Chapter 5. Making additional appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, to enable the heads of the several departments and independent establishments to adjust the rates of compensation of civilian employees in certain of the field services
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CHAP. 5.— An Act Making additional appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, to enable the heads of the several departments and independent establishments to adjust the rates of compensation of civilian employees in certain of the field services. December 6, 1924.[[H. R. 9561](/us/bill/68/hr/9561).][[Public, No. 293](/us/68/pl/293).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Additional appropriations for civilian field services employees, fiscal year 1925.
That to enable the heads of the several departments and independent establishments to adjust the compensation of civilian employees in certain field services to correspond, so far as may be practicable, to the rates Vol. 42, p. 1488.established by the Classification Act of 1923 for positions in the705departmental services in the District of Columbia the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, namely:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS EXECUTIVE OFFICEExecutive Office. For repairs, fuel, and so forth, Executive Mansion, $11,040; forExecutive Mansion, etc. improvement and care of public grounds, Executive Mansion, $2,640; for lighting, and so forth, Executive Mansion, $480; and for salaries, White House police, $15,260; in all, $29,420. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION For salaries, field force, Civil Service Commission, $64,920.Civil Service Commission. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION For Bureau of Inquiry, $760; for Bureau of Accounts, $15,760;Interstate Commerce Commission. for Bureau of Valuation. $3,060; in all, $19,580.
NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS For salaries, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,Aeronautics Committee. $30,000. TARIFF COMMISSION For salaries, Tariff Commission, $1,260.Tariff Commission. UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAU For salaries and expenses, United States Veterans’ Bureau,Veterans’ Bureau. $1,225,000. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREDepartment of Agriculture. Office of Experiment Stations, general expenses, $23,280.Experiment Stations.
Office of Extension Service, general expenses, $2,860.Extension Service. Weather Bureau: For salaries, $67,520; for general expenses,Weather Bureau. $259,980; in all, $327,500. Bureau of Animal Industry; For salaries, $63,740; for generalAnimal Industry. expenses, $313,509; for meat inspection, $833,270; in all, $1,210,519. Bureau of Plant Industry: For salaries, $9,540; for generalPlant Industry. expenses, $130,191; in all, $139,731. Forest Service: For salaries, $824,120; for general expenses,Forest Service. $439,256; in all, $1,263,376.
Bureau of Chemistry: For salaries, $28,260; for general expenses,Chemistry. $70,700; in all. $98,960. Bureau of Entomology: For salaries, $6,780; for general expenses,Entomology. $54,150; for preventing spread of moths, $17,800; for prevention of spread of European corn borer, $7,280; and for preventing spread of Mexican bean beetle. $1,780; in all, $87,790. Bureau of Biological Survey: For salaries, $3,340; for generalBiological Survey. expenses, $41,490; in all, $44,830. Bureau of Public Roads:
For salaries, $1,800; for generalPublic Roads. expenses, $16,220; in all, $18,020. 706 Agricultural Economics.Bureau of Agricultural Economics: For salaries, $76,000; for general expenses, $64,978; for enforcement of United States Cotton Futures Act, $3,500; for enforcement of United States Grain Standards Act, $48,940; and for administration of United States Warehouse Act, $10,560; in all, $203,978. Insecticide Act.Enforcement of the Insecticide Act: For salaries, $1,180; for general expenses, $3,200; in all, $4,380.
Federal Horticultural Board.Federal Horticultural Board: For salaries, $1,860; for general expenses, $27,708; in all, $29,568. Miscellaneous items.Miscellaneous items: For demonstrations on reclamation projects, $2,180; for cooperative fire protection of forested watersheds of navigable streams, $1,520; for acquisition of lands for protection of watersheds of navigable streams, $18,540; for experiments and demonstrations in livestock production, $960; for field station, Woodward, Oklahoma, $300; for experiments in dairying and livestock production in western United States, $1,380; for eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, and so forth, $6,980; for suppressing spread of pink bollworm of cotton, $19,760; for eradication of the date scale, $2,320; for enforcement of Packers and Stockyards Act, $23,140; and for enforcement of Grain Futures Act, $7,070; in all, miscellaneous items, $84,150.
Total, Department of Agriculture, $3,538,942. Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: For commercial attaches, $17,136; for promoting commerce, Europe and other areas, $12,600; for district and cooperative office service, $34,818; for promoting commerce, South and Central America, $5,040; for promoting commerce in the Far East, $5,544; for China Trade Act, $504; for export industries, $504; and for compiling foreign trade statistics, $45,980; in all, $122,126.
Steamboat Inspection.Steamboat Inspection Service: For salaries, $137,700; for clerk hire, $27,460; in all, $165,160. Navigation Bureau.Bureau of Navigation: For enforcement of navigation laws, $11,200; tor preventing overcrowding of passenger vessels, $3,920; for wireless communication laws, $24,960; for salaries, shipping commissioners, $7,100; for clerk hire, shipping service, $19,040; and for contingent expenses, shipping service, $480; in all, $66,700. Standards Bureau.Bureau of Standards:
For testing structural materials, $5,060; for industrial research, $300: in all, $5,360. Lighthouses Bureau.Bureau of Lighthouses: For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $72,000: for salaries of keepers of lighthouses, $402,100; for salaries, lighthouse vessels, $570,000; and for salaries, Lighthouse Service, $120,580; in all, $1,164,680. Coast and Geodetic Survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey: For field expenses, Atlantic coast, $2,160; for Pacific coast, $7,120; for State surveys, $9,980; and for pay, and so forth, officers and men, $133,684; in all, $152,944.
Fisheries Bureau.Bureau of Fisheries: For salaries, $126,520; for officers and crews, Alaska vessels, $16,160: in all $142,680. Total, Department of Commerce, $1,819,650. Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Public lands.General Land Office: For salaries and contingent expenses, offices of surveyors general, $39,680; for surveying the public lands, $92,820; for contingent expenses of land offices, $60,280; and for depredations on public timber, $66,400; in all, $259,180.
Indian Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Indian Affairs: For general expenses, Indian Service, $20,850; for purchase and transportation of supplies, $11,580; for707inspectors, Indian Service, $2,000; for pay of judges, Indian courts, $13,660.80; for pay of Indian police, $79,012; for suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, $3,060; and for Indian school and agency buildings, $1,300; in all, general expenses, $131,462.80. For expenses in probate matters: For determining heirs ofProbate matters. deceased Indian allottees, $13,580; and for probate attorneys, Five Civilized Tribes, $7,530: in all, $21,110.
For surveying of Indian lands: For surveying and allotting Surveying.Indian reservations (reimbursable), $840; and for council for Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, $500: in all, $1,340. Industrial assistance and advancement: For industrial work andIndustrial work. care of timber, $107,936. Development of water supply: For maintenance and operation ofWater supply development. water works, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, $480; for water supply, Navajo and Hopi Indians, $900; and for water supply, Pueblo Indians, New Mexico, $300; in all, $1,680.
Irrigation and drainage: For irrigation, Indian reservationsIrrigation and drainage. (reimbursable), $27,850; for maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Pima Indian lands, Arizona (reimbursable), $1,200; for irrigation project, Gila River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable). $2,160; for maintenance and operation irrigation system, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $1,840; for maintenance and operation, Ganado irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $300; for maintenance and operation, pumping plants, San Xavier Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $240; for improvement, maintenance, and operation, Fort Hall irrigation systems, Idaho (reimbursable), $3,380; for irrigation system, Fort Hall Reservation and ceded lands, Idaho, $12,080; for maintenance and operation, irrigation systems, Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana (reimbursable). $2,150; for irrigation systems, Flathead Reservation, Montana (reimbursable), $7,760; for irrigation systems, Black-feet Reservation.
Montana (reimbursable), $4,020; for improvement maintenance, and operation, irrigation systems, Crow Reservation. Montana (reimbursable), $5,340; for improvement, maintenance, and operation, Hogback irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, New Mexico (reimbursable), $1,180; for proceeds of Uintah and White River Ute lands, Utah, $6,120; for maintenance and operation, Top-penish-Simcoe irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), $240; for maintenance and operation, Ahtanum irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable). $480; for diversion dam and distribution and drainage system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), $1,600; for maintenance, irrigation system, Wapato project, special fund, Act of August 30, 1914, $5,880; for Satus irrigation project, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), $8,180; for irrigation system, Wind River Diminished Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), $1,560; for maintenance, irrigation system, Wind River Diminished Reservation, Wyoming, special fund, $6,220; and for the diversion dam, Gila River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $6,070; in all, irrigation and drainage, $105,850.
Education: For support, Indian schools, $393,423; for IndianIndian schools. schools, as follows: Fort Mojave, Arizona, $11,280; Phoenix. Arizona. $24,750; Truxton Canyon, Arizona, $4,980; Theodore Roosevelt School, Fort Apache, Arizona. $16,980; Riverside. California, $28,330; Fort Bidwell, California, $4,580; Lawrence, Kansas, $33,930; Mount Pleasant, Michigan, $17,750; Pipestone, Minnesota, $10,270; Genoa. Nebraska, $14,950; Carson City, Nevada, $15,430; Albuquerque. New Mexico, $21,695;
Santa Fe, New Mexico, $16,970; Cherokee, North Carolina, $12,560; Bismarck. North Dakota, $5,080; Fort Totten, North Dakota, $18,100; Wahpeton, North Dakota,708$8,650; Chilocco, Oklahoma, $22,800; Cherokee Orphan Training School, Oklahoma, $10,475; Salem, Oregon, $29,340; Flandreau, South Dakota, $16,260; Pierre, South Dakota, $10,040; Rapid City, South Dakota, $13,680; Hayward, Wisconsin, $11,960; Tomah, Wisconsin, $12,360; Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, $6,400; for sup-port of Chippewas of the Mississippi, Minnesota, $1,240; for Indian schools, Five Civilized Tribes, $3,240; and for education, Sioux Nation, South Dakota, $109,060; in all, education, $906,563.
Relief of distress, etc.Relief of distress and conservation of health: For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians. $96,270; for asylum for insane Indians, Canton, South Dakota, $8,320; in all, $104,590. Support and civilization.General support and civilization: For support of Indians, as follows: In Arizona, $44,830; California, $8,980; Seminoles in Florida, $540; at Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, $4,770; Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, $4,560;
Flathead Agency, Montana. $1,830; Fort Peck Agency, Montana, $7,540; Blackfeet Agency, Montana, $11,780; for support of Rocky Boy’s Band of Chippewas and other Indians in Montana, $880; for support of Indians in Nevada, $7,040; in New Mexico, $37,980; for support of Sioux, Devils Lake Reservation, North Dakota, $2,240; for support of the Indians at Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota, $4,300; the Chippewas, Turtle Mountain Band, North Dakota, $3,560: Wichitas and affilated bands, Oklahoma, $1,160;
Kansas Indians, Oklahoma, $320; Kickapcos, Oklahoma, $740; Poncas, Oklahoma, $1,680; Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies, Oregon, $1,560; Yankton Sioux, $1,140; for support of Indians in Utah, $1,150: for Colville and other agencies and Joseph’s Band of Nez Perces, Washington, $2,060; Makahs in Washington, $420; Dwamish and other allied tribes in Washington, $1,180; Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, $640; Potawatomies, Wisconsin, $780; Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho, $1,360; Bannocks, employees, Idaho, $2,160; for relief of Choctaws in Mississippi, $1,440; for education of Choctaws in Mississippi, $2,160; for fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana, $1,700; for support of Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Montana, $9,720; for support of Pawnees, schools, $1,140; support of Pawnees, employees, $1,990; support of Quapaws, employees.
Oklahoma, $540; for administration of affairs, Five Civilized Tribes, $30,314; for support of Indians of Warm Springs Agency, Oregon (reimbursable), $760; Sioux of different tribes, employees, and so forth. South Dakota, $53,426; confederated bands of Utes, employees, and so forth, Utah, $9,200; Spokanes, Washington, $320; Shoshones, employees, and so forth, Wyoming, $2,240; and for insect infestation, Indian Service $400; in all, for general support and civilization, $272,530.
Total, Bureau of Indian Affairs, $1,653,061.80. Reclamation Service.Reclamation Service: For the Reclamation Service $365,400; for general investigations, $7,620; in all, $373,020, payable, from the reclamation fund. Geological Survey.United States Geological Survey: Geological Survey, $28,941. Mines Bureau.Bureau of Mines: For investigating mine accidents, $30,260; operating mine-rescue cars, $15,240; testing fuel, $14,310; mineral mining investigations, $5,800; oil, gas, and oil-shale investigations and leasing, $17,630; enforcement of mineral leases, $4,160; for expenses, mining experiment stations, $14,450; for care, and so forth of buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $9,630; and for mining investigations in Alaska, $1,320; in all, Bureau of Mines, $112,800.
National Park Service.National Park Service: For the following national parks: Crater Lake, $1,980; General Grant, $1,180; Glacier, $9,260; Grand Canyon, $4,360; Hawaii, $1,260; Hot Springs, $11,800; Lafayette, $2,820;709Lassen Volcanic, $100; Mesa Verde, $1,895; Mount McKinley, $700; Mount Rainier, $5,230; Platt, $1,920; Rocky Mountain, $4,540; Sequoia, $5,810; Wind Cave, $960; Yellowstone, $24,103; Yosemite, $21,414; Zion, $1,560; and for protection of national monuments, $1,230; in all National Park Service, $102,122.
Bureau of Education: For education of natives of Alaska,Education Bureau. $52,335; for medical relief in Alaska, $17,560; for reindeer for Alaska, $2,640; and for investigation of rural and industrial education, $200; in all Bureau of Education, $72,735. Government in the Territories: For contingent expenses, Alaska,Alaska. $780; for protection of game, Alaska, $2,220; and for suppressing traffic in intoxicating liquors, Alaska, $1,200; in all, $4,200. Alaskan Engineering Commission, for maintenance and operationAlaska railroads. of railroads in Alaska, $2,400.
Total Department of the Interior, $2,608,459.80. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice. Miscellaneous objects: For protecting interests of the UnitedMiscellaneous objects. States in customs matters, $7,460; for detection and prosecution of crimes, $101,072; and for enforcement of antitrust laws, $2,730; in all, $111,262. Judicial: For salaries, United States Supreme Court $2,160; forJudicial. salary of reporter, Territory of Hawaii, $240; for salaries. National Park Commissioners, $2,160; for United States Court or Customs Appeals, $5,200; for salaries, Court of Claims, $12,252; for auditors, Court of Claims, $1,240; for salaries of judges, marshals, and so forth, Territory of Alaska, $1,200; for salaries, fees, and expenses ofUnited States courts. marshals, United States courts, $258,160; for salaries and expenses, district attorneys, United States courts, $117,890; for pay of regular assistant attorneys, United States courts, $76,640; for pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $136,942; for salaries and expenses of clerks, United States district courts, $243,865; for pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $39,184; and for miscellaneous expenses.
United States courts, $115,212; in all, Judicial, $1,012,345. Penal institutions: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $43,900; forPenal institutions. construction, Leavenworth, Kansas, $1,320; for Atlanta, Georgia, $42,-305.50; for working capital, Atlanta, Georgia, $5,000; for McNeil Island, Washington, $14,800; for construction, McNeil Island, Washington, $600; for the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, $22,274; and for support of prisoners, United States courts, $4,380; in all, penal institutions, $134,579.50.
Total, Department of Justice, $1,258,186.50. DEPARTMENT OF LABORDepartment of Labor. Bureau of Immigration: For expenses of regulating immigration,Immigration. $584,865. Bureau of Naturalization: For miscellaneous expenses, $76,640.Naturalization. Salaries and expenses, Commissioners of Conciliation, $3,165.Commissioners of conciliation. Employment service, $18,080.Employment Service. Total, Department of Labor, $682,750. NAVY DEPARTMENTNavy Department. Bureau of Navigation: For naval home, Philadelphia, Navigation Bureau.Pennsylvania (payable from income from naval pension fund), $16,950.
Naval Academy: For pay of professors and others, $24,000.Naval Academy. 710 Hydrographic Office.Hydrographic Office, contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $7,140. Marino Corps.Marine Corps: For pay of civil force, $840. Total, Navy Department, $48,930. State Department.STATE DEPARTMENT New York passport agency.Inter-American High Commission.For passport bureaus: New York City, $3,900. For the Inter-American High Commission:
United States section, $1,680. Total, Department of State, $5,580. Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT Public Debt Service.Public Debt Service: For distinctive paper for United States securities, $5,742.50; and for preparation and issue of Federal reserve notes (reimbursable), $2,587.50; in all, $8,330. Customs Service.Customs Service: For collecting revenue from customs, $3,105,000. Farm Loan Board.Federal Farm Loan Board for salaries (special fund), $2,400. Internal Revenue Bureau.Internal Revenue Bureau:
For salaries, office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue (reimbursable), $260; for salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, $584,446; for collecting the internal revenue, $1,646,040; and for enforcement of the Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, $712,000; in all, $2,942,746. Coast Guard.Coast Guard, $380. Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.Secret Service Division, for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $29,747. Public Health Service.Public Health Service:
For pay of acting assistant surgeons, $22.228; for pay of other employees, $187,827; for pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, $518,749; for field investigations of public health, $24,270; for preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $30,572; interstate quarantine service, $630; for studies of rural sanitation, $1,460; for the control of biologic products, $3,700; and for expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, $40; in all, $789,476. Mints and Assay Offices.Mint establishment:
New Orleans, for salaries, $1,100; for wages, $1,140; in all, $2,240. Seattle: For salaries, $1,310; for wages, $1,670; in all, $2,980. Deadwood, South Dakota: For salaries, $960; for wages. $320; in all, $1,280. Carson City, Nevada: For salaries, $680; for wages, $300; in all, $980. Salt Lake City, for salaries and wages, $660. Boise, Idaho: For salaries, $960; for wages, $480; in all, $1,440. Helena, Montana: For salaries. $960: for wages, $420; in all, $1,380. Philadelphia:
For salaries, $10,940: for wages, $85,000; in all, $95,940. New York: For salaries, $7,640; for wages, $26,497; in all, $34,137. Denver, Colorado: For salaries, $6,420; for wages, $17,090; in all, $23,510. San Francisco: For salaries, $7,900; for wages, $28,066; in all, $35,966. New York: Special fund, charges on silver dollar bullion sold, $2,124. Denver: Special fund, charges on silver dollar bullion sold. $2,107. In all, Mint Establishment, $204,744. Public buildings.Office of Supervising Architect:
For operating force in public buildings, $1,673,572; and for general expenses of public buildings, $17,000; in all, $1,690,572. Total, Treasury Department, $8,773,395. 711 WAR DEPARTMENTWar Department. Adjutant General’s Department: For the Army War College,Adjutant General’s Department. $14,030: for the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $1,680; and for military post exchanges, $5,040; in all, $20,750. Finance Department: For the pay of the Army, $16,680; and forFinance Department. the finance service, $282,049; in all, $298,729.
Quartermaster Corps: For regular supplies of the Army, $179,078;Quartermaster Corps. for clothing and equipage, $381,332; for incidental expenses of the Army, $983,623.80; for Army transportation, $659,145; for barracks and quarters, $252,301.10: for water and sewers at military posts, $172,150; for roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $47,439.60; and for the sewerage system, Fort Monroe. Virginia, $2,500; in all, $2,677,569.50. Signal Corps: For signal service of the Army, $101,119; forSignal Service. maintenance of fire-control installations.
In the United States, $6,016; in the insular possessions, $1,840; and on the Panama Canal, $860; in all. $109,835. Air Service, Army: For salaries and expenses, $678,043.80.Air Service. Medical Department: For the medical and hospital department,Medical Department. $101,023; and for medical and hospital services, $203,156; in all, $304,179. Corps of Engineers: For engineer depots, $14,555; for engineerEngineer Corps. schools, $2,650; for engineer equipment of troops, $3,055; for civilian assistants to engineer officers, $7,420; for engineer operations in the field. $16,475; for military surveys and maps, $1,855; forFortifications. fortifications in the United States—plans for fortifications $1,500; for gun and mortar batteries, $40; for modernizing older emplacements, $135; for searchlights and electrical installations at seacoast fortifications. $3,220; for sea walls and embankments, $1,690; for preservation and repair of fortifications, $25,655; for supplies for seacoast defenses. $6,155; for contingent expenses, seacoast fortifications, $2,920; and for maintenance of historical fortifications, $1,925; in all, United States fortifications, $43,240; for fortifications in insular possessions—for plans for fortifications, $900; for searchlights and electrical installations, Hawaiian Islands, $3,740; for preservation and repair of fortifications, $16,040; and for supplies for seacoast defenses, $4,205; in all, fortifications, insular possessions, $24,885; for fortifications for Panama Canal—for plans for fortifications, $350; and for preservation and repair of fortifications, $770: in all, fortifications, Panama Canal, $1,120.
Total, Corps of Engineers, $115,255. Chemical Warfare Service Army, $207,980.Chemical Warfare Service.Service schools. Chief of Infantry: For Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, $3,120; and for the Tank Service, $3,840; in all, $6,960. Chief of Cavalry: For Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, $1,980. Chief of Field Artillery: For Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, $1,320. Chief of Coast Artillery: For Coast Artillery School, FortChief of Coast Artillery. Monroe, Virginia, $1,240; and for submarine mines, $1,900; in all, $3,140.
United States Military Academy: For pay of Military Academy,Military Academy. $39,001.24; and for maintenance, United States Military Academy, $157,330; in all. $196,331.24. Militia Bureau: For arming, equipping, and training the NationalNational Guard. Guard. $600. Finance Department: For citizens’ military training camps, $3,820.Training camps. National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice: ForRifle ranges. quartermaster supplies and services for rifle ranges for civilian instruction, $4,960. 712 National cemeteries, etc.Cemeterial activities, Quartermaster Corps:
For national cemeteries, $49,932; for pay of superintendents, $19,305; for headstones for graves of soldiers, $540; for disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees, $2,748; and for monuments or tablets in Cuba and China, $300; in all, cemeterial activities, $72,825. Military parks.National military parks, Quartermaster Corps: For Chickamauga and Chattanooga, $8,265; for Gettysburg, $9,200; for Guilford Courthouse, $1,800; for Shiloh, $4,520; and for Vicksburg, $3,260; in all, National Military Parks, $27,045.
Washington Alaska cable.Signal Corps: For Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system, $10,900. World War Medical and Surgical History.Medical Department: For medical and surgical history of the World War, $2,280. Buildings and grounds, D. C.Buildings and grounds in and around Washington, Corps of Engineers: For improvement and care of public grounds, $240; for care and maintenance of the Washington Monument, $2,400; for repairs to building where Abraham Lincoln died, $240; for improvements, birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia. $180; for care and maintenance of Lincoln Memorial, $2,160; and for the reflecting pool, West Potomac Park, $2,160; in all, buildings and grounds in and around Washington, $7,380.
California Debris Commission.Miscellaneous objects, Corps of Engineers: For expenses, California Debris Commission, $1,840; and for construction and maintenance Alaska roads, etc.of roads, bridges, and trails, Alaska, $55,000; in all, miscellaneous objects, $56,840. Rivers and harbors.Rivers and harbors, Corps of Engineers: For salaries and expenses, $42,100. Volunteer Soldiers’ Homes.Panama Canal.National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $960,000. Panama Canal: For maintenance and operation, in the United States, $23,480; maintenance and operation, on the Isthmus, $79,570; for sanitation, Canal Zone, $6,266; for civil government, Panama Canal and Canal Zone, $79,670; in all, Panama Canal, $188,986.
Total, War Department, $5,999,808.54. District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Specified objects.For salaries of employees, public buildings and grounds, $9,620; for improvement and care of public grounds, $89,220; for lighting public grounds, $480; for the Anacostia River and Flats, $23,460; for increasing water supply, $25,100; for the. Washington Aqueduct (payable from revenues of the water department), $22,210; for salaries, Supreme Court, $4,560; for probation system, Supreme Court, $2,220; for pay of bailiffs, and so forth, Supreme Court, $5,520; for salaries of employees, courthouse, $7,836; for salaries and expenses, Court of Appeals, $4,980; and for salaries of employees, Court of Appeals Building, $1,680; in all, District of Columbia, $196,886.
Proportional payments from Treasury and District revenues.The foregoing sums under the caption “District of Columbia” shall be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District in the same proportion, or in the same manner, *Ante*, p. 539.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. Use of amounts irrespective of salary restrictions, etc.The appropriations herein made may be utilized by the heads of the several departments and independent establishments to accomplish the purposes of this Act notwithstanding the specific rates of compensation and the salary restrictions contained in the regular annual appropriation Acts for the fiscal year 1925 or the salary restrictions in other Acts which limit salaries to rates in conflict with the rates fixed by the Classification Act of 1923 for the departmental service. 713 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDepartment of Commerce. bureau of fisheriesFisheries Bureau.
For protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel,Alaska fisheries.Expenses executing Act for protecting. subsistence (or per diem in lieu of subsistence) of employees while on duty in Alaska, hire and maintenance of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the fisheries of Alaska,”Public Laws, 1st sess., p. 464. approved June 6, 1924, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $55,000 for the fiscal year 1924 and to remain available until June 30, 1925.
Total appropriated by this Act, $26,357,767.84. Approved, December 6, 1924.