $1,550,000. Clerks, whenever hereafter appointed, shall, so far as practicable, be appointed under civil-service rules and regulations. contingent expenses, united states consulates Contingent expenses, consulates.For expenses of providing all such stationery, Wanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), repairs to consular buildings owned by the United States, postage, furniture, including typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, compensation of interpreters, kavasses,Loss by exchange. guards, dragomans, translators, and Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $980,000. relief and protection of american seamen Relief, etc., of American seamen.For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and Philippine Islands, and the Virgin Islands, $200,000. Diplomatic and ConsularDiplomatic and Consular salaries, diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and in transit Instruction and transit pay.To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, vice consuls, and other officers of the United States for the period actually and209 necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised[R. S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1749/p309). Statutes, $40,000. transportation of diplomatic and consular officers To pay the itemized and verified statements of the actual andTransportation, etc., expenses. necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of diplomatic and consular officers and clerks in embassies, legations, and consulates, including officers of the United States Court for China, and their families and effects in going to and returning from their posts, or of such officers and clerks when traveling under orders of the Secretary of State, but not including any expense incurred in connection*Proviso*.Passage on foreign ships restricted. with leaves of absence, $275,000: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be paid for transportation on foreign vessels without a certificate from the Secretary of State that there are no American vessels on which such officers and clerks may be transported. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arisingEmergencies. in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Act, to beNeutrality Act. expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49). Statutes, $400,000. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic or consular officers who die abroad For payment under the provisions of section 1749 of the RevisedAllowance for officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311). Statutes of the United States to the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $2,000. For Carrie Kitchin Hazeltine, widow of Ross Hazeltine, late consulMrs. Carrie Kitchin Hazeltine.Payment to. at Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East. Africa, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while at his post of duty, of illness incurred in the Consular Service, $4,500. For Pauline M. Robinson, widow of Fred R. Robinson, late consulMrs. Pauline Robinson.Payment to. to Saltillo, Mexico, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while returning to the United States from his post of duty, of illness incurred in the Consular Service, $3,500. For May Adelaide Sharp, widow of Hunter Sharp, late consulMrs. May Adelaide Sharp.Payment to. at Edinburgh, Scotland, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while at his post of duty, of illness incurred in the Consular Service, $5,000. For Ethel Roberts Loop, widow of Carl R. Loop, late consul atMrs. Ethel Roberts Loop.Payment to. Catania, Italy, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while at his post of duty, of illness incurred in the Consular Service, $4,000. For William B. Kirjassoff and David M. Kirjassoff, minor childrenWilliam B. and David M. Kirjassoff.Payment to. of Max D. Kirjassoff, late consul at Yokohama, Japan, one year’s salary of their deceased father, who died in the earthquake and fire, while at his post of duty, $3,500. For Eliza R. Scidmore. sister of George H. Scidmore, late consulEliza R. Scidmore.Payment to. general at Yokohama. Japan, one year’s salary of her deceased brother, who died of illness, incurred in the Consular Service, $8,000. 210 Mrs. Frances R. Jewett.Payment to.For Frances R. Jewett, widow of Milo A. Jewett, late consul of the United States at Trondhjem, Norway, $3,500. one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while at his post of duty of illness incurred in the Consular Service.Mrs. Teresa B. Handley.Payment to.For Teresa B. Handley, widow of William W. Handley, late consul general at Callao-Lima, Peru, $5,500, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while at his post of duty of illness incurred in the Consular Service. Mrs. Irene Gracie Pontius.Payment to.For Irene Gracie Pontius, widow of Albert W. Pontius, late consul general at Mukden. China, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while at his post of duty of illness incurred in the Consular Service, $5,500. transporting remains of diplomatic and consular officers, consular assistants, and clerks to their homes for interment Bringing home remains of officers.For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic and consular officers of the United States, including consular assistants and clerks, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, $5,000. Post allowances.post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers Special allowances to officers to meet living expenses.To enable the President, in his discretion, and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to diplomatic and consular officers and consular assistants and officers of the United States Court for China in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $125,000. INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS. COMMISSIONS, BUREAUS, AND SO FORTH cape spartel light, coast of morocco Cape Spartel Light.For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, $250. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen Life saving testimonials.For expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe at sea, $3,000. international bureau of weights and measures International Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 1714.For contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May 20, 1875, the same to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, $3,000. international bureau for publication of customs tariffs International Customs Tariffs Bureau.Vol. 26, p. 1518.To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year ending March 31, 1925, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs211 tariffs, pursuant to the convention proclaimed December 17, 1890, $2,187. revision of chinese customs tariffChinese customs tariff. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $47,750 to enableUnexpended balance for revising, continued available.Vol. 42, pp. 610, 1548.*Post*, p. 1019. the United States Government to carry out its obligations arising under the treaty relating to the Chinese customs tariff made in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, approved June 1, 1922, shall remain available for the purposes therein described for the fiscal year 1925. inquiry into extraterritoriality in chinaExtraterritorialty in China. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $21,000 to enableUnexpended balance for inquiry regarding, continued available.*Post*, p. 1019. the United States Government to carry out its obligations arising under Resolution Numbered 4, adopted by the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, December 10, 1921, regarding extraterritoriality in China, made by the Act making appropriationsVol. 42, pp. 610, 1548. for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, approved June 1, 1922, shall remain available for the purposes therein described for the fiscal year 1925. international boundary commission, united states and mexico To enable the President to perform the obligations of the UnitedMexican Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512; Vol. 34, p. 2953.*Proviso*.Limit for water gauging. States under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, and 1906, between the United States and Mexico, including not to exceed $900 for rent, $40,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $6,000 of such sum may in the discretion of the President be used for taking over the water gauging now being done by the State of Texas. boundary line, alaska and canada, and the united states and canada to enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and makeBoundary, Alaska and Canada.Vol. 32, p. 1961. the surveys incidental thereto between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada, in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, draftsmen, and clerks as are necessary; and for the more effectiveLand and water boundary, United States and Canada.Vol. 35, p. 2003. demarkation and mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April 11, 1908, between the United States and Great Britain, of the land and water boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, as established under existing treaties, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including the salaries of the commissioner and the necessary engineers, surveyors, draftsmen, computers, and clerks in the field and at the seat of government, expense of necessary traveling, for payment for timber necessarily cut in determining the boundary line not to exceed $500, and commutation to members of the field force while on field duty or actual expenses not exceeding $5 per day each, to be expended in accordance with regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary*Proviso*.Subsistence when absent from Washington. of State, $38,515: *Provided*, That when the commissioner is absent from Washington and from his regular place of residence on official business he shall not be allowed actual and necessary expenses of subsistence in excess of $8 per day. international prison commission For subscription of the United States as an adhering member ofInternational Prison Commission. the International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commission, including preparation of reports, $2,550. 212 pan american union Pan American Union.*Proviso*.Use of money from other Republics.Pan American Union, $100,000: *Provided*, That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the union shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit, in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the chairman of the governing board of the union for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the union and of carrying out the orders of the said governing board. Printing and binding.Monthly Bulletin.For printing and binding for the Pan American Union, and the Public Printer is authorized to print an edition of the monthly bulletin not to exceed 6,000 copies per month, for distribution by the union during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, $20,000. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration International Bureau, Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 32, p. 1793.To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendar year 1923 of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article 22 of the convention concluded at The Hague, July 29, 1899, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, $2,000. bureau of interparliamentary union for promotion of international arbitration Interparliamentary Union for promoting International Arbitration.For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the Bureau of the Interparliamentary Union for the promotion of international arbitration, to be immediately available, $4,000. international commission on annual tables of constants, and so forth International Commission on Tables of Constants, etc.To the International Commission on Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, Chemical, Physical, and Technological, as establish by the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry in London and as continued by the eighth congress in New York, as a contribution by the United States toward the publication of annual tables of constants, chemical, physical, and technological. $500. international commission on public and private international law International Commission on International Law.Appropriation made available.Vol. 42, p. 608.The appropriation of $15,000 for the payment of compensation to and the necessary expenses of the representative or representatives of the United States on the International Commission of Jurists, made by the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, approved June 1, 1922, is hereby made available for the purposes therein described for the fiscal year 1925. International Institute of Agriculture.international institute of agriculture at rome, italy Quota.*Post*, p. 1338.For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1925. $19,577; Member of committee.For salary of the one member of the permanent committee of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1925, $5,000; Translating publications.For the payment of the quota of the United States for the cost of translating into and printing in the English language the pub213 lications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, $5,000; Total, $29,577. international railway congress To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering memberInternational Railway Congress. of the International Railway Congress for the year ending April 15, 1925, $800. international sanitary bureau For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance ofInternational Sanitary Bureau. the International Sanitary Bureau for the year 1925, $11,154.29. international office of public health For the payment of the quota of the United States for the yearInternational Office of Public Health.Vol. 35, p. 2061.Vol. 35, p. 1834; Vol. 42, p. 1823. 1925 toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome, December 9, 1907, in pursuance of article. 181 of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December 3, 1903, $3,860. arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the united states and great britain For the expenses of the arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claimsBritish-American Pecuniary Claims Commission.Vol. 37. p. 1635.Salaries and expenses. between the United States and Great Britain, in accordance with the special agreement concluded for that purpose August 18, 1910, and the schedules of claims thereunder, including salary and expenses of the tribunal, and of the agent to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, counsel, joint secretary and other assistants, contingent expenses, and personal services and rent in the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $66,750. international radiotelegraphic convention For the share of the United States for the calendar year 1925, asInternational Radiotelegraphic Convention.Vol. 37, p. 1569. a party to the international radiotelegraphic conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, $5,750. united states section of the inter-american high commission To defray the actual and necessary expenses on the part of theInter-American High Commission.United States section.Vol. 39, p. 8. United States section of the Inter-American High Commission, $20,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissionersCanadian Boundary Waters Joint Commission. and salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, cost of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, and necessary traveling expenses, and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the InternationalVol. 36, p. 2448. Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between214 the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January 11, 1909. $33,000. to be disbursed under the*Provisos*.Subsistence when absent from Washington. direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for subsistence of the commission or secretary, except for actual and necessary expenses, not in excess of $8 per day each, when absent from Washington and from his regular place of residence on official business: *Provided further*,Rent in the District. That a part of this appropriation may be expended for rent of offices for the commission in the District of Columbia in the event that the Public Buildings Commission is unable to supply suitable office space. Pan American Scientific Congress.third pan american scientific congress Unexpended balance available for delegates to Third.Vol. 42, pp. 608, 1547.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $20,000 for the expenses of the delegates of the United States to the Third Pan American Scientific Congress to be held at the city of Lima, Peru, made by the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, approved June 1, 1922, is hereby made available for the fiscal year 1925. payment to the government of panama PanamaAnnual payment to.To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Panama the thirteenth annual payment, due on February 26, 1925, from the Government of the United States to the Government ofVol. 33, p. 2238. Panama under article 14 of the treaty of November 18, 1903, $250,000. payment to the government of colombia Colombia.Payment to.To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Colombia the third payment from the Government of the UnitedVol. 42, p. 2124. States to the Republic of Colombia under article 2 of the treaty of April 6, 1914, $5,000,000. international research council International Research Council, etc.To pay the annual share of the United States, as an adhering member of the International Research Council and of the Associated Unions, organized at Brussels, July 18-28, 1919. as follows: International Research Council, $240: International Astronomical Union, $1,440; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, $540; International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. $2,496; International Union of Mathematics, $120; International Union of Scientific Radiotelegraphy, $192; in all, $5,028, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. international hydrographic bureau International Hydrographic Bureau.For the annual contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the International Hydrographic Bureau, $3,860. foreign hospital at cape town Somerset Hospital, Cape Town.For annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital (a foreign hospital), at Cape Town, $50, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital. 215 international trade-mark registration bureau, quota of united states For the annual share of the United States for the expenses ofInternational Trade-Mark Registration.Habana Bureau expenses.Vol. 39, p. 1680; Vol. 41, p. 533. the maintenance of the International Trade-Mark Registration Bureau at Habana, including salaries of the director and counselor, assistant director and counselor, clerks, translators, secretary to the director, stenographers and typewriters, messenger, watchmen, and laborers, rent of quarters, stationery and supplies, including the purchase of books, postage, traveling expenses, and the cost of printing the bulletin, $4,961. international bureau of the union for the protection of industrial property For the share of the United States in the expense of conductingIndustrial Property Bureau. the International Bureau of the Union for the Protection of Industrial Property, at Berne, Switzerland, $1,700. mixed claims commission, united states and germany For the expenses of determining the amounts of claims againstGerman Mixed Claims Commission.Vol. 42, p. 2200. Germany by the Mixed Claims Commission established under the agreement concluded between the United States and Germany on August 10, 1922, for the determination of the amount to be paid by Germany in satisfaction of the financial obligations of Germany under the treaty concluded between the Governments of the United States and Germany on August 25, 1921, including the expenses which under the terms of such agreement of August 10, 1922, are chargeable in part to the United States; andAgency expenses. the expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of claims and the presentation thereof before said mixed commission, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia, printing and binding, contingentPrinting and binding. expenses, traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence (and the Secretary of State may allow per diem in lieu of subsistence for foreign travel at not to exceed $8), and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, $182,140. Judicial united states court for china Judge, $8,000; district attorney, $4,000; marshal, $3,000; clerk,United States Court for China.Salaries. $3,000; stenographer and court reporter, $2,400; court expenses, including reference law books, $8,500; in all, $28,900. The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, whenSessions other than at Shanghai. the sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries their necessary actual expenses during such session, not to exceed $8 per day each, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, is appropriated. For expenses of maintaining in China, the former Ottoman Empire,Consular prisons. Egypt, and Persia institutions for incarcerating American convicts and persons declared insane by the United States Court for China or any consular court, including salaries of not exceeding $1,800 for the deputy marshal and $1,200 each for three assistantKeepers, quarters, rent, etc. deputy marshals at Shanghai; wages of prison keepers; rent of quarters for prisons, and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and216 transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by the United States Court for China or any consular court in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Persia, so much as may be necessary; in all, $15,000. bringing home criminals Bringing home criminals.For actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, $2,000. Rent restriction in United States.No portion of the sums appropriated in Title I of this Act shall, unless expressly authorized, be expended for rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States. TITLE II.—Department of Justice. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE office of the attorney general Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants, Solicitors, and office personnel.Salaries: For Attorney General, $12,000; Solicitor General, $10,000; Assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including the solicitors of the State, Treasury, Interior, Commerce, and Labor Departments, the Solicitor of Internal Revenue, and the office forces of the solicitors of the Treasury, Commerce, and Labor Departments, $553,040; in all. $584,040. Law books etc.For the purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, including the exchange thereof, for the Department of Justice, $7,700. contingent expenses, department of justice Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.For stationery, furniture, and repairs, floor coverings not exceeding $500, file holders and cases; miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing and telephones, foreign postage, labor, typewriters and adding machines and the exchange thereof and repairs thereto, street-car fares not exceeding $300, newspapers, press clippings, andVehicles, etc. other necessaries ordered by the Attorney General: official transportation, including the repair, and maintenance, operation of a motor-driven passenger car, delivery truck, and motor cycle, to be used only for official purposes, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $58,287. Rent.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, $75,000, if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in buildings under the control of that commission. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, $200,000. Traveling, etc., expenses.For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion,[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). the provisions of section 3648, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous objects, department of justice Conduct of customs cases.Assistant Attorney General, attorneys, etc.Vol. 36, p. 108.Services, supplies, etc.Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000; special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs eases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by subsection 30 of section 28 of the Act of August 5, 1909; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, Supreme Court Reports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, traveling,217 and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $89,470. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessaryDefending suits in claims. expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses, procuring evidence, employment of experts, and such other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including IndianIndian depredation claims. depredation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $79,500. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecutionDetection and prosecution of crimes. of crimes against the United States; for the protection of the personProtection of the President. of the President of the United States; the acquisition, collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records and their exchange with the officials of States, cities, and other institutions; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice and the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; hire, maintenance,Vehicles, etc. upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; firearms and ammunition, such stationery and supplies for use at the seat of government or elsewhere as the Attorney General may direct, including not to exceed $10,000 for taxicab hire to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in this paragraph and to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, whose certificate as to the expenditure thereof shall be conclusive on the General Accounting Office; per diem inPer diem subsistance.Vol. 38, p. 680. lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, including not to exceed $260,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, and including a Director of the Bureau of InvestigationDirector, Investigation Bureau. at not exceeding $7,500 per annum, $2,188,862; for the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals,Investigating official acts, etc. attorneys, and clerks of the United States courts and the territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; and also, when requested by the presiding judge, the official acts, records and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts, including $35,260 for necessary employees at the seat of government, $112,860; in all, $2,301,722; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided*, That this appropriation*Provisos*.Advances. shall be available for advances to be made by the disbursing[R. S., see. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). clerk of the Department of Justice when authorized and approved by the Attorney General, the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided further*, That for the purpose of executing the duties for which provisionSpecial agents authorized. is made by this appropriation, the Attorney General is authorized to appoint officials who shall be vested with the authority necessary for the execution of such duties: *Provided further*, That not exceedingCriminal identification records. $10,000 of this appropriation shall be immediately available to meet obligations incurred on account of expenses incident to criminal identification records. Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrustEnforcing antitrust laws. laws, including not exceeding $10,000 for clerical services and not exceeding $40,000 for compensation of attorneys at the seat of government, $201,200: *Provided, however*, That no part of this*Provisos*.Use for prosecuting labor organizations, etc., forbidden. money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the increasing of wage’s, shortening of hours, or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof, not in itself unlawful: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriationAssociations of farmers, etc. shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm218 products and associations of farmers who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products. Enforcing interstate commerce laws.Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce: For salary and expenses of assistant to the Solicitor General in representing the GovernmentVol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 38, p. 219; Vol. 40, p. 272; Vol. 41, p. 474. in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February 4, 1887, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees in the District of Columbia? $10,000. War frauds.Investigation and prosecution of.Vol. 42, p. 543.Investigation and prosecution of war frauds: For the investigation and prosecution of alleged frauds, either civil or criminal, or other crimes or offenses against the United States, growing out of or arising in connection with the preparation for or prosecution of the late war, including the institution and prosecution of suits for the recovery of moneys which contain no element of fraud but arose incident to the investigation of alleged frauds, to be available for the employment of counsel and other assistants, rents, and all other purposes in connection therewith, whether in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, including not to exceed $10,000 for communication service, the purchase of furniture, law books, books of reference, and other necessary equipment and supplies at the seat of the government; $500,000, to be expended in the discretion of the*Provisos*.Rent in the District. Attorney General: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitablePay restrictions. space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission: *Provided further*, That not more than two persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $10,000 per annum each, whose aggregate compensation shall not exceed $30,000, but the Attorney General may fix the compensation of not to exceed six persons at not to exceed $10,000 each. Judicial.Judicial United States Supreme Court.united states supreme court Salaries.Salaries: Chief Justice, $15,000; eight associate justices, at $14,500 each; marshal, $4,500; nine law clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $3,600 each; nine stenographic clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $2,240 each; in all, $188,060. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States, $25,000, and the printing and binding for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order; and for printing and binding the official reports of the Supreme Court of the United States, and advance pamphlet installments thereof, during the fiscal year 1925, to be expended as required, without allotment by quarters, $25,000: in all, $50,000. Reporter.For the salary of the Reporter, $8,000: and for his expenses for professional and clerical assistance and stationery, to be paid upon vouchers signed by him and approved by the Chief Justice, $3,500; in all, $11,500. Judges.salaries of judges Salaries of circuit, district, and retired.For salaries of thirty-three circuit judges, at $8,500 each; one hundred and twenty-eight district judges (including two in the Territory of Hawaii and one in the Territory of Porto Rico), at $7,500 each; andVol. 40, p. 1157. judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended by*Proviso*.Available for all judges. the Act of February 25, 1919; in all, $1,380,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the salaries of all United States219 justices, and circuit and district judges lawfully entitled thereto, whether active or retired. For salary of reporter, Territory of Hawaii, $1,200. Reporter, Hawaii. national park commissionersNational park commissioners. For commissioners in the Crater Lake, Glacier, Mount Rainier,Salaries. Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, at $1,500 each, $9,000. The provisions of section 21 of theVol. 29, p. 184. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 28, 1896, shall not be construed as impairing the rights of said commissioners to receive the salaries provided herein. court of customs appealsCourt of Customs Appeals. Salaries: Presiding judge and four associate judges, at $8,500Salaries. each; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; five stenographic clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographic reporter, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $62,340. For rent of necessary quarters in the District of Columbia andRent, miscellaneous expenses, etc. elsewhere, $10,000; books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; heat, light, and power service: drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture, pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees not otherwise specifically provided for; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $3,960; in all, $13,960. court of claimsCourt of Claims. Salaries: Chief justice, $8,000; four judges, at $7,500 each; chiefSalaries. clerk. $5,000; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks—two at $1,600 each (one of whom shall be a stenographer), one at $1,400; two at $1,200 each; four stenographers, at $1,200 each; chief messenger, $1,000; two assistants messengers, at $720 each; three firemen, at $720 each; three watchmen, at $720 each; elevator conductor, $720; two laborers, at $660 each; two charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $68,080. For custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims,Custodian.[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109. $500, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes or section 3 of the Act of June 20, 1874. For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, $35,000. Printing and binding.Auditors, etc. For auditors and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary, in the Court of Claims, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $14,000. For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles,Contingent expenses. fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $6,600. For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending theReporting decisions. printing of the fifty-ninth volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to be paid on the order of the court to the reporter, notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes or section 2 of[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314). the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approvedVol. 28, p. 205. July 31, 1894, or section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and JudicialVol. 39, 126. Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916. territorial courtsTerritorial courts. Alaska: Four judges, at $7,500 each;Alaska. four attorneys, $5,000 each; four marshals, at $4,000 each; four clerks, at $3,500 each; in all, $80,000. 220 Hawaii.Hawaii: Chief justice, $7,500; two associate justices, at $7,000 each; in all, $21,500. For judges of circuit courts, at $6,000 each. $48,000. United States courts.marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courts Marshals.Salaries, etc.Vol. 42, p. 1560.Alaska.For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the United States marshal for the District of Columbia,*Provisos*.Keeping attached vessels, etc. $2,931,000: *Provided*, That there shall be paid hereunder any necessary cost of keeping vessels or other property attached or libeled in admiralty in such amount as the court, on petition setting forthPer diem subsistence. the facts under oath, may allow: *Provided further*, That marshals and office deputy marshals (except in the District of Alaska) may be granted a per diem of not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, instead of, but under the conditions prescribed for, the present allowance for actual expenses of subsistence. District attorneys.Salaries, etc.For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the*Proviso*.Per diem subsistence. office of the United States district attorney. $1,199,780: *Provided*, That United States district attorneys and their regular assistants may be granted a per diem of not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, instead of, but under the conditions prescribed for, the present allowance for actual expenses of subsistence. Regular assistants.For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation,*Proviso*.Compensation. $652,800: *Provided*, That except as otherwise prescribed by law the compensation of such of the assistant district attorneys authorizedVol. 29, p. 181. by section 8 of the Act approved May 28, 1896, as the Attorney General may deem necessary, may be fixed at not exceeding $3,500 per annum. Assistants in special cases.For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, including not to exceed $60,180 for clerical help for such assistants,Foreign counsel.Oath.[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section 366, Revised Statutes of the United States), $840,000, to be available for expenditure in*Provisos*.Pay restriction. the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the amount paid as compensation out of the funds herein appropriated to any person employedProhibition enforcement counsel. hereunder shall not exceed $10,000: *Provided*, That not more than $150,000 of the. $840,000 herein appropriated shall be available for special counsel to enforce the National Prohibition Act. Clerks of courts.Salaries, etc.For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals and United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, expenses of travel and subsistence, and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, in accordance with the provisions of theVol. 40, p. 1182.Vol. 42, p. 616. Act approved February 26, 1919, and the Act approved June 1, 1922, making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year ending June 30,*Proviso*.Per diem subsistence. 1923, $1,504,405: *Provided*, That per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4 per day may be granted to deputy clerks and clerical221 assistants to clerks of United States district courts, instead of but under conditions applicable to the allowance for actual expenses of subsistence, as provided in the above-mentioned Act of February 26,Vol. 40, p. 1182. 1919. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceCommissioners, etc. acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes of the United States,[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189). $500,000. For fees of jurors, $1,600,000. Jurors. For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses,Witnesses. as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, including the fees and expenses of witnesses on behalf of the Government before the Boards of United[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/160).Before Board of General appraisers. States General Appraisers, such payments to be made on the certification of the attorney for the United States and to be conclusive as provided in section 850, Revised[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/160). Statutes of the United States, $1,430,000. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent of court rooms. $80,000. For bailiffs and criers, not exceding three bailiffs and one crier inBailiffs, etc. each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois, $290,000: *Provided*, That all persons*Proviso*.Attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136). employed under section 715 of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts, but no such person shall be employed during vacation; expensesTraveling expenses, judges. of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United States in Alaska, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by section 259 of the Act entitledVol. 36, p. 1161. “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March 3, 1911; meals and lodging for jurorsJury expenses. in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors inAlaska.Vol. 31, p. 363. Alaska, as provided by section 193, Title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900; and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized or approvedMiscellaneous. by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, and in courts other than Federal courts, $739,000. For supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and addingSupplies. machines, for the United States courts and judicial officers, including firearms and ammunition therefor, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $73,000. For purchase of law books, including the exchange thereof, forBooks for judicial officers. United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, including not to exceed $4,000 for the purchase of continuationsFederal Reporter. of the Federal Reporter as issued, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided*, That such books shall*Proviso*.Transmittal to successors. in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be marked plainly, “The property of the United States,” $38,860, of which not to exceed 20 per centum, in the discretion of the Attorney General, may be used for the purchaseUnited States Reports, etc. of United States Reports and the Federal Reporter. penal institutionsPenal institutions. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, includingLeavenworth, Kans. Subsistence. supplies from the prison stores for warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture222 and utensils, seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $185,000. Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including materials for making clothing at the penitentiary; gratuities for prisoners at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on official duty; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, $101,900. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; not exceeding $500 for maintenance and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; labor and materials for repairing steam heating plant, electric plant, and water circulation, and drainage; labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings, general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyards, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies; lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints, and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; advertising in newspapers; fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental conditions of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in case of emergency; pay of extra guards or employees when deemed necessary by the Attorney*Proviso*.Livestock. General: *Provided*, That livestock may be exchanged or traded when authorized by the Attorney General, $179,520. Hospital.For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $10,000. Salaries.For salaries of all officers and employees, including guards and foremen, $182,700. In all, Leavenworth. Kansas, Penitentiary, $659,120. Atlanta, Ga.Subsistence.Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $200,000. Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kansas, $110,000. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, of*Post*, p. 1334. which $20,000 shall be available only for drainage, and not exceeding $500 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $176,880. Hospital.For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $8,000. Salaries.For salaries of all officers and employees, including guards and foremen, $188,740. 223 The appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year 1923, for a workingWorking capital fund reappropriated.Vol. 42, p. 1086.*Post*, p. 1032. capital fund, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1925; and the said working capital fund and all receipts credited thereto may be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1925. In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $683,620. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, includingMcNeil Island, Wash.Subsistence. the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $44,500. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, includingClothing, transportation, etc. the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $31,000. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specifiedMiscellaneous. under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $49,760. For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified underHospital. this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $2,000. For the salaries of all officers and employees, including guards andSalaries. foremen, $45,600. In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $172,860. National Training School for Boys: Superintendent, $2,500; assistantNational Training School for Boys. superintendent, $1,500; teachers and assistants, $12,900; chiefSalaries. clerk, $1.000; nurse, $900; matron of school and nurse, at $600 each; storekeeper and steward,$720; farmer, $660; baker, $660; tailor,$720; parole officer, $900; office clerk, $720; assistant office clerk, $480; physical director, $720; six matrons of families at $240 each; foremen of shop and skilled helpers, $4,200; assistant farmer and assistant engineer, at $420 each; laundress, $360; teamster. $420; florist, $540; engineer and shoemaker, at $600 each; cook, $600; dining-room attendants—boys $300, officers $240; housemaid, $216; seamstress, $240; assistant cook, $300; eight watchmen, at $420 each; secretary and treasurer, $900; in all $40,736; For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dryMaintenance, etc. goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books and periodicals, stationery, entertainments, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, fencing, roads, all repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $2,000, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $19,700; In all. National Training School for Boys, $60,436. Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shallNew buildings restricted. not be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building, other than those specifically provided for herein, at any Federal penitentiary. Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners,Support of prisoners. including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their 224 recapture; and not exceeding $2,500 for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $1,795,000. Inspection of prisons and prisoners.Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of United States prisons and prisoners, including salary of the assistant superintendent of prisons; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $15,890. Expenses of additional courts.Reappropriation.Vol. 42, p. 1542.The unexpended balance of the appropriations of $100,000 for expenses of additional courts, contained in the Third Deficiency Act approved March 4, 1923, shall remain available during the fiscal year 1925. TITLE III.—Department of Commerce. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Secretary’s Office.office of the secretary Secretary, Assistant, and office personnel.Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceChief clerk authorized to sign official papers. with “The Classification Act of 1923,” including the chief clerk and superintendent who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary of the department, $218,380; in all, $230,380. contingent expenses, department of commerce Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, including those for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are specifically made, including professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500); stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges: fuel,Vehicles. lighting, and heating; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and of motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this department; street car fares, not exceedingAvailable for field services. $300; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $225,000, which sum shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of the department and shall also be available for the purchase of necessary supplies and equipment for field services of bureaus and offices of the department for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made inPurchases through Division of Supplies.Vol. 36, p. 531. order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), as provided in the Act of June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 531). Rent, D. C.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $66,500. For rent of storage space outside the Commerce Building, $1,500. Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the*Provisos*.Detail of copy editors. District of Columbia and elsewhere, $475,000: *Provided*, That an amount not to exceed $2,000 of this allotment may be expended for salaries of persons detailed from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors. 225 bureau of foreign and domestic commerceForeign and domestic Commerce Bureau. Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the DistrictDirector, and office personnel. of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $266,477. Commercial attaches: For commercial attaches, to be appointedCommercial attaches. by the Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of foreign countries as may be of interest to the United States; and for the compensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercialClerks, etc. attaché at the rate of not to exceed $3,000 per annum for each person so employed, and for janitor and messenger service, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, rentOutside rent. outside of the District of Columbia, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories anil repairs, books of reference, and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (both foreign and domestic) not exceeding $400, and all other publications, travel to and from the United States, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attaches shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $261,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed*Proviso*.Assignment to duty in Department. two commercial attaches employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned for duty in the Department of Commerce without loss of salary. Promoting commerce, Europe and other areas: For all necessaryPromoting commerce, Europe, etc. expenses, including investigations in Europe and other areas, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (both foreign and domestic) not exceeding $400, and all other publications for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, rentOutside rent. outside the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States $400,000, to be ex-pended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Service in the District. That not more than $25,000 of the foregoing sum may be used for personal services in Washington, District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That not more than four trade commissioners employedAssignment to duty in Department. under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned to duty in the Department of Commerce. District and Cooperative Office Service: For all expenses necessaryDistrict and Cooperative Office Service.Maintenance, etc. to operate and maintain district and cooperative offices, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of maps, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapersOutside rent. (both foreign and domestic) not exceeding $400, and all other publications necessary for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $181,000. Promoting commerce, South and Central America: To furtherPromoting commerce. South and Central America. promote and develop the commerce of the United States with South and Central America, including personal services in the District226 of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, plans, specifications, manuscripts, documents, maps, news-papers (both foreign and domestic) not exceeding $400, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the*Proviso*.Assignment to duty in Department. direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $243,000: *Provided*, That not more than two trade commissioners employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned to duty in the Department of Commerce. Promoting commerce in Far East.Promoting commerce in the Far East: To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with the Far East, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, maps, newspapers (both foreign and domestic)Outside rent. not exceeding $400, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of*Proviso*.Assignment to duty in Department. Commerce, $233,000: *Provided*, That not more than two trade commissioners employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned to duty in the Department of Commerce. China Trade Act.Expenses, executing.Vol. 42, p. 849.Enforcement of China Trade Act: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “China Trade Act, 1922,” including $23,520 for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts,Outside rent. and all other publications; rent outside the District of Columbia, and all necessary expenses not included in the foregoing. $31,020. Export industries.Investigating problems of.Export Industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution, and marketing in so far as they relate to the important export industries of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications,Outside rent. manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside District of Columbia, and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, $597,550. Raw materials and manufactures.Compiling data as to disposition, etc., of.Outside rent.Raw-material investigations: For all necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures, $50,780. Bringing home remains of officers, etc.Transportation and interment of remains of officers and employees: For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce who may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their227 official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such interment at their post or at home, $1,500. Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees:Transporting families and effects of officers, etc. To pay the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, of families and effects of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the order of the Secretary of Commerce, but not including any expenses incurred in connection with leave of absence of the officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $25,000: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be paid*Proviso*.Restriction on using foreign vessels. for transportation on foreign vessels without a certificate from the Secretary of Commerce that there are no American vessels on which such officers and clerks may be transported at rates not in excess of those charged by foreign vessels. Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operation ofCustoms statistics.Expenses of collecting, compiling, etc.Vol. 42, p. 1109. the section of customs statistics, transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved January 5, 1923, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographing, multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; subsistence and traveling expenses of officers and employees while traveling on official business; freight, express, drayage; tabulating cards, stationery and miscellaneous office supplies; furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; street-car fare; and all other necessary and incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $294,000. Lists of foreign buyers: For all necessary expenses, including personalDirectory of foreign buyers.Expenses of compiling. services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, lists of foreign buyers, books of reference, periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, travelingOutside rent. and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incident al expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile lists of foreign buyers, $9,300. Investigating sources of crude rubber: To enable the DepartmentCrude rubber.Investigating sources of, production, etc. of Commerce to investigate and report upon the possibilities of developing the rubber plantation industry in the Philippine Islands and Latin America; to investigate the conditions of production andOther essential raw materials. marketing of other essential raw materials for American industries including nitrate and sisal; and to investigate related problems in the development of the foreign trade of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of necessary furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, medical supplies and first-aid outfits, books of reference, periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside the District of Columbia; and all other incidentalOutside rent. expenses not included in the foregoing, $94,000. Investigation of foreign trade restrictions: For all necessary expenses,Foreign trade restrictions.Expenses of collecting, compiling, etc., information of. including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and sup228 plies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans,Outside rent. specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the restrictions and regulations of trade imposed by foreign countries, $25,550. Census Bureau.bureau of the census Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Director and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $973,000. Collecting information for reports.Collecting statistics: For securing information for census reports, provided for by law, semimonthly reports of cotton production, periodical reports of stocks of baled cotton in the United States and of the domestic and foreign consumption of cotton; quarterly reports of tobacco; per diem compensation of special agents and expenses of same and of detailed employees, whether employed in Washington,Temporary employees, etc. District of Columbia, or elsewhere; not to exceed $100,000 for temporary personal services in the District of Columbia, to be selectedVital statistics. from the registers of the Civil Service Commission; the cost ofOutside rent. transcribing State, municipal, and other records; temporary rentalSpecial agents. of quarters outside of the District of Columbia; for supervising special agents, and employment by them of such temporary service as may be necessary in collecting the statistics required by law, includingTobacco statistics. $15,000 for collecting tobacco statistics authorized by law*Proviso*. in addition to any other fund available therefor: *Provided*, That thePay restriction. compensation of not to exceed ten special agents provided for in this paragraph may be fixed at a rate not to exceed $8 per day, $805,000. Census of agriculture.Expenses of taking, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1301.Census of Agriculture: For salaries and necessary expenses for preparing for, taking, compiling, and publishing the census of agriculture of the United States for 1925; for rent of office quarters outside the District of Columbia; for purchases of supplies, including cards, materials, and other contingent expenses; printing and binding; the rental, construction, and repair of card-punching, card-sorting, and card-tabulating machinery; personal services on a piece price basis or otherwise in the District of Columbia and in the field; salaries and traveling expenses of supervisors, enumerators, clerks,*Proviso*.Supplies, printing and binding, etc. and interpreters, $3,500,000, to continue available until June 30, 1926: *Provided*, That existing law shall not operate to prohibit the use of such portion of this appropriation as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies, printing and binding, and other contingent expenses in connection with the census of agriculture. Tabulating machines, etc.Tabulating machines: For constructing tabulating machines, and repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical and mechanical service in connection therewith, whether in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, and purchase of necessary machinery and supplies, $39,470. Steamboat Inspection.steamboat inspection service Supervising Inspector General, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Supervising Inspector General and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $27,960. Supervising InspectorsSteamboat inspectors: For ten supervising inspectors, at $3,450 each, $34,500; Inspectors.Inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as follows: Two at $2,950 each, fourteen at $2,700 each, twenty-eight at $2,500 each, twelve at $2,350 each, thirty-six at $2,100 each; in all, $217,500; 229 Assistant inspectors, as authorized by law, for the following ports:Assistant inspectors. New York, thirty-four at $2,500 each; New Orleans, six at $2,350 each; Baltimore, eight at $2,350 each; Providence, four at $2,350 each; Boston, six at $2,350 each; Philadelphia, fourteen at $2,350 each; San Francisco, twelve at $2,350 each; Buffalo, six at $2,100 each; Cleveland, six at $2,100 each; Milwaukee, four at $2,100 each; Chicago, four at $2,100 each; Grand Haven, two at $2,100 each; Detroit, four at $2,100 each; Norfolk, eight at $2,100 each; Seattle, twelve at $2,100 each; Portland (Oregon), four at $2,100 each; Albany (New York), two at $2,100 each; Duluth, two at $2,100 each; Portland (Maine), two at $2,100 each; Los Angeles, two at $2,100 each; Galveston, two at $2,100 each; Mobile, two at $2,100 each; Savannah, two at $2,100 each; Toledo, two at $2,100 each; three traveling inspectors, at $3,000 each; in all $350,100; In all, for inspectors, Steamboat Inspection Service, $602,100. Clerk hire, Steamboat Inspection Service: For compensation, notClerk hire. exceeding $1,500 a year to each person, of clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of law, $115,700. Contingent expenses: For the payment of fees to witnesses; forContingent expenses. traveling and other expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, Deputy Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; for instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions[R S., Title LII, pp. 852–869](/us/rs/tLII/pp852–869). of Title 52, Revised Statutes, $139,110. bureau of navigationNavigation Bureau. Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in theCommissioner, and office personnel. District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $55,140. Admeasurement of vessels: To enable the Commissioner of NavigationAdmeasurement of vessels. to secure uniformity in the admeasurement of vessels, including the employment of an adjuster of admeasurements, purchase and exchange of admeasuring instruments, traveling and incidental expenses, $4,500. For purchase and repair of instruments for counting passengers,Counting passengers. $250. Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of CommerceMotor boats, etc. to enforce navigation laws. to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction by customs officers, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, $67,915. Preventing overcrowding of passenger vessels: To enable thePreventing over, crowding of vessels. Secretary of Commerce to employ, temporarily, such persons as may be necessary, of whom not more than two at any one time may be employed in the District of Columbia, to enforce the laws to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion vessels, and all expenses in connection therewith, $14,000. Wireless communication laws: To enable the Secretary of CommerceWireless communication on steam vessels.Vol. 36. p. 629.Vol. 37, pp. 199, 1565. to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers ” and “to regulate radio communication ” and carry out the international radio telegraphic convention, examine and settle international radio accounts including personal services in the District of Columbia and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, tabulating, duplicating, and other office machinery230 and devices, rent and all other miscellaneous items and necessaryTransfer of naval radio equipment, etc. expenses not included in the foregoing, including the transfer from the office of the Director of Naval Communications to the Department of Commerce of mechanical and office equipment and supplies now in use in connection with the examination and settlement of international radio accounts, $180,278. Shipping commissioners.Shipping Commissioners: For salaries of shipping commissioners in amounts not exceeding the following: Baltimore, $2,000; Boston, $3,000; New Orleans, $2,500; Newport News, $1,500; New York, $5,000; Norfolk. $1,800: Philadelphia, $2,400; Portland. Maine, $1,300; Seattle, $3,500; Providence, $1,800; Galveston, $1,800; San Francisco, $4,000; in all, $30,600. Clerk hire.Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce, of not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person or clerk*Proviso*.Pay allowance. in the offices of shipping commissioners, $70,000: *Provided*, That one clerk may be employed hereunder at a compensation not to exceed $2,200 per annum. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, and for janitor in the commissioners’ office at New York, $840; in all $10,000. Standards Bureau.bureau of standards Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $500,000. Equipment.Equipment: For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection with buildings or work of the bureau, laboratory sup-plies, materials, and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $71,000. General expenses.General expenses: For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, books and periodicals, which may be exchanged when not needed for permanent use; traveling expenses (including expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies when required in connection with standardization, testing or other official work of the bureau); street car fares not exceedingInternational Committee of Weights and Measures. $100; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles and motor trucks for official use, including their exchange; and contingencies of all kinds, $44,500. Care, etc., of grounds.Improvement and care of grounds: For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, including foreman and laborers in the District of Columbia, $11,460. Structural materials investigations.Testing structural materials: For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the*Proviso*.Disseminating acquired information. field, $230,000: *Provided*, That as much of this sum as necessary shall be used to collect and disseminate such scientific, practical, and statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to show approved methods in building, planning, and construction, standardization, and adaptability of structural units, including building materials and codes, economy in the manufacture and utilization of building materials and supplies, and such other matters as may tend to encourage, improve, and cheapen construction and housing. 231 Testing machines: For maintenance and operation of testing machines,Testing machines for physical constants. including personal services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $39,460. Investigation of fire-resisting properties: For investigation of fire-resistingFire-resisting building materials. properties of building materials and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, and for the standardization of types of appliances for lire prevention, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $29,000. Investigation of public-utility standards: For investigation of theMeasurement, etc., of public utilities. standards of practice and methods of measurements of public utilities, such as gas, electric light, electric power, water, telephone, central station heating, and electric railway service, and the solution of the problems which arise in connection with standards in such service, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $105,000. Testing miscellaneous materials: For testing miscellaneous materials,Testing miscellaneous materials such as varnish materials, soap materials, inks, and chemicals, including supplies for the Government departments and independent establishments, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, as authorized by law, $45,260. Radio research: For investigation and standardization of methodsRadio standardization, etc. and instruments employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $45,680. Color standardization: To develop color standards and methodsIndustrial color standardization, etc. of manufacture and of color measurement, with special reference to their industrial use in standardization and specification of colorants such as dyestuffs, inks, and pigments, and other products, paint, paper, and textiles, in which color is a pertinent property, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. Clay products processes. Investigation of clay products: To study methods of measurement and technical processes used in the manufacture of pottery, brick, tile, terra cotta, and other clay products, and the study of the properties of the materials used in that industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and in the field, $30,000. Standardizing mechanical appliances: To develop methods of testingStandardizing mechanical appliances. and standardizing machines, motors, tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic,Mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic devices, etc. and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study of types of apparatus and methods of operation, and for the establishment of standards of performance; for the accurate determination of fundamental physical constants involved in the proper execution of this work; and for the scientific experiments and investigations needed in solving the problems which may arise in connection therewith, especially in response to the requirements of aeronautics and aviation for information of a purely scientific nature, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $30,000. Investigation of optical glass: For the investigation of the problemsOptical glass production. involved in the production of optical glass, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000. Investigation of textiles: To investigate textiles, paper, leather,Textiles, paper, etc., standardizing. and rubber in order to develop standards of quality and methods of measurement, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $27,000. Sugar standardization: For the standardization and design ofSugar standardization. sugar-testing apparatus; the development of technical specifications for the various grades of sugars, with particular reference to urgent problems made pressing by conditions following the war, especially232 involving the standardization and manufacture of sugars: for the study of the technical problems incidental to the collection of the revenue on sugar and to determine the fundamental scientific constantsRare and unusual types. of sugars and other substances; for the standardization and production of rare and unusual types of sugars required for the medical service of the Government departments; and for other technical and scientific purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000. Gauges and screw threads.Cooperative standardization, etc.Gauge standardization: To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the War Department, and the Navy Department for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary equipment and personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000. Coal weighing, etc., at mines.Investigation of mine scales and cars: For investigating the conditions and methods of use of scales and mine cars used for weighing and measuring coal dug by miners, for the purpose of determining wages due, and of conditions affecting the accuracy of the weighing or measuring of coal at the mines, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000. Metallurgical researches.Metallurgical research: For metallurgical research, including alloy steels, foundry practice, and standards for metals and sands; casting, rolling, forging, and the properties of aluminum alloys; prevention of corrosion of metals and alloys; development of metal substitutes, as for platinum; behavior of bearing metals; preparation of metal specifications: investigation of new metallurgical processes and study of methodsRailway equipment. of conservation in metallurgical manufacture and products; investigation of materials used in the construction of rails, wheels, axles, and other railway equipment, and the cause of their failure; including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field. $44,000. High temperature measurements, etc.High temperature investigations: For laboratory and field investigations of suitable methods of high temperature measurements and control in various industrial processes and to assist in making available directly to the industries the results of the bureau’s investigations in this field, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. Sound investigations.Sound investigation: For the investigation of the principles of sound and their application to military and industrial purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,580. Industrial development investigations.Industrial research: For technical investigations in cooperation with the industries upon fundamental problems involved in industrial development following the war, with a view to assisting in the permanent establishment of the new American industries, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. $173,820. Testing large scales.Testing railroad track and other scales: For investigation and testing of railroad track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post office, navy yard, and customhouse scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws and in the methods of inspection, including personal services in the District, of Columbia and in the field, $40,000. Cooperative standardization of industrial devices, etc.Standardization of equipment: To enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate with Government departments, engineers, and manufacturers in the establishment of standards, methods of testing, and 233 inspection of instruments, equipment, tools, and electrical and mechanical devices used in the industries and by the Government, including the practical specification for quality and performance of such devices, and the formulation of methods of inspection, laboratory, and service tests, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $110,000. Standard materials: For purchase, preparation, analysis, and distributionStandards for checking chemical analyses. of standard materials to be used in checking chemical analyses and in the testing of physical measuring apparatus, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. Investigation of radioactive substances: For an investigation ofRadioactive investigations. radioactive substances and the methods of their measurements and testing, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $11,000. Rope investigation: For determining fundamental data requiredStudies, etc., of ropes and cables. by engineers and others, regarding internal strains of ropes and cables used in mines, elevators, bridges, rigging, and so forth; for developing instruments and methods suitable for field use, for indicating stresses and incipient Haws and defects in advance of rupture; and for the study of defective ropes and cables with a view to improving methods of manufacture, determining proper usage, and so forth; including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $8,000. Investigation of automotive engines: For the promotion ofAutomotive engines investigations. economy and efficiency in automotive transportation by land and by air through investigations of the basic principles underlying the design, performance, operation, and testing of automotive engines, their fuels, lubricants, accessories, and the power transmitting system used in connection with them, also such elements as brakes and brake linings; to promote economy in the use of liquid fuels and safety in vehicular traffic; including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000. During the fiscal year 1925 the head of any department or independentCooperative work with departments, etc., in scientific investigations. establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of Standards on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau, and which the Bureau of Standards is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the Bureau of Standards such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transferTransfer of funds to credit of Bureau. on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Standards for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made. bureau of lighthousesLighthouses Bureau. Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in theCommissioner, and office personnel. District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $90,000. General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidentalGeneral expenses. expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage,Objects specified. fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; establishmentOil, etc., houses. of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*. 234Cost of buildings limited.That any oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall not exceed $550 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $500 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connectedRestoring stations. therewith: *Provided*, That such restoration shall be limited to the original purpose of the structures; wages of persons attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics atRations, etc. lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for keepers of lighthouses, working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year; fuel andPurchase, etc., of sites. rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling expenses; mileage; library books for light stations and vessels and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000; traveling and subsistence expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons toContingent expenses. instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots; and not exceeding $8,500 for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in the District of Columbia, $4,192,500. Keepers.Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand eight hundred lighthouse and fog signal keepers and persons attending light exclusive of post lights, $1,283,200. Lighthouse vessels, officers. and crews.Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $1,650,000. Superintendents, clerks, etc.Superintendents, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen superintendents of lighthouses, and of assistant superintendents, clerks, draftsmen, and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, District of Columbia, $410,000. Retired pay.Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $90,000. Public works, vessels.Public Works: For constructing or purchasing and equipping lighthouse tenders and light vessels for the Lighthouse Service as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce notAids to navigation. to exceed $100,000, and for establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, $473,000; in all, $573,000. Coast and Geodetic Survey.coast and geodetic survey All expenditures.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, or235 operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, and for the purchase of surveying instruments, including extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service and the Weather Bureau while observing tides or currents, and the services of one tide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day. and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $3 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Distribution. Field expenses, Atlantic Coast: For surveys and necessary resurveysField expenses.Atlantic and Gulf coasts. of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided*, That not more than $45,000 of this amount shall*Proviso*.Islands, etc., limitations. be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $120,000. Pacific coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts onPacific coast. the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, $314,300. Tides, currents, and so forth: For continuing researches in physicalPhysical hydrography, etc. hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $29,000. Coast Pilot: For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including the employmentCoast Pilot. of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $6,800. For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridianMagnetic observations, etc. lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic instruments; lease of sites where necessary and erection of temporary magnetic buildings; continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; establishing lines of exact levels in Alaska; determination of geographical positions, by triangulation or traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the interior of the United States and Alaska; determination of field astronomic positions; for continuing gravity observations; for the maintenance and operation of theObservatory, Ukiah, Calif. latitude observatory at Ukiah, California, not exceeding $2,000; and including the employment in the field and office of such magnetic observers as may be necessary, $134,800. For executing precise triangulation and leveling in regions subjectEarthquake regions. to earthquakes, $12,000; Hawaiian triangulation: For adjusting the triangulation of theHawaiian triangulation. Hawaiian Islands, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,000; For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of LighthousesSpecial surveys. or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $4,500; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent,Miscellaneous. including the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field andRelief of shipwrecked, etc., persons. office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $550; actual necessary expenses236 of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the director, and notAttendance, International Research Council. exceeding $500 for the expenses of the attendance of representatives of the Coast and Geodetic Survey who may be designated as delegates from the United States at the meetings of the International Research Council or of its branches, $4,620; In all, field expenses, $631,020. Vessels.Repairs, etc.Vessels: For repairs of vessels, including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $75,000. Equipment employees.For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $530,000. Pay, etc., commissioned officers.Pay, commissioned officers: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers on sea duty and other duty. holding relative rank with officers of the Navy, including one director with relative rank of captain, two hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of captain, seven hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of commander, nine hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant commander, thirty-eight hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant, fifty-five junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant (junior grade), twenty-nine aids with relative rank of ensign, and including officers retired in accordance*Proviso*.Assistant director. with existing law, $500,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce may designate one of the hydrographic and geodetic engineers to act as assistant director. Office personnel.Office force: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $402,380. Office expenses.Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments (except surveying instruments), including their exchange, materials, equipment, and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division; books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; including the employment in the District of Columbia of such personal services other than clerical as may be necessary for the prompt preparation of charts, not to exceed $8,220; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; office wagon and horses or automobile truck; heating, lighting, and power; telephones, including operation of switch-board; telegrams, ice, and washing; office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of officers and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and not exceeding $900 for extra labor, $79,500. Subsistence allowance restricted.Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. Fisheries Bureau.bureau of fisheries Commissioner, and office personnel.Commissioner’s Office: For the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923. $160,760. 237 Alaska service: Pribilof Islands—superintendent, $2,400; twoAlaska service.Pribilof Islands. agents and caretakers, at $2,000 each; assistant to agent, $1,200; two physicians, at $1,800 each; three school-teachers, at $1,200 each; two storekeepers, at $1,800 each; Alaska service at large—agent, $2,500; assistant agents—two at $2,000 each, one $1,800, one $1,500;At large. inspector, $1,800; wardens—one $1,200, seven at $1,000 each; in all, $38,200. Employees at large: Assistant, $2,520; field superintendent, $1,800;Employees at large. field assistants—one $1,500, one $1,200; scientific assistant, $1,200; clerks—one $1,200, one $900; fishculturists—one $960, two at $900 each; three local agents, at $600 each; five machinists, at $960 each; two coxswains, at $720 each; in all, $21,120. Distribution
(car)employees: Five captains, at $1,400 each; sixDistribution employees. messengers, at $1,100 each; five assistant messengers, at $1,000 each; five apprentice messengers, at $840 each; five cooks, at $720 each; in all, $26,400. Employees at fish-cultural stations: Thirty-four superintendents,Employees.Fish cultural stations. at $1,500 each; foremen—thirteen, at $1,200 each, one $1,080, one $1,000, one $960; fishculturists—four at $960 each, thirty-six at $900 each; apprentice fishculturists—six at $900 each, one $780, seven at $720 each, eighty-eight at $600 each; custodian of lobster pound, $720; custodian, $360; engineers—two at $1,100 each, one $1,000; two machinists, at $960 each; firemen—two at $720 each, eight at $600 each; cooks—two at $900 each, one $480; in all, $184,620. Fish-rescue station, Mississippi River Valley: District supervisor,Fish rescue station, Mississippi Valley.*Post*, p. 238. $2,500; superintendent, $1,500; two field foremen at $1,200 each: four fishculturists at large at $960 each; engineer, $1,200; clerk, $1,200; two coxswains at large at $720 each; two apprentice fishculturists at $600; in all, $15,280. Employees at biological stations: Director, $1,800; superintendent,Biological stations employees. $1,800; superintendent and director, $1,500; superintendent of fish-culture, $1,500; scientific assistants—two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; laboratory aid, $900; shell expert, $1,200; foreman, $1,200; clerk, $900; two fishculturists, at $900 each; five apprentice fishculturists, at $600 each; two engineers, at $1,000 each; two firemen, at $600 each; in all, $22,800. Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $2,750; general assistant, $1,400;Vessels.Employees. fishery expert, $1,400; clerk, $1,200; in all, $6,750. Steamers Gannet, Halcyon, and Phalarope: Masters—one $1,700, one $1,500, one $1,400; first officer, $1,200; engineers—one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; assistant engineer, $1,200; firemen—one $840, four at $780 each; seamen—five at $810 each, two at $780 each; two cooks at $870 each; cabin boy, $600; in all, $22,710. For officers and crew of vessels for Alaska fisheries service, $31,630. Alaska service. Administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, includingAdministration expenses. stationery, scientific and reference books, periodicals and newspapers for library, furniture and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $3,900. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration,Propagation expenses. improvement, equipment, and operation of fish-cultural stations, including $15,000 for Saratoga, Wyoming, of which not to exceed $8,000 shall be available for construction of buildings, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, and not to exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessaryFresh water mussels. expenses connected therewith, $386,250. 238 Mississippi River rescue station.Amount for construction continued.Vol. 42, p. 772.The appropriation of $40,000 for the fiscal year 1923, for the establishment of a fish-rescue station on the Mississippi River made by the deficiency appropriation Act approved July 1, 1922, is hereby continued and made available during the fiscal year 1925. Vessels.Maintenance.Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of theSupplies to Pribilof Islands. mess of such vessels, $107,175, of which $10,000 shall be immediately available for the procurement of supplies and equipment required for shipment to the Pribilof Islands for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925. Commutation of rations.Commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per day) may be paid to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries during the fiscal year 1925 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Food fishes inquiry.Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants and waters, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operations of biological stations, expenses of travel and preparation of reports. $38,170. Statistical inquiry.Fishery industries: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, and the methods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, including compensation of temporary employees, travel and preparation of reports, including temporary employees in the District of Columbia not to exceed $1,800, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $26,200. Sponge fisheries.Protecting, etc.Sponge fisheries: For protecting the sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges andVol. 38, p. 692. other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of August 15, 1914, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $2,000. Alaska, general service.Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc.Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, including $10,000 to be used in providing a reserve supply of food, clothing, medicines, and other necessitiesVol. 36, p. 326. on the Pribilof Islands, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved April 21, 1910. and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel, subsistence (or per diem in lieu of subsistence) of employees while on duty in Alaska, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $217,000, of which $100,000 shall be available immediately. TITLE IV.—Department of Labor. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Secretary’s Office.office of the secretary Secretary, Assistants, and office personnel.Salaries: Secretary of Labor. $12,000; Assistant Secretary, Second Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District239 of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $171,900; in all, $183,900. Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of LaborCommissioners of conciliation.Vol. 37, p. 738. to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, for per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4 traveling expenses, and not to exceed $13,300 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and telegraph and telephone service, $200,000. contingent expenses, department of labor For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureausContingent expenses. of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street-car fares not exceeding $200; lighting and heating; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor cycles and motor trucks; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, newspaper clippings not to exceed $900, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals not exceeding $2,500; in all, $36,500; and in addition thereto suchAddition from Immigration expenses. sum as may be necessary, not in excess of $13,500, to facilitate the purchase, through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 531),Vol. 36, p. 531. of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration ”*Post*, p. 240. made for the fiscal year 1925 and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor, ” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department of Labor, to be expendedExpended through Division of Publication and Supplies. through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor. Rent: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the DistrictRent. of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $24,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for DepartmentPrinting and binding. of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $215,000. bureau of labor statisticsLabor Statistics Bureau. Salaries: For the Commissioner and other personal services in theCommissioner, and office personnel. District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $215,000. Per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 of specialSpecial agents, experts, etc. agents, and employees, and for their transportation; experts and temporary assistance for field service outside of the District of Columbia, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day; compensation of experts in the District of Columbia not to exceed in all $10,000; temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typewritersTemporary statistical clerks, etc., in the District. in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registers, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months, the total expenditure for such temporary clerical assistance in the District of Columbia not to exceed $6,000; travelingTraveling expenses, etc. expenses of officers and employees, purchase of reports and materials for reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $72,840. 240 Periodicals, etc.For periodicals, newspapers, documents, and special reports for the purpose of procuring strike data, price quotations, and court decisions for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $300. Immigration Bureau.bureau of immigration Commissioner, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $91,840. Enforcing immigration laws.Vol. 41, p. 1008; Vol. 42, p. 5.*Ante*, p. 155.Regulating immigration: For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract labor laws; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said laws, including personal servicesPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. in the District of Columbia not to exceed $50,000. and per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of theVol. 39, p. 874; Vol. 40, p. 542; Vol. 41, p. 1008; Vol. 42, p. 5.*Ante*, p. 155. Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February 5, 1917, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to and the residence of aliens in the United States,” and Acts amendatory thereof; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; preventing the unlawful entry of aliens into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relationChinese exclusion. thereto; expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expenses of conveyance of Chinese personsRefunding head tax. to the frontier or seaboard for deportation; refunding of head tax, maintenance bills, and immigration fines upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction of*Provisos*.Additional land border patrol.Vehicles outside the District. the Secretary of Labor, $4,500,000: *Provided*, That at least $1,000,000 of this amount shall be expended for additional land-border patrol of which $100,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided further*, That the purchase, exchange, use, maintenance, and operation of horse and motor vehicles required in the enforcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of those laws, under such terms and conditionsLimit for purchase, etc., of motor vehicles. as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe: *Provided further*, That not more than $50,000 of the sum appropriated herein may be expended in the purchase and maintenance of such motor vehicles:For land border patrol. *Provided further*, That not more than $38,000 of this amount shall be expended in the purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles for additional land-border patrol. Immigrant stations.immigration stations Remodeling buildings, equipment, etc.For remodeling, repairing (including repairs to the ferryboat, Ellis Island), renovating buildings, and purchase of equipment, $100,000. Naturalization Bureau.bureau of naturalization Commissioner, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $108,920. Pay of examiners, intent refers, clerks, etc.General Expenses: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Natu241 ralization, provided for by the Act approved June 29, 1906, asVol. 34, p. 596. amended by the Act approved March 4, 1913 (Statutes at Large,Vol. 37, p. 736. volume 37, page 736), and May 9, 1918 (Statutes at Large, volumeVol. 40, p. 542. 40, pages 542 to 548, inclusive), including not to exceed $52,000 forServices in the District. personal services in the District of Columbia, and for their actual and necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car fare on official business at official stations, together with per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowedPer diem subsistenceVol. 38, p. 680. pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for such per diem together with actual necessary traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceed $20,000 for rent of offices outside of the DistrictRent outside the District. of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; carrying into effect section 13 of the Act of JuneAssistance to clerks of courts.Vol. 34, p. 600; Vol. 36, pp. 765, 830; Vol. 40, p. 171. 29, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 600), as amended by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 765). and in accordance with the provisions of the Sundry Civil Act of June 12, 1917; and for mileage and fees to witnesses subpoenaed on behalfWitness fees. of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulation as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $561,560: *Provided*, That no part of this*Proviso*.Assistants to clerks of Federal courts excluded. appropriation shall be available for the compensation of assistants to clerks of United States courts. children’s bureauChildren’s Bureau. Salaries: For the chief, and other personal services in the DistrictChief of, and office personnel. of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $117,820. To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfareChild welfare, infant mortality, etc. of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $136,080. For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at notTraveling expenses, experts, etc. exceeding $4 of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children’s Bureau; experts and temporary assistants, to be paid at a rateMaterial for publication. not exceeding $6 a day, and interpreters to be paid at a rate not exceeding $4 a day when actually employed; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau, newspapers and clippings not exceeding $700 to enable the Children’s Bureau to secure data regarding the progress of legislation affecting children and the activities of public and private organizations dealing with children, and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $72,000. Promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy:Maternity and Infancy Hygiene Act.Expenses executing.Vol. 42, p. 224. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes,” approved November 23, 1921, $1.007,092.51: *Provided*, That the apportionments to the States and to the Children’s*Proviso*.Apportionment to States. Bureau for administration shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $1,240,000, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes,” approved November 23, 1921. women’s bureauWomen’s Bureau. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toSalaries and expenses.Vol. 41, p. 987. establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the242 Women’s Bureau,” approved June 5, 1920, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits, including newspaper clippings not exceeding $200, and traveling expenses, $107,380. Employment Service.employment service Promoting welfare of wage earners.Objects designated.To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, including juniors legally employed, to improve their working conditions, to advance their opportunities for profitable employment by regularly collecting, furnishing, and publishing employment information as to opportunities for employment; maintaining a system for clearing labor between the several States; cooperating with and coordinating the public employment offices throughout the country, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from theirPer diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680. official station, together with their per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914; supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone, service, and miscellaneous expenses, $206,284. Approved, May 28, 1924.
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