Chapter 84. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 84.— An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes. April 4, 1924.[[H. R. 6349](/us/bill/68/hr/6349).][[Public, No. 68](/us/pl/68/68).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department appropriations.The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, namely: office of the secretary.Secretary’s Office.
Secretary.Undersecretary.Appointment and duties of.Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, $12,000; Undersecretary of the Treasury, to be nominated by the President and appointed by him, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall hereafter receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 per annum and hereafter shall perform such duties in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury as may be prescribed by the Secretary or by law. and under [R. S., sec. 177, p. 28](/us/rs/s177/p28).the provisions of section 177, Revised Statutes, in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Secretary of the Treasury, hereafter shall perform the duties of the Secretary until a successor is Assistant Secretaries and office personnel.appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease, $10,000; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of *Provisos.*Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488.1923,” $156,280; in all, $178,280: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade or class thereof in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates Not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.Fixed salaries not reduced.specified for the grade by such Act: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and *4 of* the clerical mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation is fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or
(3)to preventPayments at higher rates permitted. the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by “The Classification Act of 1923,” and is specifically authorized by other law. office of chief clerk.Chief Clerk’s Office. Chief clerk and office personnel.Salaries: For the chief clerk, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secre65tary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assistant Secretaries of the department, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $285,000. Operating force.Liberty Loan, Register’s, and Internal Revenue Buildings.For the operating force of the Liberty Loan and Register’s Annex Buildings and buildings for the accommodation or the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and the necessary clerical assistance in the office of the chief clerk and superintendent, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $126,000. For employees for the care and protection of buildings for theBuildings for bureaus, etc. accommodation of such bureaus of the department as may be assigned thereto, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $32,600. Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and MadisonMadison Place Annex. Place: For personal services for the care, maintenance, and protection of the building, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $41,500. Treasury garage: For personal services, in accordance withTreasury garage. the Classification Act of 1923, $6,100. Treasury Department Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets northwest:Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets NW. For personal services, for the care, maintenance, and protection of the building, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $63,800. contingent expenses, treasury department.Department contingent expenses. For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories,Reference books, etc. and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $500. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $10,000.Freight, etc. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the useRent, District of Columbia. of the Treasury Department, $14,650. For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks,Motor vehicles. and maintenance and repair of one passenger automobile for the Secretary of the Treasury, all to be used for official purposes only, $7,500. For purchase of file holders and file cases, $4,000.File holders, etc. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils, and grease, grate basketsFuel, etc. and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $24,000. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes,Lighting, etc. gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $24,000. For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings andMiscellaneous supplies. fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, streetcar fares not exceeding $300, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in the District of Columbia of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $14,000. 66 Labor-saving machines, etc.For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $20,000. Carpets, etc.For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $500. Furniture.For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $4,500. Operating expenses.Madison Place Annex.For operating expenses of the Treasury Department Annex Numbered 1 (Pennsylvania A venue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $13,500. Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets NW.For operating expenses of Treasury Department Annex Numbered 2 (Fourteenth and B Streets northwest): For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, removal of trash, and miscellaneous expenses, $32,000. Darby Building.Darby Building: For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, and miscellaneous items, $4,000. Designated Treasury buildings transferred to care, etc., of Superintendent of State, etc., Department Buildings.On and after July 1, 1924, the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings shall be responsible for the care, maintenance, and protection of the buildings known as Treasury Department Annex Numbered 2, located at Fourteenth and B Streets northwest, the Winder Building, located at Seventeenth and F Streets northwest, and the Cox Building, located at 1709 New York Avenue northwest, all in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, including the furnishing of heat, gas, and electricity therein; Appropriations, etc., in connection therewith to be transferred.and any funds appropriated therefor, together with all machinery, tools, equipment, and supplies used, or for use, in connection therewith, shall be transferred on July 1, 1924, from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. Stationery.Stationery: For stationery, including tags, labels, and index cards, printed in the course of manufacture for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $350,000. general supply committee.General Supply Committee. Personal services.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $39,780. Salaries and expenses, transferring office supplies for departments, etc.For salaries of employees, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, telephone service, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse *Provisos.*Service continued to June 30, 1925.because of the cessation of war activities, $115,840: *Provided*, That the said Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1925, without modification, except that the price charged shall be the current market value at time of issue, less a discount for usage, but in no instance shall the discount be more than 25 per centum, and that the proceeds from the transfer of appropriations thereunder shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided Cooperation of departments, etc., in transfers, etc.further*, That the heads of the executive departments and independent establishments and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall cooperate with the Secretary of the Treasury in connection 67with the storage and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment transferred under the foregoing order and for effecting the transfer or disposition of other surplus and waste material or supplies: *Provided further*, That typewriters and computing machines transferredUse of unfit typewriters, etc., for exchanges. to the General Supply Committee as surplus, where such machines have become unfit for further use, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be issued to other Government departments and establishments at exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies or sold commercially. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billingRepairs to typewriters by Supply Committee. machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counter warrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “General Supply Committee, Transfer of Office Material, Supplies, and Equipment.” No part of any money appropriated by this or any other ActTypewriting machines.Prices of standard machines established for 1925. shall be used during the fiscal year 1925 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models). $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50. All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal yearAll purchases to be from surplus stock of Committee. 1925 by executive departments and independent establishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Supply Committee. The War Department shallImmediate inventory, etc., of War Department stock to be furnished. furnish the General Supply Committee, immediately upon the approval of this Act, a complete inventory of the various makes, models, and classes of typewriters in its possession, the condition of such machines, and the point of storage, and shall turn over to the General Supply Committee such typewriting machines in such quantities as the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time may call for by specific requisition for sale to the various services of the Government. If the General Supply Committee is unableUnserviceable machines allowed for exchange. to furnish serviceable machines to any such service of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines at current exchange prices, and such machines shall then be applied by the service of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewriting machines Acceptance in part payment.to the various services the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies. office of commissioner of accounts and deposits.Accounts and Deposits Office. For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $18.180. division of bookkeeping and warrants.Bookkeeping and Warrants Division. For the chief of the division, and other personal services in the Chief of division and office personnel.District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $166,160. 68 Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting [R. S., sec. 3649, p.718](/us/rs/s3649/p718).as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised Statutes, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $160,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section 3512 of the Revised Statutes, $3,000. 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 coins and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $10,000. division of deposits.Deposits Division. Chief of division and office personnel.Salaries: For the chief of the division and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $17,780. public debt service.Public Debt Service. Office personnel and other expenses.For necessary expenses connected with the administration of any public debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including rent in the District of Columbia, and including the Commissioner of the Public Debt and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, *Proviso*.Indefinite appropriation discontinued.Vol. 40, p. 292$3,416,000: *Provided*, That the indefinite appropriation “Expenses of Loans,” Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended, shall not be used during the fiscal year 1925 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service. Expenses under specified laws.Vol. 41, p. 456.Vol. 40. p. 451; Vol. 41, pp. 359, 1145.For expenses incident to the discharge of the duties imposed upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the Transportation Act, 1920, the Federal Control Act, approved March 21, 1918, as amended, and for expenses arising in connection with loans and credits to Vol. 40, pp. 35, 288, 504, 844, 1312.foreign governments under the Liberty Loan Acts and the Victory Liberty Loan Act and in connection with credits granted Vol. 41, p. 548.or conditions entered into under the Acts providing for the relief of Vol. 41, p. 949.populations in Europe and contiguous countries, and in connection with credits granted or conditions entered into under the Act providing for the sale of surplus war material, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $9,100. Distinctive paper for securities.Quantities authorized.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, not exceeding 157,500,000 sheets, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary Personal services.expenses, and salaries of employees and expense of officer detailed from the Treasury Department, $50 per month when actually on duty; in all, $1,095,000. 69 During such period as it may be necessary to operate more thanTemporary employees for increased production. 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 compensation of such temporary employees to be a charge against the appropriation available for the distinctive paper then manufactured. world war foreign debt commission.Foreign Debt Commission. For expenses of the World War Foreign Debt Commission,Expenses.Vol. 42, p. 363. including personal services in the District of Columbia, and printing and binding, $5,000. division of appointments.Appointments Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal servicesPrinting and binding. in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $64,580. division of printing.Printing Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal servicesChief of division and office personnel. in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $58,000. For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, includingWork excluded. all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, not including work done at the New York customhouse bindery authorized by the JointVol. 40, p. 1270. Committee on Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919, $850,000. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal UnionPostage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000. For materials for the use of the bookbinder located inBookbinding. the Treasury Department, $250. division of mail and files.Mail and Files Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal servicesChief of division and office personnel. in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $19,960. office of disbursing clerk. Salaries: For the disbursing clerk and other personal services in Disbursing clerk and office personnel.the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $52,960. customs service.Customs service. Division of Customs: For personal services in the District ofPersonal services in Customs Division. Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $64,000. For collecting the revenue from customs, and for the detectionCollecting customs revenue. and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, including not to exceed $15,000 for the hire of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles, $13,680,140, of which such amount as may be necessary shall be available for salaries of general appraisers retired underRetired general appraisers.Vol. 42, p. 973.Services in the District. the provisions of section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1922, and $33,820 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia in addition to the amounts otherwise authorized by law. 70 Automatic scales.Scales for customs service: For construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, $100,000. Compensation in lieu of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs laws, $30,000. bureau of the budget.Budget Bureau. Director, Assistant, personnel, and other expenses.Director, $10,000; Assistant Director, $7,500; for all other necessary expenses of the bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, street car fares, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for officers and employees while absent from the seat of government on official duty $142,510, in all, $160,010. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $25,000. federal farm loan bureau.Federal Farm Loan Bureau. Members of the board, office personnel, etc.Salaries: For six members of the board, at $10,000 each; for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” and for personal services in the field, $137,000; in all, $197,000, payable from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks; Reviewing appraisers, etc.Vol. 42, p. 776.For salaries of four reviewing appraisers at not to exceed $5,000 each per annum, and the traveling expenses of such reviewing appraisers, $15,000, in all, $35,000, payable from assessments upon federal and joint stock land banks; Contingent expenses.For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers 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; Examinations.and for the examination of National Farm Loan Associations, including personal services and traveling expenses; $122,040, payable *Provisos.*Pay restriction.from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of Clerks in the District.compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum: *Provided further*, That $2,500 of this sum may be expended for clerk hire in the District of Columbia; In all, Federal Farm Loan Bureau, $354,040. office of treasurer of the united states.Treasurer’s Office. Treasurer, and office personnel.Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, $8,000; for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the “The Classification Act of 1923,” $1,084,000; in all, $1,092,000. Redemption of Federal reserve and national currency.Personal services.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” in redeeming Federal reserve and national currency, $450,000, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. Canceling machines.For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $200. office of the comptroller of the currency.Office of Comptroller of the Currency. Comptroller, and office personnel.Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency, $5,000; for personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $233,520; in all, $238,520. 71 For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordanceFederal reserve and national currency.Personal services. with “The Classification Act of 1923,” in connection with Federal reserve and national currency, $76,650, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. For special examinations of national banks and bank plates,Special examinations. keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $2,000. internal revenue service.Internal Revenue Service. Office of commissioner: Commissioner of Internal Revenue,Commissioner, and office personnel. $10,000; for the assistant to the commissioner, five deputy commissioners, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $825,120; in all, $835,120. For one stamp agent, $1,600, to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers.Stamp agent. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue,Collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, etc. deputy collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, and storekeepergaugers, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, rent or offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone service, injuries to horses not exceeding $250 for any horse crippled or killed, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses in collecting internal-revenue taxes, $3,900,000: *Provided*,*Provisos.*Distilled spirits may be removed to warehouse for bottling in bond. That for purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and under regulations prescribed by him, distilled spirits may be removed from any internal-revenue bonded warehouse to any other such warehouse, and may be bottled in bond in any such warehouse before or after payment of the tax, and the commissioner shall prescribe the form and penal sums of bond covering distilled spirits in internal-revenue bonded warehouses, and in transit between such warehouses: *Provided further*,Witness fees. That no part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of*Post*, p. 221. witnesses, United States courts.” For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenueAssessing, collecting, etc., taxes.Expenses taxes, including the employment of the necessary officers, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, $31,735,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Detecting, etc, violations of internal revenue laws. That not more than $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation. For expenses to enforce the provisions of the National ProhibitionProhibition and Narcotic Acts.Enforcement expenses.Vol. 41, p. 305. Act and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or 72cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for Vol. 38, p. 785.other purposes,” approved December 17, 1914, as amended by the Vol. 40, p. 1130.Revenue Act of 1918, and the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes,’ approved February 9, Vol. 42, p. 298.1909,” as amended by the Act of May 26, 1922, known as “the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act,” including the employment of executive officers, agents, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the District of Columbia and the several field offices, and for rental of necessary *Provisos.*Narcotic Acts enforcement.quarters, $10,629,770: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,250,000 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for enforcement of the provisions of the said Acts of December 17, 1914, and May 26, 1922: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $50,000 of the total amount appropriated shall be available for advances to be made by special disbursing agents when authorized by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding: Restriction on payment for storage of seized goods in private warehouses. *Provided further*, That no money herein appropriated for the enforcement of the National Prohibition Act, the customs laws, or internal revenue laws, shall be used to pay for storage in any private warehouse of intoxicating liquors or other property in connection therewith seized pursuant to said Acts and necessary to be stored, where there is available for that purpose space in a Government warehouse or other suitable Government property in the judicial district wherein such property was seized, or in an adjacent judicial district, and when such seized property is stored in an adjacent district, the jurisdiction over such property in the district wherein it was seized shall not be affected thereby. Refunding collections.Vol. 35, p. 325.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May 27, 1908, $200,000. Refunding taxes illegally collected.Vol. 40, p. 1145; Vol. 42, p. 314.For refunding taxes illegally 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 *Proviso.*Report to Congress.prior year claims, $12,000,000: *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. coast guard.Coast Guard. Office personnel.*Post*, p. 105.Office of the commandant: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $134,705. Technical Services.The services of skilled draftsmen ana such other technical services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard cutters, to be paid from the *Post*, p. 73.*Proviso*.Limit.*Post*, p. 1342.appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard cutters”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1925 shall not exceed $8,400. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the Budget. 73 For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedService expenditures. work of the Coast Guard, as follows, including not to exceed $600 for purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.*Post*, p. 105.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, $7,659,924; For rations or commutation thereof for petty officers and otherRations. enlisted men, $405,000; For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge,Fuel and water. $725,000; For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same,Outfits, stores, etc. $665,000; For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporaryStations, houses of refuge, etc. leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $250,000; For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920, $17,000;Death allowances.Vol. 41, p. 825. For mileage, and expenses allowed by law, for officers; and actualTraveling expenses. traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $120,000; For draft animals and their maintenance, $27,000Draft animals.; For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance,Coastal communication. $50,000; For compensation of civilian employees in the field, includingField employees. clerks to district superintendents, $79,020; For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistence Contingent expenses.of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $15,000; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading. $145,000; For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $374,000;Repairs to cutters. Total Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $10,516,944. bureau of engraving and printing.Engraving and Printing Bureau. Office of director: For the director and other personal services inDirector, and office personnel. the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $435,000. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,Work authorized for the fiscal year. during the fiscal year 1925, of not exceeding 150,000,000 delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency, 90,000,000 delivered sheets of internal-revenueVol. 38, p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 1130; Vol. 42, p. 295. stamps, 75,000 delivered sheets of customs stamps, 2,031,250 delivered sheets of withdrawal permits, 593,100 delivered sheets of opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, and 7,603,487 delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employeesSalaries of employees. required for the administrative work of the bureau of the class provided for and specified in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Sec74retary*Proviso.*Large notes. of the Treasury, $2,844,900: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessaryVol. 31, p. 45. in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March 14, 1900. Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $1,425,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Proviso.*Large notes.of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing Vol. 31, p. 45.the requirements of the Act “to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March 14, 1900. Materials, etc.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,240,775, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Proceeds of work to be credited to Bureau.During the fiscal year 1925 all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as Vol. 24, p. 227.provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 227), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year 1925. secret service.Secret Service Division. Chief of division and office personnel.Secret Service Division, salaries: For the chief of the Division and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $27,540. Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, Federal reserve notes, Federal reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign Governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign Governments, and other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; hire and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when Per diem subsistence.necessary; per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant Vol. 38, p. 680.to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriations Act approved August 1, 1914, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the Protecting person of the President.protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of *Provisos.*Witness fees.the United States, $433,800: *Provided*, That no part of this amount 75be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the *Post*, p. 221.appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a compensationPay restriction. greater than that allowed by law. public health service.Public Health Service. Salaries, Office of Surgeon General: For personal services in theOffice personnel. District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $104,405. For pay. allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissionedPay, etc., Surgeon General, etc. medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistant surgeon generals at large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $1,135,000. For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medicalActing assistant surgeons. officers), $300,000. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth),Other employees. $840,000. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including theFreight, travel, etc. expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $30,000. For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $44,600.Hygienic Laboratory. For preparation for shipment and transportation to their formerTransporting officers, remains. homes of remains of officers who die in the line of duty, $3,000. For journals and scientific books, $500.Books. For medical examinations, including the amount necessary forMedical examinations, hospital services to beneficiaries, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885. the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917, medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for beneficiaries (other than patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau) of the Public Health Service, and persons detained under the Immigration Laws and Regulations at Ellis Island Immigration Station, including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere,General expenses. maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles, transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $4,900,000: *Provided*, That the Immigration Service shall permit the Public*Provisos.*Use of Ellis Island hospitals. Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients, free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost for fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and moneys collected by the Immigration Service on account ofReceipts to be covered into the Treasury. hospital expenses of persons detained under the immigration laws and regulations at Ellis Island Immigration Station shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantineUses forbidden. service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. 76 Disposal of receipts.All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscal year 1925, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Quarantino service.Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, $479,000. Prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, influenza, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $332,910 including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. Field investigations.Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $275,086. Interstate quarantine service.Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $21,900. Rural sanitation.Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $74,300: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Subject to local cooperation. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expenses of such demonstration work. Biologic products.Regulating sale of viruses, etc.Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $41,320. Venereal Diseases Division.Maintenance.Vol. 40, p. 886.For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, Chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918, including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $149,000, of which sum $25,000 Allotment to States.shall be allotted to the States for cooperative work in the prevention and control of such diseases. Mints and Assay Offices.Mints and assay offices. office of director of the mint.Office of Director of the Mint. Director and office personnel.Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $31,040. Freight on bullion and coin.For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $5,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $1,000. Examinations, etc.For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special exami77nations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annualPrecious metals statistics. production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $5,500. carson city, nevada, mint.Mints. Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the dutiesCarson City, Nev. of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $1,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $600. denver, colorado, mint. Salaries: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent,Denver, Colo. melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weight clerk, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, one at $1,400; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $43,200. For wages of workmen and other employees, $90,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $50,000. new orleans, louisiana, mint. Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the dutiesNew Orleans, La. of melter, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,500; in all. $4,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $3,720. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. philadelphia mint. Salaries: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000; assayer, $3,000;Philadelphia, Pa. superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant assayer, $2,200; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,500; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; curator, $1,800; clerks—one $2,000, one $1,700, eight at $1,600 each, one $1,500, six at $1,400 each. one $1,300, three at $1,200 each, one $1,000; in all, $66,600. For wages of workmen and other employees, $438,640. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $119,790. san francisco, california, mint. Salaries: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent,San Francisco, Calif. melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistant cashier, $1,800; assistant bookkeeper, $1,800; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, three at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, 78one $1,400, two at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all $48,400. For wages of workmen and other employees, $175,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting an refining department and in the coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $50,000. boise, idaho, assay office.Assay offices. Boise, Idaho.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer. $1,200; in all. $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $1,900. For incidental and contingent expenses. $1,000. deadwood, south dakota, assay office. Deadwood, S. Dak.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $1,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $300. helena, montana, assay office. Helena, Mont.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $900. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. new york assay office. New York, N. Y.Salaries: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weight clerk, and assistant assayer, at $2,500 each; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,350; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,250, seven at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $53,400. For wages of workmen and other employees, $170,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $90,000. salt lake city, utah, assay office. Salt Lake City, Utah.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800. For wages of workman and other employees, $1,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $300. seattle, washington, assay office. Seattle, Wash.Salaries: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $2,750; assistant assayer, $2,000; clerks—one $1,700, one $1,600; in all, $8,050. For wages of workmen, and other employees, $8,200. For incidental and contingent expenses, $5,000. 79 Public Buildings.Public Buildings. office of supervising architect.Supervising Architect’s office. Salaries: For the Supervising Architect, and other personal servicesSupervising Architect, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $272,460. public buildings, construction and rent.Construction and rent. Baltimore, Maryland, immigration station: Not to exceed $20,000Baltimore. Md., immigrant station. of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for immigrant station, Baltimore, Maryland, is made available for repairs to work already in place. Carville, Louisiana, National Leper Home: For completion,Carville, La., leper home. $150,000. Chicago, Illinois, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For interiorChicago, Ill., post office, etc. painting and work incidental thereto, $30,000. Fairmont, Minnesota, post office: The Secretary of the TreasuryFairmont, Minn., site. is authorized to pay from amounts heretofore appropriated for the purchase of a site and construction of a building for post office purposes at Fairmont, Minnesota, a sum not exceeding $15,000 for the purchase of a suitable site. New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint: For miscellaneous repairsNew Orleans, La., mint. and painting to building and fence, $15,000. New York, New York, customhouse: For repairs to roof, $16,000.New York City, customhouse. New York, New York, Subtreasury: For exterior and interior repairs,Subtreasury. replacements, painting, and mechanical equipment, $15,000. For construction of underground passageway from assay office building to subtreasury basement vaults, and changes incident thereto in assay office and subtreasury buildings, $20,000. Washington, District of Columbia. Treasury Annex Numbered 2:Washington, D. C.Treasury Annex No.2. For relaying worn-out floors, covering certain office floors with linoleum, constructing fire proof room or building for receiving waste paper, and miscellaneous repairs, $16,000. Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling,Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings. enlarging, and extending completed and occupied public buildings, including any necessary and incidental additions to or changes in mechanical equipment thereof, so as to provide or make available additional space in emergent cases, not to exceed an aggregate of $20,000 at any one building, $400,000. marine hospitals.Marino hospitals. Baltimore, Maryland, Marine Hospital Numbered 1: For increasingBaltimore, Md. water distribution system and for fireproofing corridors, $15,000. Carville, Louisiana, Marine Hospital Numbered 66: For improvingCarville, La. existing facilities, $25,000. Detroit, Michigan, Marine Hospital Numbered 7: For enlargingDetroit, Mich. boiler house, $12,000. Saint Louis, Missouri, Marine Hospital Numbered 18:Saint Louis, Mo. For improving existing facilities, $35,000. quarantine stations.Quarantine stations. Boston, Massachusetts, Quarantine Station: For improving existingBoston, Mass. facilities, $25,000. Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, Quarantine Station: For purchaseMarcus Hook, Pa. of floating equipment and repairs. $70,000. 80 Portland, Me.Portland. Maine, Quarantine Station: For storehouse for inflammable material, $500. Tampa, Fla.Tampa, Florida, Quarantine Station: For additional facilities and improving existing facilities, $3,000. Astoria, Oreg.Astoria, Oregon, Quarantine Station: For new kitchen; materials for improvements to electric light plant, including extensions to the hulk Concord, $4,000. Galveston, Tex.Galveston, Texas, Quarantine Station: For improving existing facilities, and so forth, $7,350. Ship Island, Miss. Gulf (Ship Island), Mississippi, Quarantine Station: For refrigerating plant and materials for the installation of electric generator and electric wiring of station; wrecking of hurricane tower; repairs to emergency hospital, water tower, and so forth, $8,250. Reedy Island, Del.Reedy Island, Delaware River, Delaware Quarantine Station: For improving existing facilities, and so forth, $3,500. San Francisco, Calif.San Francisco, California, Quarantine Station: For additional facilities and improving existing facilities, and so forth, $3,000. San Juan, P. R.San Juan, Porto Rico, Quarantine Station: For new refrigerating plant, $3,500. Work under Supervising Architect.The foregoing work under marine hospitals and quarantine stations shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses.Repairs, equipment, etc. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor; Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement or public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 15 per centum of the annual rentals of*Provisos.*Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc. such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $115,000 may be used for the repair and preservation of marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook) and completed and occupied outbuildings (including wire partitions and fly screens for same), and Treasury Department buildings.not exceeding $28,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Treasury Annex Numbered Two, Liberty Loan, Butler, Winder, and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, Personal service restriction.That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $733,000. Mechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, plumbing, etc.Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks: for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not re81served by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 10 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated,*Provisos.*Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc. not exceeding $100,000 may be used for the installation and repair of mechanical equipment in marine hospitals, the national leprosarium and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook), and not exceeding $40,000 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex,Treasury Department buildings. Treasury Annex Numbered Two, Liberty Loan, Butler, Winder, and Auditors’ Buildings, in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors’ Building, and not exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance, changes in,Pneumatic tube service, New York City. and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessary incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, ThatPersonal service restriction. this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $521,700. Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairsVaults, safas, and locks. thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $85,000. General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury toGeneral expenses.Additional pay, Supervising Architect.Vol. 35, p. 537.Technical service. execute and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page 537): For salaries of architectural and engineering personnel and inspectors in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, not exceeding $379,000; expensesExpenses of superintendence, etc. of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total expenditure of $4,500; office rent and expenses of superintendents, includingOffice rent, supplies, etc. temporary, stenographic, and other assistance, in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telegraph and telephone service; freight, expressage, and postage incident to shipments of drawings, superintendent’s furniture and supplies, testing instruments, and so forth, including articles and supplies not usually payable from other appropriations: *Provided*, That no expenditures*Proviso.*Transporting operating supplies. shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings; not to exceed $1,000 for books of refer82ence,Salamanca, N.Y.Other contingencies. law books, technical periodicals and journals; ground rent at Salamanca, New York; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected, solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Objects excluded.Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $474,000. public buildings, operating expenses.Operating expenses. Operating force.Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury mayPersonal services, assistant custodians, etc. deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including Pay restriction.carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place *Proviso.*Buildings for which available.where such services are employed, $3,867,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices. Furniture, etc.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric-lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extensions of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed tor other executive departments *Provisos.*Personal service restriction.of establishments of the Government, $614,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency, and not exceeding at one Use of present furniture.time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies.Fuel, light, power, water, etc.Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light83ing and power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishings in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings, and for the transportation of articles or supplies authorized herein (including the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but excluding anyBuildings excluded other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), $3,070,000. The appropriation madeGas governors. herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors*Provisos.*Rentals. greater than 35 per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct: *Provided further*, ThatAdvance fuel contracts authorized. the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department in advance of the availability of the appropriation for the payment thereof. Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current fiscal year. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody,Custody of lands. care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 [R S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739).and 3750 of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $50. Miscellaneous Items, Treasury Department. american printing house for the blind.Printing House for the Blind. To enable the American Printing House for the Blind moreExpenses. adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education ofVol. 41, p. 272. the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 4, 1919, $40,000. TITLE II.— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. The following sums are appropriated in conformity withPost Office Department appropriations.Vol. 5, p. 80. the Act of July 2, 1836, for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, namely: Post Office Department, Washington, District of Columbia.Department expenses. office of the postmaster general.Office of Postmaster General. Postmaster General, $12,000; for personal services in the officePostmaster General, and office personnel. of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $201,740; in all, $213,740. 84 post office department buildings.Department buildings. Personal services, operating force.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” for the care, maintenance, and protection of the main Post Office Department Building, the Washington City Post Office Building, and the Mail Equipment Shops Building, $225,632. salaries in bureaus and offices.Salaries. Department bureaus and offices.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Allotments.Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $387,500. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $263,340. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $682,760. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $361,700. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $55,760. Office of the Chief Inspector, $132,520. Office of the Purchasing Agent, $33,300. Bureau of Accounts, $34,320. Restriction on aggregate number of specific grades.In expending appropriations in the foregoing paragraphs under this title for personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” the number of persons in grades of the professional and scientific service above grade 2 shall not exceed ten in the aggregate, and the number of persons in grades of the clerical, administrative, and fiscal service above grade 7 shall not exceed fifty-six in the aggregate. contingent expenses, post office department.Department contingent expenses. Stationery, etc.For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $28,000. Heating, lighting, etc.For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $57,000. Telegraphing.For telegraphing, $6,500. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items including purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-savingVehicles. devices; not to exceed $3,000 for purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of motor trucks and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles; street car fares not exceeding $540; plumbing; repairs to department buildings; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt under article 11 of the Rome convention of the Universal Postal Union; $55,000, of which sum not exceeding $14,500 may be expended for telephone service, not exceeding $1,800 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the department, and not exceeding $500 may be expended for actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department. Furniture.For furniture and filing cabinets, $8,500. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $975,000. Reimbursing for heating, etc., Washington city post office.For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office or Capitol Power Plant for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department 85 Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $52,000. Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the PostField service appropriations not to be used for the Department. Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of he Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. field service, post office department.Field service. office of postmaster general.Postmaster General. For gas. electric power and light, and the repair of machinery,Equipment shops building. United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $8,500. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to pay a cash rewardCash rewards to employees for inventions for improving service, etc.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 Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficiency, and for that purpose the sum of $4,000 is hereby appropriated: *Provisos.*Additional to regular pay.*Provided*, That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with this Act shall be in addition to their usual compensation: Amount limited.*Provided further*, That the total amount paid under the provisions of this Act shall not exceed $1,000 in any month or for any one invention or suggestion: *Provided further*, That no employee shall be paidAgreement for Government use required. a reward under this Act until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by him, his heirs, or assigns: *Provided further*, That this appropriationRestriction. shall be available for no other purpose. For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, andShipment of equipment, supplies, etc. supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $600,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service,Travel, etc. office of the Postmaster General, $1,000. To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages toDamage claims. persons or property in accordance with the provisionsVol. 42, p. 63. of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921, $20,000. Office of chief inspector: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in Inspectors.charge of divisions, at $4,200 each; and five hundred and twenty inspectors, $1,687,000; in all, $1,750,000: *Provided*, That the appointment*Proviso*.Civil service eligibles. of additional inspectors shall be made upon certification of the Civil Service Commission, as heretofore practiced. For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, andTraveling expenses, etc. the chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases, $455,000. For necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters,Miscellaneous. $14,000. For compensation of one hundred and fifteen clerks at divisionClerks, division headquarters. headquarters, $252,750. For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and convictionRewards, etc. of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers: *Provided*,*Provisos.*Death of offender. That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewardsLimitation. 86at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order Securing information.7708, dated July 1, 1922: *Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $5,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals, $30,000. office of the first assistant postmaster general.First Assistant Postmaster General. Postmasters.For compensation to postmasters, $46,000,000. Assistant postmasters.For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second class post offices, $6,000,000. Printers, mechanics, etc.For compensation to printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers, $97,400. Clerks and employees, first and second class offices.For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, $124,937,100. Watchmen, messengers, etc.For compensation to watchmen, messengers, and laborers, $5,759,150. Contract station clerks.For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, $1550,000. Separating mails.For separating mails at third and fourth class post offices, $750,000. Unusual conditions.For unusual conditions at post offices, $150,000. Clerks, third class offices.For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services, $4,400,000. Rent, light, and fuel.For rent, light, and fuel for first second, and third class post offices, $14,416,600: Miscellaneous, first and second class offices.For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices of the first and second classes, $925,000. Village delivery.For village delivery service in towns and villages having post offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,500,000. Detroit River.For Detroit River postal service, $18.250. Car fare and bicycles.For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery car fare, $980,000. City delivery carriers.For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $87,398,000. Special delivery fees.For fees to special-delivery messengers, $6,100,000. Pneumatic tubes, New York and Brooklyn.For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, $526,373.25. Vehicle allowance for delivery, collection, etc.For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection *Proviso.*Leasing of garages, etc.service, $15,400,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement 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. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the second assistant postmaster general.Second Assistant Postmaster General. Star routes, Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $180,000: *Proviso*.Emergency service.*Provided*, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, including the establishment and equipment of relay sta87tions, in such manner as he may think advisable, without advertising therefor. For inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boatSteamboat or power-boat routes, etc. routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,550,000. For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mailRailroad routes and messenger service.*Provisos.*Freight train conveyance. messenger service, $104,450,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,500,000 of this appropriation may be expended for pay of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special arrangement in freight trains or otherwise: *And provided further*, That separate accounts be kept of the amountMessenger service accounting. expended for mail messenger service. For the operation and maintenance of the airplane mail serviceAirplane service, New York and San Francisco. between New York, New York, and San Francisco, California, via Chicago, Illinois, and Omaha, Nebraska, including necessary incidental expenses and employment of necessary personnel, $1,500,000. For an additional amount for the installation, equipment,Installing night flying airplane service. and operation of the airplane mail service by night flying, and to enable the department to make the additional charges for both night and day service on first-class mail matter, in accordance with existing law, $1,250,000. Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteenRailway Mail Service.Division superintendents, etc. assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents. one assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $47,400,000. For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railwayTravel allowance to clerks. postal clerks, $2,775,000. For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendentTraveling expenses, etc., away from headquarters. and assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, and chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $62,000. For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and officeMiscellaneous expenses. expenses, telephone service, and badges for railway postal clerks, and rental of space for terminal railway post offices for the distributionRent for terminal offices. of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution can not, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $1,150,000. For electric and cable car service, $625,000.Electric and cable cars. For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, orForeign mails.*Provisos.*Aircraft allowance. otherwise, $7,500,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $150,000 of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General shall be authorized toSea post service. expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $150,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to and from the United States. For balances due foreign countries, $1,500,000.Balances to foreign countries. For Assistant Superintendent, Division of Foreign Mails,Assistant superintendent, New York. with headquarters at New York, New York. $2,500. For expenses of delegates to the Universal Postal Congress atUniversal Postal Congress.Expenses of delegates to. Stockholm to be appointed by the Postmaster General in the Post 88Office Department, $7,500, to be immediately available and to be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General and to be accounted for on his certificate, which certificate shall be conclusive on the accounting offices of the United States. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the third assistant postmaster general.Third Assistant Postmaster General. Stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc.For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and for coiling of stamps, $8,100,000. Distribution agency.For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, $21,500. Indemnity lost registered, etc., mail.Domestic.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, $4,500,000. International.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $40,000. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Stationery.For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-order Postal Savings supplies.and registry systems; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and Bond expenses.free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and Vol. 36, p. 817.registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910, $900,000. Miscellaneous equipment and supplies.For miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the Letter boxes, etc.erection and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter Postmarking, etc., stamps.boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, copying presses, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales, test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchasedPost-route, etc., maps. and furnished directly to the Postal Service; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural-delivery Sale of maps, etc.service, and for letter boxes, $1,303,500; and the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and ruraldelivery maps or blue prints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added; of this amount $1,500 may be expended in the purchase of atlases, and geographical and technical works: *Proviso*.*Provided*, That $200,000 of this appropriation may be used for the 89purchase of equipment and furniture for post-office quarters andAmount for equipment and furniture. for no other purposes. For wrapping twine and tying devices, $518,500.Twine, etc. For defraying expenses incident to the shipment of supplies,Shipping supplies. including hardware, boxing, packing, and the pay of employees in connection therewith at the following annual rates: Storekeeper,Services. $2,650; foreman, $1,800; ten requisition fillers, at $1,600 each; two requisition fillers, at $1,200 each; ten packers, at $1,600 each; two packers at $1,200 each; and two chauffeurs, at $1,400 each; in all, $80,000. For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machinesCanceling and labor-saving machines, etc. and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including salaries of five traveling mechanicians and for per diemTraveling mechanicians. allowance of traveling mechanicians while actually traveling on official business away from their homes and their official domiciles, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster General, not to exceed $4 per day, $500,000. For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags andMail bags, locks, etc. other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also material, machinery, andEquipment shops material, etc. tools necessary for the manufacture and repair in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; forLabor. compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, $1,960,000: *Provided*, That out of*Proviso*.Distinctive equipment for departments, Alaska, and insular possessions. this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Star route transportation.Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, $12,900,000. For pay of rural carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annualRural delivery. and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $89,250,000, of which amount $300,000, or so much thereofEstablishing new routes. as may be necessary, shall be immediately available for the establishment of new routes recommended and approved by the Department. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficientAppropriation from the Treasury to supply deficiencies in postal revenues. to meet the appropriations made under Title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. Approved, April 4, 1924.