Chapter 85. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 85.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes. January 20, 1925.[[H. R. 11308](/us/bill/68/hr/11308).][[Public, No. 326](/us/pl/68/326).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following First Deficiency Act, 1925.sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes, namely:
LEGISLATIVELegislative. senateSenate. To pay John E. Lodge, son; Constance Williams, daughter; Henry Cabot LodgePay to children and grandchildren.Henry Cabot Lodge and John D. Lodge, grandsons, and Helena Lodge, granddaughter, of the Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge, late a Senator from the State of Massachusetts, $7,500. To pay Theodora L. Colt Barrows, Mary Louise Colt Gross, and LeBaron Bradford Colt.Pay to children and grandchildren.Elizabeth L. Colt Anthony, daughters; LeBaron Carlton Colt, jr., and George Converse Colt, grandsons, and J.
Edith Converse Colt, jr., granddaughter, of the Honorable LeBaron Bradford Colt, late a Senator from the State of Rhode Island, $7,500. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for expenses of Inquiries, etc.Balance available.Vol. 42, p. 1267.inquiries and investigations for the fiscal year 1924 is hereby made available for the fiscal year 1925. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Legislative Legislative drafting service.Balance available for Legislative Counsel.Vol. 42, p. 1272.Drafting Service, Senate, for the fiscal year 1924, amounting to $1,587.78 is hereby made available for use during the fiscal year 1925 in the appropriation for the Legislative Counsel, Senate.
Conveying votes of electors for President and Vice President: Electoral vote.Messengers conveying, from the States.For the payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying to the seat of government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice President of the United States, at the rate of 25 cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual roads traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of government of the United States, computed for one distance only $14,000. joint committee on inaugural ceremonies of 1925Inaugural ceremonies, 1926.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House Expenses.of Representatives to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremonies of the President of the United States, March 4, 1925, *Post*, p. 1615.in accordance with such program as may be adopted by the joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed under a concurrent resolution of the two Houses, including the pay for extra police, $40,000. public building s commissionPublic Buildings Commission.
The General Accounting Office is authorized to credit the accounts Expenses of motor vehicle allowed.of the Disbursing Officer of the Public Buildings Commission in the amount of $180 heretofore expended by the Commission for the maintenance of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle. 754 house of representativesHouse of Representatives. William S. Greene.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of William S. Greene, late a Representative from the State of Massachusetts, $7,500. Julius Kahn.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Julius Kahn, late a Representative from the State of California, $7,500.
Edward C. Little.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Edward C. Little, late a Representative from the State of Kansas, $7,500. The foregoing appropriations shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Contested election expenses.Martin C. Ansorge.For payment to Martin C. Ansorge for expenses incurred as contestant in the contested-election case of Ansorge against Weller, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $2,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.
EXECUTIVEExecutive. agricultural conferenceAgricultural conference. Expenses of, assembled by the President.For expenses of the agricultural conference assembled by the President in November, 1924, and for each purpose connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the President, including such travel expenses as may already have been incurred by the members of the conference, $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926. federal oil consevation boardFederal Oil Conservation Board.
Expenses of, convened by President.For the expenses of the Federal Oil Conservation Board convened by the President on December 18, 1924, and for each purpose connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the Chairman of the Board, and to remain available until June 30, 1926, $50,000. united states lexington-concord sesquicentennial commissionLexington-Concord Sesquicentennial. Expenses of commission, etc.*Ante*, p. 749.For actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of members of the United States Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial Commission in the discharge of their duties outside of the District of Columbia, $5,000, and for expenses incident to the appropriate celebration and observation of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle, of Lexington and Concord, $10,000; in all, $15,000, said sum to be expended in the discretion of the Commission named herein.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIADistrict of Columbia. surveyor’s officeSurveyor’s office. Temporary draftsmen, etc.For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additional field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, $8,200, no part of which sum shall be expended without the written authority of the commissioners, payable in the manner Mode of payment.prescribed for defraying the expenses of the District of Columbia *Ante*, p. 539.by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved June 7, 1924. supreme courtSupreme Court.
Miscellaneous.For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evi755dence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $20,500, payable in the manner prescribed for Mode of payment.defraying the expenses of the District of Columbia by the District *Ante*, p. 539.of Columbia Appropriation Act approved June 7, 1924.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSIONInterstate Commerce Commission. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed Enforcing railway safety appliances.regarding and to enforce compliance with acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the act requiring common Accidents.carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission Block signals, etc.to investigate and test block signal and train control systems and appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906, and Vol. 34, p. 838;
Vol. 35, p. 324.the provision of the sundry civil act approved May 27, 1908, including the employment of inspectors and per diem in lieu of subsistence Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the sundry civil appropriation act approved August 1, 1914, $27,275. For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of Safe locomotivo boilers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 913.February 17, 1911, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” as amended by the Act of March Vol. 38, p. 1192.4, 1915, extending the “same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender,” and amendment *Ante*, p. 659.of June 7, 1924, providing for the appointment from time to time by the Interstate Commerce Commission of not more than fifteen inspectors in addition to the number authorized in the first paragraph of section 4 of the Act of 1911, including such legal, technical, stenographic, and clerical help as the business of the offices of the chief inspector and his two assistants may require, and for per diem iPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.n lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $54,145.
For printing and binding, $20,000. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORInterior Department. bureau of reclamationReclamation Bureau. Reclamation fund, special fund: The following sum is appropriated Payment from special fund.out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States, created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated Vol. 32, p. 388.“the reclamation fund”: For carrying into effect the provisions of subsection K of section Survey of existing deficient projects.*Ante*, p. 703.*Proviso*.Addition to project appropriation.4 of the second deficiency Act. fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924. to remain available until June 30, 1926. $150,000: *Provided*, That the expenditures from this appropriation for each reclamation project shall be considered as supplemental to the appropriation for that project and shall be accounted for accordingly. national park serviceNational parks.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the emergencies Investigation of forest insects.caused by forest insects within national parks and national monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and to provide personnel and equipment for the investigation, control, and prevention of spread of such insects, to be expended di756Cooperative expenditures.rectly or in cooperation with other departments of the Federal Government or with States, $25,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice. miscellaneous Enforcing interstate commerce acts.Vol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36. p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 38, p. 219; Vol. 40, p. 272; Vol. 41, p. 474.Enforcement of acts to regulate commerce: For salary and expenses of assistant to the Solicitor General in representing the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February 4, 1887, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees in the District of Columbia. $500.
Pueblic Lands Board.Expenses.*Ante*, p. 636.Pueblo Lands Board: For expenses of the Pueblo Lands Board, including compensation for member appointed by the President of the United States, and for clerical assistants, interpreters, and stenographers, rental of quarters, travel expenses, fees of witnesses, telephone and telegraph service, $19,500. JUDICIALJudicial. united states courtsUnited States courts. Supplies.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 687.The appropriation of $9,000 for supplies for United States Courts, contained in the second deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, is hereby made available for the fiscal year 1925.
NAVY DEPARTMENTNavy Department. naval observatoryNaval Observatory. Fire protection.For installation of eight-inch water mains for fire protection, $15,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATEState Department. international fisheries commissionInternational Fisheries Commission. Share in expenses.For the share of the United States of the expenses of the *Post*, p. 1841.International Fisheries Commission, established under the treaty concluded March 2, 1923, for the period from November 1, 1924, to June 30, 1925, including salaries of two members and other employees of the commission, traveling and subsistence expenses (notwithstanding the provisions of existing law) purchasing of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments, contingent expenses, printing and binding, rent in the District of Columbia, and such other expenses as the President may deem proper, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $11,250. publishing ascertainment of electors for president and vice presidentElectoral vote.
Expenses of publishing.*Ante*, p. 205.Not exceeding $2,000 of the appropriation for printing and binding, Department of State, fiscal year 1925. shall be available to pay the expenses of publishing in compliance with the requirements of Vol. 24, p 373.the act of February 3, 1887, the certificates of the final ascertainment of the electors for the President and Vice President of the United States as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State. 757 TREASURY DEPARTMENTTreasury Department. internal revenue serviceInternal Revenue Service.
For refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisions of Refunding illegally collected taxes.sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Acts of Vol. 40, p. 1145; Vol. 42, p. 314.*Ante*, pp. 301, 342.February 24, 1919, November 23, 1921, and June 2, 1924, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1926 and prior years, $150,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Detailed report to Congress.That a report shall be made to Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by such Acts, including the names of all persons and corporations to whom payments are made together with the amount paid to each. public health servicePublic Health Service.
Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only Prevention of epidemics.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, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health, $275,000, to remain available until June 30, 1926. coast guardCoast Guard.
Repair of vessels: For necessary emergent repairs to the cutter Repairs to cutter “Manning.”Manning, $150,000. Office of commandant: For personal services in the District of Office of commandant.Civilian personnel.Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $7,500. public buildingsPublic buildings. Paris, Texas, post office and courthouse: For completion. $61,000.Paris, Tex. WAR DEPARTMENTWar Department. office of judge advocate generalJudge Advocate General’s Office.
Of the unexpended balance of the appropriation provided by American Cyanamid Company.Payment of patent royalties.section 124 of the National Defense Act, approved June 3, 1916, as amended, the sum of $15,000 is hereby made available for such expenses as may be necessary and incidental to the arbitration of the rate of royalty to be paid the American Cyanamid Company on patents owned by said company, as provided in section 10 of the contract of June 8, 1918, between the United States and the American Cyanamid Company. muscle shoalsMuscle Shoals.
For the continuation of the work on Dam Numbered 2, on the Continuing Dam No. 2.Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, $3,501,200. inland waterways corporationInland Waterways Corporation. For the purchase of capital stock of the Inland Waterways Corporation Purchase of capital stock.*Ante*, p. 360.created by the Act approved June 3, 1924, $3,000,000, to remain available until expended. 758 JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTSJudgments, United Slates courts. Payment of.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Vol. 24, p. 505.Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” as amended by the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911, certified to the Sixty-eighth Congress Vol. 30, p. 1137.by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered 532, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Navy Department.Under the Navy Department, $69.57; War Department.Under the War Department, $20,627.45; in all, $20,697.02, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay Interest.interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. Judgments in collision claims.For payment of judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government of the United States, by United States district courts under the provisions of certain Private Acts, certified to the Sixty-eighth Congress in House Document Numbered 534, as follows:
Shipping Board.Vol. 42, p. 1787.Navy Department.Vol. 42, pp. 1578, 1589, 1590, 1777.Paying for property commandeered under Lever Act.Vol. 40, p. 276.Under United States Shipping Board, $6,063.08; Under the Navy Department, $149,819.51; in all, $155,882.59. For payment of judgment rendered against the Government of the United States by the United States District Court for the District of Indiana, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August 10, 1917, certified to the Sixty-eighth Congress in House Document Numbered 531, as follows:
War Department.Under the War Department, $12,107.79. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMSJudgments, Court of Claims. Payment of.For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to the Sixty-eighth Congress in House Document Numbered 533, namely: Classification.Under the Navy Department, $119,487.69; Under the Treasury Department. $19,754.82; Interest.Under the War Department, $161,814.48; in all, $301,056.99, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certain of the judgments at the legal rate per annum Right of appeal.as and where specified in said judgments.
None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims. Sec. 2. Payment of, certified by General Accounting Office.Vol. 18, p. 110. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1922 and prior years, unless otherwise Vol. 23, p. 254.stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 535, Sixty-eighth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: leglislative Capitol power plant.For Capitol power plant, $10,778.86.
Library of Congress.For furniture, Library of Congress, $99.38. Printing and binding.For public printing and binding, $131.40. 759 independent offices For Interstate Commerce Commission, $46.11.Independent offices. For international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution, $1.56. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $61.77. For fuel, lights, and so forth, State, War, and Navy Department Buildings, $408.03. For Council of National Defense, $84.13. For Board of Mediation and Conciliation, $5.42.
For increase of compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $444.67. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $93,839.46. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $95.61. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $79,828.43. district of columbia For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, District of Columbia.$7.56. depart of agriculture For increase of compensation, Department of Agriculture, $7.Department of Agriculture. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $100.33.
For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $61.52. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $826.14. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $156.40. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $9.50. For general expenses, Forest Service, $115.84. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $360.71. For general expenses, Office of Farm Management, $1.60. For general expenses, Bureau of Markets, $1.20. department of commerce For expenses of the Fourteenth Census, $30.25.Department of Commerce.
For commercial attachés, Department of Commerce, $220. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $19.84. For promoting commerce in the Far East, $107.10. For enforcement of navigation laws, $2.55. For preventing overcrowding of passenger vessels, $1.39. For industrial research, Bureau of Standards, $468. For standardizing mechanical appliances, Bureau of Standards, $263. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $74.54. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $379.01.
For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $54.63. department of the interior For increase of compensation. Indian Service, $42.33.Interior Department. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $125.89. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, $1.91. For determining heirs of deceased Indian allottees, $9. For industrial work and care of timber, $15.30. For Indian schools, support, $1,106.06. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $71.
For support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, 47 cents. For support of Indians in Arizona, $1.02.760 For support of Sioux of different tribes: employees, and so forth, South Dakota, $56.33. For education of Choctaws in Mississippi. $45.64. For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $2.52. department of justice Department of Justice.For increase of compensation, Department of Justice, $7.33. For books for judicial officers, $20.60. For defending suits in claims against the United States, $150.
For detection and prosecution of crimes, $31.38. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $59.90. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $8.80. For salaries and expenses of clerks, United “States district courts, $3.20. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $1,997.85. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $31.20. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $57.98. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $5.
For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $678.90. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $40.50. department of labor Department of Labor.For increase of compensation, Department of Labor, $187.67. For immigrant station, Ellis Island, New York, 48 cents. For expenses of regulating immigration, $265.20. navy department Navy Department.For pay of the Navy, $2,152.51. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $125.35. For pay, miscellaneous, $26.11. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,699.58.
For investigation of fuel oil, and so forth, Navy $1,730.35. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $35.84. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $1,007.89. For aviation, Navy, $92,994.39. For pay, Marine Corps, $460.14. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $5,067.29. department of state State Department.For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $6.09. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $18.59. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $381.06.
For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $127.93. For relief and protection of American seamen, $1,207.03. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $473.80. For emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, $16.80. For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $107.16. For International Prison Commission, $2,700. For International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, $416.67. For salaries and expenses, United States Court for China, $22.22.
For national security and defense, State Department, $257.60. For waterways treaty, United States and Great Britain, $2.40. 761 treasury department For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $80.67.Treasury Department. For expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended, $10,409.43. For collecting the revenue from customs, $1,855.52. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $612.65. For collecting the war revenue, $198.84. For enforcement of National Prohibition Act, internal revenue, $53.50.
For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Act, internal revenue, $7,141.40. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal Revenue Service, $674.30. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $2,253.65. For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, $94.69. For Coast Guard, $12,379.49. For Life Saving Service, $4. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life Saving Service, $6. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $101.31.
For pay of other employees, Public Health Service, 35 cents. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $1.28. For maintenance of marine hospitals, Public Health Service, $9. For care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $2. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $2,236.40. For medical and hospital services, Public Health Service, $11,496.13. For quarantine service, $7.32. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $2,825.94.
For studies of rural sanitation, Public Health Service, $5.98. For expenses, division of venereal diseases, Public Health Service, $73. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $95.53. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $308.22. For general expenses of public buildings, $4.55. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $14.25. For operating force for public buildings, $662.65. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $5.15. For furniture, post office, courthouse, and customhouse, Honolulu, Hawaii, $26.89.
For operating supplies for public buildings, $189.71. war department For contingencies, military intelligence division, General Staff War Department.Corps, $27.10. For salaries, Adjutant General’s Office, $14.67. For temporary employees, Office of the Chief of Finance. $36.65. For registration and selection for military service, $412.60. For increase of compensation, War Department, $1,185.55. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $672,375.63. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $621.19.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $182.15. For extra duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $14.91. For increase of compensation. Military Establishment, $22,248.72.762 For mileage, officers and contract surgeons, $1,087.85. For subsistence of the Army, $1,074.25. For regular supplies of the Army, $343.92. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $33.87. For clothing and equipage, $101.14. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps, $17.85.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $8,367.51. For Army transportation, $8,894.96. For inland and port storage and shipping facilities, $66.98. For military post near northern boundary of Montana, $16.35. For barracks and quarters, $184.84. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $61,732. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $53,916.28. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $1,974.11. For shooting galleries and ranges, $43.50.
For construction and repair of hospitals, $239.59. For signal service of the Army, $2,559.01. For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $4,553.35. For Air Service, Army, $1,663.58. For Medical and Hospital Department, $1,494.74. For engineer equipment of troops, $805. For engineer operations in the held, $4.14. For gun and mortar batteries, $3.70. For fortifications in insular possessions, $185.84. For proving grounds, Army, $217.59. For Ordnance Service, $1,604.28. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $522.
For manufacture of arms, $4.16. For ordnance stores and supplies, $2,404.05. For small-arms target practice, $10,752.50. For armament of fortifications, $45,117.02. For armament of fortifications, Panama Canal, $3,516.39. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $131.70. For repairs of arsenals, $604.84. For repair and restoration of defenses of Galveston, Texas, $300. For Chemical Warfare Service, Army, $8.62. For fire control at fortifications, $4.70. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $4,298.69.
For ammunition for held artillery, Organized Militia, $815.87. For civilian military training camps, $49.04. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $77.14. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $9.44. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $348.78. For Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, $10. For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, $4.20. For increase of compensation, rivers and harbors, $500.38.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion branch, $30.30. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain branch. $20.30. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, $26.29. Medical and hospital services, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $563.38. For payment of claims for loss of firearms, and so forth, taken by the United States during labor strikes in 1914 in Colorado, $23.50. 763 post office department For salaries, Post Office Department, $24.18.Post Office Department.
For balance due foreign countries, $126,264.25. For city delivery carriers, $1,325.63. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $2,365.15. For compensation of postmasters, $1,307.24. For electric and cable car service, $2,306.57. For indemnities, domestic mail, $634.05. For indemnities, international mail, $1,795.15. For mail messenger service, $88. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $123. For person and property damage claims, $500. For pneumatic tube service, $1,865.83.
For post office equipment and supplies, $2,757. For railroad transportation, $34,239.66. For Railway Mail Service salaries, $12.34. For rent, light, and fuel, $2,234.03. For Rural Delivery Service, $594.18. For separating mails, $1,147.23. For shipment of supplies, $120.37. For special-delivery fees, $5.44. For temporary city delivery carriers, $145.07. For temporary clerk hire, $1,019.05. For vehicle service, $1,172.55. For village delivery service, $34.94. For watchmen, messengers, and laborers, $11.20.
Total, audited claims, section 2, $1,460,523.80, together with such Additional for loss by exchange.additional sum, due to increases in rates of exchange, as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the certificates of settlement of the General Accounting Office.Title of Act. Sec. 3. This Act hereafter may be referred to as the “First Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1925.” Approved, January 20, 1925.