Chapter 468. Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes
8,059 words·~37 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-43/chapter-468-5035408·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 468.— An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes. March 3, 1925.[[H. R. 11505](/us/bill/68/hr/11505).][[Public, No. 586](/us/pl/43/586).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Executive and independent establishments appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, namely:
EXECUTIVE OFFICEExecutive. compensation of the president and vice presidentCompensation. President.For compensation of the President of the United States. $75,000. Vice President.*Post*, p. 1301.For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $12,000. office of the presidentOffice of the President. Secretary, and office personnel.Salaries: For Secretary to the President, $7,500; personal services in the office of the President in accordance with the Classification*Proviso.*Details of employees.
Act of 1923, $85,260; in all $92,760: *Provided*, That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to 1199time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be deemed necessary. Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of the ExecutiveContingent expenses. Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, special services, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $35,000.
For printing and binding, $2,800.Printing and binding. Traveling expenses: For traveling and official entertainmentTraveling, etc., expenses of the President. expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000. executive mansion and groundsExecutive Mansion. For the care, maintenance, repair, refurnishing, improvement,Care, repairs, etc. heating, and lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the Executive Mansion, the Executive Mansion greenhouses, including reconstruction, and the Executive Mansion grounds, to be expended by contract or otherwise as the President may determine, $110,000.
For extraordinary repairs to and refurnishing the Executive Extraordinary repairs, etc.Mansion, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $50,000. white house policeWhite House police. Salaries: First sergeant. $2,700; three sergeants at $2,400 each;Salaries. and thirty-five privates at $2,100 each; in all. $83,400. For uniforming and equipping the White House police, includingUniforms and equipment. the purchase and issue of revolvers and ammunition, $4,000.
INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTSIndependent Establishments. alien property custodianAlien Property Custodian. For expenses of the Alien Property Custodian authorized by thePersonal services, supplies, etc.Vol. 40, p. 415; Vol. 41, pp. 35, 977, 1147; Vol. 12, pp. 351, 1511. Act entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October 6, 1917, as amended, including personal and other services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, law books, books of reference and periodicals, supplies and equipment, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles. $188,420, of which amount not to exceed $176,040 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided.* That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of*Proviso.*Rent restriction. buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commssion.
For all printing and binding for the Alien Property Custodian,Printing and binding. $800. AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSIONAmerican Battle Monuments, Commission. The unexpended balances of the appropriations made for theAll expenses, from unexpended balances.Public Laws, 1st sess., pp. 35, 522. expenses of the American Battle Monuments Commission by the first deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, approved April 2, 1924, and by the Act making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes, approved June 7, 1924, are extended and made available until June 30, 1926, 1200for the purposes set forth in said Acts, including the employment of necessary technical and professional services, and in addition for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles since June 1, 1924, furnished by the Secretary of War or other departments of the Government for the official use of *Proviso.*Use for construction work forbidden.Vol. 42, p. 1509.said commission and its personnel in foreign countries: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended on a program of construction work under the Act of March 4, 1923, the complete cost of which shall exceed $3,000,000.
BOARD OF TAX APPEALSBoard of Tax Appeals. All expenses.*Ante*, p. 336.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Board of Tax Appeals as authorized under Title IX, section 900, of the Revenue Act of 1924, approved June 2, 1924, including personal services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, traveling expenses, necessary expenses for subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence, car fare, stationery, furniture, office equipment, purchase and exchange of typewriters, law books and cooks of reference, periodicals, and all other necessary supplies, $345,320, Services in the District.*Proviso.*Rent.of which amount not to exceed $267,520 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission.
Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Board of Tax Appeals, $9,000. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCYEfficiency Bureau. Chief of Bureau, and office personnel.Expenses.For chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923; contingent expenses, including traveling expenses; per diem in lieu of subsistence; supplies; stationery; purchase and exchange of equipment; not to exceed $100 for law books, books of reference, and periodicals; and not to exceed $150 for street-car fare; in all $150,000, of which amount not to exceed $146,460 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Bureau of Efficiency, $350. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONCivil Service Commission. Commissioners, and office personnel.Salaries: For three commissioners and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $470,000. Field force.Field force: For salaries of the field force, $330,000. Details from departments, etc., forbidden.Except for one person detailed for part-time duty in the district office at New York City, no details from any executive department or independent establishment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere to the commission’s central office in Washington or to any of its district offices shall be made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926; but this shall not affect the making of details for service as members of boards of examiners outside the immediate offices of Transfer, etc., of its employees.the district secretaries.
The Civil Service Commission shall have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office or field force. Expert examiners.For employment of expert examiners not in the Federal service to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000. 1201 To carry out the provisions of section 13 of the Act entitled “AnCivil service retirement Act expenses.Vol. 41, p. 619.
Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, including personal services in the District of Columbia, stationery, purchase of books, office equipment, and other supplies, $35,000, of which amount not to exceed $34,440 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. For examination of presidential postmasters, including travel,Examining Presidential postmasters. stationery, contingent expenses, additional examiners and investigators, and other necessary expenses of examinations, $32,000, of which amount not to exceed $26,880 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examinersTraveling expenses, etc acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $18,000. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Civil ServiceContingent expenses. Commission, including furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; supplies; advertising; telegraph, telephone, and laundry service; freight and express charges; street-car fares not to exceed $200; stationery; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, directories, newspapers, and periodicals, not to exceed $1,000; charts; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles; maintenance, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; garage rent; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries; special-delivery stamps; and other like miscellaneous necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for; in all, $38,000.
For rent of building for the Civil Service Commission, $24,592,Rent. if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in other buildings under the control of that commission. For all printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission,Printing and binding. including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $58,500. COMMISSION OF FINE ARTSCommission of Fine Arts. For expenses made necessary by the Act entitled “An Act establishingExpenses.Vol. 36, p. 371. a Commission of Fine Arts,” approved May 17, 1910, including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed on voucher’s approved by the commission, $5,000, of which amount not to exceed $3,300 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
For all printing and binding for the Commission of Fine Arts,Printing and binding. $1,500. EMPLOYEES-COMPENSATION COMMISSIONEmployees’ Compensation Commission. Salaries: For three commissioners and other personal services inCommissioners, and office personnel. the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary experts and assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, $138,000.
Contingent expenses: For furniture and other equipment andContingent expense. repairs thereto; law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, and supplies; traveling expenses; medical examinations,Medical examinations. traveling and other expenses, and loss of wages payable to em1202ployeesVol. 39, p. 747. under sections 21 and 22 of the Act of September 7, 1916, and for miscellaneous items; in all, $10,000. Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Employees’ Compensation Commission, $3,500.
Employees’ compensation fund.Allowances from.Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745.Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensation provided by “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section 9, and the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections 9 and 11 and advancement of costs for the Recoveries.Vol. 39, p. 747.enforcement of recoveries provided in sections 26 and 27 where necessary, accruing during the fiscal year 1926 or in prior fiscal years. $2,150,000.
FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONVocational Education Board. Hawaii.Vocational education benefits extended to.For extending to the Territory of Hawaii the benefits of the Act 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 *Ante*, p. 18.expenditure,” approved February 23, 1917, 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, $30,000.
Vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry, extended to.Vol. 41, p 735.*Ante*, p. 18.For extending 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 larch 10, 1924, $5,000. Vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry.Vol. 41, p. 735.*Ante*, p. 430.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment,” approved June 2, 1920, as amended by the Act of June 5, *Proviso.*Basis of apportionment.1924, $750,000: *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.
Administrative expenses.Investigations of placements, etc. .For the purpose 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. 432.imposed by the Act of June 2, 1920, as amended by the Act of June 5, 1924, 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, $75,000, of which amount not to Services in the District.exceed $60,770 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 1203 FEDERAL POWER COMMISSIONFederal Power Commission.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work ofExpenses. the Federal Power Commission as authorized by law, includingVol. 41, p. 1063. traveling expenses; per diem in lieu of subsistence; and not exceeding $500 for press-clipping service, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $22,800. For all printing and binding for the Federal Power Commission,Printing and binding. $4,000. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIONFederal Trade Commission. For five commissioners at $10,000 each per annum, $50,000.Commissioners.
For all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade CommissionAll other expenses.Vol. 38, p. 717. in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including secretary to the commission and other personal services, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, garage rental, traveling expenses, including actual expenses at not to exceed $5 per day or per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, newspapers, foreign postage, and witness fees and mileage in accordance with section 9 of the Federal Trade CommissionVol. 38, p. 722.
Act, $940,000, of which amount not to exceed $879,558 may beServices in the District.*Proviso.*Restriction on requests by either House of Congress. expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, including witness fees: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended for investigations requested by either House of Congress except those requested by concurrent resolution of Congress, but this limitation shall not apply to investigations and reports in connection with alleged violations of the antitrust Acts by any corporation.
For all printing and binding for the Federal Trade Commission,Printing and binding. $18,000. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICEGeneral Accounting Office. Salaries: Comptroller General, $10,000; Assistant ComptrollerComptroller General, Assistant, and office personnel. General, $7,500; and for other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $3,367,460; in all, $3,384,960. Contingent expenses: For traveling expenses, materials, supplies,Contingent expenses. equipment, and services; rent of buildings and equipment; purchase and exchange of books, tabulating cards, typewriters, calculating machines, and other office appliances, including their development, repairs and maintenance, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and miscellaneous items, $295,000.
For all printing and binding for the General Accounting Office,Printing and binding. including monthly and annual editions of selected decisions of the Comptroller General, $22,000. HOUSING CORPORATIONHousing Corporation. Salaries: For officers, clerks, and other employees in the DistrictSalaries, etc.. In the District of Columbia for specified duties. of Columbia necessary to collect and account for the receipts from the sale of properties and the receipts from the operation of unsold properties of the United States Housing Corporation, the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, property commandeered by the United States through the Secretary of Labor, and to collect the amounts advanced to transportation facilities and others, $48,700: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a*Proviso.*Pay restriction. rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum, and only one person may be employed at that rate.
Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expensesContingent expenses. of the offices at Washington, District of Columbia, including purchase of blank books, maps, stationery, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, 1204soap, freight and express charges; telegraph and telephone service; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, and necessary to collect moneys and loans due the corporation, $5,500. Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the United States Housing Corporation, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,000.
Collections from sales, rents, etc.Vol. 41, p. 224.Collections: For the collection of money due from the sale of real and other property under the provision or the Act approved July 19, 1919, the collection of rentals from unsold properties, including necessary office and travel expenses outside of the District of Columbia, $32.000. Government hotel, D.C.Maintenance, etc.Washington, District of Columbia, Government hotel for Government workers: For maintenance, operation, and management of the hotel and restaurants therein, including replacement of equipment, Personal services in the District.and personal services, $572,500, of which amount not to exceed $307,214 may be expended for personal services in the District of *Proviso.*Pay restriction.Columbia: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum, and only one person may be employed at that rate.
Ground rent.For ground rent for squares 632, 681, and part of 680, in the District of Columbia, occupied by the Government hotels, $74,315. Maintenance, unsold property.Maintenance, unsold property: To maintain and repair houses, buildings, and improvements, which are unsold, $2,500. Miscellaneous expenses of sold property.Miscellaneous expenses account of property sold: To pay taxes, special assessments, and other utility, municipal, State, and county charges or assessments unpaid by purchasers and which have been assessed against property in which the United States Housing Corporation has an interest, and to defray expenses incident to foreclosing mortgages, conducting sales under deeds of trust, or reacquiring title or possession of real property under default proceeding, including attorney fees, witness fees, court costs, charges, and other *Proviso.*Allowance of equitable claims.miscellaneous expenses, $7,400: *Provided*, That the United States Housing Corporation is hereby authorized to allow as an offset any equitable claim in any collection made against any State or any political subdivision thereof.
Use of former appropriations restricted.No part of the appropriations heretofore made and available for expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be expended for the purposes for which appropriations are made herein. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSIONInterstate Commerce Commission. Commissioners and secretary.For eleven commissioners, at $12,000 each; secretary, $7,500; in all, $139,500. Personnel and expenses.For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, including one chief counsel, one director of finance, and one director of traffic at $10,000 each per annum, Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.and per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $2,318,660, of which $100,000 shall be immediately available and not Services in the District.Counsel, etc.exceeding $1,957,890 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, exclusive of special counsel, for which the expenditure shall not exceed $50,000; not exceeding $3,000 for necessary books, reports, and periodicals; not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind Rent, D.
C.to that listed in the general supply schedule; and not exceeding *Proviso.*Rental condition.$75,000 for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided, *That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission. 1205 To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce complianceEnforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34. p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556; Vol. 41, p. 493. with section 20 and other sections of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June 29, 1906, and as amended by the Transportation Act, 1920, including the employment of necessary special accounting agents or examiners, and including per diemPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $1,189,250, ofServices in the District. which amount not to exceed $200,000 may be expended for personal services in the.
District of Columbia. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943; Vol. 36, p. 298.Accidents.Vol. 36, p. 350. regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test block-signal and train-control systems andBlock signals, etc.Vol. 34, p. 838;
Vol. 35, p. 324; Vol. 38, p. 212. appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906, and the provision of the Sundry Civil Act approved May 27, 1908, including the employment of a chief inspector at $6,000 per annum, and two assistant chief inspectors at $5,000 each per annum, and such other inspectors as may be necessary, and for per diem in lieu of subsistencePer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $650,000, of whichServices In the District. amount not to exceed $200,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the ActSafe locomotive boilers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 913; Vol. 40, p. 616.Vol. 38, p. 1192. of February 17, 1911, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” as amended by the Act of March 4, 1915, extending “the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender,” and amendmentAdditional inspectors.*Ante*, p. 659. of June 7, 1924, providing for the appointment from time to time by the Interstate Commerce Commission of not more than fifteen inspectors in addition to the number authorized in the first paragraph of section 4 of the Act of 1911, including such legal, technical, stenographic, and clerical help as the business of the officesPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. of the chief inspector and his two assistants may require, and for per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $450,000, of which amount not to exceed $65,820, may be expendedServices in the District. for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate CommercePhysical valuation of railroads.Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 40, p. 271; Vol. 42, p. 624. Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof,” by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriersIssues of stock, etc. subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved March 1, 1913, including one director of valuation, one supervisor of land appraisals, one supervising engineer, and one supervisor of accounts, at $9,000 each perPer diem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 680.Printing and binding. annum, and per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $1,946,552, of which sum $200,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be*Proviso.*Rent restriction. available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission. For all printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Commission. including not to exceed $10,000 to print and furnish to the States at cost report-form blanks, $160,000. 1206 NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICSNational Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
All expensesFor scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; traveling expenses of members and employees; office supplies and other miscellaneous expenses, including technical periodicalsLangley Laboratory. and books of reference; equipment, maintenance, and operation of a research laboratory, known as the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory; maintenance, operation, and exchange of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; personal services in the field and in the District of Columbia; in all, $522,000, of Services in the District.*Proviso.*Amount for additional laboratory building.which amount not to exceed $52,680 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That of the amount appropriated herein $40,000 shall be available only for the construction of an additional laboratory building in connection with the research laboratory at Langley Field, Virginia.
Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including all of its offices, laboratories, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $12,000. RAILROAD LABOR BOARDRailroad tabor Board. Salaries of members and secretary.For nine members of the board, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all. $95,000. All other expenses.Vol. 41, p. 470.For all other authorized expenditures of the Railroad Labor Board in performing the duties imposed by law, including personal and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, supplies and equipment, law books and books of reference, periodicals, Rent, D.
C., etc.travel expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence, rent of quarters in the District of Columbia, if space is not provided by the Public Buildings Commission, rent of quarters outside of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and mileage, $190,805, of which not to exceed $136,920 may be expended for personal services. Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Railroad Labor Board, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington.
District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $11,000. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONSmithsonian Institution. International exchanges.International exchanges: For the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $46,260, of which amount not to exceed $23,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. American ethnology.American ethnology:
For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archaeologic remains under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $57,160, of which amount not to exceed $45,040 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.International Catalogue of Scientific Literature:
For the cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, clerk hire, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses. $8,000, of which amount not to exceed $7,785, may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 1207 Astrophysical Observatory:
For maintenance of the AstrophysicalAstrophysical Observatory. Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $31,180, of which amount not to exceed $26,840 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. For an additional Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,Additional Assistant Secretary. $6,000. national museumNational Museum.
For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for theFurniture, etc. exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $21,800, of which amount not to exceed $11,920 may beServices in the District. expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service,Heating, lighting, etc.Services in the District. $77,560, of which amount not to exceed $41,580 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collectionsPreserving collections, etc. from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, allEmployees, etc. other necessary expenses and not exceeding $5,500 for drawings and illustrations for publications, $441,082, of which amount not to exceed $428,598 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. For repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessaryRepairs, etc.Services in the District. labor and material, $12,000, of which amount not to exceed $7,620 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference,Books, etc. $1,500. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $450.Postage. In all, National Museum, $554,392. national gallery of artNational Gallery of Art. For the administration of the National Gallery of Art by theAdministration expenses. Smithsonian Institution, including compensation of necessary employees, purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, and necessary incidental expenses, $21,028, of which amount not toServices in the District. exceed $17,850 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. printing and bindingPrinting and binding.
For all printing and binding for the Smithsonian Institution, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $90,000, of which not to exceed $7,000 shall be available for printing the reportAmerican Historical Association.*Proviso.*No pro rata restriction. of the American Historical Asssociation: *Provided*, That the expenditure of this sum shall not be restricted to a pro rata amount in any period of the fiscal year.
STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGSState, War, and Navy Department Buildings. For deputy superintendent and other personal services in theDeputy superintendent, and office personnel.*Ante*, p. 983. District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $1,698,980. For fuel, lights, repairs, ground rent, traveling expenses not toOperating supplies. exceed $250, miscellaneous items, and city directories, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used for official purposes only, $641,200. 1208 Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings, $2,700.
TARIFF COMMISSIONTariff Commission. Salaries and expenses.For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, including purchase and exchange of labor-saving devices, the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, newspapers and periodicals as may be necessary, as Vol. 39, p. 796; Vol 42, pp. 941–917.authorized under Title VII of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September 8, 1916, and under sections 315, 316, 317, and 318 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved September 21, 1922, $712,000, of which amount not to exceed $569,980 may be expended for personal services in the *Proviso.*Salary restriction.District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary of any member of the United States Tariff Commission who shall hereafter participate in any proceedings under said sections 315, 316, 317, and 318 of said Act, approved September 21, 1922, wherein he or any member of his family has any special, direct, and pecuniary interest, or in which he has acted as attorney or special representative.
Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Tariff Commission, $9,500. UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARDGeographic Board. Stationery and printing and binding.For stationery and printing and binding, $550. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARDShipping Board. Commissioners.For seven commissioners at $12,000 each per annum, $84,000. All other expenses.Vol. 39, p. 728; Vol. 41, p. 988.Personnel included.For all other expenditures authorized by the Act approved September 7, 1916, as amended, and by the Act approved June 5, 1920, including the compensation of a secretary to the board, attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, and clerks, including one admiralty counsel at $10,000 per annum, and one special expert at $8,000 per annum, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for all other expenses of the board, including the rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, law books, books of reference, periodicals, and actual and necessary expenses of members of the board, its special experts, and other employees,Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. or per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, while upon official business away from their designated posts of duty, and for the employment by contract or otherwise of expert Investigating discriminations against American vessels, etc.Transportation of immigrants.stenographic reporters for its official reporting work, and including the investigation of foreign discrimination against vessels and shippers of the United States and for the investigation of transportation of immigrants in vessels of the United States Shipping Board, *Proviso.*Pay restriction.$238,000: *Provided*, That no part of the moneys made available by this Act for the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be used to pay to an assistant to a member of the Shipping Board a salary in excess of $6,500 per annum.
Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the United States Shipping Board, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $8,000. 1209 emergency shipping fundEmergency shipping fund. For expenses of the United States Shipping Board EmergencyEmergency Fleet Corporation’s expenditures payable from.Vol. 41, p. 988. Fleet Corporation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, for administrative purposes, miscellaneous adjustments, losses due to the. maintenance and operation of ships, for the repair of ships,Sources. and for carrying out the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920,
(a)the amount on hand July 1, 1925, but not in excess of the sums sufficient to cover all obligations incurred prior to July 1, 1925, and then unpaid;
(b)$24,000,000;
(c)the amount received during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, from the operation of ships: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Payments limited. That no part of these sums shall be used for the payment of claims other than those resulting from current operation and maintenance;
(d)so much of the total proceeds of all sales pertaining toLiquidation expenses. liquidation received during the fiscal year, 1926, but not exceeding $4,000,000, as is necessary to meet the expenses of liquidation, including also the cost of the tie-up and the salaries and expenses of the personnel directly engaged in liquidation: *Provided*, That no partPayment of claims forbidden. of this sum shall be used for the payment of claims. That portion of the special claims appropriation, contained in theUnexpended balances for claims continued available.Vol. 42, p. 647. Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, committed prior to July 1, 1923, and remaining unexpended on June 30, 1925, shall continue available until June 30, 1926, for the same purposes and under the same conditions. No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be used toAttorneys subject to approval of Attorney General. pay the compensation of any attorney, regular or special, for the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation unless the contract of employment has been approved by the Attorney General of the United States. No officer or employee of the United States Shipping Board orPay restriction. the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be paid a salary or compensation at a rate per annum in excess of $10,000 except the following: One at not to exceed $25,000 and seven at not to exceed $18,000 each. No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be availableAuditing by Efficiency Bureau. for the payment of certified public accountants, their agents or employees, and all auditing of every nature requiring the services of outside auditors shall be furnished through the Bureau of Efficiency:*Proviso.*Outside auditors for claims in litigation. *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall limit the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation from employing outside auditors to audit claims in litigation for or against the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be used forSubsistence expenses. actual expenses of subsistence exceeding $5 a day or per diem in lieu of subsistence exceeding $4 for any officer or employee of the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. No part of the funds of the United States Shipping BoardRent in the District restricted. Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be available for the rent of buildings in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1926 if suitable space is provided for said corporation by the Public Buildings Commission. That all claims of the Navy Department against the UnitedClaims by and against Navy Department canceled. States Shipping Board and the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and all claims of the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation against the Navy Department arising prior to 1210July 1, 1921, be canceled: *Provided*, That no claim on the part of *Proviso.*Individual claims not affected.the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, or the Navy Department, as against any private individual, firm, association, or corporation other than the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, is canceled or otherwise affected in any way by this paragraph. UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAUVeterans’ Bureau. Salaries and expenses.Vol. 42, p. 147.For carrying out the *Ante*, p.607.provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Veterans’ Bureau and to improve the facilities and service of such bureau and to further amend and modify the War Risk Insurance Act approved August 9, 1921,” and to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “World War Veterans’ Act, 1924,” approved June 7, 1924, and for administrative expenses in carrying Adjusted compensation act expenses.*Ante*, p. 121.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, and expenses of the central office at Washington, District of Columbia, and regional offices and suboffices, and including salaries, stationery and minor office supplies, furniture, equipment and supplies, rentals and alterations, heat, light, and water, miscellaneous expenses, including telephones, telegrams, freight, express, law books, books of reference, periodicals, ambulance service, towel service, laundry service, repairs to equipment, storage, ice, taxi service, car fare, stamps and box rent, traveling and subsistence, salaries and expenses of employees engaged in field investigation, passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, including purchase, Arlington Building expenses.maintenance, repairs, and operation of same, salaries and operating expenses of the Arlington Building and annex, including repairs and mechanical equipment, fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, Civilian employees at hospitals, etc.and miscellaneous items; and including the salaries and allowances, where applicable, wages, travel and subsistence of civil employees at the United States veterans’ hospitals, supply depots, dispensaries,*Proviso.*Detailed statement to Congress of employees, etc., each year. clinics, and vocational schools $45,500,000: *Provided*, That on the first day of each regular session of Congress the Director of the Veterans’ Bureau shall transmit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a statement, giving in detail
(a)the total number of positions at a rate of $2,000 or more per annum,
(b)the rate of salary attached to each position,
(c)the number or positions at each rate in the central office and in each regional office or suboffice and hospital, and
(d)a brief statement of the duties of each position. Allotment to Public Health Service details.Such portion of this appropriation as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time by the United States Veterans’ Bureau to the Public Health Service and shall be available for expenditure by the Public Health Service for necessary personnel, the pay and allowances, and travel of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service detailed to the United States Veterans’ Bureau for duty. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the United States Veterans’ Bureau, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $200,000. Military and naval compensation.Vol. 41, p. 371.*Ante*, p. 615.Compensation: For the payment of military and naval compensation accruing during the fiscal year 1926 or in prior fiscal years for death or disability provided by the Act approved October 6, 1917, as amended, and the World War Veterans’ Act 1924, approved June 7, 1924, $127,000,000. Medical, surgical hospital, etc., services to beneficiares.Medical and hospital services: For medical, surgical, dental, dispensary. and hospital services and facilities, convalescent care, necessary and reasonable aftercare, welfare of, nursing, prosthetic appli-1211ances, medical examinations, funeral and other incidental expenses (including transportation of remains), traveling expenses, and supplies, and not exceeding $100,000 for library books, magazines, and papers for beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, including court costs and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, $35,000,000. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the United States Veterans’Disbursement of allotted appropriations. Bureau, and such portion thereof as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time to the Public Health Service, and the War, Navy, and Interior Departments, and transferred to their credit for disbursement by them for the purposes set forth in the foregoing paragraph; and allotted and transferred to the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for the purposes set forth in the foregoing paragraph, and such sums as are allotted to the Board of Managers shall be covered into the surplus fund of the Treasury. No part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchaseUse for any new hospitals, sites, etc., forbidden. of any site for a new hospital, for or toward the construction of any new hospital, or for the purchase of any hospital; and not more than $3,837,750 of this appropriation may be used to alter, improve, orAmount for alterations, etc.*Ante*, p. 610. provide facilities in the several hospitals under the jurisdiction of the United States Veterans’ Bureau so as to furnish adequate accommodations for its beneficiaries either by contract or by the hire of temporary employees and the purchase of materials. The unexpended balance of the sum of $2,666,050, made available Medical and hospital services.Unexpended balance continued available.*Ante*, p. 532.under the appropriation “Medical and Hospital Services, Veterans’ Bureau, 1925,” to alter, improve, or provide facilities in the several hospitals under the jurisdiction of the bureau, is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1926 for the same purposes, either by contract or by the hire of temporary employees and the purchase of materials, including the purchase of land contiguous to Government-owned hospital sites. The allotments made to the Public Health Service, War, Navy,Expenditures authorized from allotments to other agencies. and Interior Departments shall be available for expenditure for care and treatment of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and for necessary minor repairs and improvements of existing facilities, under the various headings of appropriations made to said departments as may be necessary. Vocational rehabilitation: For carrying out the provisions of theVocational rehabilitation.Expenses of. for discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 617, 1179; Vol. 41, pp. 159, 1379. 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, and the World War Veterans’*Ante*, p. 627. Act 1924, approved June 7, 1924, $38,000,000: *Provided*, That no*Provisos.*Army camp restriction. part of the foregoing sum shall be used for the establishment, maintenance, or operation of training schools at any Army camp or cantonment acquired for use as a training center: *Provided further*,Limitation on construction work. That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be expended for construction work except necessary extensions, additions, and repairs, which may be accomplished either by contract or by hire of temporary employees and the purchase of materials: *ProvidedEmbossed literature for the blind. further*, That this appropriation shall be available for the purchase and distribution of embossed literature in Revised Braille for the use of blinded ex-service men and for procurement of equipment and supplies for the production of such literature: *Provided further*,Sale of surplus material, supplies, etc., to trainees, schools, etc. That under such regulations as the director may prescribe he is hereby authorized to sell at 90 per cent of the appraised valuation to rehabilitated trainees of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, trade, 1212technical, and public schools and universities, and other recognized educational institutions, upon application in writing, such surplus material, supplies, and equipment acquired for the purpose of vocational training as are suitable for their use which are now owned by the United States of America and under control of the United States Veterans’ Bureau and are not needed for Government purposes. Adjusted service credits.Payment of.*Ante*, pp 125, 128.Adjusted service and dependent pay: For payment of adjusted service credits of not more than $50 each, as provided in sections 401 and 601 of the “World War adjusted compensation Act” of May Pay to dependents.19, 1924, and for payment to dependents of deceased veterans the quarterly installments due on adjusted service credits in excess of *Ante*, pp. 128, 129.$50 each, as provided in sections 601 and 603 of said Act, $12,000,000, to remain available until expended. Adjusted service certificate fund.Annual credit.*Ante*, p. 128.Adjusted service certificate fund: For an amount necessary under 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, $50,000,000, to remain available until expended. For military and naval insurance, $98,000,000. Sec. 2. Military and naval insurance.Restriction on exceeding average salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1488. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates If only one position in a grade.specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No fixed salary reduced.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction.average of the compensation rates for the grade: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or Higher salary rates allowed.a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by “The Classification Act of 1923,” and is specifically authorized by other law. Approved, March 3, 1925.