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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 43 STAT. · June 30, 1925 · Chapter 556

Chapter 556. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1925, and June 30, 1926, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 556.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1925, and June 30, 1926, and for other purposes. March 4, 1925.[[H. R. 12392](/us/bill/68/hr/12392).][[Public, No. 631](/us/pl/68/631).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the followingSecond Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925. 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, 1925, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1925, and June 30, 1926, and for other purposes, namely:
LEGISLATIVELegislative, The appropriations for the fiscal year 1926 for compensation ofIncreased compensation of Vice President, Cabinet Members, etc., immediately available.*Ante*, p. 1301. the Vice President of the United States, the heads of the Executive Departments who are members of the President’s Cabinet, Senators, Representatives in Congress, Delegates from Territories, and Resident Commissioners, shall be immediately available upon the approval of the Acts containing such appropriations. senateSenate.
To pay to Edward D. Brandegee, Martina E. Brandegee, ClarenceFrank B. Brandegee.Pay to heirs of. B. Wood and John Brandegee Wood, next of kin and sole surviving heirs-at-law of Honorable Frank B. Brandegee, late a Senator from the State of Connecticut, $7,500. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriationMargaret W. McCulloch.Services. for clerical assistance to Senators for the fiscal year 1925, to Margaret W. McCulloch for services rendered as additional clerk to Honorable Rice W.
Means, a Senator from the State of Colorado, from December 11, 1924, to December 31, 1924, both dates inclusive, at the rate of $1,520 per annum. To pay Alexander K. Meek for extra and expert services renderedAlexander K. Meek. Services. to the Committee on Pensions during the second session of the Sixty-eighth Congress as an assistant clerk to said committee, by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200. For payment, in monthly installments, for services rendered theAgnes E.
Locke and Joseph E. Johnson. Senate, fiscal year 1925, as follows: Agnes E. Locke, $630.50; and Joseph E. Johnson, $494; in all. $1,124.50. For payment, in monthly installments, for services rendered theWilliam L. Walling and others. Senate, fiscal year 1926, as follows: William L. Walling, $330; Paul Bachschmid, $410; Lewis A. Nalls, $280; Harry Walling, $410; James W. McGinn, $410; Richard Blunt, $130; in all. $1,970. For messenger to the Committee on Foreign Relations, at the rateForeign Relations Committee.Messenger. of $1,260 per annum, from March 4, 1925, to June 30, 1926, both dates inclusive, $1,673. 1314 James F.
Sellers.For payment of medical expenses of James F. Sellers, an employee of the Senate, incurred by reason of injuries received while in the discharge of his duties, $827. Inquiries and investigations.For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per one hundred words, fiscal year 1925, $40,000.
Stationery.For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, fiscal year 1925, $3,000. Memorial to the Women of the World War.memorial to the women of the world war Contribution to.For a part contribution to the erection of a memorial building with equipment in the District of Columbia to commemorate the services and sacrifices of the patriotic women of the United States of America, of its insular possessions, and of the District of Columbia*Ante*, p. 665. during the World War, under the provisions of Public Resolution numbered 27, Sixty-eighth Congress, approved June 7, 1924, $150,000.
Northern Pacific land grants.joint committee to investigate northern pacific land grants Expenses of Joint Committee investigating.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 673.*Ante*, p. 462.The appropriation of $50,000, contained in the “Second Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1924,” to provide for expenses of the Joint Committee created by section 3 of the public resolution 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,” approved June 5, 1924, is continued and made available until June 30, 1926.
Biographical Congressional Directory.biographical congressional directory Preparing new edition.*Post*, p. 1616.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay, upon vouchers approved by the chairman or vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, for preparing a new edition of the Biographical Congressional Directory, as provided for in House concurrent resolution, adopted February 6, 1925, $7,500, to remain available until June 30, 1926; and said sum or any part thereof, in the discretion of the chairman or vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, may be paid as additional compensation to any employee of the United States.
House of Representatives.house of representatives Sydney E. Mudd.Pay to sister.To pay Eleanor V. Wilmer, sister of Sydney E. Mudd, late a Representative from the State of Maryland, $7,500. Contested election expenses.Fiorello H. La Guardia.For payment to Fiorello H. LaGuardia, for expenses incurred as contestee in the contested-election case of Frank against LaGuardia, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered Two, $2,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.
Henry Frank.For payment to Henry Frank, for expenses incurred as contestant in the contested-election case of Frank against LaGuardia, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered Two, $2.000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. Don. H. Clark.For payment for expenses incurred by Don. H. Clark, contestant in the contested-election case of Clark against Moore, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered Two, $2,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.
Portrait of Speaker Frederick H. Gillett.For reimbursement of expenses incurred for painting the portrait of Honorable Frederick H. Gillett, Speaker of the House of Repre1315 sentatives, $2,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House upon approval by the Committee on Accounts. For pay of substitute telephone operator at the rate of $3.30 perTelephone operator. day from February 1 to June 30, 1925, inclusive, $635.20. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners,Stationery. fiscal year 1925, $125.
After March 4, 1925, those members of the Committee on WaysWays and Means Committee.Employment of expert services by members-elect of 69th Congress who were members of, to prepare revenue bills, etc. and Means who are members-elect of the House of Representatives to the Sixty-ninth Congress, or a majority of them, until the meeting of the first session of the Sixty-ninth Congress, are authorized to employ such expert, clerical, and stenographic services, and to gather such information, through Government agents or otherwise, as to them may seem fit in the preparation of a bill or bills for the revision of the Revenue Act of 1924 and internal revenue, laws, and they are authorized to have such printing and binding done, and to incur such other expenses as may be deemed necessary; all the expensesExpenses from contingent fund. thereunder, except for printing and binding, not exceeding $2,000, to be paid out of the contingent fund of the House on the usual vouchers approved as now provided by law. architect of the capitolArchitect of the Capitol.
For the purchase of two marble pedestals for busts to be placed inPedestals for busts. the Capitol Building, fiscal year 1925, $750. Capitol Power Plant: For the installation of new stokers and forCapitol power plant. other improvements, including the necessary labor and material connected therewith, $251,800, to remain available until June 30, 1926. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items, andSenate Office Building.Maintenance. supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, fiscal year 1925, $5,000.
For construction of a three-room suite on the first floor B StreetConstruction, etc., of a new suite. corridor of the Senate Office Building, including partitions of terracotta, mahogany doors, trims, molding, and so forth, fiscal year 1925, $4,000. For carpets and rugs for the new suite, including installation of a toilet in room 350, fiscal year 1925. $1,500. government printing officeGovernment Printing Office. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes,Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Preston L.
George. and Preston L. George, messengers on night duty during the second session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, for extra services, $800 each, fiscal year 1925, $3,200. EXECUTIVE OFFICEExecutive Office. For expenses arising in connection with carrying into effect theLeases of oil lands, etc.Expenses of suits to cancel, etc.*Ante*, p. 5. public resolution entitled “Joint resolution directing the President to institute and prosecute suits to cancel certain leases of oil lands and incidental contracts, and for other purposes,” approved February 8, 1924, and for the same purposes authorized in the public resolution entitled “Joint resolution to provide an appropriation*Ante*, p. 16. for the prosecution of suits to cancel certain leases, and for other purposes,” approved February 27, 1924. $100,000, to be expended by the President and to remain available until June 30, 1926.
Not exceeding $275,000 of funds heretofore appropriated forSaint Lawrence River.Surveys, etc., from river and harbor appropriations. maintenance and improvement of river and harbor works shall be available under the direction of the President for surveys of the Saint Lawrence River and the preparation of plans and estimates1316 by the United States section of the Joint Board of Engineers on the Saint Lawrence project, approved by agreement between the Governments of Canada and the United States.
Executive Mansion.executive mansion and grounds Improving grounds.For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds, fiscal year 1925, $1,300. Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission.ARLINGTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE COMMISSION Commencing construction.For commencing the construction of the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, authorized in an*Ante*, p. 974. Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a memorial bridge across the Potomac River from a point near the Lincoln Memorial in the city of Washington to an appropriate point in the State of Virginia, and for other purposes,” approved February 24, 1925, to be expended in accordance with the provisions and conditions of the said Act, $500,000, to remain available until expended.
Employee’s Compensation Commission.EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION Contingent expenses, etc.For furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery and supplies, traveling expenses, medical examinations, traveling and other expenses, andVol. 39, p. 747. loss of wages payable to employees under sections 21 and 22 of the Act of September 7, 1916, and for miscellaneous items, fiscal year 1924, $500; fiscal year 1925, $1,500.
General Accounting Office.GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Office personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926. State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS New elevators in main building.For replacing hydraulically operated elevators in the State, War, and Navy Department Building with electrically operated ones and for the installation of an additional generating unit, $70,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926.
Railroad Administration.UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION Federal control credit of, covered into the Treasury.The sum of $440,000,000 of the amount to the credit of the appropriation “Federal Control of Transportation Systems” shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act. united states commission for the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of george washington Expenses of commission for celebrating.For all necessary expenditures by the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington, including compensation of employees and expert advisers and traveling and other expenses of the commission,*Ante*, p. 671. as provided by Public Resolution Numbered 38, approved December 2, 1924, $10,000, to remain available during the life of the Commission. 1317 Bicentennial of Washington’s Birth-day.UNITED STATES MECKLENBURG SESQUICENTENNIALMecklenburg Sesquicentennial.
COMMISSION There is established a commission, to be known as the UnitedCommission for celebrating:, created.Composition.*Ante*, p. 1267. States Mecklenburg Sesquicentennial Commission, to be composed of eleven commissioners, as follows: Three persons to be appointed by the President of the United States, four Senators by the President of the Senate, and four Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker. The commission shall serve without compensation and shall select a chairman from among their number.
There is hereby appropriated the sum of $5,000 to be expended byExpenses of commission. the commission for actual and necessary traveling expenses and subsistence while discharging its official duties outside the District of Columbia. There is hereby also appropriated the sum of $10,000 toParticipation in the celebration. be utilized in the discretion of the commission for the appropriate participation on the part of the United States in the celebration and observance at the city of Charlotte, county of Mecklenburg, North Carolina, on the 18th. 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22d days of May, 1925, of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the patriotic action of the citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in May, 1775, in declaring their independence of the English Crown.
UNITED STATES BUNKER HILL SESQUICENTENNIALBunker Mill Sesquicontennial. COMMISSION For actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses ofExpenses of commission.*Ante*, p. 1099.Participation in the celebration. members of the United States Bunker Hill Sesquicentennial Com-mission in the discharge of their duties outside of the District of Columbia, $5,000, and for expenses incident to the appropriate celebration and observation of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, $10,000; in all, fiscal years 1925 and 1926, $15,000, said sum to be expended in the discretion of the com-mission named herein.
UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAUVeterans’ Bureau. The appropriation of $3,850,000, and the authority to incur obligationsAdditional hospital facilities, etc.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 681. in addition thereto for $3,000,000, for additional hospital and out-patient dispensary facilities for patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, contained in the “Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924,” are extended until June 30, 1926. Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privatelyPaying property damages claims. owned property adjusted and determined by the United States Veterans’ Bureau under the provisions of the Act approvedVol. 42, p. 1066.
December 28, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, page 1066), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 636, Sixty-eighth Congress, $558.75. To pay Edith W. Peacock, treasurer of the Peacock Military CollegePeacock Military College.Payment to, for use of real and personal property. (Incorporated), the sum of $12,000 in full and final settlement of any and all claims which the said Edith W. Peacock and/or the said Peacock Military College has, or may have, against the United States, and of any and all claims which the United States has, or may have, against the said Edith W.
Peacock and/or the said Pea-cock Military College arising from, growing out of. or in any way connected with the use and occupation by the United States, in connection with the operation of a vocational training school at or near San Antonio, Texas, of any and all lands, improvements, furniture, equipment, paraphernalia, or facilities owned or controlled by the said Edith W. Peacock or the said Peacock Military College: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Waiver of all claims required. That before any sum is paid hereunder the said Edith W.
Peacock and the said Peacock Military College (Incorporated) shall1318 file with the Comptroller General of the United States a waiver of all claims against the United States growing out of the matters herein set out. District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Payment of reallocated salaries.To provide for the payment of salaries during the fiscal year 1925 in accordance with the reallocation of positions as revised and approved by the Personnel Classification Board, as set forth in House Document Numbered 610, Sixty-eighth Congress, $73,621.53. general expenses Executive Office.executive office Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal years 1925 and 1926, $6,600.
Building inspectors.Building Inspection Division: For temporary additional assistant inspectors, fiscal year 1925. $4,430. Plumbing inspectors, etc.Plumbing inspection division: For temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be required, fiscal year 1925, $2,000. office of corporation counsel Corporation counsel’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal years 1925 and 1926, $4,000.
Coroner’s office.coroner’s office Expenses of morgue inquests, etc.For the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in talking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, fiscal year 1924, $288. Employees’ compensation fund.district of columbia employees’ compensation fund Payment for injuries.Vol. 39, p. 742.For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “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, fiscal year 1925. $5,000.
Public library.free public library Regular personnel.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal year 1925, $5,000. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, fiscal year 1925, $15,000. Contingent expenses.For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, fiscal year 1925, $1,000. 1319 For equipping library rooms in each of the Bell-Deanwood BranchBell-Deanwood branches.Equipment. libraries, with chairs, tables, desk, and shelves, fiscal year 1925, $1,750.
For repairs and improvements to library buildings, fiscal yearRepairs, etc. 1925, $8,900. contingent and miscellaneous expensesContingent expenses. For general contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including personalItems specified. services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923. purchase and installation of traffic lights, signals, controls, and markers, painting white lines, traffic surveys, city planning in relation to traffic regulation and control, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the Commissioners, fiscal years 1925 and 1926, $50,000.
For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title,Judicial expenses. 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 1925, $1,000. Refund of erroneous collections: To enable the commissioners, inRefund of erroneous collections. 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 proportion required by law, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of feesVol. 36, p. 967. paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911, fiscal year 1925, $1,500:*Proviso*.Prior years. *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. sewersSewers.
For assessment and permit work, sewers, fiscal year 1925, $125,000. Assessment and permit work. street improvementsStreet improvements, etc. Southeast: To carry out the provisions of an Act entitled “An ActWidening Nichols Avenue SE.*Ante*, p. 750. to provide for the widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street southeast,” approved January 15, 1925, $4,500. To carry out the provisions of the Public Act of the Sixty-eighthEliminating Lamond grade crossing.Van Buren Street extension.*Ante*, p. 1097.
Congress entitled “An Act to provide for the elimination of Lamond grade crossing in the District of Columbia, and for the extension of Van Buren Street,” fiscal years 1925 and 1926, $59,000. collection and disposal of refuseCity refuse. For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues,Sweeping, cleaning, ice and snow removal, etc. alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, side-walks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925, $35,000. public schoolsPublic schools.
For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb personsColumbia Institution for the Deaf.Instruction expenses.[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Vol. 31, p. 844. admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, fiscal year 1925, $4,250. 1320 Western High.Furniture and equipment.For furniture and equipment, including window shades for the Western High School and addition thereto, fiscal year 1925. $6,500.
Allowance for additional motor vehicles.*Ante*, p.557.The appropriation for contingent expenses, fiscal year 1925, is hereby made available to include the payment of an allowance of not exceeding $312 per annum for a motor vehicle for each, the business manager, from July 8, 1924, and the two first assistant superintendents, from December 17, 1924. Paper towels, etc.For the purchase of sanitary paper towels and for fixtures for dispensing the same to the pupils, fiscal year 1925, $500.
Langley Junior High, additional land.For additional amount for the purchase of land for school purposes adjacent to the Langley Junior High School, fiscal year 1925, $5,000. Western High, addition.For completing the construction of an addition to the Western High School, fiscal year 1925, $32,500. Allowances from special fund.*Ante*, p. 804.For the following, to be paid from the special fund created by the Act entitled “An Act making an adjustment of certain accounts be-tween the United States and the District of Columbia,” approved February 2, 1925:
McKinley Technical High.New buildings.For beginning the construction of new buildings for the McKinley Technical High School, $1,000,000, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such buildings at a cost, exclusive of the treatment of the grounds, not to exceed $2,250,000:*Proviso*.Transfer of title to Commissioners. *Provided*, That title to and jurisdiction over reservation 277-F, being part of square 3526, are hereby transferred to the District of Columbia, the said reservation to be included in the site acquired or to be acquired for the McKinley Technical High School; and theClosing of streets and alleys in area, etc.
Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to close all streets and alleys in the area acquired or to be acquired for the McKinley Technical High School and the Langley Junior High School buildings and grounds, where title to the property on both sides of any such streets or alleys shall be in the District of Columbia, the title to the land in such streets or alleys so closed to revert to the District of Columbia for school purposes; Building on Calvert Street.For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a combined gymnasium and assembly hall, on a site on Calvert Street now owned by the District of Columbia, $175,000;
MacFarland Junior High.For the construction of a combined assembly hall and gymnasium for the Macfarland Junior High School, $100,000; Garnet-Patterson Schools.New building.For the purchase of land adjoining the Garnet-Patterson Schools to provide for the erection of a new building to replace the present buildings, $55,000; Bell School, addition.For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Bell School, including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, the necessary remodeling of the present building, and the purchase of additional land, $215,000;
Brightwood.New building.For the erection of a sixteen-room building, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, to replace the present Bright-wood School, $275,000; Park View, addition.For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Park View School, including necessary remodeling of the present building and purchase of additional land, $154,000; Cardozo School.For the construction on land owned by the District of Columbia of an eight-room addition to the Cardozo School, including a combinationNew building. gymnasium and assembly hall, for use as the Randall Junior High School, $225,000;
Armstrong Technical High.Addition to.*Proviso*Closing of alleys, etc.For connecting the new addition to the Armstrong Technical High School with the present building and for necessary reconstruction of the present building, $50,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to close all of that part of the thirty-foot alley and the alley connec1321 tions thereto in square 553 lying east of the fifteen-foot alley running north and south through said square, the title to the land in said alley and alley connections so closed to revert to the District of Columbia for school purposes; and the commissioners may open such alley or right of way through any property owned by the District of Columbia in said square as they may deem necessary in the public interest to serve in lieu of the alley or alley connections so closed;
For necessary remodeling of the old Western High School building,Old Western High School building, remodeling.Adams School, new site. $47,500; For the purchase of a site on which to locate a new school building in the vicinity of the Adams School, to replace the Adams School, $160,000; For the purchase of land in the vicinity of the O Street VocationalO Street Vocational, addition to. School to provide for the construction of an addition to said school, $75,000; For the purchase of a site on which to locate a new junior highJunior High in Georgetown.Site.Disbursed and accounted for as one fund. school building in Georgetown, $100,000;
In all, $2,631,500, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Buildings and grounds, public schools, surplus revenue fund,” and for this purpose shall constitute one fund, and remain available until expended:*Provisos*.Use restricted to specified objects. *Provided*, That no part of such fund shall be used for or on account of any school building or site not herein specified: *Provided further*, That the commissioners may employ expert consultingExpert services. services in connection with the projects authorized herein in an amount not to exceed $1,500. policemen and firemen’s relief fundPolice, etc., relief fund.
To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law therePayments from. is hereby appropriated during the fiscal year 1925 such sums as shall be credited to the policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia, trust fund. health departmentHealth department. For enforcement of the provisions of the several acts for the preventionContagious diseases prevention. of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925, $5,000.
Courts and PrisonsCourts and prisons. juvenile courtJuvenile court. For meals of jurors and of prisoners temporarily detained atMeals to jurors, etc. court awaiting trial, fiscal year 1924, $5,77. police courtPolice court. For compensation of jurors, fiscal year 1925, $4,000.Jurors. For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals,Contingent expenses. stationery, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, typewriters and adding machine and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painter’s and plumber’s supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, fiscal year 1925, $1,500. 1322 Furniture, etc.For furniture, furnishings, and fixtures, and repairing and re-placing same, fiscal year 1925, $500.
Supreme Court.supreme court, district of columbia Jurors.For fees of jurors, fiscal year 1925, $20,000. Witnesses.For fees of witnesses and payment of actual expenses of witnesses[R. S. sec. 850, p.160](/us/rs/s850/p160). in said court as provided in section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, fiscal year 1925, $15,000. miscellaneous Support of convicts out of District.Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts 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 1925, $20,000.
Lunacy writs.Expenses of executing.Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority ofVol. 33, p. 740. the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, including personal services, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1924, $43.75; For 1923, $8.75. Charities and corrections.Charities and Corrections Jail.jail Death chamber for electrocution.*Ante*, p. 709.To provide a death chamber and necessary apparatus for inflicting the death penalty by electrocution, as required by the Act entitled “An Act to prescribe the method of capital punishment in the District of Columbia,” approved January 30, 1925, fiscal year 1925, $10,000.
Medical charities.medical charities Care of indigent patients at designated hospitals, etc.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 additional amounts, respectively, fiscal year 1925: Children’s Hospital, $3,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital. $1,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $2,500. Board of Children’s Guardians.board of children’s guardians Feeble-minded children.For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), fiscal year 1925, $11,500.
National Training School for Girls, D. C.national training school for girls Construction, etc.For additional amount for construction of buildings, including necessary waterworks, electrical connections, and sewage disposal, $23,000. 1323 home and school for feeble-mindedHome, etc., for Feeble-Minded. The appropriation for maintenance, salaries, and other necessaryMaintenance of horses and wagons.*Ante*, p. 569. expenses, Home and School for Feeble-Minded, fiscal year 1925, is made available for the maintenance of horses and wagons. saint elizabeths hospitalSaint Elizabeths Hospital.
For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia inSupport of indigent District insane in. Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the fiscal years that follow: For 1924, $18,041.46; For 1925, $236,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDSPublic buildings and grounds. improvement and care of public grounds For expenses incident to the removal of bathhouses and bathingTidal Basin.Removal of bathing facilities, etc. facilities on the east side of the Tidal Basin and of all construction work which has been done on the proposed bathhouse on the west side of the Tidal Basin and for the restoration of the grounds to their original park conditions, for expenditure under the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, fiscal years 1925 and 1926, $10,000.
For removal of snow and ice, fiscal year 1925, $5,370. Snow and ice removal. Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway CommissionRock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission. To enable the commission created by section 22 of the PublicAcquiring additional lands.Vol. 37, p. 885. Buildings Act approved March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 885), to continue the acquisition of lands for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park, fiscal year 1925, $100,000. judgments For payment of the judgments, including costs, rendered againstPayment of judgments. the District of Columbia, as set forth in House Documents Numbered 610 and 621, Sixty-eighth Congress, $16,693.07, together with the 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 the accountingPayment of claims certified by District accounting officers.Vol. 18, p. 110. officers of the District of Columbia, 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, being for the service of the fiscal year 1922 and prior years: Improvements and repairs, District of Columbia, 1921, repairs toDesignation of amounts. streets, $4.50; improvements and repairs, District of Columbia, 1920, assessment and permit work, $4.50; improvements and repairs, District of Columbia, 1919, assessment and permit work, $0.75; streets, District of Columbia. 1922, cleaning, $639.97: contingent and miscellaneous expenses.
District of Columbia. 1921, contingent expenses, $0.30; contingent and miscellaneous expenses. District of Columbia, 1920, contingent expenses, $1.60; contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia, 1920, Free Public Library, contingent expenses. $2.40; electrical department, District of Columbia, 1920,1324 street lighting, $0.76; public schools, District of Columbia, 1921, manual training, $13.05; public schools, District of Columbia, 1918, repairs to buildings, $2.15;
Metropolitan police, District of Columbia, 1921, contingent expenses, $59.10; Metropolitan police. District of Columbia, 1920, contingent expenses, $147.23; Metropolitan police, District of Columbia, 1919, contingent expenses. $3.40; police court, District of Columbia, 1922, witness fees, $1.50; Tuberculosis Hospital, District of Columbia, 1919, repairs to buildings. $2; Tuberculosis Hospital, District of Columbia, 1918, maintenance, $24.25; water department, District of Columbia, 1922, maintenance and operation (to be paid wholly from revenues of the water department), $1.70.
In all, audited claims, $909.16. Proportion from District revenues.For fiscal year 1920 and prior years.The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwise therein specifically provided, shall be paid as follows: Such sums as relate to the fiscal year 1920 and prior fiscal years. 50 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 50 per centum outFor 1921–1924. of the Treasury of the United States; such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1921, 1922, 1923, and 1924, 60 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out ofFor 1925–1926. the Treasury of the United States; and such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1925 and 1926, jointly or severally, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed for defraying the expenses of the District of Columbia by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, approved June 7, 1924.
Water Department.water department (Payable from water revenues) Extending distributing systems.For extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, fiscal year 1925, $50,000. Limit increased of personal employees.*Ante*, p. 576.The limitation of $125,000 on the employment of personal services contained in section 2 of the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925 is increased to $145,000.
Department of Agriculture.DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Experiment Stations Office.office of experiment stations Additional allowances.*Ante*, p. 970.General expenses: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations,” approved February 24, 1925, fiscal year 1926, $960,000. Animal Industry Bureau.bureau of animal industry International Live-stock Exposition.Amount in animal husbandry for medals at, increased.*Ante*, p. 439.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to distribute suitable medals to exhibitors of champion and first-prize winners at the International Livestock Exposition held at Chicago in December, 1924, with the view of stimulating livestock production along purebred lines and to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of that great international exposition, the amount of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1925 for all necessary expenses for investigation and experiments in animal husbandry, authorized to be used for the purpose of furnishing such medals, is hereby increased from $1,000 to $4,948. 1325 Not to exceed $75,000 of the appropriation of $3,500,000 providedContagious diseases of animals.Expenses for special researches as to foot-and-mouth disease.*Ante*, p. 682. by the second deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, for eradication of foot-and-mouth disease and other contagious and infectious diseases of animals, is hereby made available for salaries and for all other necessary expenses connected with special researches concerning the foot-and-mouth disease with the object of discovering, if possible, new methods of prevention and eradication.
This sum shall remain available until June 30, 1926. bureau of plant industryPlant Industry Bureau. For special sugar-cane breeding investigations, with a view to theSugar plant investigations. production of disease-resistant types of cane, $31,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926: *Provided*, That of this sum not to exceed*Proviso*.Buildings at Arlington, Va., and Canal Point, Fla. $8,000 may be used for the construction of a greenhouse at the Arlington Experiment Farm, Virginia, and not to exceed $16,000, may be used for the purchase of land and the construction thereon of necessary farm buildings at Canal Point, Florida.
For special investigation of alfalfa diseases, including personalAlfalfa diseases investigations. services, traveling and other expenses in connection therewith, $10,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926. forest serviceForest Service. For fighting and preventing forest fires on or threatening the nationalFighting forest fires, etc. forests and for the establishment and maintenance of a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9,Revested Oregon California railroad lands, etc.Vol. 39, p. 219. 1916, and the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company against United States (numbered 2711), in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, fiscal year 1925, $1,335,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation*Proviso*.Former sum available.*Ante*, p. 682. of $125,000 for fighting and preventing forest fires, included in the second deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, shall remain available until June 30, 1925.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintainAdditional appropriation. a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916, and the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company against United States (numbered 2711) in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, fiscal year 1924. $7,700. Not to exceed $10,000 of the appropriation of $150,000 providedInsect infestation, Oregon and California.Appropriation available.*Ante*, p. 39. by the first deficiency appropriation Act, fiscal year 1922, approved December 15, 1921, and continued available through the calendar year ending December 31, 1924. by the deficiency appropriation Act, approved April 2, 1924, for the prevention of loss of timber from insect infestations on public lands in Oregon and California, shall remain available until June 30, 1926, for the purpose authorized byVol. 42, p. 331. said Act approved December 15, 1921.
For payment to Henry McGuire, or his legal representatives, inHenry McGuire.Payment to.*Post*, p. 1377. accordance with Private Act Numbered 58, approved June 7, 1924, in compensation for lumber furnished by him for rebuilding the house of Hiram Campbell, destroyed by fire originating from the burning of brush by employees of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, on a national forest, $225.23. 1326 Biological Survey Bureau.bureau of biological survey Reindeer in Alaska.Appropriation available for executing Alaska game law.*Ante*, p. 841.The amount, $85,095, included in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, for investigations, experiments, and demonstrations for the welfare, improvement, and increase of the[R.
S., sec. 1956, p. 343](/us/rs/s1956/p343). reindeer industry in Alaska, and for the enforcement of section 1956 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, so far as it relates to the protection of land fur-bearing animals in Alaska, is hereby made available to the Secretary of Agriculture during the fiscal year*Ante*, p. 739. 1926 to carry out the provisions of the Alaska game law, approved January 13, 1925. Dairying Bureau.bureau of dairying Beltsville, Md.Purchase of land adjoining farm at.*Ante*, pp. 243, 439.Not to exceed $13,100 of the appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1925 made available, for the Bureau of Dairying of that department by the Act entitled “An Act to establish a dairy bureau in the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes, approved May 29, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 243), may be used for the purchase of a tract of land at Beltsville, Maryland, consisting of one hundred and twenty-nine acres more or less, immediately adjoining the experimental farm of*Proviso*.Grantor reimbursed for losses. the Department of Agriculture: *Provided*, That of this amount not more than $200 may be used for reimbursement to the grantor for any and all losses sustained and expenses incurred by him under his lease with the United States, dated May 29, 1922.
Miscellaneous.miscellaneous items Woodward, Okla.Buildings at field station.*Ante*, p. 457.Field station, Woodward, Oklahoma: Not to exceed $4,500 of the appropriation of $12,000 for the Woodward, Oklahoma, field station, included in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925, is hereby made available for the erection of a herdsman’s cottage to cost not to exceed $2,000 and a barn or barns to cost not to exceed $2,500. Coconut scale.Eradicating, etc., in Guam.*Ante*, p. 682.Coconut scale:
The appropriation of $8,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to provide means for the control and eradication of the coconut scale on the island of Guam, to remain available until June 30, 1925, included in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, shall remain available until June 30, 1926. Payment of property damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Department of Agriculture, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 596, Sixty-eighth Congress, $516.95.
Federal Highway Act.Forest roads and trails.Forest roads and trails: For carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act approved November 9, 1921, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized, immediately upon theApportionment, etc., among the States for, increased.Vol. 42, pp. 218, 660. approval of this Act, to apportion and prorate among the several States, Alaska, and Porto Rico, as provided in section 23 of said Federal Highway Act, the sum of $7,500,000 constituting the amount authorized to be appropriated for forest roads and trails for the*Ante*, p. 889. fiscal year 1926 by section 2 of the Act approved February 12,*Proviso*.Approval of project by Secretary deemed a Federal obligation. 1925: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture may incur obligations. approve projects, or enter into contracts under his apportionment and prorating of this authorization, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof. 1327 The Comptroller General is authorized and directed to credit thePackers and Stock-yards Act.Payments for expert services under, authorized.Vol. 42, p, 159. accounts of the disbursing clerk of the Department of Agriculture with payments heretofore or hereafter made for expert services under existing agreements entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with investigations under the Act of August 15, 1921, Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 159.
That the claimants mentioned in S. 1253, “An Act to reimburseJ. B. Glanville and others.Claims of, for dam-ages to tick-infested cattle, referred to Kansas district court. J. B. Glanville and others for losses and damages sustained by them through the negligent dipping of tick-infested cattle by the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture,” which passed the Senate January 16, 1924, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter suit in the United States District Court for the State of Kansas for the amount due or claimed to be due to claimants from the United States by reasons of the neglect of the governmental officials in the dipping of the tick-infested cattle.
And jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said United StatesJurisdiction of court. District Court for the District of Kansas to hear and determine all such claims. The action in said court may be presented by a singleProcedure. petition, making the United States party defendant, and shall set forth all the facts on which the claimants have their claims, and the petition may be verified by the agent or attorney of said claimants. Official letters, reports, and public records or certified copies thereof may be used as evidence.
Nothing contained in this or the precedingNo defense waived. paragraph shall be construed as waiving any defense against such demands, or any of them, existing prior to the approval of this Act, except that the Government of the United States hereby waives its immunity from suit thereon; but every other legal or equitable defense against such demands, or any of them, shall be available to the United States and shall be considered by the court. Any judgment or judgments rendered shall not exceed theAmount of Judgment restricted. amounts stipulated in such S. 1253 and shall not include interest for any period before or after rendition.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDepartment of Commerce. contingent expenses, department of commerceContingent expenses. For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce,Printing and binding. including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, fiscal year 1925, $100,000. Hereafter section 3648 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply toAdvance rent payments allowed. [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). advance payments for rent of offices in foreign countries by the Bureau or Foreign and Domestic Commerce. bureau of lighthousesLighthouses Bureau.Retired pay.
Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, fiscal year 1925, $35,000. Damage claims: To pay claims adjusted and determined by theDamage claims.Payment of, for, collision.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 damages occasioned to private property by collision with vessels of the Lighthouse Service and for which the vessels of the Lighthouse Service were responsible, certified in House Document Numbered 565, Sixty-eighth Congress, $387.60.
The Comptroller (General of the United States is authorized andJames C, Woolley.Credit in accounts. directed to allow in the accounts of James C. Woolley, special disbursing agent, Department of Commerce, in the 1328 intendent of Lighthouses, Portland, Maine, expenditures made by him from the appropriation “Vessels for Lighthouse Service”Vol. 41, p. 1416. (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1416), for per diem in lieu of subsistence which were disallowed by the office of the Comptroller General.
Bernard W. Southgate.Credit in accounts.The Comptroller General of the United States is authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of Bernard W. Southgate, special disbursing agent, Department of Commerce, in the office of the Superintendent of Lighthouses, Cincinnati, Ohio, expenditures madeVol. 40, p. 160. by him from the appropriation, “Tender for third lighthouse district” (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 160), or per diem in lieu of subsistence which were disallowed by the office of the Comptroller General.
Standards Bureau.bureau of standards Acquiring additional land for site.To enable the Secretary of Commerce to acquire by condemnation or otherwise a certain parcel of land described in the Act entitled*Ante*, p. 951 “An Act authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, a certain tract of land in the District of Columbia for the enlargement of the present site of the Bureau of Standards,” approved February 19, 1925, $173,117, to remain avail-able until June 30, 1926.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.coast and geodetic survey Payment of damage claim.Vol. 41, p. 1054.Damage claims: To pay the claim adjusted and determined by the 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 in House Document Numbered 566, Sixty-eighth Congress, $15.95. Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Office of the Secretary Printing and binding.printing and binding Patent Office.For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, en-, illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including*Proviso*.Former appropriation available.*Ante*, p. 683. weekly and annual indices, fiscal year 1925, $100,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation of $75,000 for this purpose, contained in the Second Deficiency Act fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, is hereby extended and made available until June 30, 1925.
Public lands.General Land Office Utah.Reimbursement for surveys.To reimburse the State of Utah, as provided in the Act approved August 8, 1894, for moneys advanced by said State to the United States on May 11, 1923, August 8, 1923, September 24, 1923, and December 26, 1923, to secure the survey of lands granted to said State, $40,000. Indian Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian lands.Surveying, allotting in severalty, etc.Vol. 24, p. 388.Indian lands: For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 388), entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey1329or allotment of Indian lands, $20,000, reimbursable, to remain available until June 30, 1926: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall*Proviso*.Use in New Mexico and Arizona restricted. be used for the survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty on the public domain to any Indian, whether of the Navajo or other tribes, within the State of New Mexico and the State of Arizona, who was not residing upon the public domain prior to June 30, 1914.
Education: Mount Pleasant, Michigan: For the purchase of a steelSupport, etc., of designated boarding schools.Mount Pleasant, Mich. water tank at the Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, $2,500, to remain available until June 30, 1926. Pipestone Indian School, Minnesota: For reconstruction, includingPipestone, Minn. equipment, of the dairy barn at the Pipestone Indian School, Minnesota, destroyed by fire, $8,300, to remain available until June 30, 1926. Pierre Indian School, South Dakota:
For reconstruction andPierre, S. Dak. repair work on buildings of the Pierre Indian School, South Dakota, damaged by tornado, $10,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926. General support and civilization: For relief of distress amongFull-blood Chootaws, Miss.Support and civilization. the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi; for their education by establishing, equipping, and maintaining day schools, including the purchase of land and the construction of necessary buildings and their equipment, $700; for the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon, not exceeding eighty acres for any one family, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States under such rules and regulations as he may direct, $1,300; in all, fiscal year 1923, $2,000.
Support, of Indians, Fort Belknap Agency, Montana (tribalFort Belknap Agency, Mont.Support of Indiansat. funds): For support and civilization of Indians under the jurisdiction of the Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, $20,000, to be paid from the funds held by the United States in trust for the Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation, and to remain available until June 30, 1926. Miscellaneous trust funds of Indian tribes (tribal funds): ToIndian tribal funds.Adjusting compensation of field service employees. etc.Vol. 42, p. 1488. enable the Secretary of the Interior to adjust, the compensation of civilian employees in the Indian field service employed under trust funds, to correspond, so far as may be practicable, to the rates established by the Classification Act of 1923 for positions in the departmental*Ante*, p. 707. services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed the following additional sums hereby authorized to be paid during the fiscal year 1925 from funds held in trust for the respective tribes:
Arizona.—Fort Apache, $9,100; Truxton Canyon, $2,020; Arizona. Idaho.—Coeur d’Alene, $280; Fort Lapwai, $1,892; Idaho. Minnesota.—Consolidated Chippewa, $23,150; Red Lake, $18,560; Minnesota. Montana.—Flathead. $4,370; Fort Belknap, $3,082; Fort Peck,Montana. $600; Nebraska.—Omaha, $729; Nebraska. Nevada.—Reno, $1,140; Western Shoshone, $1,682; Nevada. New Mexico.—Jicarilla, $812; Mescalero, $1,380; New Mexico. North Dakota.—Fort Berthold, $3,340; Standing Rock, $1,342; North Dakota.
Oklahoma.—Cheyennes and Arapahoes (Cantonment, $4,020;Oklahoma. Cheyenne, and Arapahoe, $3,840; Segar, $3,620), $11,580; Kiowa, $11,838; Shawnee (Sac and Fox), $1,430; Five Civilized Tribes (Choctaws and Chickasaws), $1,080; Oregon.—Klamath, $6,721; Umatilla, $1.376; Warm Springs,Oregon. $1,700; South Dakota.—Cheyenne River, $7,613; South Dakota. Washington.—Colville, $6,000; Yakima, $4,003; Washington. Wisconsin.—Keshena, $9,510; Lac du Flambeau, $1,050; Wisconsin. 1330 Wyoming.Wyoming.—Shoshone, $3,520;
In all, not to exceed $140,900. Menominee Indians, Wis.Rebuilding sawmill, etc., from tribal funds.Vol. 35, p. 51.For the accomplishment of the purposes of the Act of March 28, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 51), the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend not to exceed $275,000 of the funds in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Menominee Tribe of Indians to rebuild the sawmill and its appurtenances at Neopit, Wisconsin, which were destroyed by fire on October 5, 1924.
Wichitas, etc., Okla.Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians, Oklahoma: Out of the funds now standing to the credit of the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in Oklahoma in the Treasury of the United States, aCounsel for Caddo Bands. sum not exceeding $3,000 may be used for the employment of counsel for the Caddo Band of said Indians under contract as provided by law to represent said Indians in their claims against the United*Ante*, pp. 366, 409.Vol. 28, p. 896. States, as set forth in article 6 of the agreement of June 4, 1891, ratified by the Act approved March 2, 1895 (Twenty-eighth Statutes, pages 876 to 910).
James J. McAllister.Payment to.*Post*, p. 1557.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of James J. McAllister,” approved February 9, 1925, $1,000. Pension Office.Pension Office Examining surgeons.For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services rendered within the fiscal years that follow: For 1924, $3,000; for 1925, $90,000. Patent Officepatent office Storage of models, etc.For additional amount for the storage of Patent Office models and exposition exhibits, including the cost of removal of the models if necessary, fiscal year 1926, $600.
Disposal of models, etc.Expenses of commission for.*Ante*, p. 943.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect the pro-visions of the Act approved February 13, 1925, authorizing the appointment of a commission to select such of the Patent Office models as are deemed to be of value and historical interest, and to dispose of said models, and for other purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and other necessary expenses contemplated by such Act, $10,000, to remain available during the fiscal year 1926.
Reclamation Bureau.bureau of recusation Mary McConnell.Services.Vol. 32, p. 388.To pay to Mary McConnell, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 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 ” for services rendered to the United States in compiling data in the matter of the adjudication of water rights upon the Pecos River, New Mexico, $289. Designated projects.Boise, Idaho.Amount for investigations, etc.Not exceeding $111,000 of the appropriation of $1,080,000 from the reclamation fund, special fund, for the Boise project, Idaho, for the fiscal year 1925, made by the Interior Department Appropriation*Ante*, p. 416.
Act, approved June 5, 1924, may be used for continued investigation, commencement of construction of additional storage, and incidental operations, to remain available during the fiscal year 1926. Yuma, Ariz.-Calif.Amount for flood-protection work.*Ante*, p. 416.Not to exceed $125,000 of the unexpended balance of appropriation for operation and maintenance, continuation of construction, and incidental operations in connection with the Yuma project Arizona-California, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925, is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1926 for the continuation of construction of flood-protection works in the main canal near Picacho Wash. 1331 Orland, California, Project:
For continued investigations, purchaseOrland, Calif. of rights of way, and incidental operations, $50,000, to be paid out of the “reclamation fund ” and to remain available until June 30, 1926. Yuma Auxiliary Project, Arizona: For operation and maintenanceYuma, Ariz., auxilliary. and completion of the irrigation system required to furnish water to all of the irrigable lands in part one of the Mesa division, otherwise known as the first Mesa unit of the Yuma auxiliary project, Arizona,For first Mesa unit.*Ante*, p. 962. in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the appropriation of certain amounts for the Yuma irrigation project, Arizona, and for other purposes,” approved February 21, 1925, $200,000, to be paid out of the “reclamation fund,” to re-main available during the fiscal year 1926, and to include the general objects of expenditure enumerated in the second paragraphHydroelectric power plant.*Ante*, p. 416. under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation,” contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925.
Bureau of MinesMines Bureau. For the purchase and installation of electric furnace equipment,Electric furnace equipment. fiscal year 1925, $15,000. To pay David Lupton’s Sons Company for installation of ventilatorsDavid Lupton’s Sons Company. at Bureau of Mines fuel-testing laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the balance due under contract dated June 24, 1924, $259. The funds included in the War and Navy Departments AppropriationHelium production, etc., funds transferred.*Ante*, pp. 877, 906.
Acts for the production or purchase of helium for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, in such amounts as may be determined by the President, not to exceed a total of $1,000,000, shall be transferred on the books of the Treasury for expenditure by the Bureau of Mines for like purposes. National ParksNational Parks. The appropriations of $13,000 and $26,171 for repairing damageMount Rainier and Rocky Mountain.Reappropriation of amount, for flood damages.*Ante*, p. 686. caused by flood washouts to roads, river revetment, bridges, retaining walls, and culverts in Mount Rainier and Rocky Mountain National Parks, respectively, contained in the second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, are hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1925.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisionsAppalachian Mountain Parks, etc.Expenses of commission, etc.*Ante*, p. 959. of the Act entitled “An Act for the securing of lands in the southern Appalachian Mountains and in the Mammoth Cave regions of Kentucky for perpetual preservation as national parks,” approved February 21, 1925, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses of members and employees of the commission, printing and binding, and other necessary incidental expenses, $20,000, to remain available during the fiscal year 1926.
Government in the TerritoriesGovernment In the Territories. Territory of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legallyAlaska.Care of insane. adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, fiscal year 1925, $3,524: *Provided*. That authority is granted*Proviso*.Payment to Sanitarium Company. to the Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company, of Portland, Oregon, for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients, not to exceed $624 per capita per annum, from January 15, 1925, to and including June 30, 1925. 1332 Contingent expenses.For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Territory of Alaska, $2,500, to be expended under the direction of the governor and to remain available until June 30, 1926.
Alaska Railroad.the alaska railroad Maintenance, etc., expenses.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Alaska Kailroad, including maintenance, operation, and improvements for railroads in Alaska; maintenance and operation of river steamers and other boats on the Yukon River and its tributaries in Alaska; stores for resale; payment of amounts dueInjuries to employees.Vol. 39, p. 750. connecting lines under traffic agreements; payment of compensation and expenses as authorized by section 42 of the injury compensation Act, approved September 7, 1916, to be reimbursed as therein provided; $300,000, in addition to all amounts received by the Alaska Railroad during the fiscal year 1925, which with all balances in existing appropriations and funds for the maintenance and operation of railroads and river steamers in Alaska and the unexpendedBalance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 43. balance of the $865,000 appropriated by the deficiency Act approved April 2, 1924, which is hereby reappropriated, shall be consolidated into the “Alaska Railroad fund,” to continue available until expended for the purposes for which appropriated.
Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Contingent expenses.Contingent Expenses Miscellaneous expenditures.For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street car fares not exceeding $300, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, fiscal year 1924, $1,721.02. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, fiscal year 1923, $10.16. *Ante*, p. 217.For printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, fiscal year 1925, $43,000.
Miscellaneous Objects, Department of Justice Detection and prosecution of crime.Allowances for office personnel.*Ante*, p. 217.Detection and prosecution of crime: Not to exceed $20,000 of the appropriation for detection and prosecution of crimes for the fiscal year 1925 shall be available for employees at the seat of government, in addition to the amount now authorized for such services in said appropriation. Judicial.judicial Court of Customs Appeals, books, etc.Court of customs appeals:
For books and periodicals, including their exchange, fiscal year 1925, $1,000. Court of Claims.Printing and binding.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 686.Court of Claims: The appropriation of $8,000 for printing and binding for the Court of Claims, fiscal year 1924, contained in the second deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, is made available for the fiscal year 1925. Commissioners.Salaries and expenses.For expenses of commissioners of the Court of Claims, including salaries of seven commissioners at $5,000 each, travel expenses, compensation of stenographers authorized by the court, and for stenographic and other fees and charges necessary in the taking of testimony and in the performance of the duties prescribed in1333 the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the appointment of commissioners*Ante*, p. 964. by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers and compensation,” approved February 24, 1925, fiscal years 1925 and 1926, $69,000.
Marshals, District Attorneys, Clerks, and Other Expenses ofUnited States courts. United States Courts For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals andMarshals, etc.Salaries. their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice for the fiscal year 1924, $81,654.39. For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor for the fiscal year 1925, $149,000.
For fees of jurors, for the fiscal years that follow: Jurors. For 1924, $60,221.47; for 1925, $100,000. For fees of witnesses, including the same objects specified underWitnesses. this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice for the fiscal year 1924, $34,602.43. For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). United States, including the fees and expenses of witnesses on behalf of the Government before the Boards of United States General Appraisers, such payments to be made on the certification of the attorney for the United States and to be conclusive as provided in section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, fiscal year 1925, $63,000.
For pay of bailiffs and criers, including the same objects specifiedBailiffs, etc. under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice for the fiscal year 1924, $19,437.48. For pay of bailiffs and criers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor for the fiscal year 1925, $66,000. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by theMiscellaneous.
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, fiscal year 1923, $1,479.82. For the purchase of law books, including the exchange thereof,Books for judicial officers. for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the libraries of the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals, and including the purchase of United States Supreme Court Reports and the Federal Reporter, to be expended under theFederal Reporter. direction of the Attorney General but subject to the approval of the conference of senior circuit judges established by section 2Vol. 42, p. 838. of the Act of September 14, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 837): *Provided*, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted*Proviso*.Transmittal to successors. to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be marked plainly “The property of the United States,” fiscal years 1925 and 1926, $100,000. penal institutionsPenal institutions.
Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including supplies from the prison stores for warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furni1334 ture and utensils, seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, fiscal year 1925, $12,000. Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and so forth, includingLeavenworth, Kans.Subsistence. the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor for the fiscal year 1925, $9,000.
Atlanta, Ga.Subsistence.United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For subsistence, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor, for the fiscal year 1925, $50,000. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice, for the fiscal year 1924, $10,975.12.
Drainage.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 222.The item of $20,000 available only for drainage, made part of the appropriation for miscellaneous expenditures at the United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, as contained in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor for the fiscal year 1925, is hereby continued and made available for the fiscal year 1926. McNeil Island, Wash.Subsistence.United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington:
For subsistence, and so forth, including the same objects specified for this purpose for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor for the fiscal year 1925, $1,500. National Training School for Boys.Support of inmates, etc.National Training School for Boys, Washington. District of Columbia: For support of inmates, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice.
Commerce, and Labor for the fiscal year 1925. $7,000. Support of prisoners.Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice for the fiscal years that follow: For 1923, $29.098.79; For 1924, $89,343.72. Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor for the fiscal year 1925, $370,000.
Federal Industrial Institution for Women.Federal Industrial Institution for Women: For the purchase of land and improvements thereon, if any, the cost of remodeling and construction of buildings and appurtenances, the purchase of equipment and supplies, the expense of travel and subsistence, the salaries of officers and employees as well as all other services and expenses*Ante*, p. 473. incident to the execution of the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of a Federal Industrial Institution for Women, and for other purposes,” approved June 7, 1924; $909,100, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General and to*Proviso*.Contracta for materials, etc. remain available until June 30, 1926: *Provided*, That the Attorney General may enter into contracts for materials and work necessary to the construction of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made, not to exceed in the aggregate $172,000 in addition to the amount herein appropriated.
Department of Labor.DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Payment of property damages claims.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Department1335 of Labor, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provideVol. 42, p. 1086. a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 567, Sixty-eighth Congress, $94.42. bureau of immigrationImmigration Bureau.
The amount which may be expended for personal services in theEnforcing immigration laws.Amount for personal services, increased.*Ante*, p. 688.Canadian PacificSteamships (Ltd.).Refund. District of Columbia from the appropriation “Expenses of Regulating Immigration, 1925,” is increased from $100,000 to $109,000. For refund to Canadian Pacific Steamships (Ltd.), Quebec, Province of Quebec, of immigration fines erroneously assessed and collected in the case of the alien David Williams, $200.
For refund to White Star Line, New York City, of immigrationWhite Star Line.Refund. fines erroneously assessed and collected in the case of the aliens Sura and Chaja Goldstein, $400. For refund to Gulf Refining Company, Port Arthur, Texas, ofGulf Refining Company.Refund. immigration fine erroneously assessed and collected in the case of the alien Frederick Jaeger, $10. For refund to Pacific Mail Steamship Company, San Francisco,Pacific Mall Steamship Company.Refund. California, of immigration fines erroneously assessed and collected in the case of five Chinese aliens in transit, who arrived on May 18, 1921, at San Francisco on the steamship Venezuela, $1,500.
NAVY DEPARTMENTNavy Department. administrative expenses, world war adjusted compensation actAdjusted Compensation Act. The appropriation of $450,000 for administrative expenses, WorldAdministratve expenses of Department under.*Ante*, p. 688. War adjusted compensation Act. contained in the Second deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, shall remain available until June 30, 1926. printing and binding For printing and binding for the Navy Department and the NavalPrinting and binding.
Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, fiscal year 1925. $25,000. damage claims To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned propertyPayment of collision damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066. adjusted and determined by the Navy Department under the provisions of the Acts approved December 28, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 1066), as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 261, 275, 564, 568, 602, and 605, Sixty-eighth Congress, $42,415.69. major alterations to naval vesselsMajor alterations of vessels.
Major alterations, naval vessels: Toward the installation of additionalInstallation of additional protection, etc. protection against submarine attack, the installation of anti-air-attack deck protection, and the conversion to oil burning of the United States ships New York, Utah, Texas, Florida, Arkansas, and Wyoming, and for the purchase, manufacture, and installation of new fire-control systems for the New York and Texas, all as authorized*Ante*, p. 710. by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize alterations to certain naval vessels and to provide for the construction of additional vessels,” approved December 18, 1924, $9,000,000, to be availableRestriction for fiscal year. until expended and of which sum not more than $1,000,000 shall be available prior to July 1, 1925. 1336 Bureau of Yards and Docks.bureau of yards and docks ContingentFor contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, fiscal year 1925, $50,000.
Increase of the Navy.increase of the navy “Lexington” and “Saratoga.”Additional appropriation for.For continuing the construction of the United States ships Lexington and Saratoga as authorized by law and in accordance with the terms of the treaty providing for the limitation of naval armament, $14,000,000; toward the equipment of such ships with aircraft and aircraft accessories, $3,000,000; in all, $17,000,000, which sum*Ante*, pp. 881, 882. shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation “Increase of the Navy,” contained in the Naval Appropriation Act, approved February 11, 1925.
River gunboats and scout cruisers.Construction, etc.*Ante*, p. 719.On account of hulls, outfits, machinery, armor, armament, and ammunition for river gunboats and scout cruisers authorized in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize alterations to certain naval vessels and to provide for the construction of additional vessels,” approved December 18, 1924, $4,000,000, to be available July 1, 1925. Bureau of Engineering.engineering Limit increased for clerical, etc., services.*Ante*, p. 870.The limitation specified in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926 on expenditures for clerical drafting, inspection, and messenger service from the appropriation “Engineering,” is increased by the sum of $100,000.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.construction and repair of vessels Limit increased for clerical, etc., services.*Ante*, p. 870.The limitation specified in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926 on expenditures for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service from the appropriation “Construction and Repair of vessels,” is increased by the sum of $100,000. Post Office Department.POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Out of the Postal Revenues Salaries, etc., appropriations for fiscal year 1920, immediately available.*Ante*, p. 782.Applicable to reclassified pay.*Ante*, p. 1053.The appropriations for salaries, compensation, and allowances of postmasters and employees in the Postal Service, contained in Title II of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes,” approved January 22, 1925, shall become immediately available upon the approval of this Act for the payment of salaries, compensation, and allowances of post-masters and employees in the Postal Service at rates authorized by law subsequently to January 22, 1925, including lawfully authorized retroactive payments.
Payment of property damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately-owned property adjusted and determined by the Post Office Department, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 569, 601, and 628, Sixty-eighth Congress, $16,506.04. 1337 contingent expenses, post office department For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, includingPrinting and binding. all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, fiscal year 1925, $315,000. office of postmaster general For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and convictionRewards, etc. of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, fiscal year 1924, $17,000: *Provided*, That rewards may be paid, in the discretion*Provisos*.Death of offender. 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: *Provided further*, That no part of this sumLimitation. shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 7708, dated July 1, 1922. office of the first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Post-master General.
For compensation to postmasters, fiscal year 1923, $7,946.90. Postmasters. For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerkClerks, etc. 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, $3,102.28. For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, fiscal year 1925, $1,580,000.
For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, andCity delivery.Substitutecarriers, etc. of auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices where city delivery is already established, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1923. $900.45; For 1924, $9,644.69. For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post officesMiscellaneous. of the first and second classes, fiscal year 1925, $26,000. For fees of special-delivery messengers for the fiscal years thatSpecial delivery fees. follow:
For 1923, $311.42; For 1924, $833,708.33. For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-deliveryCarfare and bicycles. car fare, fiscal year 1925, $25,000. For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, fiscal year 1925,Letter carriers. $1,920,000. office of the second assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster General. For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messengerRailroad routes and messenger service.*Proviso*.Separate accounting. service, fiscal year 1925, $3,500,000: *Provided*, That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service.
Not to exceed $500,000 of the appropriation for railroad transportationAir mail service. and mail messenger service contained in the Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926 shall be available to meet such contracts as the Postmaster General may enter into during the fiscal year 1926Appropriation available for.*Ante*, p. 785. under the Act entitled “An Act to encourage commercial aviation and to authorize the Postmaster General to contract for air mail service,” approved February 2, 1925: *Provided*, That separate accounts shall be kept of the*Provisos*.Separate accounting amounts expended for contract air mail service: *Provided further*, That $25,000 shall be available for the payment for personal servicesIncidental expenses. in the District of Columbia, printing, incidental and travel expenses. 1338 Railway Mail Service.Division superintendents, personnel, etc.For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents, one assistant superintendent in charge of car contraction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hudred 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 1925, $500,000.
Electric and cable cars.For electric and cable car service, fiscal year 1925, $15,000. Department of State.DEPARTMENT OF STATE contingent expenses, foreign missions Contingent expenses, missions.For contingent expenses of foreign missions, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor forMexico City embassy premises. the fiscal year 1925, household furniture and furnishings, and repairs, alterations, and structural changes in the embassy premises in Mexico City, fiscal year 1925, $66,800, of which sum $45,800 shall remain available until June 30, 1926. transportation of diplomatic and consular officers Transportation, etc. expenses.To pay the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers, and clerks in embassies, legations, and consulates, including officers of the United States Court for China, and their families and effects in going to and returning from their posts, or of such officers and clerks when traveling under orders of the Secretary of State, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, fiscal year 1925, $50,000:*Proviso*.Passage on ships restricted. *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be paid for transportation on foreign vessels without a certificate from the Secretary of State that there are no American vessels on which such officers and clerks may be transported. international obligations, commissions, bureaus, and so forth Cape Spartel Light.Cape Spartel Light, coast of Morocco:
For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Lights on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, fiscal year 1925, $136. International Institute of Agriculture.Quota, etc., admitting dependencies.International Institute of Agriculture: For the payment of the quota of the United States for the calendar year 1925 incident to the admission of the dependencies of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to membership in the International*Proviso*.Balance payable from fiscal year 1925.*Ante*, p. 212.
Institute of Agriculture, $1,600: *Provided*, That the remaining $4,800 of this quota may be paid from the appropriation for the payment of the quota of the United States for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1925 contained in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes,” approved May 28, 1924.
Additional quota.For the payment of the additional quota of the United States for the calendar year 1925 incident to the admission of the dependencies of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to membership in the International Institute of Agriculture, in accordance with the resolutions of the general meetings of No1339 vember, 1920, and May, 1924, $23,160, said amount to be paid in United States currency on the basis of the fixed rate of exchange at par.
Payment to Government of Norway: To enable the Secretary ofNorway.Payment to, as indemnity to owners of Norwegian Steamship “Hassel.”*Ante*, p. 956. State to pay to the Government of Norway in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of Norway on account of losses sustained by the owners of the Norwegian steamship Hassel as the result of a collision between that steamship and the American steam-ship Ausable,” approved February 21, 1925, as full indemnity for the losses sustained by the owners of the Norwegian steamship Hassel, or any other parties pecuniarily interested, as a result of a collision on August 24, 1918, between that steamship and the American steamship Ausable operated by the War Department, $164,169.23.
Payment to Government of Sweden: To enable the Secretary ofSweden.Payment to, as indemnity to Swedish subjects.*Ante*, p. 947. State to pay to the Government of Sweden in accordance with Public Act Numbered 419, approved February 16, 1925, as full indemnity for the losses sustained by the owners and crew of the Swedish fishing boat Lilly, or any other parties pecuniarily interested, through the sinking of that vessel by the United States Army transport Antigone on March 23, 1920, $7,107.04.
Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany: TheGerman Mixed Claims Commission.*Ante*, p. 1023. appropriation for the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, contained in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor for the fiscal year 1926, shall be available also for the expenses of determiningAustria and Hungary claims added. the amounts of claims against Austria and Hungary by the Mixed Claims Commission established under the agreement concluded between the United States and Austria and Hungary on November 26, 1924, for the determination of the amount to be paid by Austria and Hungary in satisfaction of the financial obligations of Austria and Hungary under the treaties concluded between the Governments of the United States and Austria on August 24, 1921, and betweenVol. 42, pp. 1946, 1951. the Governments of the United States and Hungary on August 29, 1921, and/or the treaties of St.
Germain-en-Laye and Trianon, respectively, including the expenses which, under the terms of such agreement of November 26, 1924, are chargeable in part to the United States; for the expenses of an agency of the United States to performAgency expenses all necessary services in connection with the preparation of claims and the presentation thereof before said mixed commission, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia, printing andPrinting and binding. binding, contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and per diem in lieu of subsistence (and the Secretary of State may allow per diem in lieu of subsistence for foreign travel at not to exceed $8), and for such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper.
Conference on Oil Pollution of Navigable Waters: For the purposeConference on oil Pollution of Navigable Waters.Expenses, etc.Vol. 42, p. 821. of defraying the expenses of a conference of maritime nations to be held at Washington, in accordance with the authorization contained in Public Resolution Numbered 65, approved July 1, 1922, to consider the adoption of effective means for the prevention of oil pollution of navigable waters, including salaries of a secretary general and other assistants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia, contingent expenses, printing and binding, travel and subsistence expenses (and the Secretary of State may allow per diem in lieu of subsistence at not to exceed $8), and such other expenses as the President may deem proper, fiscal year 1926, $42,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Amount for devices to separate oil from ballast water.
That of this amount $8,000 shall be immediately available, and such amount may be transferred by the Secretary of State, with1340 the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, to the Bureau of Standards for direct expenditure for use in examining the behavior of proper devices for the separation of oil from ballast water on board vessels at sea and for laboratory experiments in connection there-with. in preparation for the said conference on oil pollution in navigable waters, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling and other expenses.
Mexican Claims Commissions.Subsistence allowance, 1925.*Ante*, p. 691.General and Special Claims Commissions, United States and Mexico: The Secretary of State may allow, from the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1925 the payment of per diem in lieu of subsistence for foreign travel at not to exceed $8. Industrial Property Conference.Expenses of representation at.Vol. 33, p. 1645.Conference for the Protection of industrial property: For the expenses of representation of the United States at the conference to be held at The Hague during the fiscal year 1926 for the revision of the convention for the protection of industrial property, signed June 2, 1911, including transportation, subsistence (and the Secretary of State may allow per diem in lieu of subsistence for foreign travel at not to exceed $8), and such other expenses as the Secretary of State may deem proper, $6,000.
International Radiotelegraphic Conference.Expenses of, in Washington, D. C.International Radiotelegraphic Conference: For the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to the Conference for Revision of the International Radiotelegraph Convention of July 5, 1912, to be held in Washington during the fiscal year 1926, 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 (and the Secretary of State may allow per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $8), and such other expenses as may be necessary, $75,000,Unexpended balances authorized.Vol. 41, p. 367.*Ante*, p. 170. in addition to the unexpended balance in the appropriation of $75,000 for the Conference on International Communications authorized by the Act of December 17, 1919, and the unexpended balance in the appropriation of $30.000 for the Inter-American Committee on Electrical Communications contained in the Deficiency Act approved May 26, 1924, which amounts are hereby made available for the purposes specified.
Rio Grande.Commission on use of, below Fort Quitman, Tex.Appropriation available.*Ante*, pp. 118, 692.Commission on the Equitable Use of the Waters of the Rio Grande: The appropriation of $20.000 made by Public Act No. 292, Sixty-eighth Congress, approved December 5, 1924, for the expenses of a commission to make a study of the equitable use of the waters of the Rio Grande below Fort Quitman. Texas, is hereby made available for the same purposes during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926.
Texas.Reimbursing, for surveys of Rio Grande.For reimbursement to the State of Texas for expenditures made by the board of water engineers, State of Texas, in making hydro-graphic surveys of the Rio Grande River at the request and for the use of the American Section of the International Boundary Com-mission, United States and Mexico, $5.779.11. embassy, legation, and consular buildings and grounds London, England.Reappropriation of balance for embassy premises at.*Ante*, p. 692.Embassy at London:
The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Repairs and improvements, embassy premises, London, England, 1922 and 1923,” which was made available for the payment of any obligations incurred after June 30, 1923, and until June 30, 1925, by the Deficiency Act approved December 5, 1924, is hereby made available for the payment of any obligations incurred during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926. Tokyo, Japan.Additional land and buildings for foreign service at.Diplomatic and consular establishments.
Tokyo, Japan: For the acquisition in Tokyo. Japan, of additional land adjoining the site of the former American embassy and such other land as may be1341 necessary, and the construction thereon of suitable buildings for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States, the said buildings to include residences for the diplomatic and consular representatives, and the furnishing of the same, as provided in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of*Ante*, p. 691.
State to enlarge the site and erect buildings thereon for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States in Tokyo, Japan,” approved February 21, 1925, $280,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926: *Provided*, That within the limit of*Proviso*.Contracts authorized. cost fixed by the Act of February 21, 1925, for the acquisition of land, construction of buildings, and furnishing of same, the Secretary of State is authorized to enter into contracts for the construction of the buildings authorized by the Act.
Consular Building, Amoy, China: For the construction in accordanceAmoy, China.Construction of consulate. with the Act approved February 17, 1911, of a consular building or buildings at Amoy, China, fiscal year 1926, $20,000, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $300,000 forUnexpended balance available. the acquisition of embassy, legation, and consular buildings and grounds, contained in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriationsVol. 41, p. 1214. for the Diplomatic, and Consular Service for the year ending June 30, 1922,” approved March 2, 1921.
TREASURY DEPARTMENTTreasury Department. contingent expensesContingent expenses. The appropriation of $2,000 made in the Second Deficiency Act,Amount for Coast Guard equipment, etc., available, 1925.*Ante*, p. 693. fiscal year 1924, for the purpose of furniture, office machines and devices, 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, shall remain available until June 30, 1925. 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/p719). under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositories, under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised[R.
S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718). Statutes, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, fiscal year 1925, $50,000. public debt servicePublic Debt Service. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For the purchaseDistinctive paper for securities for 1925. of not less than 28,329,000 sheets of distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, including salaries of employees, transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1925, $186,794.34.
For the purchase of not less than 30,000.000 additional sheets ofAdditional quantities for 1926. distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, including salaries of employees, transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1926. $202,012.50. 1342 Foreign Debt Commission.world war foreign debt commission Expenses.For expenses of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and printing and binding, fiscal year 1926, $5,000.
Customs Division.division of customs Compensation in lieu of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs laws, fiscal year 1925, $125,000. Fence on Mexican border.For the building of a fence along the border of the United States and the Republic of Mexico, to the east of the city of El Paso, Texas, and extending approximately thirty miles along said border, at such points as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, the sum of $27,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and to remain available until June 30, 1926.
Coast Guard.coast guard Cutter for Alaska.For constructing and equipping a Coast Guard cutter for duty in Alaskan waters and for cruises into the Arctic Ocean, authorized*Ante*, p. 728. by the Act approved January 7, 1925, $925,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926. Technical services limit increased.The limit of expenditure for the fiscal year 1925 named in the Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925, for the services of skilled draftsman and other technical services in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with*Ante*, p. 72. the construction and repair of Coast Guard cutters, is hereby increased from $8,400 to $10,000.
Rations.Transfer of amount from pay, etc., to.*Ante*, p. 693.Not to exceed $190,000 of the amount appropriated for the fiscal year 1925 under the subhead “Pay and allowances prescribed by law, and so forth,” in the Second deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, is transferred and made available for expenditure during fiscal year 1925 under the subhead “Rations or commutation thereof, and so forth.” Payment of damages claims.To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Treasury Department, underVol. 42, p. 1066. the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 574 and 597, Sixty-eighth Congress, $158.40.
Engraving and Printing Bureau.bureau of engraving and printing Additional work authorized.For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, during the fiscal year 1925 of not exceeding 25,144,750 delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency in addition to the number of sheets of currency of this character authorizedVol. 42, p. 1099. in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury and*Ante*, p. 773. Post Office Departments for the fiscal year 1925, and for the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, during the fiscal year 1926, in addition to the delivered sheets authorized by the Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, of 15,000,000 undelivered sheets of backs and of 15,000,000 undelivered sheets of faces of United States currency, as follows:
Salaries.For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees required for the administrative work of the bureau of the class pro1343 vided for and specified in the Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1925 and 1926 and plate printers’ and plate printers’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1925, $601,468; For 1926, $194,250. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by theWages.
Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1925, $216,921; For 1926, $175,200. For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, exceptMaterials, etc. distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1925, $70,258.50; For 1926, $92,170. For new machinery and other equipment, $233,300, to remainNew machinery, etc. available until June 30, 1926. public health servicePublic Health Service, Interstate Quarantine Service: For cooperation with State andInterstate quarantine service.Traffic in shellfish. municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic through oysters and other shellfish, $57,600, to be expended in cooperation with the Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, and the Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce, and to remain available until June 30, 1926.
Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privatelyPayment of property damages claims. owned property adjusted and determined by the Treasury Department, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toVol. 42, p. 1066. provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 574, Sixty-eighth Congress, $77.50. public buildingsPublic buildings.
Brooklyn, New York, post office: The appropriation of $50,000Brooklyn, N. Y., post office.Improvements added.*Ante*, p. 777. for improvements in this building, contained in the Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, is made available for “extension of toilet room, swing rooms, remodeling, interior painting, and miscellaneous changes incident thereto.” Mobile, Alabama, Quarantine Station: For commencement ofMobile, Ala., quarantine station.*Ante*, p. 950. work in accordance with the authority contained in Public Act Numbered 425, approved February 19, 1925, $200,000.
Steubenville
(Ohio)post office: For completion, $57,000.Steubenville, Ohio. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, andFurniture, etc. repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year 1925, $100,000. 1344 Contractors, etc.Payment of, claims for war condition losses.Vol. 41, p. 281.Relief of contractors: For an additional amount for the payment of claims of contractors, and so forth, arising under the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of contractors and subcontractors for the post offices and other buildings, and work under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and for other purposes,” approved August 25, 1919, as amended, $100,000. War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT Office of the Secretary Claims of Foreign Governments.claims of foreign governments War contracts.Use of balance for settling claims under, continued.*Ante*, p. 695.Settlement of claims of foreign governments and their nationals: The unexpended balance on June 30, 1925, of the appropriation “Settlement of claims of foreign governments and their nationals, 1923,” contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved December 5, 1924, is extended until June 30, 1926, 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. Adjutant General’s office.office of the adjutant-general Adjusted Compensation Act.Administrative expenses of departments under.Appropriation available.*Ante*, p. 695.Administrative expenses, World War Adjusted Compensation Act: The appropriation of $3,600,000 for administrative expenses, World War Adjusted Compensation Act, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, shall remain available until June 30, 1926. Finance Department.finance department Payment of property damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the War Department under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Documents umbered 563 and 578, Sixty-eighth Congress, $2,158.45. Camp Funston, Kans.Settlement with certain lessees at.Vol. 42, p. 1774.Claims, Camp Funston, Kansas, activities: For the settlement of claims adjusted and determined by the Secretary of War, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to make settlement with the lessees who erected buildings on a five-year lease on the zone at Camp Funston, Kansas, and for other purposes,” approved February 26, 1923, $93,599.19. Quartermaster Corps.quartermaster corps Sites for military purposes.Use of balance continued.Vol. 42, pp. 777, 1162.Sites for military purposes: The sum of $1,367,792.47 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $4,140,105.72, and the sum or $25,700 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $769,000, for the fiscal year 1923, for sites for military purposes, provided in the Acts approved July 1, 1922, and January 22, 1923, respectively, shall remain available until June 30, 1926, for the purposes authorized by said Acts. For the purchase of land in the vicinity of and for use in connectionFort Bliss, Tex.Purchase of land.*Ante*, 964. with the present military reservation at Fort Bliss, Texas, authorized by the Act entitled “An Act for the purchase of land adjoining Fort Bliss, Texas,” approved February 24, 1925, fiscal year 1926, $366,000. 1345 Water and sewers at military posts: Not to exceed $15,000 of theWater, sewers, etc., at posts.Extending county system to reserve depot Columbus, Ohio. appropriation for “Waters and sewers ” for the fiscal year 1925 may be expended under the direction of the authorities of Franklin County, Ohio, for extending and connecting the county sewer system to the post sewer system, Columbus General Reserve Depot. Construction and repair of hospitals: For repairs and improvementsWalter Reed Hospital.Repairs to beating plant. to the heating plant at the Walter Reed General Hospital, $17,000. ordnance departmentOrdnance Department. To reimburse the Walsh Construction Company for premiumsWalsh Construction Company.Reimbursement. paid on bonds given under contract with the Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, $2,500. For the equitable distribution of captured war devices andCaptured war devices, etc.Distribution of.*Ante*, p. 597. trophies, under the provisions of an Act approved June 7, 1924, $20,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926. national guardNational Guard. Not to exceed $1,332,000 of the appropriation “Arming, Equipping,Armory drills.Appropriation for 1923, available.Vol. 42, p. 749. and Training the National Guard, 1923,” is made available during the fiscal year 1925 for pay of the National Guard (armory drills). national military parksMilitary Parks. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work ofVirginia battle fields.Expenses of commission on. *Ante*, p. 646. the commission authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the inspection of the battle fields in and around Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia,” approved June 7, 1924, $3,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926. national cemeteriesNational cemeteries. For the care, maintenance, and improvement of the burial groundsZachary Taylor.Care, etc., of memorial to, etc. containing the remains of Zachary Taylor, former President of the United States, and of the memorial shaft erected to his memory, located on the Brownsboro Road in Jefferson County, Kentucky, authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation*Ante*, p. 970. for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the burial grounds containing the remains of Zachary Taylor, former President of the United States, and of the memorial shaft erected to his memory, and for other purposes,” approved February 24, 1925, to remain available until June 30, 1926, $10,000. rivers and harbors River and harbor damage claims: To pay the claims adjustedRiver and harbor collision damages claims. and settled by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, with the approval of the Secretary of War, in accordance with the authorityVol 41, p. 1015. contained in section 9 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act approved June 5, 1920, and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 626, Sixty-eighth Congress, $5,808.75. De Witt and Shobe.Additional contract allowance.Vol. 40, p. 1290. For the amount found to be due De Witt and Shobe, Glasgow, Missouri, under their contracts dated June 12, 1915, being an additional allowance under the provisions of section 10, River and Harbor Act, approved March 2, 1919, for rental value of contractor’s plant, which item was not included in the amount of the previous claim of the contractor as listed in House Document Number 997, Sixty-sixth Congress, $1,052.43. 1346 Building and grounds, D. C.buildings and grounds in and around the district of columbia Washington Monument.Repairs, etc.Washington Monument: For extraordinary repairs and replacement of the elevator and machinery, fiscal year 1925, $30,000. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.national home for disabled volunteer soldiers Support, etc.For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: For “Subsistence,” “Household,” and “Hospital,” at the following branches, including the same objects respectively specified in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925,Subsistence at designated branches.Dayton, Ohio. under each of such heads for the Central Branch, namely: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Subsistence, $12,000; Milwaukee, Wis.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Subsistence, $40,000; Hampton, Va.Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: Subsistence, $25,000. Leavenworth, Kans.Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: Subsistence, $15,000; hospital, $25,000; in all, $40,000; Santa Monica, Calif.Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: Subsistence, $40,000; household, $13,000; in all, $53,000; Marion, Ind.Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: Subsistence, $23,000; Johnson City, Tenn.Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: Subsistence, $20,000; Hot Springs, S. Dak.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: Subsistence, $15,000; In all, support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $228,000. Santa Monica, Calif.Construction of hospital on land of.Pacific Branch: For the construction on land now owned by the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers of a santiary fireproof hospital of a capacity of five hundred beds, $1,500,000. Such hospital shall include all the necessary buildings, with the appropriate mechanical equipment, including service lines and equipment for heat, light, fuel, water, sewage, and gas, roads and age facilities leading thereto, for the accommodation of patients, and storage, laundry, and necessary furniture, equipment, and accessories as may be approved by the Board of Managers ofArchitectural work by Supervising Architect. the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The Secretary of the Treasury, upon request of the Board of Managers, may have all architectural and inspection work in connection with such hospital performed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department and the proper appropriations of that office may be reimbursed from this appropriation on that account. Judgments, United States courts.JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS New River Collieries Company.Interest on Judgment by New Jersey District Court.Vol. 40, p. 279.For payment of interest on judgments rendered against the United States in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, under date of April 15, 1921, in favor of the New River Collieries Company, covering three suits to recover just compensation for coal requisitioned by the Navy Department under section 10 of the Act of August 10, 1917 (in which cases the amounts of the original judgments, $213,100.11, $19,700.91, and $9,279.27, were certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 143, Sixty-eighth*Ante*, p. 54. Congress, and an appropriation for the payment thereof provided in the First Deficiency Act, 1924, approved April 2, 1924), such sum as may be necessary, under the Navy Department, to cover the interest on said judgments at the rate of 6 per cent per annum from the date of judgments, April 15, 1921, until the date of payment, in accordance with the amended judgments in these cases based upon an order of the court under date of March 24, 1924, as fully set forth and certified in House Document Numbered 608, Sixtveighth Congress. 1347 For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costsPayment of other judgments.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 byVol. 36, p. 1137. the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911, certified to the Sixty-eighth Congress by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered 634, and which have not been appealed, namely: Under IndependentClassification. Offices, United States Shipping Board, $6,486.40; under the Department of Labor, $359.50; under the Navy Department, $11,808.62; under the War Department, $8,266.30; in all, $26,920.82, together yith such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interestInterest. on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. For payment of judgments, including costs of suits, renderedJudgment under private Acts, etc. against the Government of the United States, by United States district courts under the provisions of certain private Acts, certified to the Sixty-eighth Congress in House Document Numbered 632 and Senate Documents Numbered 213 and 222, as follows: Under theVol. 42, p. 1774.Vol. 38, p. 1344. War Department, $10,077.10; under the Navy Department, $10,718.59; in all $20,795.69. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. To pay final judgment rendered by United States District CourtNew York southern district.Jens Samuelsen and B. Olsen. for the Southern District of New York, on January 13, 1925, in favor of Jens Samuelsen and B. Olsen (owners of Norwegian bark Thekla) against the United States of America (steamship F. J. Luckenbach), on mandate of the United States Supreme Court, amount of judgment $154,837.96, together with interest thereon at 5 per centum per annum from February 5, 1923, until date of judgment, January 13, 1925, and costs, $15,064.47, amounting in all to $169,902.43, together with further interest at 5 per centum per annum from date of entry, January 13, 1925, until the date of payment, as fully set forth and certified in Senate Document Numbered 214? Sixty-eighth Congress. For payment of judgment, including costs of suit, renderedMassachusetts district.Owners of barge “Havana”.Vol. 42, p. 1794. against the Government of the United States by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the owners of the barge Havana,” approved March 4, 1923 (Forty-second Statutes, part 2, page 1794), certified to the Sixty-eighth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 223, as follows: Under the Navy Department, $5,290.30. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until theRights of appeal. right of appeal shall have expired. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMSJudgments, Court of Claims. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of ClaimsPayment of. and reported to the Sixty-eighth Congress in House Document Numbered 633 and Senate Document Numbered 211, namely: UnderClassification. the Department of Labor, $1,095.54; under the Navy Department, $27,171.85; under the Treasury Department, $12,500; under the War Department, $669,670.29; in all, $710,437.68; together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certainInterest. of the judgments at the legal rate per annum as and where specified in said judgments. None of the judgments contained herein shallRight of appeal. 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.Vol. 18, p. 110. be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus1348 fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1922 and prior years, unless otherwiseVol. 23, p. 254. stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 631, Sixty-eighth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: legislative Capitol power plant.For Capitol power plant, $89.68. independent offices Independent offices.For traveling expenses, Civil Service Commission, $2.31. For salaries and expenses, Federal Board for Vocational Education, 45 cents. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $25,341.87. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $2. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $9,893.27, For increase of compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $12. department of agriculture Department of Agriculture.For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $1.12. For general expenses, Forest Service, $45. department of commerce Department of Commerce.For expenses of the fourteenth census, $766.44. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $1,202.93. For promoting commerce, South and Central America, $49.38. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $2.16. department of the interior Interior DepartmentFor increase of compensation, Department of the Interior, $58.72. For education of natives of Alaska, $183. For expenses, mining experiment stations, Bureau of Mines, $61.32. For Geological Survey, $15. For general expenses, Bureau of Mines, $56.88. For helium exploration and research, Bureau of Mines, $17.94. For helium gas leasing fund, Bureau of Mines, $469.76. For protection of national monuments, $12. For restoration of lands in forest reserves, $37.88. For Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $127.05. For surveying the public lands, $107. For Wind Cave National Park, 99 cents For Indian schools, support, $741.60. For Indian school transportation, $81.71. For support of Indians in Nevada, $16.50. For bridge across Santa Clara River, Shivwitz Reservation, Utah (reimbursable), $637.97. department of justice Department of Justice.For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $30. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $195.67. 1349 department of labor For expenses of regulating immigration, $1,060.21. Department of La. navy department For pay of the Navy, $12,840.88. Navy Department. For aviation, Navy, $19,038.78. For pay, miscellaneous, $1,739.15. For pay, Marine Corps. $2,903.12. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $257.62. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $4,194.69. For gunnery, and engineering exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $5. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $1,119.97. For recreation for enlisted men, Navy, $98.20. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $16.44. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $43,803.41. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $809.61. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $97.80. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,867.40. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $479.69. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $7,028.09. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $30.71. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $19,191.60. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $40. department of state For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $150.84. State Department. For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $324.54. treasury department For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $32.67. Treasury Department. For collecting the revenue from customs, $6.90. For scales for customs service, $26,960. For payment of judgments against collectors of customs, $189.75. For payment or judgments against internal revenue officers, $3,246.62. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $100. For collecting the war revenue, $180.55. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $593.77. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $200. For Coast Guard, $1,402.39. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $256.46. For medical and hospital services, Public Health Service, $1,087.86. For interstate quarantine service, $1.73. For expenses, Division of Venereal Diseases, Public Health Service, $2. For contingent expenses, Assay Office at New York, $2,300. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $1.35. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, 30 cents. For general expenses of public buildings, 88 cents. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $403. 1350 For operating force for public buildings, $598.72. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $11.25. For operating supplies for public buildings, $37.55. war department War Department.For contingent expenses, War Department, $3.42. For increase of compensation, War Department, $15.33. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $73.07. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $77,249.20. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $18.83. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $40,278.22. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $1,705.71. For subsistence of the Army, $37.82. For clothing and equipage, $17.20. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $29.80. For Army transportation, $2,393.39. For barracks and quarters, $1,169.73. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $83,292.20. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $23,076.08. For Signal Service of the Army, $417.57. For Air Service, Army, $133.71. For Ordnance Service, $10,217.91. For proving ground facilities, $108.24. For ordnance stores and supplies, $60.50. For armament of fortifications, $123,555. For Chemical Warfare Service, Army, $6.87. For maintenance, United States Military Academy, $4,938.93. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $1,806.62. For horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, $64.65. For vocational training of soldiers, $322.80. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $8.09. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $4.60. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $7.76. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, $1,427.25. post office department—postal service Post Office Department.For aeroplane service between New York and San Francisco, $9.08. For balances due foreign countries, $5,748.47. For city delivery carriers, $676.90. For clerks, first and second class post offices. $439.32. For compensation to postmasters, $47.10. For indemnities, domestic mail, $65.19. For indemnities, international mail, $293.29. For mail messenger service, $219. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $3. For railroad transportation, $2,811.42. For rent, light, and fuel, $8.33. For shipment of supplies, $49.37. For vehicle service, $26.08. Additional, to meet increases in rates of exchange.Total, audited claims, section 2, $577,808.15, together with such 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 or the General Accounting Office. 1351 AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toPayment of, additional. 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 1922 and prior years unless other-wise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under sectionVol. 23, p. 254. 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 212, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: INDEPENDENT OFFICES For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $21,462.67. Veterans’ Bureau. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $105.03. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $7,342.54. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $4.58. Department of Agriculture. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, 55 cents. Interior Department. For Indian schools, support, $1,395.30. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE For detection and prosecution of crimes, $2,725. Department of Justice. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $363.96. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $71.21. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $162.60. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $6.30. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $1,317.09. NAVY DEPARTMENT For pay of the Navy, $725.07. Navy Department. For organizing the naval reserve force, $351.44. For maintenance, quartermaster’s department, Marine Corps, $6.75. For pay, Marine Corps, $130.50. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $3.73. For aviation, Navy, $100. For pay, miscellaneous, $214. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $116.30. DEPARTMENT OF STATE For salaries, Consular Service, $421.44. State Department. TREASURY DEPARTMENT For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $6.67. Treasury Department. For collecting the revenue from customs, $357.56. For collecting the war revenue, $33.33. 1352 For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, Internal Revenue, $13. For Coast Guard, $293.80. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving, and Printing, $6,080.12. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $823.92. For medical and hospital services, Public Health Service, $119.70. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $164. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $129.50. For operating force for public buildings, $145.24. For operating supplies for public buildings, $6. WAR DEPARTMENT War Department.For registration and selection for military service, $4. For increase of compensation, War Department, 77 cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $21,691.19. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $3.54. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, War with Spain, $25. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $8,714.36. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $307.01. For subsistence of the Army, $25. For clothing and equipage, $7.47. For Army transportation, $747.21. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $3,377.73. For supplies, services, and transportation, $10,488.10. For signal service of the Army, $200.66. For Ordnance Service, $764.48. For ordnance stores and supplies, $72.56. For armament of fortifications, $1,864.18. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $126.17. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT—POSTAL SERVICE Post Office Department.For city delivery carriers, $96.87. For clerks, third-class post offices, $180. For compensation to postmasters, $7.92. For rent, light, and fuel, $37. For vehicle service, $14.59. Additional, to meet increases in rates of exchange.Total, audited claims, section 3, $93,954.71, together with such 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. Sec. 4. Aviation, Navy. For the payment of the claim certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under the appropriation “Aviation, Navy, 1922” (the balance of which has been carried to the surplusVol. 18, p. 110. fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20,Vol. 23, p. 254. 1874), certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 641, Sixty-eighth Congress, fiscal year 1922, $187,000. Audited claims.AUDITED CLAIMS Sec. 5. Payment of additional. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office 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, 1874,1353 and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1922 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in SenateVol. 23, p. 254. Document Numbered 220, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: LEGISLATIVE For public printing and binding, $121.77.Public printing and binding. INDEPENDENT OFFICES For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,455.30.Veterans’ Bureau. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,936.27. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $20.37.Department of Agriculture. For general expenses, Forest Service, $1.37. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE For detection and prosecution of crimes, $9.92. Department of Justice. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR For expenses of regulating immigration, $8. Department of Labor. NAVY DEPARTMENT For pay of the Navy, $542.07. Navy Department. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $59.71. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $82.94. For pay, Marine Corps, $16. TREASURY DEPARTMENT For collecting the revenue from customs, $30. Treasury Department. For operating force for public buildings, $56.10. WAR DEPARTMENT For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $58.65.War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $12,840.84. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $17.64. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $75.98. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $4,135.14. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $426.90. For armament of fortifications, $2.88. For Army transportation, $4.60. For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, $19.80. Total, audited claims, section 5, $21,922.25. Sec. 6. This Act hereafter may be referred to as the “SecondTitle of Act. Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925. ” Approved, March 4, 1925.
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