Chapter 87. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes January 22, 1925.[[H
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CHAP. 87.— An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes January 22, 1925.[[H. R. 10982](/us/bill/68/hr/10982).][[Public, No. 328](/us/pl/68/328).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENT The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury Department appropriations.Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, namely: 764 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARYSecretary’s Office.
Secretary, Under-secretary, Assistants, and office personnel.Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, $12,000; Undersecretary of the Treasury, $10,000; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $158,180; in all, $180,180: *Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488. *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 in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates If only one position in a grade.specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Persons transferred.average of the compensation rates for the grade: *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 was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, Payments under higher rates permitted.or
(4)to prevent 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. Limitation for fiscal year 1926, on additional allowances for civilian field services under departments, etc.*Ante*, p. 704.Those civilian positions in the field services under the several executive departments and independent establishments, the compensation of which was fixed or limited by law but adjusted for the fiscal year 1925 under the authority and appropriations contained in the Act entitled “An Act making additional appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, to enable the heads of the several executive departments and independent establishments to adjust the rates of compensation of civilian employees in certain of the field services,” approved December 6, 1924, may be paid under the applicable appropriations for the fiscal year 1926 at rates not in excess of those permitted for them under the provisions of such Act of December 6, 1924. office of chief clerk and superintendentChief 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 Secretary 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, $261,324. 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 of 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, $125,150. Buildings for bureaus, etc.For employees for the care and protection of buildings for the accommodation of such bureaus of the department as may be assigned thereto, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $24,435. Madison Place Annex.Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place: For personal services for the care, maintenance, and protection of the building, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $40,575. 765 Treasury garage: For personal services, in accordance with the Garage.Classification Act of 1923, $6,300. contingent expenses, treasury departmentDepartment contingent expenses. For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city Reference books, etc.directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. For freight, expressage, telegraph, and telephone service, $10,000.Freight, etc. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Rent, District of Columbia.Treasury Department, $12,500. For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucksMotor vehicles. and bicycles, and maintenance and repair of one passenger automobile for the Secretary of the Treasury, all to be used for official purposes only, $7,000. For purchase of file holders and file cases, $4,000.File holders, etc. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils, and grease, grate baskets Fuel, etc.and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $20,000. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power Lighting, etc.purposes, gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $21,000. For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and Miscellaneous 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, street car 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, $13,000. For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, Labor-saving machines, etc.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, $14,000. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, Carpets, etc.mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $500. For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, Furniture.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. For operating expenses of the Treasury Department Annex Numbered Operating expenses.Madison Place Annex1 (Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $13,000. Darby Building: For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, Darby Building.ice, and miscellaneous items, $4,500. Stationery: For stationery, including tags, labels, and index Stationery.cards, printed in the course of manufacture, packing boxes and other materials necessary for shipping stationery supplies, and 766freight for supplies purchased free on board factory, for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $437,760. general supply commiteeGeneral Supply Committee. Personal services and office expenses.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923” not exceeding $75,000; necessary expenses, including office supplies and materials, maintenance of motor trucks, telegrams, telephone service, and traveling expenses, $2,800; in all, $77,800. 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, 1926.because of the cessation of war activities, $43,700: *Provided*, That the said Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1926, 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:Cooperation of departments, etc., in transfers, etc. *Provided 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 with 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 Use of unfit type-writers, etc., for exchanges.or supplies: *Provided further*, That typewriters and computing machines transferred 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 typewriters by Supply Committee.Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing 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.” Typewriting machines.Prices of standard machines for 1926.No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1926 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 to be from surplus stock of Committee.All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1926 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 Immediate inventory, etc., of War Department stock to be furnished.General Supply Committee. The War Department shall 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, 767and 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 Unserviceable machines allowed for exchange.the General Supply Committee is unable 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 Acceptance in part payment.in selling typewriting machines 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 cimmissioner of accountes and deposistsAccounts and Deposits Office. For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personal Commissioner, and office personnel.services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $20,540. division of bookkeeping and warrantsBookkeeping 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,” $164,386. Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised Statutes, also [R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718).including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $200,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins Recoinage of 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 [R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696).Statutes, $3,000. Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Recoinage of minor coins.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, $15,000. division of depositsDeposits Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division and other personal services Chief of division, and office personnel.in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $17,400. public debt servicePublic Debt Service. For necessary expenses connected with the administration of any Office personnel, and other expenses.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 768*Provisos.*Services in the District.in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $3,260,000: *Provided*, That the amount to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $3,113,414: *Provided further*, Indefinite appropriation discontinued.Vol. 40, p. 292.That the indefinite appropriation “Expenses of loans,” Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended, shall not be used during the fiscal year 1926 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service. Expenses under specifici laws.Vol. 41, p. 456.For expenses incident to the discharge of the duties imposed upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the Transportation Act, 1920, the Vol. 40, p. 451; Vol. 41, pp. 359, 1145.Federal Control Act, approved March 21, 1918, as amended, and for expenses arising in connection with loans and credits to foreign governments Vol. 40, pp. 35, 288, 504, 844, 1312.under the Liberty Loan Acts and the Victory Liberty Loan Act and in connection with credits granted or conditions entered into Vol. 41, p. 548.under the Acts providing for the relief of populations in Europe and contiguous countries, and in connection with credits granted or conditions Vol. 41, p. 949.entered into under the Act providing for the sale of surplus war material, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $7,240. Destinctive 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 200,000,000 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, $1,407,775. division of appointmentsAppointments 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,” $60,880. division of printingPrinting 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,” $56,240. printing and binding Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, including materials for Bookbinding.the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Department, but Work excluded.not including work done at the New York customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with Vol. 40, p. 1270.the Act of March 1, 1919, $834,750. Postage.For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000. division of mail and filesMails and Files 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,” $20,200. office of disbursing clerk Disbursing clerk, and office personnel.Salaries: For the disbursing clerk and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $54,040. 769 customs serviceCustoms Service. Division of Customs: For personal services in the District of Personal services in Customs Division.Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $64,000. For collecting the revenue from customs, and for the detection Collecting 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, $16,467,200, of which such amount as may be necessary shall be available for salaries of general appraisers retired under Retired general appraisers.Vol. 42, p. 973.Services in the District.Vol. 42, p. 975.the provisions of section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1922, and $62,480 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia exclusive of eight persons from the field force authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the Tariff Act of 1922. Scales for customs service: For construction and installation of Automatic scales.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, $95,000. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of Compensation in lieu of moieties.moieties in certain cases under the customs laws, $30,000. bureau of the budgetBudget Bureau. Director, $10,000; Assistant Director, $7,500; for all other necessary Director, Assistant, personnel, and all other expenses.expenses of the bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” 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, $147,500; in all, $165,000. For printing and binding, $25,000.Printing and binding. FEDERAL FARM LOAN BUREAUFederal Farm Loan Bureau. salaries and expenses Salaries: For six members of the board, at $10,000 each; for personal Members of the Board, office and field personnel.services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” and for personal services in the field, $139,600; in all, $199,600, payable from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks, of which amount not to exceed $133,180 Services in the District.may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; For salaries of twelve reviewing appraisers at not to exceed Reviewing appraisers.Vol. 42, p. 776.$5,000 each per annum, and the traveling expenses of such reviewing appraisers, $30,000, in all, $90,000, payable from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks; For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its Contingent expenses.officers and employees; per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4; and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including books of reference and maps; and for the examination of national farm loan Examinations.associations, including personal services and traveling expenses, $128,000, payable from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder *Provisos.*Pay restriction.at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum: *Provided further*, That $1,260 of this sum may be expended for clerk hire in Clerks in the District.the District of Columbia; In all, Federal Farm Loan Bureau, $417,600. 770 office of treasurer of the united statesTreasurer’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 Classification Act of 1923,” $1,065,000; in all, $1,073,000. 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, $405,000 to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. office of the comptroller of the currencyOffice 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,” $221,000; in all, $226,000. Federal reserve and national currency.Personal services.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” in connection with Federal reserve and national currency, $67,000, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. Special examinations.For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, 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, $1,500. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICEInternal Revenue Service. Commissioner, and office personnel.Office of the commissioner: Commissioner of Internal Revenue, $10,000; for the assistant to the commissioner, three deputy com-missioners, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $810,000; in all, $820,000. Stamp agent.For one stamp agent, $1,860, to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, etc.For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, storekeepergaugers, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, rent of 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 *Provisos.*Distilled spirits may be removed to ware-house for bottling in bond.internal-revenue taxes, $4,450,000: *Provided*, 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 Witness fees.such warehouses: *Provided further*, 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 *Post*, p. 1030.United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.” Assessing, collecting, etc., taxes.Expenses.For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue 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 771and not to exceed $11,500 for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, 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 Services in the District.collection districts, $31,750,000, of which amount not to exceed $10,750,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not more than $100,000 of the total *Proviso*.Detecting, etc., violations of internal revenue laws.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 Prohibition Prohibition 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 cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes, approved December 17, 1914, as amended by the Revenue Act of Vol. 38, p. 785.Vol. 40, p. 1130.1918, 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, 1909,” as amended by the Act of May 26, 1922, known as “The Narcotic Drugs Import Vol. 42, p. 298.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; not to exceed $50,000 for dissemination of information and appeal Disseminating information, securing evidence, etc.for law observance and law enforcement, including the necessary printing in connection therewith; 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 quarters; in all, $11,000,000, of which amount not to exceed $1,300,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,329,440 of the foregoing sum shall be expended Services in the District.*Provisos.*Narcotics Acts enforcement.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 Advances to disbursing agents.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 [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).Restriction on payments for storage of seized goods in private warehouses.to the contrary notwithstanding: *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. 772 coast guardCoast Guard. Office personnel.Office of the commandant: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $220,000. Technical services.The services of skilled draftsmen and 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 vessels and boats, to be paid *Infra.**Proviso*.Limitation, etc.from the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1926 shall not exceed $10,000. 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. Service expenditures.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Coast Guard, as follows, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes: Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, cadets and cadet engineers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, and surfmen, substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, $13,675,035; Rations.For rations or commutation thereof for petty officers and other enlisted men, $727,000; Fuel and water.For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $2,780,000; Outfits, stores, etc.For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, $1,300,000; Stations, houses of refuge, etc.For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard Death allowances.purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $289,800; Vol. 41, p. 825.For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920, $30,000; Traveling expenses.For mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers; and actual traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in *Proviso*.Travel on Government-owned vessels.lieu thereof, $250,000: *Provided*, That officers of the Coast Guard performing travel by Government-owned vessels for which no transportation fare is charged shall only be entitled to reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses incurred; Draft animals.For draft animals and their maintenance, $27,000; Coastal communication.For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance, $50,000; Field employees.For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including clerks to district superintendents, $79,000; Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistence 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, $220,000; Repairs to vessels.For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats, $950,000; Total Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $20,377,835. 773 bureau of engraving and pringingEngraving and Printing Bureau. Office of Director: For the Director, two Assistant Directors, and Director, Assistants, and office personnel.other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $460,540. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, Work authorized for the fiscal year.*Post*, p. 1342.during the fiscal year 1926, of not exceeding 190,242,300 delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency, 95,075,700 delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, 130,000 delivered sheets of customs stamps, 2,700,000 delivered sheets of withdrawal permits, 550,000 delivered sheets of opium orders Vol. 38, p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 1130; Vol. 42, p. 295.and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, and 7,241,817 delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees required Salaries of employees.for the administrative work of the bureau of the class provided for and specified in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, $3,631,833: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall *Proviso*.Large notes.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 the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to Vol. 31, p. 45.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. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary Wages.of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $1,780,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended *Proviso*.Large notes.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 the requirements of the Act “to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain Vol. 31, p. 45.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. For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except Materials, etc.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, $1,404,157, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year 1926 all proceeds derived from work performed Proceeds of work to be credited to Bureau.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 provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 227), Vol. 24, p. 227.shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year 1926. secret serviceSecret Service Division. Secret Service Division, salaries: For the chief of the Division Chief of division, and office personnel.and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,’ $25,680. 774 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 Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for no other Protecting person of the President.purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $450,000: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Witness fees.That no part of this amount be 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 *Post*, p. 1030.United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, Pay restriction.That no person shall be employed hereunder at a compensation greater than that allowed by law. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICEPublic Health Service. Office personnel.Salaries. Office of Surgeon General: For personal services in the District or Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $101,560. Pay, etc., Surgeon General, etc.For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistant surgeon generals at large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $1,110,000. Acting assistant surgeons.For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $315,000. Other employees.For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $1,020,000. Freight, travel, etc.For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, *Proviso*.Travel on Government-owned vessels.$25,000: *Provided*, That officers of the Public Health Service performing travel by Government-owned vessels for which no transportation fare is charged shall only be entitled to reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses incurred. Hygienic Laboratory.For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $43,400. Transporting remains of officers.For preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in the line of duty, $3,000. Books, etc.For journals and scientific books, $500. Medical examinations, hospital services to beneficiaries, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885.For medical examinations, including the amount necessary for 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 General expenses.services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, trans775portation 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), $5,211,285, of which not to Services in the District.exceed $257,778 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Immigration Service shall permit *Provisos*.Use of Ellis Island hospitals.the Public 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 of 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 Receipts to be covered into the Treasury.of 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 quarantine service, Uses forbidden.the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscal Disposal of receipts.year 1926, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, Quarantine service.exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, $470,000. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of Prevention of epidemics.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, $328,772, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and Field investigations.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, $282,054. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and Interstate quarantine service.municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $22,530. Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work Rural sanitation.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. $75,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Subject to local contribution.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: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, Biologic products.Regulating sale of viruses, etc.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, $45,000. 776 Venereal Diseases Division.Maintenance.Vol. 40, p. 886.Services in the District.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, $75,000, of which amount not to exceed $40,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Mints and Assay OfficesMints and assay offices. office of the director of the mintOffice 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,” $32,140. Freight on bullion and coin.For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $7,500. 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, $900. Examinations, etc.For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual Precious metals statistics.production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $5,100. carson city, nevada, mintMints. Carson City, Nev.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $5,280. For incidental and contingent expenses, $600. denver, colorado, mintDenver, Colo. Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $156,710. 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, lousiana, mint New Orleans, La.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $9,960. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. philadelphiamint Philadelphia, Pa.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $600,000. 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, $110,000. san francisco, california, mint San Francisco, Calif.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $256,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $57,500. 777 boise, idaho, assay officeAssay offices. Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $6,340.Boise, Idaho. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. helena, montana, assay office Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $5,280.Helena, Mont. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. new york assay office Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $260,000.New York, N. Y. 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. seattle, washington, assay office Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $19,230.Seattle, Wash. For incidental and contingent expenses, $6,000. deadwood, south dakota, assay office Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $5,280.Deadwood, S. Dak. For incidental and contingent expenses, $300. salt lake city, utah, assay office Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $3,960.Salt Lake City, Utah. For incidental and contingent expenses, $300. PUBLIC BUILDINGSPublic buildings. office of supervising architectSupervising Architect’s Office. Salaries: For the Supervising Architect, and other personal services Supervising Architect, and office personnel.in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $275,920. public buildings, construction and rentConstruction, and rent. Birmingham, Alabama, post office and courthouse: For extension Birmingham, Ala., post office, etc.of mailing platform and changes in approaches, and miscellaneous minor items, $25,000. Brooklyn, New York, post office: For extension of toilet room and New York, post office.miscellaneous changes incident thereto, $50,000. Chicago, Illinois, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For renewing Chicago, III., post office, etc.part of downspouts, plumbing, and heating pipes, and work incident thereto, $75,000. Ellsworth, Maine, post office and customhouse: For construction Ellsworth, Me., post office, etc.of retaining wall, grading, extension, and repairs to driveway and sidewalk, and so forth, $15,000. Louisville, Kentucky, post office: For new conduit and wiring system, Louisville, Ky., post office.and lighting fixtures, $25,000. Mobile, Alabama, customhouse and post office: For remodeling first Mobile, Ala., customhouse, etc.story, including mechanical equipment; lavatories in second story, $15,000. Saint Louis, Missouri, post office; For reconstruction and repairs Saint Louis, Mo., post office.to skylights and roof, $25,000. 778 Saint Paul, Minn., post office, etc.Saint Paul, Minnesota, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For repairs to plaster, and so forth, interior and exterior painting, repointing stonework, and so forth, $45,000. Topeka, Kans., post office, etc.Topeka, Kansas, post office and courthouse: For general repairs to exterior of building, $40,000. Washington, D. C.Auditors’ Building.Washington, District of Columbia, Auditors’ Building: For fire-proofing stair, elevator shafts, and door into tunnel, and other fire-protection work, $7,000. Additional lock-box equipment.Additional lock-box equipment for public buildings: For furnishing and installing additional lock-box equipment for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including necessary and incidental changes in screen work, and so forth, $100,000. Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings.Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling, 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, $800,000. marine hospitalsMarine hospitals. Baltimore, Md.Baltimore, Maryland, Marine Hospital Numbered 1: For extension of fire protection; mechanical equipment, heating old wards, new sewerage and drainage, bedside call system, extension and remodeling of roadways, and so forth, $44,000. Boston, Mass.Boston, Massachusetts, Marine Hospital Numbered 2: For rehabilitating tuberculosis building, $3,350. Carville, La.Carville, Louisiana, Marine Hospital Numbered 66: For miscellaneous improvements and repairs to buildings and grounds, $25,000. New Orleans, La.New Orleans, Louisiana, Marine Hospital Numbered 14: For steam heat for old ward and incinerator, $5,000. Portland, Me.Portland, Maine, Marine Hospital Numbered 16: For enclosing veranda, bedside call and lighting system, $5,000. San Francisco, Calif.San Francisco, California, Marine Hospital Numbered 19: For extension and remodeling of kitchen; mess hall and laundry building; repairs to roadways; new roof; new foundation wall, and so forth, for ward Numbered 7, $40,000. quarantine stationsQuarantine stations. Baltimore, Md.Baltimore, Maryland, Quarantine Station: For construction of two storehouses, $3,000. Boston, Mass.Boston, Massachusetts, Quarantine Station: For construction of storehouse and miscellaneous repairs to buildings, $10,000. Galveston, Tex.Galveston, Texas, Quarantine Station: For miscellaneous repairs and painting of buildings; repairs to wharf and approaches; dredging boat basin; constructing bin; in all, $6,000. New Orleans, La.New Orleans, Louisiana, Quarantine Station: For construction of nurses’ quarters, including mechanical equipment; miscellaneous repairs; material and apparatus for extending electric lighting plant; water purifying and filtering apparatus, $15,000. New York, N. Y.New York, New York, Quarantine Station: For miscellaneous repairs to buildings, coal dock and approaches, $20,000. San Francisco, Calif.San Francisco. California, Quarantine Station: For repairs and alterations to buildings, $1,000. 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. 779 public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expeneseRepairs, equipment, etc. Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all Repairs and preservation.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 of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 15 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding *Provisos.*Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc.$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 not exceeding $24,500 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, Butler, Treasury Department buildings.and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of Personal services restriction.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, $930,000. Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical Mechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, plumbing, etc.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 reserved 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*, *Provisos.*Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc.That of the sum herein appropriated, 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 $38,000 for the TreasuryTreasury Department buildings., Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, Butler, 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, and repairs of pneumatic-tube Pneumatic-tube service, New York City.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*, That this sum shall not be available for Personal services restriction.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 repairs Vaults, safes, 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 con780trol 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, $100,000. General expenses.Additional pay, Supervising Architect.Vol. 35, p. 537.Technical services.General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to 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 Expenses of superintendence, etc.of Columbia and elsewhere, not exceeding $428,960; expenses 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, supplies, etc.office rent and expenses of superintendents, including 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 laborsaving 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 *Proviso*.Transporting operating supplies.other appropriations: *Provided*, That no expenditures shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical Salamanca, N. Y.periodicals and journals; ground rent at Salamanca, New York; Other contingencies.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 Treasury may deem necessary and specially order Objects excluded.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, $521,960, of which amount not to exceed $226,860 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. public buildings, operating expensesOperating expenses. Operating force.Personal services, assistant custodians, etc.Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may 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 tendere, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, 781plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall Pay restriction.the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed, $5,639,606: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation *Proviso*.Buildings for which available.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 and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and Furniture, etc.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 extension of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marineBuildings excluded. hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or establishments*Provisos.*Personal services restriction. of the Government, $750,000: *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 time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, Use of present furniture.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: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating Operating supplies.Fuel, light, power, water, etc.purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting 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, Buildings excluded.but excluding any 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), $3,100,000. The Gas governors.appropriation made 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*, That the Secretary Advance fuel contracts authorized.of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the purchase of 782fuel 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. Custody of lands, etc.Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the [R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739).United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 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 blindPrinting House for the Blind. Expenses.To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the Vol. 41, p. 272.blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 4, 1919, $40,000. TITLE II.— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Post Office Department appropriations.Vol. 5, p. 80.The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836, for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, namely: post office department; washington, district of columbiaDepartment expenses. office of the postmaster generalOffice of Postmaster General. Postmaster General, end office personnel.Postmaster General, $12,000; for personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $197,340; in all, $209,340. post office department buildingsDepartment 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 officesSalaries. 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, $392,100. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. $265,740. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $678,260. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $376,940. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $57,760. Office of the Chief Inspector, $134,920. Office of the Purchasing Agent, $33,300. Bureau of Accounts, $38,280. Contingent Expenses, Post Office DepartmentDepartment contingent expenses. Stationery, etc.For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $27,000. 783 For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant, including Heating, lighting, etc.repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $54,000. For telegraphing, $6,500.Telegraphing. For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, Miscellaneous.and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other laborsaving devices; not to exceed $3,000 for purchase, exchange, hire, Vehicles.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 13 of the Madrid convention of the Universal Postal Union, $52,410, of which sum not exceeding $14,500 may be expended for telephone service, and 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. For furniture and filing cabinets, $8,000.Furniture. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including Printing and binding.all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,150,000. For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office or Capitol Reimbursing for heating, etc., Washington city post office.Power Plant for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $58,000. Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Field 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 the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. Field Service, Post Office DepartmenField service.t office of postmaster generalPostmaster 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 reward Cash 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 $3,000 is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, *Provisos.*Additional to regular pay.That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with this Act shall be in addition to their usual compensation: *Provided further*, That the total amount paid under the provisions of this Act shall Amount limited.not exceed $1,000 in any month or for any one invention or suggestion: *Provided further*, That no employee shall be paid a reward Agreement for Government use required.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 appropriation shall Use restricted.be available for no other purpose. For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and Shipment of equipment, supplies, etc.supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by 784freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $450,000. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Postmaster General, $1,000. Damage claims.Vol. 42, p. 63.To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921, $10,000. Inspectors.Office of chief inspector: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions, at $4,200 each; and five hundred and twenty *Proviso*.Civil service eligibles.inspectors, $1,712,000; in all, $1,775,000: *Provided*, That the appointment of additional inspectors shall be made upon certification of the Civil Service Commission, as heretofore practiced. Traveling expenses.For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, and 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, $445,000. Miscellaneous.For necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters, $13,500. Clerks, division head-quarters.For compensation of one hundred and fifteen clerks at division headquarters, $252,060. Rewards, etc.For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, $30,000: *Provisos*.Death of offender.*Provided*, 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:Limitation. *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Securing information.Order 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. office of the first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Post-master General. Postmasters.For compensations to postmasters, $46,600,000. 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, $100,000. 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, $130,000,000. Watchmen, messengers, etc.For compensation to watchmen, messengers, and laborers, $6,200,000. Contract station clerks.For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, $1,575,000. 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, $4,650,000. Rent, light, and fuel.For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post offices, $15,175,000. Miscellaneous, first and second class offices.For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices of the first and second classes, $975,000. 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. $1,700,000. Detroit River.For Detroit River postal service, $18,000. 785 For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery Car fare and bicycles.car fare, $1,000,000. For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $92,000,000.City delivery, carriers.Special delivery fees. For fees to special-delivery messengers, $7,600,000. For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar Pneumatic tubes, New York and Brooklyn.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. For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, Vehicle allowance for delivery, collection, etc.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 service, $15,400,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, in his *Proviso*.Leasing of garages, etc.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. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, Office Travel, etc.of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the second assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster General. For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $170,000: *Provided*, Star routes in Alaska.*Proviso*.Emergency service.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 stations, in such manner as he may think advisable, without advertising therefor. For inland transportation by steamboat or other power boat routes, Steamboat, etc., routes.including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,550,000. For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger Railroad routes and messenger service.*Provisos.*Freight train conveyance.service, $112,250,000: *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*, Messenger service accounting.That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service. For the operation and maintenance of the airplane mail service Airplane service, New York and San Francisco.between New York, New York, and San Francisco, California, via Chicago, Illinois, and Omaha, Nebraska, and for the installation, Installing, etc., night flying service, etc.equipment, 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, including necessary incidental expenses and employment of necessary personnel, $2,600,000. Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen Railway 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, $49,500,000. For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway Travel allowance to clerks.postal clerks. $2,675,000. For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and Traveling expenses, etc., away from head-quarters.assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, 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. 786 Miscellaneous expenses.For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, and badges for railway postal clerks, Rent for terminal offices.and rental of space for terminal railway post offices for the distribution 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, $1,222,000. Electric and cable cars.Foreign mails.*Provisos.*Aircraft allowance.For electric and cable car service, $650,000. For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise, $8,500,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $150,000 of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft:Sea post service. *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General shall be authorized to 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 Assistant superintendent, New York.States; and not to exceed $3,000 for the salary of the Assistant Superintendent. Division of Foreign Mails, with headquarters at Representative to Universal Postal Congress research committee.New York City: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $1,000 of this sum may be immediately available for the representative to the meeting of the research committee of the Universal Postal Congress in Europe to be designated from the Post Office Department by the Postmaster General, and to be expended in the discretion of the Post-master General and accounted for on his certificate, which certificate shall be conclusive on the accounting offices of the United States. Balance to foreign countries.Travel, etc.For balances due foreign countries, $1,500,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the third assistant postmaster generalThird Assistant Post-master 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, $8,000,000. Distribution agency.For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, $21,000. 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, $4,000,000. International.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $100,000. 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 generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General. Stationery.Postal Savings System supplies.For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-order 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, $925,000. 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 787supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, Letter boxes, etc.the erection and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype Postmarking stamps, etc.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 purchased and furnished directly to the Postal Service; for miscellaneous expenses Post route, etc., maps.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 service, and for letter boxes, $1,400,000; and the Postmaster General may authorize Sale of maps.the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery 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: *Provided*, That $200,000 of *Proviso*.Amount for equipment and furniture.this appropriation may be used for the purchase of equipment and furniture for post-office quarters and for no other purposes. For wrapping twine and tying devices, $470,000.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, Pay of employees.$2,650; foreman, $1,800; eleven 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, $69,800. For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines Canceling and labor-saving machines.and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other laborsaving 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 diem allowance Traveling mechanicians.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, $575,000. For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and Mail 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, and tools necessary Equipment shops’ material, etc.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; for compensation to Labor.labor employed in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, $1,800,000, of which not to exceed $470,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Distinctive equipment for departments. Alaska, and insular possessions.That out of 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, $12,700,000. 788 Rural delivery.For pay of rural carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $88,350,000. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. Appropriation from the Treasury for field service to supply deficiency in postal, revenues.If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient 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, 1926, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. Approved, January 22, 1925.