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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 43 STAT. · June 30, 1924 · Chapter 81

Chapter 81. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 81.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes. April 2, 1924.[[H. R. 7449](/us/bill/68/hr/7449).][[Public, No. 66](/us/pl/68/66).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the followingFirst Deficiency Act, 1924. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. To pay Ida G. Nelson, sole surviving child and heir at law ofKnute Nelson.Pay to daughter. Honorable Knute Nelson, late a Senator from the State of Minnesota, $7,500. To pay Paul Dillingham, sole heir at law of Honorable WilliamWilliam P. Dillingham.Pay to heir.Samuel D. Nicholson.Pay to children. P. Dillingham, late a Senator from the State of Vermont, $7,500. To pay Edward D. Nicholson and Ruth Nicholson Melville, sole surviving children and heirs at law of Honorable Samuel D.
Nicholson, late a Senator from the State of Colorado, $7,500. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriationHenry G. Teigan.Services. for 1924, for compensation for clerical assistance to Senators not chairmen of committees, to Henry G. Teigan for services as clerk rendered Honorable Magnus Johnson, Senator from the State of Minnesota, at the rate of $2,500 per annum, and increase of compensation at the rate of $240 per annum from July 17 to 31, 1923. For payment to James R.
Wick for services rendered the CommitteeJames R. Wick.Services. on the District of Columbia during the investigation of traffic conditions in the District of Columbia, from November 10, 1923, to February 10, 1924, $1,000. For additional salary of the Deputy Sergeant at Arms and storekeeperDeputy Sergeant at Arms, etc. of the Senate for the fiscal year 1924, $860. For payment of expenses incurred by the Sergeant at Arms onFuneral of President Harding. account of attendance of the Committee of Senators at the funeral of the late President Warren G.
Harding, $5,000. For purchase of furniture, $5,000.Furniture. For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, includingStationery. stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $5,000. house of representatives.House of Representatives. To pay the widow of J. C. Cantrill, late a Representative fromJ. C. Cantrill.Pay to widow. the State of Kentucky, $7,500. To pay the mother of H. Garland Dupré, late a RepresentativeH. Garland DupréPay to mother. from the State of Louisiana, $7,500.
To pay the widow of J. V. Ganly, late a Representative from theJ. V. Ganly.Pay to widow. State of New York, $7,500. To pay the widow of B. G. Humphreys, late a RepresentativeB. G. Humphreys.Pay to widow. from the State of Mississippi, $7,500. To pay the widow of Claude Kitchin, late a Representative fromClaude Kitchin.Pay to widow. the State of North Carolina, $7,500. To pay the widow of L. W. Mott, late a Representative from theL. W. Mott.Pay to widow. State of New York, $7,500.
To pay the widow of J. W. Rainey, late a Representative fromJ. W. Rainey.Pay to widow. the State of Illinois, $7,500. 34 D. J. Riordan. Pay to widow.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of D. J. Riordan, late a Representative from the State of New York, $7,500. L. E. Sawyer.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of L. E. Sawyer, late a Representative from the State of Arkansas, $7,500. ’ J. M. C. Smith.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of J. M. C. Smith, late a Representative from the State of Michigan, $7,500.
J. R. Tyson.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of J. R. Tyson, late a Representative from the State of Alabama, $7,500. The foregoing sums shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Aims of the House. Miscellaneous items, special and select committees.Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, fiscal year 1923, $13,086.98. StationeryFor stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Com-missioners, $750.
William Tyler Page.Compiling contested election cases documents.To pay William Tyler Page, Clerk of the House of Representatives, for service in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading proof, indexing testimony, stenography and typewriting, supervision of the work, and expenses incurred in the contested-election Vol. 24, p. 445.cases of the Sixty-eighth Congress, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act relating to contested elections,” approved March 2, 1887, Additional for assistance.$2,483.68; and an additional sum to such persons as were actually engaged in the work, designated by him, and in such proportions as he may deem just for the assistance rendered in the work, $1,516.32; in all, $4,000.
Funeral of President Harding.For payment of expenses incurred by the Sergeant at Arms on account of attendance of the committee of Members of the House of Representatives at the funeral of the late President Warren G. Harding, $5,500. Folding.For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $7,500. public buildings commission.Public Buildings Commission. Expenses.For expenses of the Public Buildings Commission, $10,000, to remain available until expended. architect of the capitol.Architect of the Capitol.
Capitol Power Plant.Lighting the dome.Capitol Power Plant: For the complete installation of the new flood-lighting system for the dome of the Capitol, fiscal year 1923, $5,000. Senate Office Building.New rooms, etc.Senate Office Building: For construction of an additional suite of rooms, including painting, and personal and other services, as authorized by the Senate Committee on Rules, $12,000. Rugs, etc.For the purchase of rugs and repair of old rugs for the Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, $12,500.
EXECUTIVE.Executive. President Harding.Expenses of sickness, death, and burial.To pay the expenses incurred on account of the sickness and death of President Harding, including compensation of physicians, undertakers’ charges, telegraphing, postage, stationery, automobile hire, railroad and Pullman expenses, and other necessary expenses incident to the removal of his remains from San Francisco, California, to Washington, District of Columbia, and thence to Marion, *Proviso*.Restriction.Ohio, $28,000: *Provided*, That only such expenses and services as shall be determined to be just and reasonable and were necessary Time for presenting accounts.shall be paid.
All accounts shall be presented within two months 35from the date of the approval of this Act, and no payment shall be made from this appropriation to any officer or employee of the Government for personal or professional services, these accounts to be paid by the disbursing officer of the White House on vouchers approved by the President. alien property custodian.Alien Property Custodian. To enable the Alien Property Custodian to pay expenses incurredAustro-Hungarian Government.Care of seized property of, etc. and to be incurred in caring for, insuring, and returning to their owners certain valuable works of art, loaned to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition upon request made of the Austrian-Hungarian Government by the Secretary of State, which works of art were seized by the Alien Property Custodian in 1918, and are now to be returned, $8,514.83. american battle monuments commission.American Battle Monuments Commission.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the workExpenses for work of.Vol. 42, p. 1509.*Post*, pp. 522, 1199. of the American Battle Monuments Commission authorized by the Act entitled “An Act for the creation of an American Battle Monuments Commission to erect suitable memorials commemorating the services of the American soldier in Europe, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1923, including the acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign countries for carrying out the purposes of the said Act without submission to the Attorney GeneralTitle to land.R.
S., sec. 355, p. 60. of the United States under the provisions of section 355 of the Revised Statutes; employment of personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the transportation of, mileage of, reimbursement of actual travel expenses or per diem in lieu thereof to the personnel engaged upon the work of the commission, as authorized by law; the establishment of offices and the rent ofOffices, etc., in foreign countries. office space in foreign countries; printing, engraving, lithographing, binding, photographing, and typewriting; and the actual expenses of the members of the commission and its secretary, $95,750, to remain available until June 30, 1925: *Provided*, That not exceeding*Provisos.*Allowance for prior expenses. $1,600 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available to meet such expenses of the commission as may have been incurred since March 4, 1923, and prior to the passage of this Act, as may be approved by the chairman of the commission: *Provided further*, That when traveling with the commission or on the businessTravel expenses of Army officers. of the commission officers of the Army serving as members or as secretary of the commission shall lie reimbursed for actual expenses as provided for other members of the commission: *Provided further*, That disbursements for expenditures outside of continentalSpecial disbursing agent abroad.
United States may be made by a special disbursing agent designated by the commission and under such regulations as it may prescribe. federal board for vocational education.Federal Board for Vocational Education. Cooperative vocational education in agricultural education: ForAgricultural education. an additional amount to enable the Federal Board for Vocational Education to comply with the requirements of the Act entitledVol. 39, p. 930. “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education,” approved February 23, 1917, $27,502.12.
Cooperative vocational education in trade, home economics, andTrade, home economics, and industrial education. industrial education: For an additional amount to enable the Federal Board for Vocational Education to comply with the requirements of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education,” approved February 23, 1917, $48,179.97. 36 united states housing corporation.Housing Corporation. Government hotels, D. C.Ground rent.Government hotels, Washington, District of Columbia:
For ground rent for squares 632, 681, and part of 680, in the District of Columbia, occupied by the Government hotels from and including November 15, 1922, as follows: Fiscal year 1923, $46,653; Fiscal year 1924, $74,315. united states veterans’ bureau.Veterans’ Bureau. Vocational rehabilitation.Expenses of, for discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, p. 617; Vol. 42, p. 1244.Vocational rehabilitation: For carrying out the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June 27, 1918, as amended, *Provisos.*Army camps restriction.fiscal year 1923, $900,000: *Provided*, That no part of the foregoing sum shall be used for the establishment, maintenance, or operation of training schools at any Army camp or cantonment acquired for use as a training center, except Camp Sherman, Limit on construction work.Chillicothe, Ohio: *Provided further*, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall lie expended for construction work except necessary repairs.
Hospitals, etc., for World War patients, etc.Vol. 42, p. 496.Hospital facilities and services: For further carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation to enable the Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau to provide for the construction of additional hospital facilities and to provide medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for persons who served in the World War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine insurrection, and the Boxer rebellion, and are patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau,” approved April 20, 1922, $5,000,000, for which the Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, subject to the approval of the President, was authorizedVol. 42, p. 507. to incur obligations by an Act entitled “An Act making an appropriation for additional hospital facilities for patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau,” approved May 11, 1922.
Damages to private property.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the United Vol. 42, p. 1066.States Veterans’ Bureau, 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 183, reported to Congress at its present session, $626.16.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. executive office.Executive office. Plumbing inspectors, etc.Plumbing inspection division: For temporary employment of additional inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, $2,000. rent commission.Rent Commission. Salaries and expenses.Vol. 41, p. 298; Vol. 42, pp. 200,543.Rent Commission, District of Columbia: For salaries and expenses authorized by section 103, Title II, of the Food Control and the District of Columbia Rents Act, approved October 22, 1919, as amended by the Act approved August 24, 1921, extending the Rent 37Commission until May 22, 1922, and the Act approved May 22, 1922, extending the said commission until May 22, 1924, $4,040. contingent and miscellaneous expenses.
For printing copies of zoning regulations, zoning maps andPrinting zoning regu1ations, etc. atlases, stationery, clerical assistance, preparation of zoning studies and reports, to remain available until June 30, 1925, $1,500. For printing a revised edition of the building code, $2,000.Building code. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toRemoving dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923. authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings, and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1899, to pay such member of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or the neglect of the owners so to do, $8,400.
For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $1,600.Recorder of deeds.Office rent. public convenience stations.Public convenience stations. For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensationMaintenance. of necessary employees, $3,000. sewers.Sewers. For assessment and permit work, $100,000.Assessment and permit work. police and firemen’s relief fund.Police, etc., relief fund. To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, aPayments from. further sum not to exceed $85,000 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. public schools.Public schools.
For allowance to principals of grade school buildings, for servicesPrincipals of grade school buildings.Vol. 34, p. 320. rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, $17,390. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb personsDeaf and dumb instruction. admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as[R.
S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Vol. 31, p. 844. provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $2,750. To complete construction of the Bancroft School, an eight-roomBancroft School.Completing. extensible building in the Ingleside section. $22,260. For the erection of an eight-room extensible building betweenRaymond School.Construction. Georgia Avenue and Sixteenth Street northwest, north of Park Road (Raymond School), $10,000. metropolitan police.Police.
For heating plant for head house, located on Wharf NumberedHarbor police quarters 6, Washington Channel, Potomac River front, to be used as quarters for the Harbor Police Precinct, $1,700. 38 courts.Courts. Supreme court.Miscellaneous expenses.Supreme Court, District of Columbia: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years:
For 1922, $39.41; For 1923, $2,024.53; For 1924, $21,000. Support of convicts.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, fiscal year 1923, $10,105.58; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. board of charities.Board of Charities.
Children’s Hospital.Children’s Hospital: For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Board of Charities with the Children’s Hospital, $5,000. judgments. Payment of Judgments.For payments of the judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in House Document Numbered 170 of the present session, $3,720.28, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same become due until date of payment.
Proportion from District revenues, etc.Sixty per centum of the foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwise therein specifically provided, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States. water department.Water Department. Extending distributing systems.For extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $50,000, to be paid from the revenues of the water department. gallinger municipal hospital.Gallinger Hospital.
Employment of expert service.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to employ necessary expert services, and pay traveling and other expenses in connection with the study, criticism, and revision of the existing plans for the development of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, from appropriations provided for the erection of said hospital at a cost not exceeding $2,500. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Agricultural Department. office of the secretary.Secretary’s Office.
American University.Rent.For an additional amount required to pay rental to the trustees of American University for use of the fixed nitrogen research laboratory for the fiscal year 1924, $10,000, to be paid from the 39funds transferred from the War Department to the Department of Agriculture. General expenses, Office of Experiment Stations: For necessaryGuam.Repairing typhoon expenses to repair damage by typhoon to buildings, fences, and so forth, of the agricultural experiment station on the island of Guam, $3,500. forest service.Forest Service.
General expenses: For fighting and preventing forest fires,Fighting forest fires.*Proviso*.Kaibab Forest and Grand Canyon Park. $55,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $6,000 of this amount shall be used in meeting an emergency caused by insects on the Kaibab National Forest and in the Grand Canyon National Park. Insect infestations: The appropriation of $150,000 provided byInsect infestations, Oregon and California.Appropriation available.Vol. 42, pp. 331, 1156.*Post*, p. 1325. the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1922, approved December 15, 1921, and continued available through the calendar year ending December 31, 1923, by the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved January 22, 1923, for the prevention of loss of timber from insect infestations on public lands in Oregon and California, shall remain available until December 31, 1924.
Protection of the so-called Oregon and California railroad lands andOregon-California railroad lands, etc.Fire protection, etc., of revested.Vol. 39, p. 218. Coos Bay wagon road lands: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the land revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916, and the lands known asCoos Bay Wagon Road lands. 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, $11,900. bureau of entomology.Entomology Bureau.
Preventing spread of moths: To enable the Secretary of AgricultureGipsy moths.Preventing spread of. to meet the emergency caused by the continued spread of the gipsy moth by conducting field control operations in the New England States, New York, and New Jersey, in cooperation with the States concerned, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere and all other necessary expenses, $70,000. bureau of agricultural economics.Agricultural Economics Bureau.
Enforcement of the United States Cotton Standards Act: ToCotton Standards Act.Enforcement of.Vol. 42, p. 1517. enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the United States Cotton Standards Act, including the payment of such rent outside of the District of Columbia and the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $25,550: *Provided*, That any moneys received from or*Proviso*.Reuse of money from sales, etc. in connection with the sale of cotton now on hand or purchased for the preparation of any official cotton standards, and condemned, or from the sale of cotton standards prepared from cotton now on hand or purchased, may be used as authorized by section 6 of said Act.
Administration of the United States Warehouse Act: To enableWarehouse Act.Administration of.Vol. 39, p. 486; Vol. 42, p. 1282. the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the United States Warehouse Act, approved August 11, 1916, as amended by the Act of February 23, 1923, including the payment of such rent outside of the District of Columbia and the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $10,000. 40 bureau of public roads.Public Roads Bureau.
Payment of damage claim.Vol. 42, p. 1066.Damage claim: To pay the claim for damage to 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 191, reported to Congress at its present session,Vol. 39, p. 355. $196.93, to be paid from the administrative allotment provided in the Federal Aid Road Act of July 11, 1916, as amended. collection of seed grain loans.Seed grain loans.
Collections of, from farmers.Vol. 41, p. 1347; Vol. 42, p. 467.For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect moneys due the United States on account of loans made under the seed-grain loan provisions of the Act of March 3, 1921, and the seed-grain loan Act of March 20, 1922, including the employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere as may be necessary, $13,000. eradication of foot-and-mouth disease.Contagious diseases of animals.
Expenses for eradicating designated.For personal services and other expenditures in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in connection with the arrest and eradication*Post*, pp. 110, 458. of foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious disease of animals, includingPayment of claims for animals destroyed. the payment of claims growing out of past and future purchases and destruction, in cooperation with the States, of animals affected by or exposed to, or of materials contaminated by or exposed to, any such disease, wherever found and irrespective of ownership, under like or substantially similar circumstances, when such owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations, and including necessary investigations to determine whether such diseases have been completely eradicated in districts where they previously existed, $1,000,000, to be expended by the Secretary of Agriculture, when, in his judgment, an emergency exists which threatens the livestock industry of the country, and to remain available until June 30, 1925: *Proviso*Appraisement of values.*Provided*, That the payment for animals hereafter purchased may be made on an appraisement based on the meat, dairy, or breeding value, but in case of appraisement based on breeding value no appraisement of any animal shall exceed three times its meat or dairy value, and except in case of an extraordinary emergency, to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, the payment by the United States Government for any animal shall not exceed one-half of any such appraisements.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. printing and binding.Printing and binding. Allowance from rubber investigations appropriation..Vol. 42, p. 153.Not to exceed $20,000 of the appropriation “Investigating sources of crude rubber, Department of Commerce, 1923 and 1924,” is hereby made available for printing and binding for the Department of Commerce. bureau of standards.Standards Bureau. Altitude chambers.Replacement of altitude chambers: For replacement of the altitude chambers, equipment, and accessories for experimental work on 41internal-combustion engines, recently damaged by explosion, includingReplacing damages to, by explosion. provisions for safety in operation, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $72,000.
Automotive power plants, their fuels, lubricants, and accessories:Automotive power plants, etc.Investigation of basic principles underlying, etc. For the promotion of economy and efficiency in automotive transportation by land and by air through investigations of the basic principles underlying the design, performance, operation, and testing of automotive engines, their fuels, lubricants, accessories, and the power transmitting system in connection with them, also such elements as brakes and brake linings; to promote economy in the use of liquid fuels and safety in vehicular traffic; including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000.
Damage claim: To pay the claim for damage to privately ownedPayment of damage claim.Vol. 42, p. 1066. property adjusted and determined by the Department of Commerce 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 127, reported to Congress at its present session, $294.25. bureau of lighthouses.Lighthouses Bureau.
Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crewsLighthouse vessels.Salaries, etc. of fight vessels and lighthouse tender’s, including temporary employments when necessary, $70,000. Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engagedRetired pay. in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $12,000. Damage claims: Do pay claims adjusted and determined by theDamage claims.Payment of 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 damage occasioned to private property by collision with vessels of the Lighthouse Service and for which the vessels of the Lighthouse Service were responsible, certified to the present Congress in House Document Numbered 129, $262.09. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. Damage claims: To pay the claim adjusted and determined byCollision damage claims.Vol. 41, p. 1054. 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 to the present Congress in House Document Numbered 128, $20.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. office of the secretary.Secretary’s Office. Care and custody of the insane of Alaska: For care and custodyAlaska insane. of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, fiscal year 1923, $500: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Sanitarium Company. authority is granted to the Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland. Oregon, not to exceed $600 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1923. bureau of pensions.Pensions Bureau.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, forExamining surgeons. services rendered within the following fiscal years: For 1923, $40,000; For 1924, $260,000. 42 office of indian affairs.Indian Office. Purchase and transportation of supplies.Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies: For expenses necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith, including advertising, storage, and transportation of Indian goods and supplies, for the following fiscal years:
For 1923, $21,126.28; For 1922, $9,102.03. Omaha Indians.Court costs in case of.Court costs, case of Omaha Indians against United States (tribal funds): For the balance of court costs incurred in the case of the Omaha Tribe of Indians against, the United States, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, June 1, 1920, $44.90, payable from the tribal funds of the Omaha Indians. Walter Runke.Reimbursement to.Reimbursement to Walter Runke: For payment to Walter Runke, former superintendent of the Western Navajo Indian Agency, Arizona, as authorized by the Act of February 26, 1923, $3,999.52.
Wind River Reservation, Wyo.Payment to Indians of.Payment to Indians of Wind River Reservation, Wyoming: For making payments to Indians of the Wind River Reservation, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to ratify and amend an agreement with the Indians residing on the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation in the State of Wyoming, and to make appropriations for carrying the same into effect,” approved Vol. 33, p. 1021.March 3, 1905 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 1021), $50, reimbursable from the receipts from the sale of the lands ceded and relinquished pursuant to such Act.
Chippewas in Minnesota.Tubercular sanatorium for. from principal sum to their credit.Tuberculosis sanatorium for Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): For repairing and remodeling of Indian school buildings at Onigum, Minnesota, for the purpose of converting same into a tubercular sanatorium for the benefit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, and for the maintenance and operation of said sanatorium, $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925, and to be paid from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of Vol. 25, p. 645.said Indians arising under section 7 of the Act approved January 14, 1889, entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota.
” Gila River Reservation, Ariz.Completing dam, etc., for diverting river for irrigating Indian lands, etc., in.Gila River Reservation, Arizona: For completing the construction by the Indian Service of a dam with a bridge superstructure and the necessary controlling works for diverting water from the Gila River for the irrigation of Indian land and Indian allotments on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as recommended by the Board of Engineers of the United States Army in paragraph 217 of its report to the Secretary of War of February 14, 1914, Repayment.$300,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925, reimbursable as Vol. 37, p. 522.provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522).
Chilocco, Okla.Rebuilding bam, etc., at school.Chilocco Indian School, Chilocco, Oklahoma: For rebuilding and reequipping the horse barn at the Chilocco Indian School, Chilocco, Oklahoma, which was destroyed by lire on February 14, 1924, $12,000; and for the replacement of horses, mules, harness, and feed, $5,000; in all, $17,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925, $17,000. national park service. Yellowstone, Wyo.Repairing Hood damages.Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming:
For repairing damage caused by flood washouts to roads, bridges, and retaining walls in Yellowstone National Park and to the road leading out of the park from the east boundary, $27,700. 43 For amounts found due on account of the appropriations enumeratedUnpaid accounts. below for the fiscal years named, as follows: I. M. Chance, Glacier National Park, 1919, $72;Glacier. Grand Canyon Railway Company, Grand Canyon National Park,Grand Canyon. 1921, $60.15; California Hardware Company, Grand Canyon National Park, 1922, $33.69;
Fred Harvey, Grand Canyon Nation al Park, 1922, $595.28; Grand Canyon Railway Company, Grand Canyon National Park, 1922, $939.84; In all, $1,700.96. bureau of education.Education Bureau. Education of natives of Alaska: Of any unexpended balances ofAlaska.Educating natives.Use of balances. appropriation for specific objects included under the appropriation “Education of natives of Alaska, 1923 and 1924,” a sum not exceeding $12,000 may be applied to the payment of “Freight, including operation of the United States ship Boxer,” in addition to the $19,000 allotted for that purpose for that year. the alaska railroad.Alaska Railroad.
For expenses of maintenance and operation of railroads in theMaintenance and operation. Territory of Alaska (in excess of revenues) during the fiscal year*Proviso*.Hotel construction forbidden. 1924, $245,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended for construction of hotels. For bridge renewals, including filling old trestles, tie renewals,Repairs, renewals, etc.*Post*, p. 1332. ballasting, bank widening, riprapping, reconstruction of telegraph line, and for additional rolling stock, $865,000, to remain available until December 31, 1924. bureau of reclamation.Reclamation Bureau.
Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses ofPayment of property damage claims. privately owned property adjusted and determined by the DepartmentVol. 42, p. 1066. of the Interior 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 151, reported to*Proviso*.Payments from reclamation fund.
Congress at its present session, $612.85: *Provided*, That claims 1 and 3 shall be paid out of the “reclamation fund.” DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. contingent expenses. For miscellaneous expenditures to cover the payment of telegraphContingent expenses. and telephone bills, fiscal year 1923, $3,226.13. miscellaneous objects. Books for judicial officers: For books for judicial officers, includingBooks for Judicial officers. the same objects specified under this head in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the following fiscal years:
For 1918, $6; For 1920, $8.75; For 1921, $14. 44 Defending suits in claims.Defending suits in claims: For defending suits in claims against the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $526.25. Traveling, etc., expenses.Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718.General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of section 3648, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, fiscal year 1923, $684.68. Federal American National Bank.Payments to, authorized.Detection and prosecution of crimes: The appropriation “Detection and prosecution of crimes for the fiscal year 1923” is made available for the payment of $500 to the Federal American National Bank for the rental, under contract, of rooms used by special agents of the bureau of investigation during the months of April and May, 1923, and the General Accounting Office is hereby authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of the disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice like payments made by him for the months of November, 1922, to March, 1923, inclusive. judicial.Judicial.
Retired Judges.Vol. 40, p. 1157.Retired judges: For salaries of judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code, fiscal year 1923, $3,923.16. Marshals.Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals: For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $408.44. District attorneys.Salaries and expenses of district attorneys: For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States *Proviso*.Per diem in lieu of subsistence.district attorney, fiscal year 1923, $18,754.28: *Provided*, That United States district attorneys and their regular assistants may be granted a per diem of not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, instead of, but under the conditions prescribed for, the present allowance for actual expenses of subsistence.
Commissioners.Fees of commissioners: For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1919, $155.85; For 1920, $740.25; For 1921, $1,909.70; For 1922, $21,553.02. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts: For miscellaneous expenses of United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts making appropriations for the *Proviso*.Expenses authorized.Department of Justice for the following fiscal years: *Provided.* That the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated for “miscellaneous expenses, United States Courts,” shall be available for expenses properly chargeable thereto when authorized or approved for payment by the Attorney General:
For 1920, $219.24; For 1923, $31,998.49. penal institutions. Support of prisoners.Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts 45making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the following fiscal years: For 1916, $40; For 1919, $276; For 1923, $60,053.93. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the erection of a factoryPenitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.Constructing factory, etc.*Ante*, p. 7.*Post*, p. 1032. or factories, and other buildings as may be necessary and for the purchase of suitable equipment and machinery for the manufacture of shoes, brooms, and brushes, $200,000 as authorized by the Act of February 11, 1924, to remain available during the fiscal year 1925.
For working capital, as authorized by the Act of February 11,Working capital.*Ante*, p. 7.*Proviso*.Use as revolving fund.*Post*, p. 1032. 1924, $250,000: *Provided*, That the said working capital fund and the receipts credited thereto may be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal years 1924 and 1925. Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For drilling wells andMcNeil Island, Wash.Water supply.*Post*, p. 1032. providing necessary storage facilities for water, $60,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925.
For the construction of a scow and gridiron for the same, $4,500.Scow, etc. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. bureau of immigration.Immigration Bureau. Ellis Island, New York, Immigrant Station: For emergent alterations,Ellis Island Immigrant Station.Emergent alterations, etc. repairs, and remodeling of buildings, including the purchase of supplies and equipment incident thereto, $326,000. For refund to French Line, New York City, of immigration fineFrench Line.Refund. erroneously assessed and collected in the case of the alien Pasquale Fabbri, $200.
For refund to Cunard Steamship Company (Limited), NewCunard Steamship Company.Refund. York City, of immigration fine erroneously assessed and collected in the case of the alien Toni A. Alanciks, $200. For refund to East Asiatic Company (Incorporated), San Francisco,East Asiatic Company.Refund. California, agents of the steamship Bolivia. of immigration fines erroneously assessed and collected in the case of forty-three alien seamen, $430. For refund to Cunard Steamship Company (Limited), New YorkCunard Steamship Company.Refund.
City, of immigration fine erroneously assessed and collected in the case of the alien Michael Fargen, $25. Damage claim: To pay the claim for damage to privately ownedDamages to private property.Payment of claim.Vol. 42, p. 1066. property adjusted and determined by the Department of Labor 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 106, reported to Congress at its present session, $1,000. employment service.Employment service.
For expenses of the Employment Service, including the sameExpenses. objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $125.29. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. The appropriation of $6,500,000 for making changes in the turretBattleships.Repeal of authority for turret-gun changes.Vol. 42, p. 1544, repealed. guns of certain battleships so as to increase the range of such guns, contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved March 4, 1923, is hereby repealed. 46 bureau of navigation.Navigation Bureau.
Gunnery and engineering exercises.Gunnery and engineering exercises: For prizes, trophies, and badges for excellency in gunnery, target practice, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, $24,300. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. out of the postal revenues.Postal service. office of postmaster general.Postmaster General’s office. Damages to private property.Payment of claims for.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 107, 113, 142, and 180, reported to Congress at its present session, $20,313.06. Department contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Post Office Department:
For miscellaneous items, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924. $12,000. Washington, D. C., post office.Reimbursement for heat, light, and power furnished to.City Post Office Building, Washington, District of Columbia: For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street.
District of Columbia, fiscal year 1923, $2,592.20. Rewards for inventions.Payment for prior improvements.Vol. 42, p. 1250.Rewards to postal employees for inventions: Not exceeding $730 of the appropriation for “Rewards to postal employees for inventions” for the fiscal year 1924, may be expended for payment by the Postmaster General of a cash reward for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an improvement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Postal Service submitted by one or more employees of the Post Office Department or the *Proviso*.Certificate required.Postal Service during the fiscal years 1920, 1921, and 1922: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General shall certify that the invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions, was adopted for use and effected a material economy or increased efficiency. office of chief inspector.Chief Inspector’s office.
Payment of rewards.Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, including the same objects specified under this head in Post Office Department Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1922, $40,000; For 1923, $25,000. office of first assistant postmaster general.First Assistant Post-master General. Postmasters.For compensation to postmasters for the following fiscal years:
For 1922, $101,985.44; For 1923, $1,205,416.57. Clerks, etc.For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class post offices, including substitutes for clerks and employees absent without pay, $3,600,000. 47 For compensation to watchmen, messengers, and laborers, $506,250.Watchmen, etc.Temporary, auxiliary, and substitute clerks. For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices as follows:
Fiscal year 1924, $2,000,000; Fiscal year 1923, $543,768.14. For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post officesMiscellaneous. of the first and second classes, $65,557. For pay of letter carriers at offices already established, includingCity delivery.Carriers. substitutes for letter carriers absent without pay, City Delivery Service, as follows: Fiscal year 1924, $3,375,000; For fiscal year 1923, $192,571.20. For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, andSubstitute, etc., carriers. of auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices where city delivery is already established, as follows:
Fiscal year 1924. $1,000,000; Fiscal year 1923, $843,413.82. For fees to special-delivery messengers, fiscal year 1923, $59,336.03.Special delivery fees. For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles,Vehicle allowances. and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, includingWagon service. stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of. screen wagon and city delivery and collection service, $400,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement*Proviso*.Garage leases. of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned automobiles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years. office of second assistant postmaster general.Second Assistant Postmaster General.
For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, orForeign mails. otherwise, $800,000. For balances due foreign countries, as follows:Balance due foreign countries. Fiscal year 1923, $515,350; Fiscal year 1922, $235,000. office of third assistant postmaster general.Third Assistant Post-master General. For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of registered articlesIndemnity, international mails. in the international mails, in accordance with convention stipulations. fiscal year 1921, $10,000.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. relief and protection of american seamen. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,Relief, etc., of American seamen. including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $4,311.31. transporting remains of diplomatic and consular officers, consular assistants, and clerks to their homes for interment. For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomaticBringing home remains of officers. and consular officers of the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary for the fiscal year 1923, $1,675.74. 48 international radiotelegraphic conventions.International Radiotelegraphic conventions.
Additional contribution.For an additional amount to meet the share of the United States, as a party to the International Radiotelegraphic Conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1922 and 1923, $2.439.76; for 1923 and 1924, $3,500. embassy building and grounds, paris, france.Paris, France. Embassy building.Acquiring, furnishing, etc.For the acquisition in accordance with the Acts approved February 17, 1911, and March 3, 1923, of a site and building or buildings Vol. 41, p. 1214;
Vol. 42, p. 1483.in Paris, France, to be used as the American Embassy, and for the repair, alteration, and furnishing of said building or buildings, $150,000, in addition to the amount already appropriated. international railway congress.International Railway Congress. Payment of quota.To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member of the International Railway Congress, $400. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.International Bureau Permanent Arbitration Court.
Additional contribution.For an additional amount to meet the share of the United States of the expenses for the calendar year 1922 of the International BureauVol. 32, p. 1793. of the Permanent Court of Arbitration created under article 22 of the convention concluded at The Hague, July 29, 1899, $575. international sanitary bureau. International Sanitary Bureau.For an additional amount to meet the annual share of the United States for the maintenance of the International Sanitary Bureau, $154.29. cape spartel light, coast of morocco.
Cape Spartel Light.For annual proportion of expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, $136. international institute of agriculture at rome, italy.International Institute of Agriculture. Expenses of delegates to general assembly.For expenses of delegates to the general assembly of the International Institute of Agriculture, to be held at Rome during the Additional membership quotas.year 1924, $10,045, to be expended under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of State, and for the payment of additional quotas of the United States incident to the admission of Hawaii, the Philippines, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to membership in the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, $5,000, *Proviso*.Travel on American ships required.in all, $15,045, to remain available until June 30, 1925: *Provided, *That no part of this appropriation shall be used for travel pay of any person unless said person travels on United States ships.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. division of bookkeeping and warrants.Bookkeeping and Warrants Division. Contingent expenses, public moneys.Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for [R. S. sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public moneys, and so forth, including the same objects specified under 49this head in the Acts making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the following fiscal years, respectively:
For 1922, $323.34; For 1923, $2,175.63; For 1924, $50,000. Recoinage of minor coins.Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $15,000. public debt service.Public Debt Service.
Distinctive paper for United States securities: For additionalDistinctive paper for securities.Additional quantities authorized. amount necessary to complete the purchase of one hundred and seventy-three million two hundred and fifty thousand sheets of United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, including salaries of employees, transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, $276,827.35.Temporary employees authorized.
During such period as it may be necessary to operate more than one mill for the manufacture of distinctive paper the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to employ temporarily such employees as may be necessary at rates of pay corresponding to those of the regular employees, the expenses of any such temporary employees to be a charge against the appropriation available for the distinctive paper then manufactured. customs service. For collecting the revenue from customs, including the detectionCollecting customs revenue. and prevention of fraud upon the customs revenue, as follows:
Fiscal year 1923, $60,000; Fiscal year 1924, $1,110,000. federal farm loan bureau.Federal Farm Loan Bureau. For salaries of two additional members of the Federal Farm LoanAdditional Board members.Vol.42, pp. l473,1563. Board, appointed under authority of the Act of March 4, 1923, fiscal year 1923, $4,055.57. For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officersContingent expenses. and employees; per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4: and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including books of reference and maps, and exclusive of stationery and printing and binding, payable from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks, $5,000. bureau of internal revenue.Internal revenue.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money coveredRefunding collections.Vol. 35, p. 320. into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May 27, 1908, $242,000. Refunding taxes illegally collected: For refunding taxes illegallyRefunding Illegally collected taxes.Vol. 42, p. 314. collected under the provisions of sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Acts of February 24, 1919, and November 23, 1921, including the payment of prior year claims,*Proviso*.Report to Congress.Vol. 41, p. 1145;
Vol. 42, p. 314. $105,467,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by the Acts of February 24, 1919, and November 23, 1921. 50 Rent, D.C.Allowance for, from collecting internal revenue taxes, 1924.Vol. 42, p. 1097.The appropriation “Collecting the internal revenue, 1924” is made available for rental, care, maintenance, and protection of quarters in the District of Columbia, including such alterations and repairs to rented quarters as may be necessary, in an amount not exceeding $23,500, provided suitable or adequate space can not be assigned to the Bureau of Internal Revenue by the Public Buildings *Proviso*.Care, etc., of buildings.Commission in Government-owned buildings under its control: *Provided.* That the superintendent State, War, and Navy Department Buildings shall be responsible for the care, maintenance, and protection of such buildings as may be so rented. coast guard.Coast Guard.
Additional motor boats, vessels, etc., transferred from Navy, etc.For additional motor boats and their equipment for the use of the Coast Guard in enforcing the laws of the United States and in performing the duties with which the Coast Guard is charged, to be constructed or purchased in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for repairs or alterations to or for equipping and placing in commission vessels or boats transferred from the Navy Department to the Treasury Department for the use of the Coast Guard, $12,194,900, to remain available until June 30, 1925;
Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, cadets and cadet engineers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks and surfmen, substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, $945,179; Rations.For rations or commutation thereof for petty officers and other enlisted men, $80,701; Fuel, etc.For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $170,783; Outfits, stores, etc.For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, $265,351;
Radio equipment for ice patrol service, etc.For additional amount required for the purchase and installation of improved radio equipment for international ice patrol service, $24,000, and for experimental work in developing apparatus to locate icebergs, $10,000; in all $34,000; to remain available until December 31, 1924; Stations, houses of refuge, etc.For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including the use of additional land where necessary, $24, 775;
Death allowances.Vol. 41, p. 825.For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920, as follows: Fiscal year 1923, $1,728; Fiscal year 1924, $2,500; Traveling expenses. For mileage, and expenses allowed by law, for officers, and actual traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $100,000; Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this heading in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1924, $56,333:
Commandant’s office.Additional employees to June 30, 1924.Office of the commandant: For additional employees from April 1 to June 30, 1924, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Ship draftsman, at $2,400; engineer draftsman, at $2,400; clerks—eight of class 3, twelve of class 2, five of class 1; in all, $10,100; Payment of damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1006.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Treasury Department, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the 51Government 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 154, reported to Congress at its present session, $657.07.
In all, Coast Guard, $13,887,007.07. bureau of engraving and printing.Engraving and Printing Bureau. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,Additional work authorized.Vol. 42, p. 1099. during the fiscal year 1924 of not exceeding twenty-seven million delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency in addition to the. number of sheets of currency of this character authorized in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1924, as follows:
For salaries of all necessary employees, other than plate printersSalaries. and plate printers’ assistants, $267,975; to lie expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. 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 wages of printers’ assistants when employed. $195,750; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. The limitation in the Treasury Department Appropriation ActOpium orders and stamps sheets increased.Vol. 42, p. 1099. for the fiscal year 1924 as to the number of delivered sheets of opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, is hereby increased from eight hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred sheets to two million eight hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred sheets, and the limitationInternal-revenue stamps sheets reduced.Vol. 42, p. 1099. on the number of delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps is hereby reduced from one hundred and two million two hundred and forty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty-five sheets to one hundred million two hundred and forty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty-five sheets. public health service.Public Health Service.
Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privatelyPayment of claims for private property damages.Vol. 42, p. 1066. owned property adjusted and determined by the Treasury 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 Document Numbered 154, reported to Congress at its present session, $52.25. mints and assay offices.
Boise, Idaho, assay office: For incidental and contingent expenses,Boise, Idaho, assay office. $300. public buildings.Public buildings. Boston, Massachusetts, appraisers’ stores: For improvements toBoston, Mass.Appraisers’ stores. dock and construction of storage house, $3,500. Operating supplies for public buildings: For fuel, steam, gasOperating supplies. for lighting and heating purposes, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $105,000. marine hospitals.Marine hospitals.
Key West, Florida, Marine Hospital: For wells, pump, pumpKey West, Fla.Water supply, etc. house, electric feeders, pneumatic-pressure tank, piping and fittings, to provide water supply for plumbing and for fire protection, $5,500. 52 WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. office of judge advocate general.Judge Advocate General’s office. Experts, etc., for patent Infringement suits.For the employment of such experts and other employees as may be required by the Judge Advocate General of the Army for the preparation of evidence for use in behalf of the Government in suits filed in Federal courts on account of alleged patent infringements and for necessary per diem and traveling expenses in connection therewith, as authorized by law, $35,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps.
Water, sewers, etc., at posts.Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducing water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situations require to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto; for repair to water and sewer systems and plumbing; for hire of employees; $55,000, to remain available until June 30, 1925.
Camp Knox, Ky.Acquiring land.Camp Knox, Kentucky: For acquisition of land at Camp Knox, Kentucky, including the payment of judgments in condemnation, $180,000. Fort Eustis, Va.Acquiring land.Fort Eustis, Virginia: For the completion of the acquisition of land at Fort Eustis, Virginia, under the authority of the Act of Vol. 41, p. 454.February 28, 1920, including the payment of judgments in condemnation, $20,000. Scott Field, Ill.Right of way.Vol. 41, p. 455.Scott Field, Illinois:
For completing the acquisition of a right of way at Scott Field, Illinois, under the authority contained in the Act of February 28, 1920. $150. Muscle Shoals, Ala.Land for nitrate plant.Nitrate plant numbered 2. Muscle Shoals. Alabama: For the completion of the acquisition of land at United States nitrate plant numbered 2, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, $4,200. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. Headstones for soldiers’ graves.Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the military and non-military activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes,” $107,852.
For American dead in Europe.For furnishing and erecting headstones for the graves of American soldiers in Europe, $548,550, to remain available until expended:*Proviso*.Design and material. *Provided*, That the headstones furnished hereunder shall be of such design and material as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of War and the American Battle Monuments Commission. Natchez, Miss.Roadway to cemetery.Repairing roads to national cemeteries: For completing repairs to the roadway to the Natchez National Cemetery, Mississippi, $36,292, to remain available until June 30, 1925. engineer department.Engineer Department.
River and harbor collision damages claims.Vol. 41, p. 1015.River and harbor damage claims: To pay the claims adjusted and settled by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, with the approval of the Secretary of War, in accordance with the au53thority contained in section 9 of the River and Harbor Appropriation*Proviso*.Claim barred. Act, approved June 5, 1920, and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 189 of the present session, $1,574.92: *Provided, *That no part of this sum shall be used to pay the claim designated
(b)in such document. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and grounds, D. C. To pay the J. Maury Dove Company, the value of the bulkhead,J. Maury Dove Company.Payment to. structures, and improvements of the said company on lands of the United States in square west of square numbered 9 in the District of Columbia, as set forth in the decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia entered July 24, 1923, $9,505.08. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers:Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, S. Dak. For “Current expenses,” “Subsistence,” and “Hospital,” at the Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota, including the same objects respectively specified in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924 under each of such heads for the Central Branch, namely: For current expenses, $4,000; For subsistence, $13,000; For hospital, $5,000; In all, $22,000. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costsPayment of.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 amendedVol. 36, p. 1137. by the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911, certified to Congress during the present session by the Attorney General in Senate Document Numbered 69 and House Document Numbered 146, and which have not been appealed, namely:Classification. Under the Department of Agriculture, $9,010.20; Under the Department of Commerce, $7,500; Under the Department of Justice, $2,000; Under the Department of Labor, $3,074.30; Under the Navy Department, $19,564.38; Under the Treasury Department, $4,488.69; Under the War Department, $12,381.44; Under the United States Housing Corporation, $178.75; Under the United States Shipping Board, $4,782.47; in all,Interest. $62,980.23, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. For payment of final judgments which have been rendered againstNew Mexico district court.Reclamation condemnation proceedings.Vol. 32, p. 389. the Government of the United States by the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico in connection with condemnation proceedings under the provisions of section 7 of the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes at Large page 389), certified to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 144, as follows: Under the Department of the Interior, $20,187.29. For payment of judgments, including costs of suits, renderedNew York eastern district. against the Government of the United States, by the United States 54District Court for the Eastern District of New York, sitting in admiralty, certified to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 145, as follows: John E. Moore Company.Vol. 41, p. 1553.Under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the John E. Moore Company,” approved March 3, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes, part 2, page 1553), amount of final decree in favor of John E. Moore Company, $9,904.18; Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company.Vol. 42, p. 1587.Under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the owner of the derrick Capitol,” approved April 28, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, part 2, page 1587), amount of decree in favor of Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company, $1,279.68; In all, under the Navy Department, $11,183.86. Paying for property commandeered under Lever Act.Vol. 40, p. 276.For payment of judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government of the United States by United States Distinct Courts under the provisions of the Act entitled, “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the. production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August 10, 1917, certified to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 143, as follows: Under the Navy Department, $533,653.52: Under the War Department, $2,482,485.47; In all, $3,016,138.99, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest thereon at the legal rate per annum as and where specified in said judgments. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. Payment of.For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to Congress during the present session in Senate Document Numbered 70 and House Document Numbered 147, excluding Exclusion.the judgment in favor of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Classification.Company, namely: Under the Navy Department, $547,837.05; Under the Treasury Department, $17,918.82; Under the War Department, $1,050,592.46; Interest.In all, $1,616,348.33, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on judgment Numbered A–177 as specified in such judgment. Right of appeal.None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. Payment of, certified by General Accounting Office. 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 surplus fund Vol. 18, p. 110.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 1921 and prior years, unless otherwise Vol. 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 130, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: legislative. Public printing.For public printing and binding, $6.04. Library of Congress.For increase of Library of Congress, $31.97. 55 executive. For lighting, and so forth, Executive Mansion, and so forth,Executive Mansion. $162.53. For repairs, fuel, and so forth, Executive Mansion, $17.60. independent offices. For national security and defense, executive, Committee on PublicIndependent offices. Information, $2.25. For salaries and expenses, Committee on Public Information, $5. For salaries and expenses, Federal Board for Vocational Education, $293.81. For Federal Trade Commission, $8.29. For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, $55.12. For contingent expenses, United States Housing Corporation, $17.59. For housing for war needs, $1,400. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $81.58. For Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, $63.48. For salaries and expenses, Railroad Labor Board, $117.32. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $29.47. For fuel, lights, and so forth, State, War, and Navy Department buildings, $523.09. For medical and hospital services. Veterans’ Bureau, $47,460.37. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $364.17. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,273.25. district of columbia. For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia,District of Columbia. $359.08. For fees of witnesses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, $33.75. The two foregoing sums shall be paid one-half from the revenuesHalf from District revenues. of the District of Columbia and one-half from the Treasury of the United States. department of agriculture. For miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, $5.65.Department of Agriculture. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $2.75. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $549.13. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $487.72. For general expenses. Bureau of Plant Industry, $622.71. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $35.58. For general expenses, Forest Service, $550.44. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $46.61. For general expenses, Bureau of Soils, $1.71. For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $1.55. For general expenses. Bureau of Biological Survey, $32.83. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $31.82. For suppressing spread of pink boll worm of cotton, $47.96. department of commerce. For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $29.90.Department of Commerce. For gauge standardization, Bureau of Standards, $2.30. For industrial research, Bureau of Standards, $6,102.17. 56 For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $1,245.03. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $18.65. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $36.96. department of the interior.Interior Department. For increase of compensation, Department of the Interior, $8.72. For national security and defense, Department of the Interior, $29.87. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $50.39. For expenses of hearings in land entries, $23. For surveying the public lands, $114.12. For salaries and expenses, Employees’ Retirement Act, Bureau of Pensions, $11.60. For library, Bureau of Education, $30.64. For international protection of industrial property, Patent. Office, $1,185.11. For education of natives of Alaska, $19.27. For Geological Survey, $38.34. For investigating mine accidents, $86.24. For helium gas leasing fund, Bureau of Mines, $267.03. For General Grant National Park, $25. For Yellowstone National Park, 90 cents. For Saint Elizabeths Hospital. $43.20. For contingent expenses, Territory of Alaska, 48 cents. For Capitol power plant, $93.29. For increase of compensation, Indian Service, $21. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $2.10. For Indian schools, support, $2,204.05. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $875.74. For general expenses, Indian Service, $17.79. For support of Indians in Arizona, $827.63. For the support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $17.31. For the support of Indians in Nevada, $8.22. For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $3.06. For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, $4,251.22. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $21.60. For education, Sioux Nation, South Dakota, $23.90. For diversion dam and distribution and drainage system, Yakima Reservation. Washington (reimbursable), $5.65. For Toppenish and Simcoe Creeks irrigation project, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), $85.28. department of justice. Department of Justice.For contingent expenses, Department of Justice: Miscellaneous items, 85 cents. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $232.18. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $439.05. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $15.56. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $1,310.49. For salaries and expenses of clerks, United States district courts, $3.28. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $2,505.25. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $2,342.15. 57 For fees of witnesses, United States courts, 27 cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $106.53. For supplies for United States courts, $88.13. For books for judicial officers, $51. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $20.84. department of labor.Department of Labor. For increase of compensation, Department of Labor, $157. For War Emergency Employment Service, $21.43. For national security and defense, Department of Labor, $2.62. For expenses of regulating immigration, $229.51. For expenses of interned aliens, $50,909.84. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, $7.92. navy department. For pay, miscellaneous, $452.20.Navy Department. For increase of compensation, Naval establishment, $13.34. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $3,803.85. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $9,739. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $205.01. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $2,606.41. For experiments, Bureau of Ordnance, $2,235.35. For pay of the Navy, $16,162.50. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $351.27. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $45.60. For freight. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $11,285.14. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $13.20. For aviation, Navy, $3,846.62. For pay, Marine Corps, $140.56. For maintenance, Quartermasters Department. Marine Corps, $1,095.95. department of state. For salaries, Department of State, $102.38.State Department. For increase of compensation, Department of State, $18. For salaries of secretaries, diplomatic service, $74.83. For clerks at embassies and legations, $107.33. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $274.86. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $1,128.15. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $1,901.96. For relief and protection of American seamen, $1,315.30. For salaries, diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and in transit, $11.10. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $12.66. treasury department. For increase of compensation, Treasury Department: $23.47.Treasury Department. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Fuel and so forth, $78.67. ‘ For expenses of loans, Act September 24, 1917, as amended, $9,179.84. For salaries, office of Auditor for Treasury Department, $40. For collecting the revenue from customs, $433.78. For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $1.19. For salaries, office of Treasurer of United States (national currency reimbursable), $7.50. 58 For plate printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $2.90. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $39.44. For pay, and so forth, commissioned officers and pharmacists, Public Health Service, $180. For pay of other employees, Public Health Service, $9.75. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $76.07 For maintenance, marine hospitals, Public Health Service, $29.33. For care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $34.28. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $507.40. For quarantine service, $3.77. For field investigations of public health, $2. For interstate quarantine service, $18.69. For control of biologic products, Public Health Service, $16.28. For expenses, division of venereal diseases, Public Health Service, $1.68. For medical and hospital services, Public Health Service, $1,069.85. For contingent expenses, office of director of the mint, $3.06. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $191.81. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, $87.11. For collecting the war revenue, $431.09. For enforcement of National Prohibition Act, internal revenue, $506.91. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $1,100.85. For collecting the tax on estates, munitions, and so forth. $216.73. For restricting the sale of opium, and so forth, $10.01. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal Revenue Service, $63.27. For refunding internal revenue collections, $2,442.62. For payment of judgments against internal revenue officers, $371.23. For punishment for violation of internal revenue laws, $206.70. For allowance or drawback (internal revenue), $736.01. For Coast Guard, $48,578.40. For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $792.65. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $40.46. For operating supplies for public buildings, $473.40. For post office, Searcy, Arkansas, $15. For post office, Warrenton, Virginia, $8. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $128.41. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $126.05. For vaults and safes for public buildings, $4.60. For general expenses of public buildings, $63.59. war department.War Department. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment. $40,927.11. For Signal Service of the Army, $168.32. For Air Service, Army, $34,878.38. For Air Service, production, $1,639.70. For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $6,462.40. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $321,297.25. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $1,317.29. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $287,701.11. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage. $46.71. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $3,486.69. For barracks and quarters, $22,293.03. 59 For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $2,012.79. For construction and repair of hospitals, $4,406.87. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $163,161.97. For Medical and Hospital Department, $25,677.85. For Engineer operations in the field, $6. For Ordnance Service. $4,117.50. For Ordnance stores, ammunition, $3,168.38. For Ordnance stores and supplies, $65.13. For automatic rifles, $41.60. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $4,121.38, For gun and mortar batteries, $11.52. For fire control at fortifications, $9.73. For armament of fortifications, $125,106.16. For proving grounds, Army, $1.50. For proving ground facilities, $600. For fortifications in insular possessions, $21.92. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $79.38. For repairs of arsenals, $817.95. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $444.10. For armament of fortifications, Panama Canal, $7,321.18. For aviation, seacoast defenses, $3,234. For arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, National Guard, $16.68. For barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses, $450. For Chemical Warfare Service, Army, $29.68. For contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps, $10.50. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $466.20. For Engineer School, $10. For inland and port storage and shipping facilities, $10,291.26. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps, $2,279.90. For increase of compensation, War Department, $82.95. For pay and so forth of the Army, war with Spain, $57.31. For increase of compensation, war, miscellaneous, civil, $5.32. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, eastern branch, $17.73. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $1,920.79. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $22.47. post office department—postal service. For airplane service between New York and San Francisco, $9.50.Post Office Department. For balances due foreign countries, $47,217.21. For city delivery carriers, $1,205.86. For clerks, contract stations, $2.50. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $3,905.92. For compensation to assistant postmasters, $246.52. For compensation to postmasters, $438.47. For foreign mail transportation, $22,192.13. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $22.95. For indemnities, domestic mail, $8,350.80. For indemnities, international registered mail, $1,500.82. For mail messenger service, $1,258.55. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $5. For office appliances, $13.50. For post office equipment and supplies, $3.75. 60 For power boat service, $428.35. For railroad transportation, $27,417.39. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $386.08. For Railway Mail Service, travel allowance, $15. For rent, light and fuel, $898.95. For Rural Delivery Service, $437.07. For separating mails, $647.67. For shipment of supplies, $34. For special delivery fees, $76.32. For star route service, Alaska, $87.50. For stationery, $38.60. For temporary city delivery carriers, $428.42. For temporary clerk hire. $3,899.41. For vehicle service, $533.86. Total audited claims, section 2, $1,458,297.09. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 3. Payment of, certified by General Accounting Office.Vol. 18, p. 110. 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 surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being Vol. 23, p. 254.for the service of the fiscal year 1921 and prior years unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 68, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: legislative. House of Representatives.For contingent expenses, House of Representatives, miscellaneous items. $991.85. independent offices. Independent offices.For preservation of collections, National Museum, $5.50. For housing for war needs, $825. For national security and defense, food and fuel administrations. educational, $4.81. For Federal Trade Commission, $21.11. For contingent expenses, United States Employees’ Compensation Commission, $5. For United States Tariff Commission, $16. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $25.98. For salaries and expenses, Federal Board for Vocational Education, $28.37. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $15,144.47. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $5,552.70 department of agriculture. Department of Agriculture.For library, Department of Agriculture, $28.25. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $14.40. For general expenses, Forest Service, $62. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $20.66. For general expenses, office of public roads and rural engineering, $4.81. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $34.80. For general expenses. Bureau of Crop Estimates, $40. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $101.58. 61 department of commerce. For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, 75 cents.Department of Commerce. For industrial research, Bureau of Standards, $779.53. For promoting commerce in the Far East, $57.50. For general expenses, Lighthouse. Service, $207.88. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $10.85. department of the interior. For scientific library, Patent Office, $4.Interior Department. For fees of examining surgeons, $3. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 52 cents. For support of Indians in California, $428.40. For diversion dam and distribution and drainage system, Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable, $7.14. For canals and laterals, ceded portion of Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, reimbursable, $24. For diversion dam, canals, and laterals, ceded portion of Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, reimbursable, $20. department of justice. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts,Department of Justice. $226.30. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $2.89. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $5.50. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $30.70. department of labor. For enforcement of the child labor law, $1.02.Department of Labor. For expenses of regulating immigration, $10. navy department. For aviation, Navy, $3.20.Navy Department. For pay, miscellaneous, $12.31. For pay, Marine Corps, $2.90. For contingent, Marine Corps, $24.43. For maintenance, quartermaster’s department, Marine Corps, For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $2,326.70. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $81 For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $8.05. For pay of the Navy, $3,740.71. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $263.16. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $3.46. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,460.46. department of state. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $243.49.State Department. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $24.73. treasury department. For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $113.49.Treasury Department. For labor-saving machines, Treasury Department, $1.80. For expenses of loans, Act September 24, 1917, as amended, $1.39. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, $16.40. 62 For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $5.46. For collecting the war revenue, $138.18. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $135.85. For refunding internal revenue collections, $10. For punishment for violation of internal revenue laws, $242.78. For Coast Guard, $2,316.96. For compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $36.11. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $2,198.25. Fox-medical and hospital services, Public Health Service, $390.55. For contingent expenses, office of Director of the Mint, $68. For vaults and safes for public buildings, $5.15. For general expenses of public buildings, $12.37. For operating force for public buildings, $5.50. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $7.10. For furniture, post office, courthouse, and customhouse, Honolulu, Hawaii, $13.08. war department. War Department.For additional employees, War Department, $12.22. For contingent expenses, War Department, $1.50. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $9,231.52. For increase of compensation, rivers and harbors, $1,811.87. For registration and selection for military service, $1,301.76. For Signal Service of the Army, $19,038.08. For Air Service, Army, $12,363.27. For Air Service, military, $20,652.97. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $842,234.18. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $16.66. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $29,021.86. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $23.17. For barracks and quarters, $2,021.69. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps, $99.83. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $713.35. For subsistence of the Army, $1.50. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $38,877.99. For medical and hospital department, $3,983.50. For engineer operations in the field, $2,390.12. For ordnance sex-vice, $303.47. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $35,985.20. For ordnance stores and supplies, $321.34. Fox-automatic rifles, $8,120.50. For armored motor cars, $4.22. For gun and mortar batteries, $154.86. For armament of fortifications, $13,977.09. For fortifications in insular possessions, $463.91. For searchlights and electrical installations at seacoast fortifications, $45,971.74. For manufacture of arms, $1.88. For proving-ground facilities, $6,491.48. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $307.44. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $96.94. 63 For armament of fortifications, Panama Canal, $4.90. For aviation stations, seacoast defenses, $7,483.66. For transportation of disabled soldiers, sailors, or marines on furlough, $58.18. For maintenance, United States Military Academy, $15.32. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $2,056.52. For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $194.85. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $265.36. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $543.72. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $169.52. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, $1.61. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, $167.59. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, North-western Branch, $27.99. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Eastern Branch, $51.24. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, $8.10. For medical and hospital services, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $20.18. For national cemeteries, $8.45. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $20.78. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $5.62. For prevention of deposits, harbor of New York, $122.40. For transportation facilities, inland and coastwise waterways service, $3,369.37. For payment of claims for loss of firearms, and so forth, taken by United States troops during labor strikes in 1914 in Colorado, $15. post office department. For balances due foreign countries, $6,141.88.Post Office Department. For city delivery carriers, $1,750.12. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $3,730.67. For compensation to assistant postmasters, $475.31. For compensation to postmasters, $101. For electric and cable car service, $564.97. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $32.87. For indemnities, domestic mail, $966.50. For indemnities, international registered mail, $454.28. For post-office equipment and supplies, $65. For power-boat and airplane service, $50.51. For power-boat service, $132.01. For railroad transportation, $18,837.39. For rent, light, and fuel, $1,316.18. For rural-delivery service, $20.97. For shipment of supplies, $290.71. For temporary clerk hire, $5,838.26. For vehicle service, $64.84. Total, audited claims, section 3, $1,190,204.64. Sec. 4. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “FirstTitle of Act. Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924.” Approved, April 2, 1924.
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