Chapter 4. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes December 5, 1924.[[H
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CHAP. 4.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes December 5, 1924.[[H. R. 9559](/us/bill/68/hr/9559).][[Public, No. 292](/us/68/pl/292).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Second Deficiency Act, 1924.
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes, namely: Senate.SENATE Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1924, $50,000. Services of designated employees.For payment for services rendered the Senate or committees thereof, as follows:
John G. Holland, junior, $250; Ernest K. Hill, $250; Fred A. Eckstein, $860: Albert Reid, $125; Alexander K. Meek, $1,200; Louis Bose, $40; U. G. Gordon, $40; and James F. Sellers, $200; in all, $2,965. 673 joint committee to investigate northern pacific land grantsNorthern Pacific land grants. For expenses of the joint committee created by section 3 of publicExpenses of Joint Committee investigating.*Ante*, p. 462. resolution of the Sixty-eighth Congress entitled “Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to withhold his approval of the adjustment of the Northern Pacific land grants, and for: other purposes,” including personal services, printing and binding traveling and subsistence expenses, fees of witnesses, and such other expenses in connection with the inquiry as the joint committee may deem necessary, $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESHouse of Representatives. For payment to R. Lee Moore for expenses incurred as contesteeContested election expenses.R. Lee Moore. in the contested-election case of Clark against Moore, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 2, $1,872.34. For payment to Walter M. Chandler for expenses incurred asWalter M. Chandler. contestant in the contested-election case of Chandler against Bloom audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 3, $2,000.
For payment to Sol Bloom for expenses incurred as contestee inSol Bloom. the contested-election case of Chandler against Bloom, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 3, $2,000. For payment to Royal H. Weller for expenses incurred asRoyal H. Weller. contestee in the contested-election case of Ansorge against Weller audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 1, $2,000. For payment to James R. Buckley for expenses incurred asJames R. Buckley. contestee m the contested-election case of Gorman against Buckley audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 3, $2,000.
For the payment to John Gorman for expenses incurred asJohn Gorman. contestant in contested-election case of Gorman against Buckley, $2,000. The six preceding sums shall be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. contingent expenses of the houseContingent expenses. For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, fiscal yearFurniture. 1924, $7,285.08. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and selectMiscellaneous items, special and select committees. committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, and including reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually and necessarily paid out by them for transcribing hearings, fiscal year 1924, $37,596.04.
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOLArchitect of the Capitol. Capitol power plant: For remodeling and improving the heatingCapitol power plant. system of the Capitol Building, with the exception of the Supreme Court section, $38,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. Capitol Building and repairs: For amount required inCompleting frieze of Rotunda. connection with the completion of the frieze in the Rotunda of the Capitol, fiscal years 1924 and 1925, $5,000. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICEGovernment Printing Office.
To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes,Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Charles C. Allen. and Charles C. Allen, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, for extra services, $800 each, $3,200. 674 Executive Office.EXECUTIVE OFFICE White House police.white house police Additional personnel.*Ante*, p. 175.For additional personnel in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924: Sergeant, $2,400; five privates at $2,100 each; in all, fiscal year 1925, $12,900.
Uniforms, etc.For uniforming and equipping the White House police, including the purchase and issue of revolvers and ammunition, fiscal year 1925, $600. American Battle Monuments Commission.AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION Motor vehicle allowance*Ante*, p. 35.The appropriation of $95,750 made for the expenses of the American Battle Monuments Commission by the Act of April 2, 1924, Public Numbered 66, Sixty-eighth Congress, is hereby made available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle that may be furnished by the Secretary of War for the official use of the said commission in foreign countries.
District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA General Expenses Rent Commission.rent commission Salaries, etc.Vol. 41, p. 298.Vol. 42, pp. 200, 544.*Ante*, p. 120.For salaries and expenses authorized by section 103, Title II, of the Food Control and the District of Columbia Rents Act, approved October 22, 1919, as amended by the Act approved August 24, 1921, extending the Rent Commission until May 22, 1922, and the Act approved May 22, 1922, extending the said commission until May 22, 1924, and the Act approved May 17, 1924, extending the said commission until May 22, 1925, $45,000, including postage on official mail matter, street-car transportation, and daily newspapers: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Period available.That the amount herein appropriated shall cover salaries and expenses for the period beginning with May 23, 1924, and ending Additional pay to assessor to cease.Vol. 41, p. 299.with May 22, 1925: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the payment of additional compensation to the assessor of the District of Columbia after June 30, 1924.
J. C. Harding and Company.Payment to.The accounting officers of the District of Columbia are authorized to pay to J. C. Harding and Company the sum of $96.95 from the appropriation for the Rent Commission, District of Columbia (no fiscal year), for furnishing and installing electric bells, push buttons, and buzzers in new quarters assigned to the Rent Commission, said work having been done without competition as required by law. Contingent expenses.contingent and miscellaneous expenses Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, fiscal year 1923, $3,955.92.
Advertising taxes arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1922, as required to be given by the Act of March 19, 1890, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, fiscal year 1923. $937.81. Refund of collections.To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the proportion675that the appropriations for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year involved were or are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permitsBuilding permits.Vol. 36, p. 967. authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911, fiscal year 1924, $1,500: *Provided*, That this*Proviso*.Prior years. appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years.
For painting traffic lines, including employment of necessaryPainting traffic lines. personal services, and the purchase of supplies and equipment, $5,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. For the purchase and installation of traffic lights, markers, signals,Traffic signals, etc. control switches, and necessary incidental expenses, and the employment of personal services, $10,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. public schoolsPublic schools. For additional amount required for payment of salaries ofAdditional for salaries, 1925. administrative and supervisory officers, teachers, librarians, and attendance officers in the public schools during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, including two first assistant superintendents and one chief examiner, $1,148,570: *Provided*, That this sum and the amounts specifically appropriated in the District of Columbia Appropriation*Ante*, p. 367.*Provisos*.Consolidation of amounts.
Act for the fiscal year 1925, for salaries of officers, teachers, librarians, attendance officers, longevity pay, and allowance to principals are authorized to be consolidated and treated as one amount for the payment of salaries of administrative and supervisory officers, teachers, librarians, and attendance officers in such numbers and at such rates of compensation as shall be authorized by law for said fiscal year: *Provided further*, That the appropriation for AmericanizationAmericanization work allowance reduced.*Ante*, p. 556. work for the fiscal year 1925 is hereby reduced by the sum of $1,800, which sum is hereby authorized to be transferred to and made a part of the foregoing consolidated amount.
For additional amount for salaries of employees of the Community centers.Community Center Department of the Public Schools for the fiscal year 1925, $3,400: *Provided*, That in addition to this sum, the*Provisos*.Available for designated salaries.*Ante*, p. 556. appropriation contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925 is made available for the payment of the salaries of one general director, two general secretaries, and seven full-time community secretaries, at such rates of compensation as shall be authorized by law for said fiscal year, and for the payment of compensation of other employees, other than janitors, including part-time community secretaries, at such rates of pay as shall be fixed by the Board of Education: *Provided further*, That not more than 85Pay limitation. per centum of the total amount appropriated for the Community enter Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, shall be expended for salaries of employees.
For payment of annuities as follows:Annuities. Fiscal year 1923, $1,526.29; Fiscal year 1924, $5,600. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, as follows:Fuel, light, and power. Fiscal year 1923, $52,058.79; Fiscal year 1924, $60,000. For furniture and equipment for the six-room addition to theThomson School. Thomson School, fiscal year 1924, $3,261. For completion of the equipment of the Macfarland Junior HighMacfarland and Langley Junior High Schools. and Langley Junior High Schools, fiscal year 1924, $3,000.
For an additional amount for the erection of an eight-roomAdditional building near Tenley School. extensible building, including a combination assembly hall and676gymnasium, on a site to be purchased in the vicinity of, and to relieve, the Tenley School, $15,000. Western High School.Contract restrictions removed.The requirement of law for the entire construction of or addition to any building to be awarded in one or a single contract, exclusive of heating, lighting, and plumbing, shall not apply to appropriations made for the remodeling and the construction of an addition to the Western High School.
Repairs to buildings and grounds.For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $25,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. Police.metropolitan police Additional for salaries, etc.*Ante*, p. 174.*Proviso*.Consolidation of amounts for salaries.*Ante*, p. 559.For an additional amount required for the payment of salaries and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1925, $751,030: *Provided*, That this sum and the amounts specifically appropriated in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925 for salaries and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police, other than the appropriation for personal services in accordance with the classification act of 1923, are authorized to be consolidated and used as one amount for the payment of salaries and allowances Additional privates.of officers and members at the rates authorized by law and including 165 privates of class one in addition to the number of privates provided for in such appropriation Act.
Fire department.fire department Additional for salaries, etc.*Ante*, p. 175.*Proviso*.Consolidation of amounts for salaries.*Ante*, p. 561.For an additional amount required for the payment of salaries of officers and members of the Fire Department, fiscal year 1925, $533,120: *Provided*, That this sum and the amounts specifically appropriated in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925 for salaries of officers and members of the Fire Department, other than the appropriation for personal services in accordance with the classification act of 1923, are authorized to be consolidated and used as one amount for the payment of salaries of officers and members at the rates authorized by law and including Additional force.six captains, six lieutenants, six sergeants, and ninety-seven privates of class one, in addition to the numbers provided for in such appropriation act.
Repairs to apparatus, etc.For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-driven apparatus, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, $5,000. Health department.health department Contagious diseases.Limitation removed.Vol. 42, p. 1352.The limitation of $25,000 for personal services contained in the appropriation of $40,000 for prevention of contagious diseases, Health Department, fiscal year 1924, is hereby waived.
Drainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, Abating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.1896, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $2,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. Crematory.For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, fiscal year 1924, $1,000. 677 courts and prisonsCourts and prisons. police courtPolice court.
For printing, law books, books of reference, directories,Contingent expenses. periodicals, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal years that follow: For 1923, $961.65; For 1924, $1,500. For compensation of jurors, fiscal year 1924, $3,500.Jurors. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. For support, maintenance, and transportation of convictsSupport of convicts of District. transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, fiscal year 1924, $25,000.
For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunaticoLunacy writs expenses. inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to lie committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, fiscal year 1923, $162.72. supreme court, district of columbiaSupreme Court, D. C. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by theMiscellaneous expenses.
Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, fiscal year 1923, $50.62. Charities and CorrectionsCharities and corrections. workhouseWorkhouse. For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, fiscal year 1924,Fuel. $10,000. national training school for girlsNational Training School for Girls.
For installation of electric wiring, lights, and fixtures pertainingBuilding for white girls.Electric installation. thereto, in the building recently acquired for white girls, fiscal year 1924, $3,000. The accounting officers of the District of Columbia are authorizedW. B. Moses and Sons, and Rudolph and West.Payments to, from unexpended balance.Vol. 39, p. 707. to pay, from the balance remaining of the appropriation of $5,000 provided in the District Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917 for condemnation of additional land for the National Training School for Girls, $138.51 to W.
B. Moses and Sons for furniture, and $133 to Rudolph and West for installing a kitchen range, and expenditures heretofore improperly made from said appropriation, amounting to $4,539.96, are approved. 678 Medical charities.medical charities Care of indigent patients.For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Board of Charities with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts respectively: Emergency Hospital.Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital:
Fiscal year 1922, $2,991.15; fiscal year 1923, $8,303.40. Casualty Hospital.Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital: Fiscal year 1922, $878.35; fiscal year 1923, $6,236.15. Gallinger Hospital.Gallinger Municipal Hospital Maintenance.For maintenance, maintenance of motor vehicles, horses and horse-drawn vehicles, books of reference, and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1923, $16,117.03. Child-Caring Institutions Board of Children’s Guardians.board of children’s guardians Feeble-minded children.For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), fiscal year 1924, $2,000.
Saint Elizabeths Hospital.saint elizabeths hospital Indigent insane.For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, fiscal year 1924, $100,000. Public buildings and grounds.public buildings and grounds Park police.Additional for salaries.For an additional amount for the United States Park Police force under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of *Ante*, p. 175.officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, the United States Park Police force, and the fire department of the District of *Proviso*.Consolidation of amounts for salaries.*Ante*, p. 572.Columbia,” approved May 27, 1924, fiscal year 1925, $36,162.21: *Provided*, That this sum and the amounts specifically appropriated in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925, for salaries of the United States Park Police, are authorized to be consolidated and used as one amount for the payment of salaries for the United States Park Police at the rates of compensation authorized in such Act of May 27, 1924.
Motor vehicle allowance.For motor vehicle allowance for the superintendent of the United States Park Police, fiscal year 1925, $480. Motor cycles.For motor cycle allowance to twenty members of the United States Park Police, at $120 each, fiscal year 1925, $2,400. Potomac Park.Tidal Basin bathing facilities.For construction and development work in Potomac Park on the west shore of the Tidal Basin to provide public bathing facilities, and for the maintenance thereof, $50,000, to remain available until *Proviso*.Bathing beach for colored people.June 30, 1925: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Balance available.Vol. 42, pp. 708, 1306.Act for the fiscal year 1923 for the construction of a bathing beach and bathhouse for the colored population of the city, continued and made available during the fiscal year 1924 by the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, is further continued and made available during the fiscal year 1925 for the construction and maintenance of said bathing beach and bathhouse.
Judgments.judgments Payment of, against the District.For payment of the judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in House Document Numbered679265 of the present session, $4,213.94, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same become due until date of payment. audited claimsAudited claims. For the payment of following claims, certified to be due by thePayment of claims certified by District accounting officers. accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplusVol. 18, p. 110. fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, being for the service of the fiscal year 1921 and prior years:
Courts, District of Columbia, 1919, reports of opinions, Court ofDesignation of amounts. Appeals, $55; courts, District of Columbia, 1920, reports of opinions. Court of Appeals, $55; police court, District of Columbia, 1920, contingent expenses, $10.75; Metropolitan police, 1920, House of Detention, for maintenance, $2.86; fire department, 1920, repairs to engine house, $2.13; fire department, 1921, contingent expenses, $4; health department, 1919, bacteriological laboratory, for maintenance $4; health department, 1921, dispensaries, for electric current. $18.08; streets, District of Columbia, 1918, parking commission, for repairs, $2; streets, District of Columbia, 1921, cleaning, etc., for electric current furnished stable March and April, 1921, $33.84;
National Training School for Girls, 1921, for maintenance $10.50; Tuberculosis Hospital, 1921, for maintenance, $68.75; reformatory, 1921, for maintenance, $76.54; public schools, 1918, repairs to buildings, for supplies, $8; public schools, 1920, repairs to buildings, for supplies, $10.80; public schools, 1920, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $60.48; public schools, 1920, payment of annuities, $32.69; public schools, 1921, payment of annuities, $1,626.59: playgrounds, 1918, maintenance, $52.30; contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1920, for advertising and maintenance of motor vehicles, $69.90; contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1921, for advertising and maintenance of coroner’s office, $56.10; improvements and repairs, 1918, repairs to streets, $8.69.
In all, audited claims, $2,269. The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless Proportion from District revenues.otherwise therein specifically provided, shall be paid as follows: Such sums as relate to the fiscal year 1920 and prior fiscal years, 50 perFor fiscal year 1920 and prior years. centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 50 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States; such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1921, 1922, 1923, and 1924, 60 per centum out ofFor 1021-1924. the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States; and such sums as relate to the fiscal year 1925 and jointly to the fiscal years 1924 and 1925, shallFor 1924 and 1925. be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the same proportion, or in the same manner, as the appropriations for the District of Columbia in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, are paid.
FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONVocational Education Board. To extend to the Territory of Hawaii the benefits of the ActVocational educational benefits extended to Hawaii.Vol. 30, p. 929.*Ante*, p. 18. entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education: to provide for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure,” approved February 23, 1917, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of680certain laws to the Territory of Hawaii,” approved March 10, 1924, fiscal year 1925, $30,000.
Industrial rehabilitation benefits extended to Hawaii.Vol. 41, p. 735.*Ante*, p. 18.To extend to the Territory of Hawaii the benefits of the Act approved June 2, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 735), in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws to the Territory of Hawaii,” approved March 10, 1924, fiscal year 1925, $5,000. Industrial rehabilitation.Vol. 41, p. 735.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons *Ante*, p. 430.disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment,” approved June 2, 1920, as amended by the Act of June 5, *Proviso*.State apportionment.1924, for the fiscal year 1925, $834,000: *Provided*, That the apportionment to the States shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $1,034,000, as authorized by the Act approved June 2, 1920, as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1924.
Investigation of placements, etc.For the purposes of making studies, investigations, and reports regarding the vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons and their placements in suitable or gainful occupations, and for the administrative expenses of said board incident to performing the duties Vol. 41, p. 735.*Ante*, p. 430.Office personnel, expenses, etc.imposed by the Act of June 2, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 735), as amended, including salaries of such assistants, experts, clerks, and other employees, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, as the board may deem necessary, actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred by the members of the board and by its employees, under its orders, including attendance at meetings of educational associations and other organizations, rent and equipment of offices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, stationery, typewriters and exchange thereof, miscellaneous supplies, postage on foreign mail, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1925, $75,000.
General Accounting Office.GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Personal services in the District.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal year 1925, $75,240. Housing Corporation.HOUSING CORPORATION Ground rent for Government hotels, D. C.For ground rent for squares 632, 681, and part of 680, in the District of Columbia, occupied by the Government hotels, fiscal year 1925, $74,315. Interstate Commerce Commission.INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION Physical valuation of railroads.Vol. 40, p. 271.Valuation of property of carriers:
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Vol. 37, p. 701.Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof,” by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved March 1, 1913, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925, $350,000.
State, etc., Department Building.STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS Replacing, etc., elevators.For replacing and repairing elevators in the State, War, and Navy Department Building, $25,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. 681 UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAUVeterans’ Bureau. Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of Paying property damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066.privately owned property adjusted and determined by the United States Veterans’ Bureau under the provisions of the Act approved December 28, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, page 1066), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 319, reported to Congress at its present session, $374.30.
Vocational rehabilitation: For carrying out the provisions of anVocational rehabilitation of discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, p. 617, Vol.41, p. 159.*Ante*, p. 627. Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the Military or Naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June 27, 1918, as amended, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $900,000.
Administrative expenses, World War Adjusted Compensation Act:Adjusted Compensation Act.Administrative expenses.*Ante*, p. 121. For administrative expenses in carrying out the provisions of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of May 19, 1924, including salaries of personnel in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923; purchase, hire, ex-change, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other mechanical devices, furniture, office equipment, printing and binding, telegrams, telephones, stationery, traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4 for officers, agents, and other employees, and for other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses to enable the Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau to perform such duties as are required by said Act, $1,188,500, to remain available until June 30, 1925: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Proviso*.Office supplies from General Supply Committee for temporary use. of the Treasury is authorized to issue to the Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, without charge, for temporary use, such surplus office supplies and equipment as may be under the control of the General Supply Committee.
For additional hospital and out-patient dispensary facilities forAdditional hospital facilities, school for the blind, etc.*Ante*, p. 389. patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and facilities for a permanent national training school for the blind at a cost not exceeding $350,000, who are beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, by purchase and remodeling or extension of existing plants, and by construction on sites now owned by the Government or on sites to be acquired by purchase, condemnation, gift, or otherwise, such hospitals and out-patient dispensary facilities to include the necessary buildings and auxiliary structures, mechanical equipment, approach work, roads, and trackage facilities leading thereto; and also to provide accommodations for officers, nurses, and attendingAccommodations for personnel, recreation centers, etc. personnel; and also to provide proper and suitable recreational centers, $3,850,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925, and in addition to this amount obligations may be incurred for the purposes set forth in this paragraph not to exceed in the aggregate $3,000,000.
That not to exceed 3 per centum of the total of $6,850,000 shall beAllowance for technical assistants, etc. available for the employment in the District of Columbia and in the field of necessary technical and clerical assistants at the customary rates of compensation, exclusively to aid in the preparation of the plans and specifications for the projects authorized herein and for the supervision of the execution thereof, and for traveling expenses and field-office equipment and supplies in connection therewith.
Adjusted service and dependent pay: For payment of adjustedAdjusted service and dependents pay and credits.*Ante*, pp. 125,128. service credits of not more than $50 each, as provided in sections 401 and 601 of the “World War Adjusted Compensation Act ” of May 19, 1924, and for payment to dependents of deceased veterans the quarterly installments due on adjusted service credits in excess of $50 each, as provided in sections 601 and 603 of said Act, $26,629,398, to remain available until expended. 682 Adjusted service certificate fund.Payments to.*Ante*, p. 128.Adjusted service certificate fund:
For the amount authorized in section 505 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of May 19, 1924, to provide for the payment of the face value of each adjusted service certificate in twenty years from its date or on the prior death of the veteran, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended. Department of Agriculture.DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Payment of property damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066.Damage claims: To pay the claims for damages to privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Department of Agriculture under the provisions of the Act approved December 28, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, page 1066), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 317, reported to Congress at its present session, $2,545.89.
Chemistry Bureau.Bureau of Chemistry Naval stores Act.Administration, etc., expenses.Vol. 42, p. 1436.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1923, entitled “An Act establishing standard grades of naval stores, preventing deception in transactions in naval stores, regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,” $10,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. Forest Service.forest service Fighting forest fires.General expenses:
For fighting and preventing forest fires, fiscal year 1924. $125,000. Agricultural Economics Bureau.bureau of agriculture economics General expenses.General expenses: For collecting, compiling, abstracting, analyzing, summarizing, interpreting, and publishing data relating to agriculture, including crop and livestock estimates, acreage, yield, grades, stock, and value of farm crops, and numbers, grades, and value of livestock and livestock products on farms, in cooperation with the Extension Service and other Federal, State, and local agencies, fiscal year 1925, $50,000.
Miscellaneous.miscellaneous items Cocoanut scale.Eradicating, etc., in Guam.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to provide means for the control and eradication of the cocoanut scale on the Island of Guam, $8,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. Nail head rust.Eradicating, etc.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to provide means for the investigation, control, and eradication of the blight known as “Nail head rust,” fiscal year 1925, $10,000. Contagious diseases of animals.Expenses for eradication, etc., of designated.For personal services and other expenditures in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in connection with the arrest and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious disease of animals, Payment of claims for destroyed animals, etc.including the payment of claims growing out of past and future purchases and destruction, in cooperation with the States, of animals affected by or exposed to, or of materials contaminated by or exposed to, any such disease, wherever found and irrespective of ownership, under like or substantially similar circumstances, when such owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations, and Investigation to determine effect of measures, etc.including necessary investigations to determine whether such diseases have been completely eradicated in districts where they previously *Post*, p. 851.existed, $3,500,000, to be expended by the Secretary of Agriculture when, in his judgment, an emergency exists which threatens the livestock industry of the country, and to remain available until683June 30, 1925: *Provided*, That the payment for animals hereafter*Proviso*.Appraisement of values. purchased may be made on an appraisement based on the meat, dairy, or breeding value, but in case of appraisement based on breeding value no appraisement of any animal shall exceed three times its meat or dairy value, and, except in case of an extraordinary emergency, to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, the payment by the United States Government for any animal shall not exceed one-half of any such appraisement.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDepartment of Commerce. bureau of the censusCensus Bureau. Collecting statistics: For securing information for census reportsCollecting cotton statistics.*Ante*, p. 31. provided 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, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1925, fiscal year 1925, $30,000. bureau of lighthousesLighthouses Bureau.
Damage claims: To pay claims adjusted and determined by thePayment of collision damages claims.Vol. 36, p. 537. Department of Commerce under the provisions of section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 537), on account of damage occasioned to private property by collision of vessels of the Lighthouse Service and for which the vessels of the Lighthouse Service were responsible, certified to the present Congress in House Document Numbered 262, $390.64.
To pay the claims for damages to privately owned propertyPayment of property damages claims. adjusted and determined by the Department of Commerce under the provisions of the Act approved December 28, 1922 (Forty-secondVol. 42, p. 1066. Statutes, page 1066), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 341, reported to Congress at its present session, $1,712.15. coast and geodetic surveyCoast and Geodetic Survey. Damage claims: To pay the claim adjusted and determined by thePayment of damages claims.Vol. 41, p. 1054.
Department of Commerce under the provisions of the Act approved June 5, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1054), on account of damage occasioned by acts for which the Coast and Geodetic Survey has been found to be responsible, certified to the present Congress in House Document Numbered 256, $487.39. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT Interior Department. printing and bindingPrinting and binding. For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents,Patent Office. designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, fiscal year 1924, $75,000. miscellaneous items, territory of alaskaAlaska.
Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legallyCare of insane. adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, fiscal year 1924, $9,500. 684 Public lauds.General Land Office Utah.Reimbursing, for surveys of land grants.Vol. 28, p. 109.Reimbursement to State of Utah: To reimburse the State of Utah, as provided in the Act of Congress approved August 18, 1894, for moneys advanced by said State to the United States on April 12, 1922, August 12, 1922, and November 13, 1922, to secure the survey of lands granted to said State, $50,000.
Indian Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Indian Affairs Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho.For rebuilding the dairy barn on the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho; Replacing fire losses, etc.for purchase of a dairy herd; for equipment for barn and farm machinery; the foregoing to replace the building, stock, and equipment recently destroyed by fire; in all, $10,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. Carson City School, Nev.Replacing burns.For rebuilding dairy and horse barns at Carson City Indian School, Carson City, Nevada, fiscal years 1924 and 1925, $7,500.
Full-blood Choctaws, Miss.Relief, etc.For the relief of distress among the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $12.83. Wahpeton School, N. Dak.Replacing dairy herd.For purchase of a dairy herd at the Wahpeton Indian School, North Dakota, to replace the herd destroyed on account of being infected with tuberculosis, $3,500, to remain available until June 30, 1925.
Wapato irrigation system.Continuing construction, enlarging, etc.Vol. 38, p. 604.For continuing construction and enlargement of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, to make possible the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), for forty acres of each Indian allotment under the Wapato irrigation project on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, and such other water supply as may be available or obtainable for the irrigation of a total of one hundred and twenty thousand acres of allotted Indian lands on said reservation, $20.37.
Fort Hall Reservation. Idaho.Relocating, etc., canal of irrigation project.*Ante*, p. 117.Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho (tribal funds): The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw, from the fund created by section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the acquiring of Indian lands on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, in Idaho, for reservoir purposes in connection with the Minidoka irrigation project,” approved May 9, 1924, $100,000, or so much thereof as may lie necessary, for use in relocating, enlarging, and reconstructing the main canal of the Fort Hall irrigation project to provide irrigation facilities for Indian lands situated in the southern portion of the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, commonly known as the Michaud *Ante*, p. 118.Flats, in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of such Act.
This sum shall remain available until June 30, 1925. Nisqually Reservation, Wash.Relief of dispossessed Indians of.*Ante*, p. 111.For the relief of dispossessed allotted Indians of the Nisqually Reservation, Washington, $85,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925, and to be in full settlement of claims against the United States as provided in the Act of April 28, 1924 (Public Numbered 105, Sixty-eighth Congress). Pension Office.pension office Examining surgeons.For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services rendered within the fiscal year 1924, $60,000.
Reclamation Service.reclamation service Payments from reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388.The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated “the reclamation fund ”: 685 For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June 17, 1902All expenses. (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere;Salaries in the District.Specified objects. examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds for over-collections hereafter received on account of water-right charges, rentals, and deposits for other purposes; printing and binding, not exceeding $15,000; purchase, maintenance, and operation ofVehicles, damages to property, etc. horse-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior; and payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That no part of the sums herein appropriated shall be*Proviso*.Use for new construction restricted. used for the commencement of construction work on any reclamation project which has not been recommended by the Commissioner of Reclamation and the Secretary of the Interior and approved by the President as to its agricultural and engineering feasibility and the reasonableness of its estimated construction cost:
Secondary projects: For cooperative and miscellaneous Secondary projects.investigations, fiscal year 1925, $21,500. Cooperative investigations: For cooperative investigations of theCooperative investigations.Projects designated. feasibility of reclamation projects, including the Guernsey Reservoir of the North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming, the Spanish Springs project in Nevada, the Owyhee and Vale projects in Oregon, projects in the Salt Lake Basin of Utah, the Kittitas Division of the Yakima project in Washington, and the Casper-Alcova project in Wyoming; including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and the purchase, repair, maintenance, hire, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, fiscal year 1925, $125,000: *Provided*, That hereafter the*Proviso*.Use of moneys from States, etc.
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to receive moneys from any State, municipality, irrigation district, individual, or other interest, public or private, expend the same in connection with moneys appropriated by the United States for any such cooperative investigation, and return to the contributor any moneys so contributed in excess of the actual cost of that portion of the work properly chargeable to the contribution.Designated projects. North Platte irrigation project, Nebraska and Wyoming:
ForNorth Platte, Nebr. Wyo. continued investigations, commencement of construction of the Guernsey Reservoir, and incidental operations, $800,000; Salt Lake Basin irrigation project, Utah: For continued Salt Lake Basin, Utah.investigations, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $375,000; Owyhee irrigation project, Oregon: For continued Owyhee, Oreg.investigations, commencement of construction, and incidental operations, $315,000; Yakima irrigation project, Washington:
For continued Yakima, Wash.Kittitas unit.investigation, commencement of construction of the Kittitas unit, and incidental operations, $375,000. national park serviceNational parks. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordancePersonal services in the District. with the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal year 1925, $2,700. 686 Mesa Verde, Colo.Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For repairing damage caused by flood washouts to roads, bridges, retaining walls, and culverts, fiscal year 1924, $3,000.
Mount Rainier, Wash.Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For repairing damage caused by flood washouts to portions of the Carbon River Road, including river revetment work necessary to prevent further damage to road, fiscal year 1924, $13,000. Rocky Mountain, Colo.Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For repairing damage caused by flood washouts to roads, bridges, retaining walls, and culverts, fiscal year 1924, $26,171. Construction of roads, trails, etc.Continuation of road construction:
For construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and national monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, including the making of necessary surveys and plans, in accordance with the provisions of, and being part of the amount authorized to be appropriated *Ante*, p. 90.for the fiscal years 1924 and 1925 by the Act approved April *Proviso*.Services in the District.9, 1924, $1,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,600 of the appropriation herein made shall be available for the employment of accounting and clerical services in the District of Columbia.
Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE contingent expenses Miscellaneous expenditures.For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the Departments of State and Justice Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1923, $43.68; For 1924, $5,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, fiscal year 1923, $953.23. For printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, fiscal year 1924, $25,000.
Judicial.JUDICIAL Supreme Court.united states supreme court Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Departments of State and Justice Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1924. $4,000. Court of Customs Appeals.court of customs appeals Rent, etc.For rent of necessary quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the same objects specified under this head in the Departments of State and Justice Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, $3,000.
Court of Claims.court of claims Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, fiscal year 1924, $8,000. Repairs to building.Building: For repairs to roof of main building, including new valley gutters and rainspouting; installing new cables on elevator and repairing motor, $2,225, to be expended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol and to remain available until June 30, 1925. 687 marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courtsUnited States courts.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals andMarshals. their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $10; For 1920, $10.21; For 1921, $910.04. Appropriations for salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals for theAdvances authorized. fiscal year 1924, and thereafter, shall be available for advances to be made by United States marshals when authorized or approved by the Attorney General, the provisions of section 3648 of the[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $31. For assistants to the Attorney General and to United StatesAssistants in special cases. district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, including the same objects specified under this head in the Departments of State and Justice Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, $120,000.
For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceCommissioners. acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes of the United States,[R.S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189). fiscal year 1922, $6,591.13. Rent of court rooms. United States courts: The Attorney GeneralNew York, N. Y.Lease of court rooms in, for five years. is authorized to enter into a lease for rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers in the city of New York at an annual rental not exceeding $30,500, for a period of five years.
For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by theMiscellaneous expenses. 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, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1920, $310; For 1922, $150; For 1923, $10,100.24. 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, fiscal year 1924, $9,000.
For purchase and rebinding of law books, including the exchangeBooks for judicial officers. thereof for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil and Departments of State and Justice Appropriation Acts for the respective fiscal years that follow: For 1921, $18; For 1924, $1,000 to be available also for one set of FederalFederal Reporter, etc. Reporter and digest thereof. penal institutionsPenal institutions.
Leavenworth, Kansas: For repairs to the Government-owned Leavenworth, Kans.Repairs to bridge transferred from War Department.bridge, including the approaches thereto, across the Missouri River at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, connecting the Military Reservation with land heretofore belonging to the Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation in Platte County, Missouri, which land and bridge have been transferred to the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice,688$49,115, which amount, together with $50,000 of the appropriation for roads, walks, wharves and drainage, fiscal year 1924, transferred *Ante*, p. 248.from the War Department to the Department of Justice by the Act *Proviso*.Public use.of May 31, 1923, shall remain available until June 30, 1925: *Provided*, That said bridge shall be open to use by the public under such rules and regulations as prescribed by the Attorney General.
Atlanta, Ga.Miscellaneous.Atlanta, Georgia: For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leaven-worth, Kansas, in the Departments of State and Justice Appropriation Act for the fiscal years that follow: For 1923, $2,841.80; For 1924. $20,000. Hospital.Atlanta, Georgia: For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Departments of State and Justice Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $362.45.
McNeil Island, Wash.Clothing, etc.McNeil Island, Washington: For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Departments of State and Justice Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, $2,000. Support of prisoners.Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the appropriation acts and for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1919, Sundry Civil, $4,383.75; For 1920, Sundry Civil, $3,672.25; For 1921, Sundry Civil, $6,400.50; For 1922, Sundry Civil, $6,275.62; For 1923, Departments of State, and Justice, $37,107.80. Department of Labor.DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Immigration Bureau.bureau of immigration Amount for services in the District increased.*Ante*, p. 240.*Post*, p. 1335.The amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia from the appropriation “Expenses of Regulating Immigration, 1925,” is hereby increased from $50,000 to $100,000.
Children’s Bureau.children’s bureau Maternity, etc., Act, benefits extended to Hawaii.*Ante*, p. 17.Promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy: For carrying out the provisions of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws to the Territory of Hawaii,” approved March 10, 1924, fiscal year 1925, $12,079.96. Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT Adjusted Compensation Act.Administrative expenses of Department under.Administrative expenses, World War Adjusted Compensation Act:
For temporary personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, purchase, hire, exchange, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other mechanical devices, printing and binding, stationery, office supplies and equipment, transportation of things, and for other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, to enable the Secretary of *Ante*, p. 131.the Navy to perform such duties as are required by the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of May 19, 1924, $450,000, to remain *Proviso*.Office supplies from General Supply Committee for temporary use.available until June 30, 1925: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue to the Secretary of the Navy, without charge, for temporary use such surplus office supplies and equipment as may be under the control of the General Supply Committee. 689 Naval Observatory:
To complete the purchase of land lying withinNaval Observatory.Additional land.Vol. 28, p. 688. the Observatory Circle, as established by the joint resolution of August 1, 1894 (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page 588), fiscal year 1924, $4,041. Pay, miscellaneous: For commissions and interest, transportationNavy.Pay, miscellaneous. of funds, exchange, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation act for the fiscal year 1921, $37,603.52.
Transportation and Recruiting: Such portion of the unobligatedTransportation and recruiting.Balance available.Vol. 42, p. 790. balance of the appropriation “Transportation and Recruiting, 1924,” as may be required to satisfy the deficiency in such appropriation for the fiscal year 1923 is hereby made available for that purpose. Aviation, Navy: The unexpended balance of the appropriationAviation.Reappropriation of balance.Vol. 42, p. 805. “Aviation, Navy, 1923,” not to exceed $265,000, is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year 1925 for the same purposes as the original appropriation.
Scrapping of naval vessels: The Secretary of the Navy may use,Scrapping naval vessels.Use of unexpended balances.Vol. 42, pp. 774, 814, 1544. pursuant to the provisions of the Act approved July 1, 1922, entitled “An Act authorizing the President to scrap certain vessels in conformity with the provisions of the treaty limiting naval armament, and for other purposes,” the unexpended balances on the date of approval of this Act under the appropriations heretofore made on account of scrapping of naval vessels, together with the sum ofAdditional amount.Specified uses. $2,500,000, which is hereby appropriated, for necessary expenses in connection with the care and preservation of vessels whose construction has been or shall be suspended or discontinued on account of the treaty limiting naval armament, and for the expenses of handling, preserving, transporting, and inventorying material on hand or in course of fabrication for said vessels, and toward payment of bills for material already completed for said vessels and toward payment of any amounts payable as a result of the modification or cancellation of contracts and purchase orders on account of said vessels, their machinery, materials, and equipment, and for reimbursement toReimbursing contractors. contractors of carrying charges heretofore or hereafter approved by the Secretary of the Navy, to cover additional expenses resulting from the deferring of deliveries or payments under said contracts and purchase orders, and for reimbursement to contractors for work done and for such portion of running and overhead expenses and other indirect charges as may be approved by the Secretary of the Navy on account of contracts under which settlement is deferred on account of the treaty limiting naval armament, and the unexpended balance on the date of approval of this Act of the further sum of $8,450,000 Use of additional amount.Vol. 42, p. 1544.appropriated in the Act of March 4, 1923, is hereby made available for the foregoing purposes and for the payment of any amounts payable as a result of the modifications or cancellation of contracts and orders including incidental expenses for the armament, armor, ammunition, and ordnance outfits (including material required in connection therewith) of vessels whose construction has been or shall be suspended or discontinued on account of the treaty limiting naval armament; in all, $2,500,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925.
Refund to the, Panama Railroad Company: For refund to the Panama Railroad Company.Refund to.Panama Railroad Company, New York City, of the amount erroneously collected and deposited in the Treasury of the United States as “miscellaneous receipts,” $4,890.67. Damage claims: To pay the claims adjusted and determined byPayment of collision damages claims.Vol. 36, p. 607; Vol. 42, p. 1066. the Navy Department under the provisions of the Act approved June 24, 1910, as amended by the Act approved December 28, 1922, on account of damages for which naval vessels were found to be responsible, certified to the present Congress in House Documents Numbered 260 and 274, $64,482.20. 690 Charles Fort, S.
C.Monument of site, on Parris Island.To enable the Secretary of the Navy to mark with a suitable and permanent monument the site of Charles Fort, Parris Island, South Carolina, such site being the place where a fort was erected by a colony of Frenchmen who settled at this point in 1562, $10,000 to remain available until June 30, 1925. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Acquiring private fishery rights in, etc.Vol. 42, p. 67.Fishery rights, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: For necessary costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings authorized by the Act approved June 28, 1921 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 67), entitled “An Act to provide for the acquisition by the United States of private rights of fishery in and about Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii,” fiscal years 1924 and 1925, $5,000.
Postal service.POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT out of the postal revenues Post Office Department.contingent expenses, post office department Washington, D. C., post office.Reimbursement for heat, light, and power furnished to.For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office or Capitol Power Plant for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department. Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, fiscal year 1924, $3,000.
Payment of private property damages claims.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Post Office Vol. 42, p. 1066.Department under the provisions of the Act approved December 28, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, page 1066), as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 255 and 293, reported to Congress at its present session, $9,437.53. Postal Service out of the postal revenues Postmaster General.office of postmaster general Chief Inspector’s Office.Payment of rewards.*Proviso*.If offender killed.Office of the Chief Inspector:
For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers: *Provided*, That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest, fiscal year 1921, $4,000. First Assistant Postmaster General.office of the first assistant postmaster general Postmasters.For compensation to postmasters for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1922, $1,090.20; For 1923, $120,816.60. Temporary, auxiliary, and substitute clerks.For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, fiscal year 1923, $15,802.57. Unusual conditions.City delivery.Letter carriers.For unusual conditions at post offices, fiscal year 1924, $28,000. For pay of letter carriers at offices already established, including substitutes for letter carriers absent without pay, City Delivery Service, fiscal year 1923, $1,297.59.
Substitute carriers.For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, and of auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices where city delivery is already established, fiscal year 1923, $30,410.29. Special delivery fees.For fees to special-delivery messengers, fiscal year 1923, $163.16. 691 For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similarPneumatic tubes. New York City and Brooklyn. devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, fiscal year 1924, $5,347.60. office of the second assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster General.
For inland transportation by railroad routes, fiscal year 1924,Railroad routes. $4,250,000. Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteenRailway Mail Service.Division superintendents, etc. assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents, one assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, fiscal year 1924, $550,000.
For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, orForeign mails. otherwise, fiscal year 1924, $297,541. For balances due foreign countries, fiscal year 1924, $900,000.Balances due foreign countries. STATE DEPARTMENTState Department. General and Special Claims Commissions, United States andMexican claims commissions.*Post*, pp. 1730,1722. Mexico: For the expenses of the settlement and adjustment of claims by the citizens of each country against the other under a convention concluded September 8, 1923, and of citizens of the United States against Mexico under a convention concluded September 10, 1923, between the United States and Mexico, including the expenses which,All expenses. under the terms of the two conventions, are chargeable in part to the United States, the expenses of the two commissions, and the expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of the claims and the presenting thereof before the said commissions, as well as defending the United States in cases presented under the general convention by Mexico, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent, law books and books of reference, printing and binding, contingent expenses, traveling and subsistence expenses, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, fiscal year, 1925, $171,930.
Immigration of aliens: To enable the Department of State toImmigration of aliens.Expenses of Department under laws regulating.*Ante*, p. 153. perform the duties devolving upon it under the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the same objects specified in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1925, under the heads of salaries and contingent expenses in the Department of State, printing and binding, salaries of the foreign-service officers, allowance for clerk hire at United States consulates, transportation of diplomatic and consular officers and clerks, and contingent expenses, United States consulates, $500,000, to continue available until June 30, 1925, of which not to exceed $35,000 shall be available for personal servicesServices in the District. in the District of Columbia under the Classification Act of 1923.
Salaries, foreign service officers: For compensation of foreignForeign service officers.Additional pay.*Ante*, p. 146. service officers for the fiscal year 1925, in addition to the amounts made available for that purpose by section 21 of the Act entitled “An Act for the reorganization and improvement of the foreign service of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved May 24, 1924, $450,000. 692 International Statistical Institute.Annual contribution.*Ante*, p. 112.International Statistical Institute at The Hague:
For the annual contribution of the United States to the International Statistical Bureau at The Hague, for the year 1925, as authorized by public resolution approved April 28, 1924, fiscal year 1925, $2,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. Pan-American Sanitary Conference.Expenses of delegates to Seventh.*Ante*, p. 112.Seventh Pan-American Sanitary Conference: For the representation of the United States at the Seventh Pan-American Sanitary Conference to be held at Habana, Cuba, as authorized by public resolution approved April 28, 1924, including the expenses of the delegates for transportation, subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), compensation of interpreters and other employees, assembling of the necessary data and preparation, printing and binding of a report, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may deem proper, fiscal year 1925, $2,600.
Narcotics traffic.Expenses, participating in conferences for suppressing.*Ante*, p. 119.Traffic in habit-forming narcotic drugs: For the expenses of the participation of the United States in one or both international conferences to be called to agree upon a plan to enforce The Hague opium convention, as authorized by public resolution approved May 15, 1924, including salaries in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, rent, printing and binding, traveling and subsistence expenses (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, fiscal year 1925, $35,000.
Interparliamentary Union.Expenses of Twenty-third Conference of, at Washington, etc.Twenty-third Conference of the Interparliamentary Union: For the purpose of defraying the expenses in the city of Washington and elsewhere in the United States, incident to the twenty-third conference of the Interparliamentary Union, to be held in Washington in 1925, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, for salaries in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, rent, printing and binding, traveling and subsistence expenses (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), and such other expenses as may be necessary, $50,000, as authorized *Ante*, p. 119.by public resolution approved May 13, 1924, to remain available until December 31, 1925.
Rio Grande.Expenses of commission on distribution of waters of, below Fort Whitman, Tex.*Ante*, p. 118.*Post*, p. 1340.Commission on equitable use of the waters of the Rio Grande: For a study, in cooperation with representatives of the United States of Mexico, regarding the equitable use of the waters of the Rio Grande below Fort Whitman, Texas, with a view to their proper utilization for irrigation and other beneficial uses, including salaries of commissioners and other employees, transportation, subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may deem proper, fiscal year *Proviso*.Engineer commissioner.1925, $20,000: *Provided*, That one of the commissioners so appointed shall be an engineer experienced in such work.
France.Payment to, as indemnity to Madame Crignier.Relief of Madame Crignier: To pay to the Government of the Republic of France as a matter of grace and without reference to the question of liability therefor, as full indemnity for loss and damage to property suffered by Madame Crignier, a citizen of *Ante*, p. 118.France, by reason of the search for the body of Admiral John Paul Jones, as authorized by the Act approved May 13, 1924, fiscal year 1924, $13,511.13. London, England.Reappropriation of balance for embassy premises at.Vol. 42, p. 604.Embassy, Legation, and Consular Buildings and Grounds:
The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Repairs and Improvements, Embassy Premises, London, England, 1922 and 1923,” is hereby made available for the payment, of any obligations incurred after June 30, 1923, and shall remain available until June 30, 1925. 693 TREASURY DEPARTMENTTreasury Department. Office of the SecretarySecretary’s Office. For payment of the increase in the salary of the GovernmentGovernment Actuary.Increased pay.*Ante*, p. 353. Actuary, as provided by section 1102 of the Revenue Act of 1924, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1924, $281.95; For 1925, $2,300. contingent expenses, treasury departmentContingent expenses. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grate basketsFuel, etc. and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, fiscal year 1924, $1,400. For the purchase of furniture, office machines and devices,Furniture, etc., for Coast Guard service. reference books, drafting equipment, and other articles necessary to equip the increased personnel of the United States Coast Guard service in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1924, $2,000. division of bookkeeping and warrantsBookkeeping and Warrants Division.
Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expensesContingent expenses, public moneys.[R.S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/719). under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursements of the public moneys, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, $10,000. Internal Revenue ServiceInternal Revenue Service. The appropriation “Collecting the internal revenue, 1925,” is madeCollecting internal revenue.Additional rent, etc., allowance in the District from. available for rental at not exceeding $11,500, care, maintenance, and protection of quarters in the District of Columbia, including such alterations and repairs to rented quarters as may be necessary, in all $29,915, provided suitable or adequate space can not be assigned to the Bureau of Internal Revenue by the Public Buildings Commission in Government-owned buildings under its control: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Care, etc., of buildings.
That the Superintendent State, War, and Navy Department Buildings shall be responsible for the care, maintenance, and protection of such buildings as may be so rented: *And provided further*, That theTransfer of funds etc., to Superintendent of State, etc., Department Buildings. sum of $18,415 hereinabove authorized to be expended for the care, maintenance, and protection of such rented buildings, together with all machinery, tools, equipment, and supplies used for the use in connection therewith, shall be transferred on July 1, 1924, from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Superintendent State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.
Refunding income taxes under title 12 of Revenue Act of 1924:Income tax for 1923.Refund of.*Ante*, p. 353. For the refunding of taxes required by title 12 of the Revenue Act of 1924, approved June 2, 1924, providing for an allowance by credit or refund of 25 per centum of the taxes imposed by parts 1 and 2 of title 2 of the Revenue Act of 1921, to remain available until June 30, 1925, $16,140,000. coast guardCoast Guard. Salaries, office of Coast Guard: For personal services in theOffice personnel.*Ante*, p. 72.
District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” fiscal year 1925, $50,000. For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissionedPay, etc., of officers, enlisted men, etc. officers, cadets and cadet engineers, warrant officers, petty officers, and694other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks and surfmen, substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, fiscal year 1925, $5,413,600. Rations.For rations or commutation thereof for petty officers and other enlisted men, fiscal year 1925, $290,500.
Fuel and water.For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, fiscal year 1925, $1,103,500. Outfits, etc.For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, fiscal year 1925, $519,700. Stations, bouses of refuge, etc.For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, fiscal year 1925, $39,800. Death allowances.Vol. 41, p. 82.5.For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920, fiscal year 1925, $15,000.
Traveling, etc., expenses.For mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers, and traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, fiscal year 1925, $150,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistence of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $10,000; instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, and services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, experimental and research work in relation to telephony and radiotelegraphy, not exceeding $4,000; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, fiscal year 1925, $110,000.
Repairs to cutters.For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, fiscal year 1925, $500,000. Secret Service.Suppressing Counterfeiting and other Crimes Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.For expenses incurred in suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923, $756.62. Public Health Service.public health service Payment of property damages claims.Damage claims:
To claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Treasury Department Vol. 42, p. 1066.under the provisions of the Act approved December 28, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, 1066), as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 206, 263, and 291, reported to Congress at its present session, $341.92. Public Buildings.Public Buildings New York quarantine station.New York (N. Y.) quarantine station: For removal of old Pier A, construction of new pier, dredging boat basin, additional planking on Pier B, $38,000.
Operating force.Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and so forth, including the same objects695specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, $15,000. Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heatingOperating supplies. purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, $27,000.
WAR DEPARTMENTWar Department. Administrative expenses, World War Adjusted CompensationAdjusted Compensation Act. Act: For temporary personal services in the District of ColumbiaAdministrative expenses of Department under. in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, purchase, hire, exchange, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other mechanical devices, printing and binding, stationery, office supplies and equipment, telegrams, telephones, maintenance and operation of motor trucks, transportation of things, other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, and rent of buildings and partsRent of buildings, D.
C. of buildings in the District of Columbia, if space is not provided by the Public Buildings Commission in Government-owned buildings, to enable the Secretary of War to perform such duties as are required of him by the‘World War Adjusted Compensation Act of*Ante*, p. 131. May 19, 1924, $3,600,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue*Proviso*.Office supplies from General Supply Committee for temporary use. to the Secretary of War, without charge, for temporary use, such surplus office supplies and equipment as may be under the control of the General Supply Committee.
Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the construction of aFort Story, Va.Constructing road at. road at Fort Story, Virginia, $40,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925: *Provided*, That such road shall be constructed only to form*Proviso*.To connect with State highway. a connecting link in the highway to be constructed by the‘ State of Virginia. Fire control, Panama Canal: The appropriation of $25,000 for thePanama Canal.Fire control stations. fiscal year 1922 for the construction of fire-control stations, theReappropriation. purchase and installation of accessories therefor, and for subaqueous, sound, and flash ranging apparatus and their development, provided in the Fortifications Act approved March 3, 1921, shallVol. 41, p. 1351. remain available for obligation until June 30, 1925, for the purposes authorized by said Act.
Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses ofPayment of property damages claims. privately owned property adjusted and determined by the War Department, under the provisions of the Act approved December 28,Vol. 42, p. 1066. 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, page 1066), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 259, reported to Congress at its present session, $4,496.23. Camp Knox, Kentucky: For the compensation of owners forCamp Knox, Ky.Payment for land, etc., Dixie Highway. land taken and for damages suffered incident to the construction and maintenance of the New Dixie Highway and the electric*Ante*, p. 489. transmission line in the vicinity of Camp Knox, Kentucky, $30,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925.
Medals, Texas Cavalry: For procuring bronze medals ofTexas Cavalry brigades.Bronze medals to members of. appropriate design with a bar and ribbon, together with a rosette or other device to be worn in lieu thereof, for issue to officers and enlisted men of Texas Cavalry, under the provisions of an Act*Ante*, p. 100. approved April 16, 1924, $5,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. Settlement of Claims: The unexpended balance on June 30, 1924,War contracts.Use of balance for settling claims of foreign governments under, continued.Vol. 42, p. 1550. of the appropriation “Settlement of claims of foreign governments and their nationals, 1923,” contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved March 4, 1923, is extended until June 30, 1925, for use only in settling the claims of foreign governments and their nationals for supplies or services furnished for use of the American forces abroad. 696 Flood control.Surveys, etc., of designated rivers for.*Ante*, p. 250.Control of Floods:
For preliminary examinations and surveys with a view to the control of floods in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 31, 1924, fiscal years 1924 and 1925, as follows: North Branch of the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania and New York. $8,000; Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, $25,000; Payullup River, Washington, $5,000; in all, $38,000. Judgments, United States courts.JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS Payment of.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs Vol. 24, p. 505.of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” as amended by Vol. 30, p. 1137.the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911, certified to Congress during the present session by the Attorney General in Senate Document Numbered 135 and in House Document Numbered 303, and Classification.which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the Department of Labor, $10,340.66; Under the Navy Department, $5,483.12; Under the Treasury Department, $1,701.64. Under the War Department, $412.25; in all, $17,937.67, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. Virginia eastern district court.For payment of judgment, including costs of suit, rendered against the Government of the United States, by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting in admiralty, certified to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 302, as follows:
Th. Brovig.Payment of decree in favor of.Vol. 42, p. 1776.Under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of Th. Brovig,” approved February 26, 1923 (Private Numbered 186, Sixty-seventh Congress, fourth session, Forty-second Statutes, Part 2, page 1776), amount of decree in favor of Th. Brovig, $8,866.85, together with costs, $37.55; in all, $8,904.40. Property commandeered under Lover Act.Paying judgments in suits for.Vol. 40, p. 276.For payment of judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government of the United States by United States District Courts under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August 10, 1917, certified to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 305, as follows:
War Department.Under the War Department, $427,511.45, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest thereon at the legal rate per annum as and where specified in said judgments. Judgments, Court of Claims.JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS Payment of.For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 301, namely:Classification.Under the Department or the Interior, $4,737.09;Under the Navy Department, $10,178.51;Under the Treasury Department, $0.59;Under the War Department, $80,098.85;In all, $95,015.04.Bight of appeal.None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. 697 For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of ClaimsAdditional. and reported to Congress during the present session in Senate Document Numbered 132, namely:
Under Independent Offices— United States Food Administration, $6,564.52; Under the Navy Department, $819,851.29; Under the Treasury Department, $181,364.99; Under the War Department, $489,522.79; In all, $1,497,303.69, together with such additional sum as may beInterest. necessary to pay interest on certain of the judgments at the legal rate per annum as and where specified in said judgments. None ofRight of appeal. the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toPayment of, certified by General Accounting Office. be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, andVol. 18, p. 110. under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1921 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of theVol. 23, p. 254.
Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 304, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: legislative For Capitol power plant, $90.16.Capitol power plant independent offices For national security and defense, Food and Fuel Independent offices.Administrations, educational, $42.22. For housing for war needs, $500. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $19.99. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $16,067.15.
For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $474.47. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $3,296.95. department of agriculture For general expenses, Forest Service, $25.54.Department of Agriculture. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $5.21. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $5. department of commerce For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, $2.92.Department of Commerce. For military research, Bureau of Standards, $115. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $2,016.81.
For general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $3.78. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, 45 cents. department of the interior For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, $836.31.Interior Department. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $17.56. For medical relief in Alaska, $213. For Geological Survey, $73.66. For investigative mine accidents, $2.45. 698 For expenses, mining experiment station, Bureau of Mines, $30.82. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, $1.48.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $26.05. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $111.50. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $48.75. For diversion dam and distribution and drainage system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), $7.30. department of justice Department of Justice.For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $104.41. For fees of commissioners. United States courts, $1,738.60.
For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $64.60. For supplies for United States courts, 61 cents. navy department Navy Department.For aviation, Navy, $2,825.37. For pay, miscellaneous, $406.87. For pay, Marine Corps, $140.36. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $282.43. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $1,591.39. For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, $1.31. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $37.33. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $9.96.
For pay of the Navy, $2,701.94. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,949.09. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $8.53. department of state State Department.For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $87.79. treasury department Treasury Department.For payment of judgments against collectors of customs, $1,254.27. For expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended, $3.80. For enforcement of National Prohibition Act, internal revenue, $48.33. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $425.92.
For refunding internal revenue collections, $135. For Coast Guard, $1,792.14. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $163.75. For medical and hospital services, Public Health Service, $130.97. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $11.88. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $12.26. For vaults and sates for public Buildings, $17.60. For general expenses of public buildings, $5.70. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $2.19. war department War Department.For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $6,069.29.
For Signal Service of the Array, $4,378.73. For Air Service, production, $13,400. 699 For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $1,043,989.12. For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $3,207.87. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $38.03. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $27,234.94. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $16.66. For barracks and quarters, $140.65. For construction and repair of hospitals, $300. For inland and port storage and shipping facilities, $1,862.60.
For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps $30,085.50. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $318.47. For Medical and Hospital Department, $290.08. For engineer operations in the field, $32. For Ordnance Service, $13.76. For Ordnance stores and supplies, $24.65. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $317.28. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $12.67. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $99.68.
For searchlights and electrical installations at seacoast fortifications, $408.76. For armament of fortifications, $7,323.90. For small-arms target practice, $933.57. For electrical and sound-ranging equipment, $53.47. For construction and maintenance of military and post roads bridges, and trails, Alaska, $75. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $115.36. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $10.30. post office department For balance due foreign countries, $2,413.51.Post Office Department.
For city delivery carriers, $1,423.55. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $207.89. For compensation to postmasters, $20.21. For indemnities, domestic mail, $593.26. For indemnities, international mail, $299.71. For office appliances, $84. For power boat and airplane service, $23.89. For railroad transportation, $4,468.59. For Railway Mail Service, travel allowance, $119. For rent, light, and fuel, $3.38. For Rural Delivery Service, $64.59. For separating mails, $45.55.
For shipment of supplies, $65.10. For temporary clerk hire, $188.40. For vehicle service, $108.59. Total, audited claims, section 2, $1,190,870.49, together with suchAdditional, to meet increases in rates of exchange. additional sum, due to increases in rates of exchange, as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the certificates of settlement of the General Accounting Office. AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toPayment of. be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874,Vol. 18. p. 110. and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1921 and prior years unless other-700wise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section Vol. 23, p. 254.2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 136, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
INDEPENDENT OFFICES Independent offices.For salaries and expenses, Railroad Labor Board, $27.78. For Interstate Commerce Commission, 90 cents. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $8,035.01. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $107.77. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Department of Agriculture.For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $484.73. For general expenses, Forest Service, $2.63. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $25. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $5.
For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $421.04. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Department of Commerce.For increase of compensation, Department of Commerce, 22 cents. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $311.73. For salaries, lighthouse vessels, $2.25. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Interior Department.For operating mine rescue cars, Bureau of Mines, $14.40. For industry among Indians, $1.18. For water supply for stock and increasing grazing range on unallotted Indian lands, $2,001.80.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $58.88. For Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, school building and assembly hall, $1.20. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Department of Justice.For fees of jurors, United States courts, $101.40. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $34.50. For supplies for United States courts, $10.16. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Department of Labor.For national security and defense. Department of Labor, 60 cents.
For War Emergency Employment Service, $26.01. NAVY DEPARTMENT Navy Department.For pay, miscellaneous, $246.04. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corns, $1.66. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $416.62. For pay of the Navy, $295.34. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $287.52. For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $3,169.95. DEPARTMENT OF STATE State Department.For salaries of secretaries, diplomatic service. $901.85. 701 TREASURY DEPARTMENT For collecting the revenue from customs, $49.60.Treasury Department.
For refunding internal-revenue collections, $20.92. For collecting the war revenue, $1,147.50. For Coast Guard, $1,135.32. For pay of other employees, Public Health Service, $1.33. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $1.30. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $3.01. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $6.50. WAR DEPARTMENT For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $1,326.35.War Department For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $6.33.
For Air Service, Army, $66,854.43. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $197.59. For armament of fortifications, $706.15. For armament of fortifications, Panama Canal, $145.75. For seacoast batteries, Panama Canal, $669.85. For fire control at fortifications, $4.98. For Ordnance Service, $248.77. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $60.45. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $9.61. For chemical warfare service, Army, $32,710.51.
For commercial telephone service at coast artillery posts, $489.41. For Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York, $51.90. For barracks and quarters, $123.84. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $13,059.04. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $95,614.84. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps. $21,394.85. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $153.45. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT For city delivery carriers, $925.91.Post Office Department.
For clerks, first and second class post offices, $401.62. For indemnities, domestic mail, $35.71. For indemnities, international mail, $725.11. For railroad transportation, $11,637.52. For rent, light, and fuel, $66.67. For vehicle service, $60.96. Total, audited claims, section 3, $267,040.25, together with suchAdditional, to meet Increases in rates of exchange. additional sum, due to increase in rate of exchange, as may be necessary to pay claim in foreign currency as specified in certificate of settlement of the General Accounting Office, numbered 029325.
Sec. 4. Subsection A. That when used in this section—Reclamation law amendments.Terms construed.“Secretary.”“Reclamation law.”
(a)The word “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.
(b)The words “reclamation law ” mean the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
(c)The words “reclamation fund” mean the fund provided by“Reclamation fund.” the reclamation law.
(d)The word “project” means a Federal irrigation project“Project.” authorized by the reclamation law. 702
(e)“Division of project.” The words “division of a project” means a substantial irrigable area of a project designated as a division by order of the Secretary. Subsec. B. New projects.Approval of, subject to securing information by the Secretary as to water supply, cost, use for farm homes, etc. That no new project or new division of a project shall be approved for construction or estimates submitted therefor by the Secretary until information in detail shall be secured by him concerning the water supply, the engineering features, the cost of construction, land prices, and the probable cost of development, and he shall have made a finding in writing that it is feasible, that it is adaptable for actual settlement and farm homes, and that it will probably return the cost thereof to the United States. Subsec. C. Qualifications required of applicants for entry of project lands. That the Secretary is hereby authorized, under regulations to be promulgated by him, to require of each applicant including preference right exservice men for entry to public lands on a project, such qualifications as to industry, experience, character, Boards to determine.and capital, as in his opinion are necessary to give reasonable assurance of success by the prospective settler. The Secretary is authorized to appoint boards in part composed of private citizens, to assist in determining such qualifications. Subsec. D. Irrigable lands of new projects to be classified. That the irrigable lands of each new project and new division of a project hereinafter approved shall be classified Basis for determining water charges.by the Secretary with respect to their power, under a proper agricultural program, to support a family and pay water charges, and the Secretary is authorized to fix different construction charges against different classes of land under the same project for the purpose of equitably apportioning the total construction cost so that all lands may as far as practicable bear the burden of such cost according to their productive value. Subsec. E. Public notices of construction charges. That hereafter the Secretary shall as to each irrigable acre of land in each new project, or a new division of a project, When land ready for settlement.issue two public notices relating to construction charges. The first public notice shall be issued when the land is ready for settlement Of commencement of paying installments.and will announce the construction charge per irrigable acre. The second public notice shall be issued when in the opinion of the Secretary the agricultural development of the project shall have advanced sufficiently to warrant the commencement of payment of installments of such construction charge. The second public notice shall fix the date when payments will begin on the construction charge announced by the first public notice, which date shall be not more than five years from the date of the first public notice. Subsec. F. Construction charges based on productive power. That hereafter all project construction charges shall be made payable in annual installments based on the productive Amount and period of installment payments.power of the land as provided in this subsection. The installment of the construction charge per irrigable acre payable each year shall be 5 per centum of the average gross annual acre income for the ten calendar years first preceding, or for all years of record if fewer than ten years are available, of the area in cultivation in the division or subdivision thereof of the project in which the land is located, as found by the Secretary annually. The decision of the Secretary as to the amount of any such installment shall be conclusive. These annual payments shall continue until the total construction charge Amendment of contracts authorized upon request.against each unit is paid. The Secretary is authorized upon request to amend any existing contract for a project water right so that it will provide for payment of the construction charge thereunder in accordance with the provisions of this subsection or for the deferment of such construction charges for a period of three years from the approval of this section, or both. Subsec. G. Water users’ associations to operate, etc., projects when two-thirds of area covered by water rights contracts. That whenever two-thirds of the irrigable area of any project, or division of a project, shall be covered by water right contracts between the water users and the United States, said project shall be required, as a condition precedent to receiving the benefits703of this section to take over, through a legally organized water users’ association or irrigation district, the care, operation, and maintenance of all or any part of the project works, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, and thereafter theAssumption by associations. United States, in its relation to said project, shall deal with a water users’ association or irrigation district, and when the water users assume control of a project, the operation and maintenance charges Receipts therefrom credited as part of construction repayments.for the year then current shall be covered into the construction account to be repaid as part of the construction repayments. Subsec. H. That the penalty of 1 per centum per month againstPenalty for failure to pay charges reduced. delinquent accounts, provided in section 3 and section 6 of the Act of August 13, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 686), is herebyVol. 38, p. 686, amended. reduced to one-half of 1 per centum per month, as to all installments which may hereafter become due. Subsec. I. That whenever the water users take over the care,Net profits from power plants, etc., credited to construction charges. operation, and maintenance of a project, or a division of a project, the total accumulated net profits, as determined by the Secretary, derived from the operation of project power plants, leasing of project grazing and farm lands, and the sale or use of town sites shall be credited to the construction charge of the project, or a division thereof, and thereafter the net profits from such sourcesDistribution of net profits. may be used by the water users to be credited annually, first, on account of project construction charge, second, on account of project operation and maintenance charge, and third, as the water usersRestriction. may direct. No distribution to individual water users shall be made out of any such profits before all obligations to the Government shall have been fully paid. Subsec. J. That all moneys or profits as determined by the SecretaryReceipts from surplus water to be credited to project.Vol. 36, p. 925. heretofore or hereafter derived from the sale or rental of surplus water under the Warren Act of February 21, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 925), or from the connection of a new project with an existing project shall be credited to the project or division of the project to which the construction cost has been charged. Subsec. K. That on each existing project where, in the opinion ofSurvey of existing project if, from physical causes, settlers unable to pay construction costs, etc.*Post*, p. 755. the Secretary, it appears that on account of lack of fertility in the soil, an inadequate water supply, or other physical causes, settlers are unable to pay construction costs, or whenever it appears that the cost of any reclamation project by reason of error or mistake or for any cause has been apportioned or charged upon a smaller area of land than the total area of land under said project, the Secretary is authorized to undertake a comprehensive and detailed survey to ascertainReport to Congress. all pertinent facts, and report in each case the result of such survey to the Congress, with his recommendations: *Provided*, That the cost*Proviso*.Expense not charge-able to water users. and expense of each such survey shall be charged to the appropriation for the project on account of which the same is made, but shall not be charged as a part of the construction or operation and maintenance cost payable by the water users under the project. Subsec. L. That in any adjustment of water charges as providedOn adjustments all unpaid charges, etc., added to obligation of water user, etc. in this section all due and unpaid charges to the United States, both on account of construction and on account of operation and maintenance, including interest and penalties, shall be added in each case to the total obligation of the water user, and the new total thus established shall then be the construction charge against the land in question. Subsec. M. That every entryman or assignee on a project farmIf farm unit insufficient to support family, etc., exchange for another may be made. unit not yet patented which unit shall be found by the Secretary to be insufficient to support a family and pay water charges shall have the right upon application to exchange his entry for another farm unit of unentered public land on the same or another project, located in the same State, in which event all installments ofPrior payments credited. construction704charges theretofore paid on account of the relinquished farm unit shall be credited on account of the new farm unit taken in exchange: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Preference to ex-service men.Vol. 42, p. 358.That where two entrymen apply for the same farm unit under the exchange provision of this subsection, only one of whom is an exservice man, as defined by the joint resolution of January 21, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, page 358), the exservice man shall have a preference in making such exchange. Subsec. N. Operation and maintenance charges pay-able in advance. That all contracts providing for new projects and new divisions of projects shall require that all operation and maintenance By water users’ associations.charge shall be payable in advance. In each case where the care, operation, and maintenance of a project or division of a project are transferred to the water users the contract shall require the payment Adjusted charges.of operation and maintenance charges in advance. That whenever an adjustment of water charges is made under this section the adjustment contract shall provide that thereafter all operation and maintenance charges shall be payable in advance. Subsec. O. Main office expenses chargeable to general fund and not to water users. That the cost and expense after June 30, 1925, of the main office at Washington, District of Columbia, of the Bureau of Reclamation in the Department of the Interior, and the cost and expense of general investigations heretofore and hereafter authorized by the Secretary, shall be charged to the general reclamation fund and shall not be charged as a part of the construction or operation and maintenance cost payable by the water users under the projects. Subsec. P. Irrigation rights of way, etc., over public lands to be reserved. That where, in the opinion of the Secretary, a right of way or easement of any kind over public land is required in connection with a project the Secretary may reserve the same to the United States by filing in the General Land Office and in the appropriate local land office copies of an instrument giving a description of the right of way or easement and notice that the same is reserved to the United States for Federal irrigation purposes under this section, in which event entry for such land and the patent issued Recording, etc.therefor shall be subject to the right of way or easement so described in such instrument; and reference to each such instrument shall be made in the appropriate tract books and also in the patent. Subsec. Q. Donated property not utilized for projects to be reconveyed. That where real property or any interest therein heretofore has been, or hereafter shall be, donated and conveyed to the United States for use in connection with a project, and the Secretary decides not to utilize the donation, he is authorized without charge to reconvey such property or any part thereof to the donating grantor, or to the heirs, successors, or assigns of such grantor. Subsec. R. Amount authorized to determine development of arid, semiarid, swamp, and cut-over timberlands. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated from the General Treasury, the sum of $100,000 for investigations to be made by the Secretary through the Bureau of Reclamation to obtain necessary information to determine how arid and semiarid, swamp, and cut-over timberlands may best be developed. Sec. 5. Title of Act. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “Second Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1924.” Approved, December 5, 1924.