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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 44 STAT. · June 30, 1928 · Chapter 189

Chapter 189. Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 189.— An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes.February 24, 1927.[[H. R. 16576](/us/bill/69/hr/16576).][[Public, No. 638](/us/pl/69/638).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the follow 1179 ing sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury notAppropriations for Departments of State, Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and Labor. otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, namely:
TITLE I.— DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State. office of the secretary of state. Salaries: For Secretary of State, $15,000; Undersecretary ofSecretary, Undersecretary, and office personnel. State, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including temporary employees, $1,074,600; in all, $1,089,600: *Provided*, That in expending*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488. 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 specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one position is allocatedIf only one position in a grade. the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade except that in unusually meritoriousAllowances in tin usually meritorious cases. cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not applyNot applicable to clerical-mechanical services.
(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 compensationNo fixed salary reduced.Vol. 42, p. 1490. 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 anyTransfers to another position without reduction. 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, or
(4)to prevent the paymentPayments at higher rates permitted. 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. contingent expenses, department of state For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including stationery,Contingent and miscellaneous expenses. furniture, fixtures, typewriters, exchange of same, repairs and material for repairs; books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the library, not exceeding $4,000; newspapers not exceeding $700, for which payment may be made in advance; maintenance, repair, and storage of motor-propelled vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagons, including storage, repair, and exchange of same; street-car fare not exceeding $150; and other miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, $43,605. printing and binding For all printing and binding in the Department of State, includingPrinting and binding. all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $190,000. passport bureausPassport bureaus. For salaries and expenses of maintenance, including rent outsideSalaries and expenses. the District of Columbia, of passport bureaus at New York City, New York; San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; Seattle, 1180 Washington; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Boston, Massachusetts, $63,000. collection and editing of official papers of the territories of the united states now in national archivesOfficial papers of the Territories. Collecting, etc,, for publication.Vol. 43, p. 1104.For the expenses of collecting, editing, copying, and arranging for publication the official papers of the Territories of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia, as provided for by the Act approved March 3, 1925, $20,000. DIPLOMATIC SERVICEDiplomatic Service. ambassadors and ministersAmbassadors and ministers. Ambassadors.Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, *Provisos*.Allowance for Turkey available for minister, If that grade be appointed.Mexico, Peru, Spain, and Turkey, at $17,500 each, $227,500: *Provided*, That so much as may be necessary of the amount herein appropriated for the salary of an ambassador to Turkey shall be available for the salary of an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey at $12,000 per annum in the event that the President should appoint a diplomatic representative of that grade; Belgium, and minister to Luxemburg.For ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Belgium and envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Luxemburg, $17,500; Ministers,China and Netherlands.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China and the Netherlands, at $12,000 each, $24,000; Other countries.Canada and Irish Free State added.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Albania, Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dominion of Canada, Ecuador, Egypt. Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Irish Free State, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each; to the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, $10,000; and to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, $10,000; in all, $350,000; Minister, etc., Liberia.Agent, etc., Tangier.Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, $5,000; Agent and consul general at Tangier, $7,500; *Proviso*.Salary restriction.*Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Total, ambassadors and ministers, $631,500. Chargés d'affaires, etc.For salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting as charges d’affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer, $19,000. clerks at embassies and legations Clerks, embassies and legations.For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, $375,000; and so far as practicable shall be appointed under civil-service rules and regulations. interpreters to embassies and legationsInterpreters, Persia,Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $2,000; Siam,Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, $3,000; 1181 For the payment of the cost of tuition of Foreign Service officersTuition, Asia and eastern Europe, assigned for the study of the languages of Asia and eastern Europe, at the rate of $350 per annum each, $2,800; in all, $7,800. quarters for student interpreters at embassiesQuarters. For rent of quarters for Foreign Service officers assigned forLanguage study officers, Japan and Turkey. language study in Japan and Turkey, $1,800. contingent expenses, foreign missions To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all suchContingent expenses, missions. stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repairs,Buildings, Tangier. including alterations and structural changes in the Government-owned buildings in Tangier, Morocco, postage, telegrams, advertising, ice, and drinking water for office purposes, hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, operation, and hire of other passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, furniture, household furniture and furnishings not to exceed $25,000, typewriters and exchange of same, messenger service, operation and maintenance of launch for embassy at ConstantinopleLaunch, Constantinople. not exceeding $2,500, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, porters, interpreters, and translators, compensation of agentsDispatch agencies. and employees of and rent and other expenses for dispatch agencies at London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans, traveling expenses of Diplomatic and Foreign Service officers, including attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by section 14Attendance at trade meetings, etc.Vol. 43, p. 143. of the Act approved May 24, 1924, miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for loss on bills of exchange to and fromLoss by exchange. embassies and legations, including such loss on bills of exchange to officers of the United States Court for China, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic), rent, telephone, and other similar services under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $784,500: *Provided*, That no part of this sum*Provisos*. No payment for clerical services to persons not American citizens. appropriated for contingent expenses, foreign missions, shall be expended for salaries or wages of persons (except interpreters, translators, and messengers) not American citizens performing clerical services, whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any foreign mission: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of StateLao Lang Hui.Reimbursement to, for rent of quarters.*Ante*, p. 332. is hereby authorized to reimburse Lao Lang Hui, interpreter of the legation in Bangkok, Siam, from the appropriation for contingent expenses, foreign missions, 1927, for rent of living quarters occupied during the fiscal year 1927, not exceeding $550. ground rent of embassy at tokyo, japan For annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for theGround rent, Japan. year ending March 15, 1928, $250. diplomatic and consular establishments, tokyo, japanTokyo, Japan. For the acquisition in Tokyo, Japan, of additional land adjoiningAcquisition of land and buildings, for diplomatic and consular officers. the site of the former American Embassy and such other land as may be necessary, and the construction thereon of suitable buildings for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States, the said buildings to include residences for the diplomaticFurnishing. and consular representatives, and the furnishing of the same, 1182 Vol. 43, p. 961.as provided in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to enlarge the site and erect buildings thereon for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States Proviso.Balance available.in Tokyo, Japan,” approved February 21, 1925, $100,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $280,000 and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $400,000 for the acquisition of diplomatic and consular establishments, Tokyo, Japan, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925, approved Vol. 43, p. 1341.*Ante*, p. 332.March 4, 1925, and the Act approved April 29, 1926, respectively, shall remain available until Jane 30, 1928: *Provided further*, That within Construction contract authorized.the limit of cost fixed by the Act of February 21, 1925, for the acquisition of land, construction of buildings, and furnishing of same, the Secretary of State is authorized to enter into contracts for the construction of the buildings authorized by the Act. expenses of foreign service inspectors Foreign Service inspectors, expenses.For the traveling expenses of Foreign Service officers detailed for inspection while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, $25,000. allowance for clerk. hire at united states consulates Clerk hire at consulates.For allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $1,585,000. Clerks, when-ever hereafter appointed, shall, so far as practicable, be appointed under civil-service rules and regulations. contingent expenses, united states consulates Contingent expenses, consulates.For expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), repairs to consular buildings owned by the United States, postage, furniture, household furniture and furnishings not to exceed $10,000, typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, news-papers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, ice and drinking water for office purposes, hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, operation, and hire of other passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, messenger service, traveling expenses of Consular and Attendance at trade meetings, etc.Vol. 43, p. 143,Foreign Service officers, including attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by section 14 of the Act approved May 24, 1924; compensation of interpreters, kavasses, guards, dragomans, translators, Loss by exchange.and Chinese writer;, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic), rent, telephone, and other similar services under this appropriation are hereby authorized, $970,000. Ten years leases for offices authorized.The Secretary of State may lease or rent, for periods not exceeding ten years, such buildings and grounds for offices for the Foreign Service as may be necessary ; and he may, in accordance with Living quarters, etc., for Foreign Service personnel In China, Japan, and Turkey.existing practice without cost to them, and within the limit of any appropriation made by Congress, continue to furnish the chief diplomatic representatives and their minor employees in foreign countries and officers and employees in the Foreign Service in China, Japan, and Turkey with living quarters, heat, light, and household equipment in Government-owned buildings and in buildings rented for use as offices at places where, in his judgment, it would be in the public 1183 interest to do so, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1765 of[R. S., sec. 1765, p.314](/us/rs/sec1765/p314).Appropriations available. the Revised Statutes, and appropriations for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” and “Contingent expenses, consulates,” are here-by made available for such purposes; and he is also authorized,Quarters, etc., for other employees. in his discretion, to furnish living quarters in such buildings to other officers and employees not herein provided for, at rates to be determined by him. immigration of aliensImmigration of aliens. To enable the Department of State to perform the duties devolvingDepartment expenses under laws regulating.Vol. 43, p. 133. upon it under the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the same objects specified in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1928, under the heads of salaries and contingent expenses of the Department of State, salaries of Foreign Service officers, allowance for clerk hire at United States consulates, transportation of diplomatic and consular officers and clerks, and contingent expenses, United States consulates, $484,720, of which not to exceed $35,000Services in the District. shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia under the Classification Act of 1923. relief and protection of american seamen For relief, protection, and burial of American seamen in foreignRelief, etc., of American seamen. countries, in the Panama Canal Zone, and in the Philippine Islands, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Porto Rico, and in the Virgin Islands. $100,000. salaries of foreign service officersForeign Service officers. For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the ActSalaries.Vol. 43, p. 140. approved May 24, 1924, entitled “An Act for the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service of the United States, and for other purposes,” $2,930,000, DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULARDiplomatic and consular. salaries, diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers while receiving instructions and in transit To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, vice consuls,Instruction and transit pay. and other officers of the United States for the period actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740[R. S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/sec1740/p309). of the Revised Statutes, $20,000. transportation of diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers To pay the traveling expenses of Diplomatic, Consular, and ForeignTransportation, etc., expenses. Service officers, and clerks to embassies, legations, and consulates including officers of the United States Court for China, and the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of their families and effects, in going to and returning from their posts, including not to exceedOn leaves of absence. $25,000 incurred in connection with leaves of absence, $275,000: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be paid for transportation*Proviso*. 1184 Passage on foreign ships restricted.on foreign vessels without a certificate from tire Secretary of State that there are no American vessels on which such officers and clerks may be transported. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service Emergencies.To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising hi the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Neutrality Act.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/sec291/p49).Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes, $400,000. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic, consular. and foreign service officers who die abroad Allowance for officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. l749, p. 311](/us/rs/sec1749/p311).For payment under the provisions of section 1749 of the Revised Statutes of the United States to the widows or heirs at law of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $2,000. transporting remains of diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers and clerks to their houses for interment Bringing home remains of officers dying abroad.For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers of the United States, including clerks, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country tor interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, $4,000. post allowances to diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officersPost allowances. Special allowances to meet living expenses of officers.To enable the President, in his discretion, and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers, and officers of the United States Court for China in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $24,000. INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS. COMMISSIONS, BUREAUS, AND SO FORTH cape spartel light, coast of morocco Cape Spartel Light.For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, $386 rescuing shipwrecked american seamen Life saving testimonials.For expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe at sea, $2,000. international bureau of weights and measures International Bureau of Weights and Measures.For contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the 1185 convention of May 20, 1875, the same to be paid, under the directionVol. 20, p. 1714. of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, $3,000. international bureau for publication of customs tariffs To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense forInternational Customs Tariffs Bureau. the year ending March 31, 1928, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customsVol. 26, p. 1518. tariffs, pursuant to the convention proclaimed December 17, 1890, $1,400. water boundary, united states and mexico To enable the President to perform the obligations of the UnitedMexican Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 28, p. 1512; Vol. 34, p. 2953. States under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, and 1906 between the United States and Mexico, including not to exceed $1,200 for rent of offices, and the expenses of maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled vehicles, $44,000: *Provided*, That $4,000 of this amount shall be expended for the gauging of the waters of the Rio Grande*Provisos*.Watergauge stations. River at the water-gauging stations at San Marcial, New Mexico, El Paso and Fabens, Texas: *Provided further*, That not to exceedWater gauging in Texas. $6,000 of such sum may in the discretion of the President be used for taking over the water gauging now being done by the State of Texas. boundary line, alaska and canada, and the united states and canada To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and makeBoundary, Alaska and Canada.Vol. 32, p. 1961. the surveys incidental thereto between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada, in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, drafts-men, and clerks as are necessary; and for the more effective demarcation and mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April 11, 1908, betweenLand and water boundary, United States and Canada.Vol. 37, p. 2003. the United States and Great Britain, of the land and water boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, as established under existing treaties, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including the salaries of the commissioner and the necessary engineers, surveyors, draftsmen, computers, and clerks in the field and at the seat of government, expense of necessary traveling, for payment for timber necessarily cut in deter-mining the boundary line not to exceed $500 and commutation to members of the field force while on field duty or actual expenses not exceeding $5 per day each, to be expended in accordance with regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of State, $26,410: *Provided*, That the commissioner shall be allowed his traveling expenses in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence*Proviso*.Traveling expenses of commissioner. Expense Act of 1926. boundary treaty of 1925 between the united states and great britain: international boundary commission, united states and canada and alaska and canada To enable the President to perform the obligations of theBoundary between United States and Canada.Expenses of relocating monuments, etc.*Post*. p. 2102. United States under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain in respect of Canada, signed February 24, 1925; for salaries and expenses, including the salary of the commissioner and salaries of the necessary engineers, clerks, and other 43892— 1186 Specified items.employees for duty at the seat of government and in the field; cost of office equipment and supplies; necessary traveling expenses; com-mutation of subsistence to employees while on field duty not to exceed $4 per day each; for payment for timber necessarily cut in keeping the boundary line clear not to exceed $500; and for all other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by the United States in maintaining an effective demarcation of the international boundary Maintenance of established line.line between the United States and Canada and Alaska and Canada under the terms of the treaty aforesaid, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $22,000, of which sum $5,000 *Proviso*.Subsistence to commissioner and engineer absent on official business.shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That when the commissioner, or the engineer to the commissioner, shall be absent from Washington or their regular place of residence on official business they shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses of subsistence not to exceed $8 per day each. international prison commission International Prison Commission.For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a com-mission, including preparation of reports, $2,550. pan american unionPan American Union, Quota for support, printing.For the payment of the quota of the United States for the sup-port of the Pan American Union, $130,568.03, and for printing and *Proviso*.Use of money from other republics.binding of the union, $20,000; in all, $150,568.93: *Provided*, That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the union shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit, in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the chairman of the governing board of the union for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the union and of carrying out the orders of the said governing board. sixth international conference of american states at habana, cubaSixth Pan American Conference. Expenses of participation in, at Habana, Cuba.For the expenses of the United States in participating in the Sixth International Conference of American States to be held at the city of Habana, Cuba, in 1928, including the compensation of employees, travel and subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), printing and binding, and such miscellaneous and other expenses as the President shall deem proper, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $75,000. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration International Bureau, Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 36, p. 2222.To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendar year 1926 of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article 43 of the convention concluded at The Hague, October 18, 1907, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, $2,000. bureau of interparliamentary union for promotion of international, arbitration Interparliamentary Union for promoting international arbitration.For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the Bureau of the Interparliamentary Union for the promotion of international arbitration, $6,000. 1187 international commission on annual tables of constants, and so forth To the International Commission on Annual Tables of ConstantsInternational Commission on Tables of Constants, etc. and Numerical Data, Chemical, Physical, and Technological, as established by the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry in London and as continued by the eighth congress in New York, as a contribution by the United States toward the publication of annual tables of constants, chemical, physical, and technological, $500. international institute of agriculture at rome, italyInternational Institute oí Agriculture. For the payment of the quota of the United States, including theQuota, including dependencies. Territory of Hawaii, and the dependencies of the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1928, $9,600; To enable the Secretary of State, in his discretion, to pay theAdditional quota. additional quota of the United States, including the Territory of Hawaii, and the dependencies of the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture, in accordance with the resolutions of the general meetings of the institute, held in November, 1920, and May, 1924, $34,740, for the calendar year 1928, to be paid in United States currency on the basis of the fixed rate of exchange at par; For salary of the one member of the permanent committee of theMember of permanent committee. International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1928, $5,000; For the cost of translating into and printing in the EnglishTranslating publications. language the publications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, $5,000; Total, $54,340. international railway congress To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering memberInternational Rail-way Congress. of the International Railway Congress for the year ending April 15, 1928, $800. fan american sanitary bureau For the annual share of the United States for the maintenancePan American Sanitary Bureau. of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau for the year 1928, $28,912.28. international office of public health For the payment of the quota of the United States for the yearInternational Office of Public Health. Vol. 36, p. 2061.Vol. 35, p. 1834; Vol 42, p. 1823. 1928 toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome, December 9, 1907, in pursuance of article 181 of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December 3, 1903, $3,860. international radiotelegraphic convention For the share of the United States for the calendar year 1928, asInternational Radio.Telegraphic Convention.Vol. 37, p. 1569. a party to the international radiotélégraphie conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotélégraphie service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, $5,750. 1188 united states section of the inter-american high commission Inter-American High Commission.United States section.Vol. 39, p. 8.To defray the actual and necessary expenses on the part of the United States section of the Inter-American High Commission, $21,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. second general meeting of the inter-american high commission Expenses of second general meeting at Rio do Janeiro.For actual and necessary expenses on the part of the United States section of the Inter-American High Commission in connection with work and investigations or as may be necessary to its participation in the second general meeting of such commission, to be held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the year 1927, including salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel and subsistence expenses, or per diem in lieu of subsistence; telegraph, telephone, messenger service, printing and binding, rent and miscellaneous expenses, local transportation in Latin American countries (taxi fare); and such entertainment as is approved by the chairman of the United States delegation, $40,000, to be immediately available. waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain Canadian Boundary Waters Joint Commission.For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, cost of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, office equipment and supplies, and necessary traveling expenses, and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the Vol. 36, p. 2448.terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January 11, 1909, $42,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of *Proviso*.Traveling expenses.*Ante*, p. 688.State: *Provided*, That traveling expenses of the commission or secretary shall be allowed in accordance with the provisions of the Rent in District of Columbia.’Subsistence Expense Act of 1926: *Provided further*, That a part of this appropriation may be expended for rent of offices for the commission in the District of Columbia in the event that the Public Buildings Commission is unable to supply suitable office space:Amount transferred immediately to Geological Survey.Relocating monuments, etc.Vol. 35, p. 2010. *Provided further*, That $10,000 of this amount shall be immediately available, remain available until June 30, 1928, and shall be transferred to the United States Geological Survey, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to carry out Article VI of the treaty of January 11, 1909, and shall also be available for personal services, procurement of technical and scientific equipment, and the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles. payment to the government of panama Panama.Payment to.Vol. 33, p. 2238.To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Panama the sixteenth annual payment due on February 26, 1928, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article 14 of the treaty of November 18, 1903, $250,000. international research council International Research Council.Specified quotas.To pay the annual share of the United States, as an adhering member of the International Research Council and of the associated unions organized at Brussels, July 18–28, 1919, as follows: Inter- 1189 national Research Council, $160; International Astronomical Union, $960; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, $360; International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, $1,664; International Union of Mathematics, $80; International Union of Scientific Radiotelegraphy, $128; International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, $128; in all, $3,480, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. international hydrographic bureau For the annual contribution of the United States toward theInternational Hydrographic Bureau. maintenance of the International Hydrographic Bureau, $5,790. foreign hospital at cape town For annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset HospitalSomerset Hospital, Cape Town, Africa. (a foreign hospital), at Cape Town, $50, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital. international trade-mark registration bureau, quota of united statesInternational Trade-Mark Registration. For the annual share of the United States for the expenses of the Habana Bureau expenses.Vol. 30, p. 1680; Vol 41, p. 533.maintenance of the International Trade-Mark Registration Bureau at Habana, including salaries of the director and counselor, assistant director and counselor, clerks, translators, secretary to the director, stenographers and typewriters, messenger, watchmen, and laborers, rent of quarters, stationery and supplies, including the purchase of books, postage, traveling expenses, and the cost of printing the bulletin, $4,961. international bureau of the union for the protection of industrial property For the share of the United States in the expense of conductingIndustrial Property Bureau. the International Bureau of the Union for the Protection of Industrial Property, at Berne, Switzerland, $1,700. mixed claims commission, united states and germ any—mixed claims commission, united states, austria, and hungaryWorld War claims. For the expenses of determining the amounts of claims againstGerman Mixed Claims Commission.Vol. 42, p. 2200. Germany by the Mixed Claims Commission established under the agreement concluded between the United States and Germany on August 10, 1922, for the determination of the amount to be paid by Germany in satisfaction of the financial obligations of Germany under the treaty concluded between the Governments of the United States and Germany on August 25, 1921, for the expenses of determining the. amounts of claims against Austria and Hungary by theAustria and Hungary added.Vol. 43, p. 1339. Tripartite Claims Commission established under the agreement concluded between the United States and Austria and Hungary on November 26, 1924, for the determination of the amount to be paid by Austria and Hungary in satisfaction of the financial obligations of Austria and Hungary under the treaties concluded between theVol.42, pp. 1946, 1956. Governments of the United States and Austria, on August 24, 1921, and between the Governments of the United States and Hungary on August 29, 1921, and/or the treaties of Saint Germain-en-Laye and Trianon, respectively, including the expenses which under the 1190 terms of such agreement of August 10, 1922, and the agreement of November 26, 1924, are chargeable in part to the United States; Agency expenses,and the expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of claims and the presentation thereof before said mixed and tripartite commissions, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other Rent in the District, etc.assistants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia, contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, $119,117. general and special claims commission, united states and mexico Mexican Claims Commissions.Vol. 43, pp. 1722,1730.For the expenses of the settlement and adjustment of claims by the citizens of each country against the other under a convention concluded September 8, 1923, and of citizens of the United States against Mexico under a convention concluded September 10, 1923, between the United States and Mexico, including the expenses which, under the terms of the two conventions, are chargeable in part to the United States, the expenses of the two commissions, and the Agency expenses.expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of the claims and the presenting thereof before the said commissions, as well as defending the United States in cases presented under the general convention Rent in the District, etc.by Mexico, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, law books and books of reference, printing and binding, contingent expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, traveling expenses, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, $350,000. international fisheries commission International Fisheries Commission.Share of United States in expenses.Vol. 43, p. 1841.For the share of the United States of the expenses of the International Fisheries Commission, established under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded March 2, 1923, including salaries of two members and other employees of the commission, traveling expenses, purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments, contingent expenses, rent in the District of Columbia, and such other expenses in the United States and else-where as the President may deem proper, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $28,000. international statistical institute at the hague International Statistical Institute Bureau.Vol. 43, p. 112.For the annual contribution of the United States to the International Statistical Bureau at The Hague for the year 1928, as authorized by public resolution approved April 28, 1924, $2,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. international fisheries commission, united states and mexico Mexican International Fisheries Commission.*Post*, p. 2363.To defray the actual and necessary expenses, on the part of the United States, of the International Fisheries Commission, United States and Mexico, as established by article 11 of the treaty concluded between the United States and Mexico on December 23, 1925, for the conservation and development of marine life resources off certain of their coasts, including salaries and traveling and other expenses of United States members and other employees, boat hire, and one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses incurred by the 1191 commission, $40,000: *Provided*, That the share of the United States*Proviso*.Deposit of receipts from fines, etc. of fines and other moneys collected under the terms of the treaty shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States. international road congress To pay the quota of the United States in the Permanent AssociationInternational Road Congresses.*Ante*, p. 754. of International Road Congresses, as authorized by the public resolution approved June 18, 1926, $3,000. international map of the world For the share of the United States of the expenses of the centralInternational Map of the World.*Ante*, p. 384. bureau of the international map of the world for the calendar year 1927, $30. international exposition at seville, spainInternational Exposition, Seville, Spain. For expenses of participation, as authorized by public resolutionExpenses of participation in.Vol. 43, p. 1256. approved March 3, 1925, in an international exposition to be held at Seville, Spain, and for all purposes of the said resolution, including purchase of land and traveling expenses, $200,000, this appropriationUse restricted. not to be available except for the purposes of participation in the exposition commencing April 27, 1927, or in that exposition postponed to any other date: *Provided*, That any unexpended*Proviso*.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 866. balance of the appropriation for such exposition for the fiscal year 1927 is reappropriated for the fiscal year 1928. report on rainy lake referenceRainy lake reference. Report on Rainy Lake reference: For examination and surveysExamination and surveys for report.Vol. 36, p. 2457.*Post*, p. 2102. necessary to the preparation of the report required by the Rainy Lake reference under article 9 of the treaty of January 11, 1909, between the United States and Great Britain, and the agreement of February 24, 1925, between the Government of the United States and the Government of Canada, including salaries, transportation, authorized traveling allowances, furniture, books, printing and binding, equipment, maintenance and operation of a passenger-carrying automobile, and miscellaneous expenses $40,000. to secure replica of houdon bust of washington for pan american buildingHoudon bust of Washington. To enable the Secretary of State to secure a replica of the HoudonSecuring replica of, for Pan American Building, D. C. bust of Washington, in white marble with suitable pedestal, for lodgment in the Hall of Americas of the Pan American Building at*Ante*, p. 776. Washington in accordance with the public resolution approved June 28, 1926, $1,000. payment of awards against the united states rendered by american and british claims arbitrationBritish-American pecuniary claims arbitration. To enable the Secretary of State to satisfy the award renderedPayment of awards against United States.Vol. 37, p. 1635. against the United States by the arbitral tribunal established pursuant to the provisions of the special agreement concluded between the United States and Great Britain on August 18, 1910, $239,506.20. 1192 JUDICIAL united states court for chinaUnited States Court for China. Salaries and expenses.Judge, $8,000; district attorney, $4,000; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,000; assistant clerk, $2,400; stenographer and court reporter, $2,400; stenographer, $1,800; court expenses, including reference law books, ice, and drinking water for office purposes, $7,400; in all, $32,000. Sessions other than at Shanghai.The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when the sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries their necessary actual expenses during such session, not to exceed $8 per day each, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, is appropriated. Total, $32,000. prisons for american convicts Consular prisons, etc.For expenses of maintaining in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Persia institutions for incarcerating American convicts and persons declared insane by the United States Court for China or any consular court, including salaries of not exceeding $1,800 for the deputy marshal and $1,200 each for three assistant Keepers, quarters, etc.deputy marshals at Shanghai: wages of prison keepers; rent of quarters for prisons; ice and drinking water for prison purposes; and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by the United States Court for China or any consular court in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Persia, so much as may be necessary; in all, $13,000. bringing home criminals Bringing home criminals.For actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, $2,000. Rent restriction in United States.No portion of the sums appropriated in Title I of this Act shall, unless expressly authorized, be expended for rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States. TITLE II.— DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice. office of the attorney general Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants, Solicitors, and office personnel.Salaries: For Attorney General, $15,000; Solicitor General, $10,000; Assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Vol. 42, p. 1488.Classification Act of 1923, including the Solicitors of the State, Treasury, Commerce, and Labor Departments, and the office forces of the Solicitors of the Treasury, Commerce, and Labor Departments, $980,940; in all, $1,014,940. Law books, etc.For the purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, including the exchange thereof, for the Department of Justice, $6,700. contingent expenses, department of justice Department contingent and miscellaneous expenses.For stationery, furniture and repairs, floor coverings not exceeding $500, file holders and cases; miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing and telephones, foreign postage, labor, typewriters and adding machines and the exchange thereof and repairs thereto, street-car fares not exceeding $300, newspapers, press clippings, and 1193 other necessaries ordered by tire Attorney General; official transportation, including the repair, maintenance, and operation of a motor-driven passenger car, delivery truck, and motor cycle, to be used only for official purposes, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $62,000. For rent of buildings-and parts of buildings in the District ofRent. Columbia, $118,000, if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in buildings under the control of that commission. For printing and binding for the Department of Justice and thePrinting and binding. courts of the United States, $290,000. For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses,Traveling, etc., expenses. authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, $12,500. miscellaneous objects, department of justiceMiscellaneous. Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000:Conduct of customs cases.Assistant Attorney General, attorneys, etc.Vol. 36, p. 108. special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by subsection 30 of section 28 of the Act of August 5, 1909; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General; supplies, Supreme Court Reports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $103,200. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessaryDefending suits in claims. expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses, procuring evidence, employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and such other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the CourtIndian depredation claims. of Claims, including Indian depredation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $85,000. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecutionDetection and prosecution of crimes.Protection of the President. of crimes against the United States; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States; the acquisition, collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records and their exchange with the officials of States, cities, and other institutions; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice and the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; hire, maintenance, upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; purchase and exchange of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to cost not to exceed $2,000, exclusive of the exchange allowance on any vehicle given in part payment therefor; firearms and ammunition, such stationery and supplies for use at the seat of government or elsewhere as the Attorney General may direct, including not to exceed $10,000 for taxicab hire to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in this paragraph andTraveling expenses. to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; travelingServices in the District.Director, Bureau of investigation. expenses; including not to exceed $210,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and including a Director of the Bureau of Investigation at not exceeding $7,500 per annum, $2,250,000: *Provided further*, That for the purpose of executing the duties*Proviso*.Appointment of necessary officials. for which provision is made by this appropriation, the Attorney General is authorized to appoint officials who shall be vested with the authority necessary for the execution of such duties. 1194 Examination of Judicial offices.Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, and clerks of the United States courts and Territorial courts, and United States com-missioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the Investigating official acts, records of court officers, etc.agents of the Attorney General at any time; and also, when requested by the presiding judge, the official acts, records, and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts; for copying, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, reports of examiners at folio rates; traveling Services in the District.expenses; and including not to exceed $49,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia; in all, $164,000; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Enforcing antitrust laws.Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, including not to Services in the District.*Proviso*.Use for prosecuting labor organizations, etc., forbidden.exceed $55,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $198,000: *Provided*, That no part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours, or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof not in itself unlawful:Association of farmers, etc. *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products and associations of farmers who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products. Enforcing Interstate commerce laws.Vol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 38, p. 219; Vol. 40, p. 272; Vol. 41, p. 474.Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce: For salary and expenses of assistant to the Solicitor General in representing the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February 4, 1887, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including not to exceed $9,540 for salaries of employees in the District of Columbia, $10,500. Pueblo Lands Board.Expenses.Vol. 43, p. 636.Pueblo Lands Board: For expenses of the Pueblo Lands Board, including compensation for member appointed by the President of the United Slates, and for clerical assistants, interpreters, surveyors, translators, and stenographers, rental of quarters, travel expenses, fees of witnesses, telephone and telegraph service, including the maintenance and operation of a passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $33,000. JUDICIALJudicial. united states supreme courtUnited States Supreme Court. Salaries.Salaries: Chief Justice, $20,500; eight Associate Justices, at Employees, assistant to Reporter.$20,000 each; and all others officers and employees, whose compensation shall be fixed by the court, except as otherwise provided by law, and who may be employed and assigned by the Chief Justice to any office or work of the court, including an additional assistant to the reporter of the court, if the court deems one necessary, to enable the reporter to expedite the publication of its reports, $109,546; in all, $290,046. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States, $25,000, to be expended as required, without allotment by quarters. The printing and binding for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court of the United States, to be expended as the Chief Justice may direct, $18,874. Reporter.For the salary of the reporter, $8,000. 1195 salaries of judgesJudges. For salaries of thirty-four circuit judges, at $12,500 each; oneCircuit, district, and retired.Vol. 40, p. 1157, hundred and twenty-eight district judges (including two in the Territory of Hawaii and one in the Territory of Porto Rico), at $10,000 each; and judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of February 25, 1919; in all, $1,813,500: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Available for all judges. That this appropriation shall be available for the salaries of all United States justices and circuit and district judges lawfully entitled thereto, whether active or retired. national park commissionersNational park com-missioners. For the salaries of the commissioners in the Crater Lake, Glacier,Salaries. Mount Rainier, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks, $11,160, which shall be in lieu of all fees and compensation heretofore authorized. court of customs appealsCourt of Customs Appeals. Salaries: Presiding judge and four associate judges, at $12,500Salaries. each; and all other officers and employees of the court, $28,780; in all. $91,280. For rent of necessary quarters in the District of ColumbiaRent, miscellaneous expenses, etc. and elsewhere, $12,000; books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; heat, light, and power service; drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $2,800; in all, $14,800. court of claims Court of Claims. Salaries: Chief justice, $12,500; four judges, at $12,500 each;Salaries. and all other officers and employees of the court, $60,462; in all, $122,962. For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, $40,000.Printing and binding. For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles,Miscellaneous. fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $6,600. salaries and expenses of commissioners, court of claimsCommissioners, Court of Claims. For salaries of seven commissioners, at $5,000 each; for travelSalaries and expenses. expenses, compensation of stenographers authorized by the court, and for stenographic and other fees and charges necessary in the taking of testimony and in the performance of the duties prescribed in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the appointment of commissionersVol. 43, p. 964. by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers and compensation,” approved February 24, 1925, $43,387.50. territorial courtsTerritorial courts, Alaska: Four judges, at $10,000 each; four attorneys, at $5,000Alaska. each; four marshals, at $4,000 each; four clerks, at $3,800 each; in all, $91,200. Hawaii; Chief justice, $7,500; two associate justices, at $7,000Hawaii. each; in all, $21,500. For judges of circuit courts, at $6,000 each, $48,000. 1196 marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courtsUnited States courts. Marshals.Salaries, etc.For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including services rendered in behalf of the United Alaska.States or otherwise, services in Alaska in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney Traveling expenses, etc.General, traveling expenses, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the United States marshals for the District of Columbia and the southern *Proviso*.Care of attached vessels, etc.district of New York, $3,650,000: *Provided*, That there shall be paid hereunder any necessary cost of keeping vessels or other property attached or libeled in admiralty in such amount as the court, on petition setting forth the facts under oath, may allow. District attorneys.Salaries, etc.For salaries’of United States district attorneys and expenses, including traveling expenses, of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $1,400,000. Regular assistants.For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $1,100,000. Assistants in special cases.For compensation and traveling expenses of assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment Foreign counsel.of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office as Provided by section 366, Revised Statutes of the United States), R. S., sec. 366, p. 52.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.$400,000: *Provided*, That the amount paid as compensation out of the funds herein appropriated to any person employed hereunder shall not exceed $10,000. Clerks of courts.Salaries, etc. Travel expenses.*Ante*, p. 689.For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals and United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, travel expenses pursuant to the subsistence expense Act of 1926, and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, in accordance Vol. 40, p. 1182.with the provisions of the Act approved February 26, 1919, and the Vol. 42, p. 616.Act approved June 1, 1922, making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, $1.775,000. Commissioners.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 180](/us/rs/sec1014/p180).For fees of United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes of the United States, $600,000. Jurors.For mileage and per diems of jurors, $1,900.000. Witnesses.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/sec850/p60).For mileage arid per diems of witnesses and for per diems in lieu of subsistence; and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, including the expenses, mileage and per diems of witnesses on behalf of the Government before the United States Customs Court, such payments to be made on the certification of the attorney for the R. S., sec. 846, p. 139.United States and to be conclusive as provided in section 846, Revised *Proviso*.Pay, etc,, on approval of Attorney General.Statutes of the United States, $1,850,000 : *Provided*, That not to exceed $10.000 of this amount shall be available for such compensation and expenses of witnesses or informants as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, which approval shall be conclusive. Rent of court rooms.For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, $80,000. 1197 For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crierBailiffs, etc. in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois; expenses of circuit and district judgesTravel, etc., of judges. of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United States in Alaska, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by section 259 of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amendVol. 36, p. 1161. the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March 3, 1911; mealsJury expenses. and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, TitleAlaska.Vol. 31, p. 363. Jury commissioners. II, of the Act of June 6, 1900; and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $425,000: *Provided*, That no per diem shall be paid to*Proviso*.Service restriction. any bailiff or crier unless the court is actually in session and the judge present and presiding or present in chambers. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized or approvedMiscellaneous. by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, including also so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney GeneralAlaska, etc. for such expenses in the District of Alaska and in courts other than Federal courts, and including traveling expenses pursuant to the subsistence expense Act of 1926, $800,000. For supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and addingSupplies. machines, for the United States courts and judicial officers, including firearms and ammunition therefor, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $70,000. For the purchase of law books, including the exchange thereof,Books for Judicial officers. for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the libraries of the nine United States circuit, courts or appeals, for the purchase of the Federal Reporter and continuationsFederal Reporter. thereto as issued, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided*, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted*Proviso*.Transmittal to successors. to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be marked plainly, “The property of the United States,” $65,000. penal and correctional institutionsPenal, etc., Institutions. For all services, supplies, materials, and equipment in connectionAll services, supplies, etc., for. with or incident to the subsistence and care of inmates and maintenance and upkeep of Federal penal and correctional institutions, including farm and other operations not otherwise specifically provided for, in the discretion of the Attorney General; gratuities for inmates at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to inmates sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to the place of conviction or bona fide residence at the time of conviction or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their homes in the United States; not exceeding $500 at each institution for the maintenance and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses of institution officials and employees when traveling on official duty, including expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates; traveling expenses of members of advisory boards authorized by law incurred in the discharge of their official duties; rewards for the capture of escaped inmates; newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance, books, and periodicals; firearms and ammunition; tobacco for inmates; and the purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock, when authorized by the Attorney General; 1198 Penitentiaries. Leavenworth, Kans.Salaries and expenses.United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including not to exceed $253,840 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $849,240, Buildings.For the construction of buildings for infirmary and isolation ward, $17,500, Working capital.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 348.The appropriation of $250,000 for the fiscal year 1927, for a working capital fund, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1928; and the said working capital fund and all receipts credited thereto may be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1928. Atlanta, Ga.Salaries and expenses.United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, including not to exceed $254,360 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $850,000. Working capital.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 348.The appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year 1927 for a working capital fund is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1928; and the said working capital fund and all receipts credited thereto may be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1928. McNeil Island, Wash.Salaries and expenses.United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For the United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, including not to exceed $82,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $260,000. Additional cell houses.For the construction of additional cell houses, $40,000, to remain available until expended, and to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Administration building, etc.For the construction of administration building, dining hail and kitchen, and power house, $103,000, to remain available until expended, and to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Industrial Institution for Women.Salaries and expenses.Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, West Virginia; For the Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Alderson, West Virginia, including not to exceed $100,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $230,000. Industrial Reformatory.Salaries and expenses.United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio: For the United States Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, including not to exceed $110,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and including not to exceed $2,000 for the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $360,000. Training School for Boys, D. C.Salaries and expenses.National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia: For the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, including not to exceed $75,000 for salaries and wages of ail officers and employees, $165,000. Now building.For the erection of a family building, to be of brick construction, to house forty boys, to be immediately available, $75,000. Probation system.Pay of officers, etc. Vol. 43, p. 1260Probation system, United States courts: For salaries and actual expenses of probation officers, as provided by section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a probation system in the United States courts, except in the District of Columbia,” approved March 4, 1925, $30,000. Support of prisonersSupport of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States, and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture: and not exceeding $2,500 for repairs, betterments, 1199 and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $2,300,000. Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of United StatesInspection of prisons and prisoners. prisons and prisoners, including traveling expenses of the superintendent of prisons, assistant, superintendents of prisons, and clerk to the superintendent of prisons when traveling on official business of any character, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $12,00 TITLE III.— DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDepartment of Commerce. office of the secretarySecretary’s Office. Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, $15,000; Assistant Secretary,Secretary, Assistant, and office personnel. and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923. including the chief clerk and superintendent, who shall be chief executive officer of the departmentChief clerk authorized to sign official papers. and who may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary of the department, $270,690; in all, $285,600. contingent expenses, department of commerce For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices andContingent and miscellaneous expenses. bureaus of the department, including those for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are specifically made, including professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500) for which payment may be made in advance; purchase of atlases or maps; stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting and heating; not to exceed $5,000 for theAutomobile for the Secretary. purchase and exchange of one passenger-carrying automobile for the Secretary of Commerce; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; type-writers, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this department; street-car fares, not exceeding $500; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $270,000, which sum shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of the department and shall also be available for the purchase of necessary suppliesAvailable for field service. and equipment for field services of bureaus and offices of the department for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made in order to facilitate the purchase through thePurchases. central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), as provided in the Act of June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 531):Vol. 36, p. 531. *Provided*, That expenditures from appropriations contained in this*Proviso*.Restriction on maintenance, etc., of passenger vehicles. Act for the maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel, and lubricants on any one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle used by the Department of Commerce shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class, and in any case more than $500. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $65,500.Rents. For rent of additional space in the District of Columbia outside of the Commerce Building, $2,500. 1200 For rent of storage space outside the Commerce Building, $1,500. Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the *Infra*.District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Patent Office and the *Proviso*.Copy editors.aeronautics branch, $675,000: *Provided*, That an amount not to exceed $2,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of persons detailed from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors. Patent Office printing, etc.For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, $1,075,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $60,000; in all, $1,135,000. aircraft in commerceAircraft in c o mmcrce. Services and all other expenses.*Ante*, p. 568.Aircraft in commerce: To carry out the provisions of the Act approved May 20, 1926, entitled “An Act to encourage and regulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes,” including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $150,000 for the fiscal year 1928) and elsewhere; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding; traveling expenses; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies, including medical supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs; purchase of one passenger-carrying auto-mobile at a cost of not to exceed $2,000; maintenance, operation, and Purchase of airplanes, accessories, etc.repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase of not to exceed ten airplanes, including accessories and spare parts, and maintenance, operation, and repair of airplanes, including accessories and spare parts; special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; purchase of books of reference and periodicals; newspapers, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and all other publications; and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $700,000, of *Proviso*.Amount for printing and binding.*Supra.*which $168,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That not to exceed $25,000 of this amount shall be transferred to the appropriation “Printing and binding, Department of Commerce, 1928.” Air navigation facilities.Use and maintenance of aids to air navigation, etc.Air navigation facilities: For the establishment and maintenance of aids to air navigation, including the equipment of additional air mail routes for day and night flying; the construction of necessary lighting, radio, and other signaling and communicating structures and apparatus; repairs, alterations, and all expenses of maintenance Services in the District.and operation; for personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $34,220) and elsewhere; purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles, Sites.including their exchange; and for the acquisition of the necessary sites by lease, or grant, $3,091,500, of which $450,000 shall be *Proviso*.Use restricted to Air Commerce Act.immediately available: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for any purpose not authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926. bureau of foreign and domestic commerceForeign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $247,887. Commercial attachés.Commercial attaches: For commercial attaches, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report 1201 upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of foreign countries as may be of interest to the United States; andClerks, etc. for the compensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercial attached at the rate of not to exceed $3,000 per annum for each person so employed, and for janitor and messenger service, traveling and subsistence-expenses of officers and employees, rent outside of the DistrictOutside rent. of Columbia, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference, and periodicals, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (both foreign and domestic) not exceeding $700, and all other publications, travel to and from the United States, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attaches shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $385,000, of which sum not to exceed $77,000 shall be available for personalServices in the District.*Proviso*.Assignment to Department duty. services in the District of Columbia; *Provided*, That not to exceed two commercial attaches employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned for duty in the Department of Commerce without loss of salary: *Provided further*, Advance subscriptions authorized.That payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers, rent, telephone, and other similar services under this appropriation is hereby authorized. Promoting commerce, Europe and other areas: For all necessaryPromoting commerce, Europe, etc. expenses, including investigations in Europe and other areas, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, type-writing, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (both foreign and domestic) not exceeding $700, and all other publications for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, rentOutside rent. outside the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, $509,880, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce: *Provided*, That not more than $69,485*Proviso*.Services in the District. of the foregoing sum may be used for personal services in Washington, District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That not more thanAssignment to Department duty. four trade commissioners employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned to duty in the Department of Commerce: *Provided further*, That payment inAdvance subscriptions authorized. advance of subscriptions for newspapers, rent, telephone, and other similar services under this appropriation is hereby authorized. District and Cooperative Office Service: For all expenses necessaryDistrict and Cooperative Office Service.Maintenance, outside rent, etc. to operate and maintain district and cooperative offices, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of maps, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, not exceeding $400 for newspapers, both foreign and domestic, for which payment may be made in advance, and all other publications necessary for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $435,000, of which amount not to exceed $20,000Services in the District. may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce may require as a condition*Proviso*.Offices without rent. for the opening of a new office or the continuation of an existing 1202 office that commercial organizations in the district affected provide suitable quarters without cost to the Government or at rentals at Discretionary authority of the Secretary.lower than prevailing rates. The Secretary may, at his discretion, refuse to open a new office or continue an existing office where such assistance from local commercial organizations is not provided. Promoting commerce, South and Central America.Promoting commerce, South and Central America: To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with South and Central America, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, plans, specifications, manuscripts, documents, maps, newspapers (both foreign and domestic) not exceeding $700, and all other Outside rent.publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary Services in the District.of Commerce, $358,090, of which amount not to exceed $108,935 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provisos*.Assignment to Department duty.*Provided*, That not more than two trade commissioners employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned to duty in the Department of Commerce:Advance subscriptions authorized. *Provided further*, That payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers, rent, telephone, and other similar services under this appropriation is hereby authorized. Promoting commerce in the Far East.Promoting commerce in the Far East: To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with the Far East, including personal services In the District of Columbia and else-where, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, maps, newspapers (both foreign Outside rent.and domestic) not exceeding $400, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses not included in the fore-going, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $300,000, of which amount not to exceed $104,600 may Services in the District.*Provisos*.Assignment to Department duty.be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not more than two trade commissioners employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned to duty in the Department of Commerce:Advance subscriptions authorized. *Provided further*, That payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers, rent, telephone, and other similar services under this appropriation is hereby authorized. China Trade Act.Enforcement expenses.Vol. 42, p. 849; Vol. 43, p. 995.Enforcement of China Trade Act: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “ China Trade Act, 1922,” including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, Outside rent.maps, manuscripts, and all other publications; rent outside the District of Columbia, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $30,000, of Services in the District.*Proviso*.Advance payments authorized.which amount not to exceed $10,820 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That payment in advance for telephone and other similar services under this appropriation is hereby authorized. 1203 Export industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and DomesticExport industries.Investigating problems of. Commerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution, and marketing, in so far as they relate to the important export industries of the United States, including personal services in the District of ColumbiaServices in the District. not to exceed $613,000, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rentOutside rent. outside District of Columbia, and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, $810,440. Domestic commerce and raw-materials investigations: For allRaw materials and manufactures.Compiling data as to disposition of, etc. expenses, including personal services in the District of Colombia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, medical supplies and first-aid outfits, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, maps, and all other publications, rent outside of the District ofOutside rent. Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures within the United States; and to investigate the conditions of production and marketing of foreign raw materials essential for American industries, $199,160, of whichServices in the District. amount not to exceed $116,480 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operationCustoms statistics.Expenses of collecting, compiling, etc.Vol. 42, p. 1109. of the section of customs statistics transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved January 5, 1923, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographing, multi graphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; subsistence and traveling expenses of officers and employees while traveling on official business; freight, express, dray-age; tabulating cards, stationery, and miscellaneous office supplies; books of reference, and periodicals; furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; street-car fare; and all other necessary and incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $335,000, of which amount not to exceed $30,000 may be expendedServices In the District, for personal services in the District of Columbia. List of foreign buyers: For all necessary expenses, including personalDirectory of Foreign Buyers.Expenses of compiling. services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, lists of foreign buyers, books of reference, periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, travelingOutside rent. and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile lists of foreign buyers, $30,000, of which amount not to exceed $24,520 may be expended for personal services in the District ofServices in the District.*Proviso*.Charges authorized. Columbia: *Provided*, That’ the Secretary of Commerce may make such charges as he deems reasonable for lists of foreign buyers, special statistical services, special commodity news bulletins, and 1204 World Trade Directory Reports, and the amounts collected therefrom shall be deposited in the Treasury as “ Miscellaneous receipts.” Foreign trade restrictions.Expenses of collecting, compiling, etc., information as to.Investigation of foreign trade restrictions: For ail necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, Outside rent.plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the restrictions and regulations of trade imposed by foreign Services In the District.countries, $35,000, of which amount not to exceed $34,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Bringing home remains of officers dying abroad, etc.Transportation and interment of remains of officers and employees: For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce who may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such interment at their post or at home, $1,500. Transportation of families, etc.Expenses of officers, etc., in going to and returning from posts.Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees: To pay the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, of families and effects of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and On leave of absence excepted.Domestic Commerce in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the order of the Secretary of Commerce, but not including any expenses incurred in connection with leave of absence of the officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic *Proviso*.Restriction on using foreign vessels.Commerce, $35,000: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be paid for transportation on foreign vessels without a certificate from the Secretary of Commerce that there are no American vessels on which such officers and clerks may be transported at rates not in excess of those charged by foreign vessels. Expenses of attendance at meetings authorized.Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign and domestic commerce, or either, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. bureau of the censusCensus Bureau. Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $1,000,000. Collecting Information for reports.Cotton and tobacco.Collecting statistics: For securing information for census reports, provided for by law, semimonthly reports of cotton production, periodical reports of stocks of baled cotton in the United States and of the domestic and foreign consumption of cotton; quarterly reports of tobacco; per diem compensation of special agents and expenses of same amt of detailed employees, whether employed in Vital statistics.Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records; temporary rental of Special agents.quarters outside of the District of Columbia; for supervising special agents, and employment by them of such temporary service as may Tobacco statistics.be necessary in collecting the statistics required by law, including $15,000 for collecting tobacco statistics authorized by law in addition to any other fund available therefor, and including not to 1205 exceed $5,000 for the employment by contract of personal services for the preparation of monographs on census subjects: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Pay restriction. That the compensation of not to exceed ten special agents provided for in this paragraph may be fixed at a rate not to exceed $8 per day, $1,049,760, of which amount not to exceed $350,000 may be expendedServices in the District. for personal services in the District of Columbia, including temporary employees who may be appointed under the civil-service rules at per diem rates to be fixed by the Director of the Census without regard to the provisions of the Classification Act, for the purpose of assisting in periodical inquiries: *Provided*, That temporaryLeaves to temporary employees. employees of the Bureau of the Census may be allowed leave of absence with pay at. the rate of two and one-half days a month. Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of the Census shall beAttendance at meetings. available in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the collection of statistics, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Tabulating machines: For constructing tabulating machines, andTabulating machines, etc. repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical and mechanical service in connection therewith, whether in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, and purchase of necessary machinery and supplies, including complete card punch machines, $60,200, of which not to exceed $51,200 may be expendedServices in the District. for personal services in the District of Columbia. steamboat inspection serviceSteamboat Inspection Service. Salaries: For the Supervising Inspector General and other personalSupervising Inspector General, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $31,060. Steamboat inspectors: For eleven supervising inspectors; inspectorsInspectors. of hulls and inspectors of boilers; assistant inspectors, asAssistants at designated ports. authorized by law, for the following ports: New York, thirty-four; New Orleans, six; Baltimore, eight; Providence, four; Boston, six; Philadelphia, fourteen; San Francisco, twelve; Buffalo, six; Cleveland, six; Milwaukee, four; Chicago, four; Grand Haven, two; Detroit, four; Norfolk, eight; Seattle, twelve; Portland (Oregon), four; Albany, two; Portland (Maine), two; Los Angeles, four; Galveston, two; Mobile, two; Savannah, two; Toledo, two: and three traveling inspectors; in all, $758,800. Clerk hire, Steamboat Inspection Service: For compensation ofClerk hire. clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of law, $142,200. Contingent expenses: For the payment of fees to witnesses; forContingent expenses. traveling and other expenses when on official business of the Super-vising Inspector General, Deputy Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; for instruments, furniture, stationery, street-car fares not to exceed $25, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of Title 52, Revised[R. S., Title LII, pp. 852–869](/us/rs/p852-869/). Statutes, $148,000. bureau of navigationNavigation Bureau. Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in theCommissioner, and office personnel. District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $63,960. Admeasurement of vessels: To enable the Commissioner ofAdmeasurement of vessels. Navigation to secure uniformity in the admeasurement of vessels, including the employment of an adjuster of admeasurements, 1206 purchase and exchange of admeasuring instruments, traveling and incidental expenses, $5,500. Motor boats to enforce navigation laws.Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, including insignia, braid, and chin straps, and coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels, $89,000. Preventing overcrowding of vessels.Preventing overcrowding of passenger vessels; To enable the Secretary of Commerce to employ, temporarily, such persons as may be necessary, of whom not more than two at any one time may be employed in the District of Columbia, to enforce the laws to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion vessels, and all expenses in connection therewith, $18,840. Wireless communication on steam vessels.Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol. 37, pp. 199,1665.Wireless communication laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to enforce the Acts of Congress “ to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers ” and “ to regulate radio communication ” and carry out the international radiotélégraphie convention, examine and settle international radio accounts, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, tabulating, duplicating, and other office machinery and devices, rent and all other miscellaneous items and necessary *Ante*, p. 1174.Services in the District,expenses not included in the foregoing, $220,000, of which amount not to exceed $45,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Shipping commissioners.Shipping commissioners: For salaries of shipping commissioners, $37,700. Clerk hire.Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce, to each person or clerk in the offices of shipping commissioners, $89,040. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses : For rent, stationery, and other requisites for transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, and for janitor in the commissioner’s office at New York; in all, $9,980. bureau of standardsStandards Bureau. Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $572,060. Equipment.Equipment: For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection with buildings or work of the bureau, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, laboratory sup-plies, materials, and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, Repairs to buildings.cases for apparatus, $88,000, including $18,000 for repairs and necessary alterations to buildings. General expenses.General expenses: For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, cleaning and toilet supplies, books and periodicals, which may be exchanged when not needed for permanent use; Attendance at technical, etc., meetings. traveling expenses (including expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies when required in connection with standardization, testing, or other official work of the bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary); street-car fares not exceeding $100; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting 1207 of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; purchaseInternational Committee of Weights and Measures. of gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles and motor trucks for official use, including their exchange; and contingencies of all kinds, $69,855. Improvement and care of grounds: For grading, construction ofCare,etc.,of grounds. roads and walks, piping grounds for water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, including foreman and laborers in the District of Columbia, $13,000, of which amount not to exceed $9,180 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Testing structural materials: For continuation of the investigationStructural materials investigations. of structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $240,000, of which amount not to exceed $189,000 may beServices in the District.*Proviso*.Disseminating information as to housing, etc. expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That as much of this sum as necessary shall be used to collect and disseminate such scientific, practical, and statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to show approved methods in building, planning, and construction, standardization, and adaptability of structural units, including building materials and codes, economy in the manufacture and utilization of building materials and supplies, and such other matters as may tend to encourage, improve, and cheapen construction and housing. Testing machines: For maintenance and operation of testingTesting machines for physical constants. machines, including personal services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $38,000, of which amount not to exceed $34,020 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Investigation of fire-resisting properties: For investigation of fire-resistingFire-resisting building materials. properties of building materials and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, and for the standardization of types of appliances for fire prevention, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $28,100, of which amount not to exceed $22,640 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Investigation of public-utility standards: For investigation of theMeasurements, etc., of public utility standards. standards of practice and methods of measurements of public utilities, such as gas, electric light, electric power, water, telephone, central station heating, and electric railway service, and the solution of the problems which arise in connection with standards in such service, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $100,000, of which amount not to exceed $90,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Testing miscellaneous materials: For testing miscellaneous materials,Testing miscellaneous materials. such as varnish materials, soap materials, inks, and chemicals, including supplies for the Government departments and independent establishments, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, as authorized by law, $44,000, of which amount not to exceed $42,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Radio research: For investigation and standardization of methodsRadio standardization. and instruments employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $49,800, of which amount not to exceed $47,200 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 1208 Industrial color standards, etc.Color standardization : To develop color standards and methods of manufacture and of color measurements, with special reference to their industrial use in standardization and specification of colorants such as dyestuffs, inks, and pigments, and other products, paint, paper, and textiles, in which color is a pertinent property, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000, of which amount not to exceed $9,200 may be expended for persona! services in the District of Columbia. Clay products processes.Investigation of clay products : To study methods of measurement and technical processes used in the manufacture of pottery, brick, tile, terracotta, and other clay products, and the study of the properties of the materials used in that industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $47,000, of which amount not to exceed $21,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Mechanical appliances, etc.Testing mechanical, hydraulic, aeronautic devices, etc.Standardizing mechanical appliances: To develop methods of testing and standardizing machines, motors, tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study of types of apparatus and methods of operation, and for the establishment of standards of performance; for the accurate determination of fundamental physical constants involved in the proper execution of this work; and for the scientific experiments and investigations needed in solving the problems which may arise in connection therewith, especially in response to the requirements of aeronautics and aviation for information of a purely scientific nature, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $27,80(1, of which amount not to exceed $25,580 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Optical glass production.Investigation of optical glass: For the investigation of the problems involved in the production of optical glass, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,520, of which amount not to exceed $17,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Textiles, paper, etc., standardization.Investigation of textiles: To investigate textiles, paper, leather, and rubber in order to develop standards of quality and methods of measurement, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,700, of which amount not to exceed $35,120 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Sugar standardization.Sugar standardization: For the standardization and design of sugar-testing apparatus; the development of technical specifications for the various grades or sugars, with particular reference to urgent problems made pressing by conditions following the war, especially involving the standardization and manufacture of sugars; for the study of the technical problems incidental to the collection of the revenue on sugar and to determine the fundamental scientific Rare and unusual types.constants of sugars and other substances; for the standardization and production of rave and unusual types of sugars required for the medical service of the Government departments; and for other technical and scientific purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $48,160, of which amount not to exceed $44,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Gauges and screw threads.Cooperative standardization, etc., of.Gauge standardization : To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the War Department, and the Navy Department for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary equipment and personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $38,320, of 1209 which amount not to exceed $36,180 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Investigation of mine scales and cars: For investigating theCoal weighing, etc., at mines. conditions and methods of use of scales and mine cars used for weighing and measuring coal dug by miners, for the purpose of determining wages due, and of conditions affecting the accuracy of the weighing or measuring of coal at the mines, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $12,800, of which amount not to exceed $9,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Metallurgical research: For metallurgical research, includingMetallurgical research. alloy steels, foundry practice, and standards for metals and sands; casting, rolling, forging, and the properties of aluminum alloys; prevention of corrosion of metals and alloys; development of metal substitutes, as for platinum; behavior of bearing metals; preparation of metal specifications; investigation of new metallurgical processes and study of methods of conservation in metallurgical manufacture and products; investigation of materials used in theRailway equipment. construction of rails, wheels, axles, and other railway equipment, and the cause of their failure; including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $48,140, of which amount not to exceed $44,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. High temperature investigations: For laboratory and field investigationsHigh temperature measurements. of suitable methods of high temperature measurements and control in various industrial processes and to assist in making available directly to the industries the results of the bureau’s investigations in this field, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $9,740, of which amount not to exceed $8,460 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Sound investigation: For the investigation of the principles ofSound investigations. sound and their application to military and industrial purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,580, of which amount not to exceed $9,700 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Industrial research: For technical investigations in cooperationIndustrial research investigations. with the industries upon fundamental problems involved in industrial development following the war, with a view to assisting in the permanent establishment of the new American industries, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $172,320, of which amount not to exceed $165,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Testing railroad track and other scales: For investigation andTesting large scales, etc. testing of railroad track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post office, navy yard, and customhouse scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws and in the methods of inspection, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $47,000, of which amount not to exceed $25,460 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Standardization of equipment: To enable the Bureau of StandardsCooperative standardization of industrial devices, etc. to cooperate with Government departments, engineers, and manufacturers in the establishment of standards, methods of testing, and inspection of instruments, equipment, tools, and electrical and mechanical devices used in the industries and by the Government, 1210 including the practical specification for quality and performance of such devices, and the formulation of methods of inspection, laboratory, and service tests, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $130,000, of which amount not to exceed $114,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Standards for checking chemical analyses.Standard materials: For purchase, preparation, analysis, and distribution of standard materials to be used in checking chemical analyses and in the testing of physical measuring apparatus, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000, of which amount not to exceed $8,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Radioactive investigations and X rays.Investigation of radioactive substances and X rays: For an investigation of radioactive substances and the methods of their measurements and testing; for investigations relative to the development of standard specifications for X-ray equipment and operation; for the investigation of the hazards of X-ray practice; for the testing and standardization of X-ray protective materials; for the standardization and design of X-ray testing equipment; for the determination of fundamental physical constants essential to X-ray diagnosis and therapy to X-ray analysis of materials and to other technical and scientific applications, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $29,540, of which amount not to exceed $22,180 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Utilizing waste products from the land.Utilization of waste products from the land: For the survey of the possibilities of the industrial utilization of waste products from the land, including cooperation with colleges, other institutions and manufacturers, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000, of which amount not to exceed $41,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Automotive engines investigations, etc.Investigation of automotive engines: For the promotion of economy and efficiency in automotive transportation by land and by air through investigations of the basic principles underlying the design, performance, operation, and testing of automotive engines, their fuels, lubricants, accessories, and the power transmitting system used in connection with them, also such elements as brakes and brake linings; to promote economy in the use of liquid fuels and safety in vehicular traffic, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000, of which amount not to exceed $20,680 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Dental materials investigations.Investigation of dental materials: To investigate the physical and chemical properties of dental materials, including the method of their application and the causes of deterioration of such materials in service, for the purpose of developing standards of quality and standard methods of test, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,000, of which amount not to exceed $4,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Power plant.Erection of building.Building for power plant: For the erection of a suitable fireproof power-plant building, on the present site of the Bureau of Standards *Ante*, p. 773.in the District of Columbia, as authorized in the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction by the Secretary of Commerce of a power-plant building on the present site of the Bureau of Immediately available.Standards in the District of Columbia,” approved June 26, 1926, including contract architectural services, $200,060, to be immediately available. Cooperative work with departments, etc., in scientific investigations, etc.During the fiscal year 1928 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the 1211 Bureau of Standards on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau, and which the Bureau of Standards is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the Bureau of Standards such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on theTransfer of funds to credit of bureau, books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Standards for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made, including, where necessary, compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field. bureau of lighthousesLighthouses Bureau, Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in theCommissioner, and office personnel. District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $94,250. General expenses: For supplies, including replacement of andGeneral expenses.Objects specified. necessary additions to existing equipment, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks, and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000:Oil, etc., bouses. *Provided*, That any oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall not*Provisos*.Limit for buildings. exceed $1,000 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 at any one light station in any fiscal year: improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith: *Provided further*, That such restoration shall beRestoring stations, etc. limited to the original purpose of the structures; wages of persons attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutationRations, etc. thereof for working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party ; not exceeding $2,000 for packing, crating, and transporting personal household effects of employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty; purchase of rubber boots, oilskins, rubber gloves, and coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year; fuel, light, and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites forPurchase, etc., of land sites. fog signals; rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to'mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent; rent of offices,Traveling expenses.Retirement examinations, etc. depots, and wharves; traveling expenses, including travel for the 1212 Vol. 43, p. 1261.examinations authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for retirement for disability in the Lighthouse Service,” approved March 4, 1925; mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000; traveling and subsistence expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of Contingent expenses.light-houses; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots, including the purchase of provisions for sale to lighthouse keepers at isolated stations, and the appropriation reimbursed, and not exceeding $8,500 for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in the District of Columbia, $4,275,000, of which Road, Presque Isle Reservation, Pa,$5,000 shall be immediately available for payment to the proper authorities of the State of Pennsylvania as the share of the Light-house Service in the cost of the road constructed across the Presque Isle Lighthouse Reservation, Pennsylvania, and connecting the State Park with the city of Erie. Keepers.Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thou-sand eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and persona attending lights exclusive of post lights, $1,960,000. Officers and crews of vessels.Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $2,273,000. Superintendents, clerks, etc., in the field.Superintendents, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen superintendents of lighthouses, and of assistant superintendents, clerks, draftsmen, and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, District of Columbia, $570,000. Retired pay.Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $225,000. Public works.Vessels.Public works: For constructing or purchasing and equipping lighthouse tenders and light vessels for the Lighthouse Service as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce not Aids to navigation.to exceed $609,000; and for establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, $638,000; in all, $1,247,000. coast and geodetic surveyCoast and Geodetic Survey. All expenditures.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, purchase of motor cycles with side cars not to exceed $1,000, surveying instruments, rubber boots, canvas and rubber gloves, goggles, and caps, coats, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels, extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service and the Weather Bureau while observing tides or currents, services of one tide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day, and compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $3 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast Distribution.and Geodetic Survey prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Field expenses.Atlantic and Gulf coasts.Field expenses, Atlantic coast: For surveys and necessary re-surveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the 1213 United States, $122,420: *Provided*, That not more than $45,000 of*Proviso*.Islands limitations. this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. Pacific coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on thePacific coast. Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, including not to exceed $3,000 for construction of temporary shelter for the care of equipment and housing of personnel, $315,640; Tides, currents, and so forth: For continuing researches inPhysical hydrography. physical hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $26,775; Coast Pilot: For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including theCoast Pilot, employment of such pilots and nautical experts, and stenographic help in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $6,500. Magnetic work: For continuing magnetic and seismologicalMagnetic and seismological investigations. observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; making magnetic and seismological observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic and seismological instruments; lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic and seismological buildings; and including the employment in the field and office of such magnetic and seismological observers as may be necessary, $40,000. Federal, boundary, and State surveys: For continuing the lines ofFederal and State surveys, etc. exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; determining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, county, city, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the United States; determining field astronomic positions and the variation of latitude, including the maintenance and operation of the latitude observatoryObservatory, Ukiah, Calif. at Ukiah, California, not exceeding $2,500; establishing lines of exact levels, determining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse, and making astronomic observations in Alaska; and continuing gravity observations in the United States and for making such observations in regions under the jurisdiction of the United States and also on islands and coasts adjacent thereto, $88,735, of which $10,000 shall be immediately available. For executing precise triangulation and leveling in regions subjectEarthquake regions. to earthquakes, $10,000. For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of LighthousesSpecial surveys. or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $3,000; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent,Miscellaneous. including the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field and office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement,Relieving shipwrecked, etc., persons. under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $550; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the director, and not exceeding $1,000 for the expenses of the attendance of Attending International Research Council.representatives of the Coast and Geodetic Survey who may be designated as delegates from the United States at the meetings of the International Research Council or of its branches, $4,000; In all, field expenses, $617,070. 1214 Vessels, Repairs, etc.Vessels: For repairs of vessels, including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $80,000. Equipment employees.For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $650,000. Pay, etc., commissioned officers.Pay, commissioned officers: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers on sea duty and other duty, holding relative rank with officers of the Navy, including one director with relative rank of captain, two hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of captain, seven hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of commander, nine hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant commander, thirty-eight hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant, fifty-five junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant (junior grade), twenty-nine aids with relative rank of ensign, and including officers retired in *Proviso*.Assistant director.accordance with existing law, $490,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce may designate one of the hydrographic and geodetic engineers to act as assistant director. Office personnel.Office force: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $446,520. Office expenses.Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments (except surveying instruments), including their exchange, materials, equipment, and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division; books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; office wagon and horses or auto-mobile truck; heating, lighting, and power; telephones, including operation of switchboard ; telegrams, ice, and washing ; office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of officers and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, not exceeding $90 for street car fares, $65,000. Subsistence allowance restricted.Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheriesFisheries Bureau. Commissioner, and office personnel.Commissioner’s office: For the commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $166,778. Pay of field employees.For pay of employees in the field, as follows: Alaska service, $49,210; employees at large, $40,850; distribution
(car)employees, $33,600; employees at fish-cultural stations, $260,000; employees at fish rescue station, Mississippi River Valley, $19,600; employees as Vessel employees.biological stations, $40.860; for pay of officers and employees for the vessels of the Atlantic coast, $42,800; for officers and crew of vessels for Alaska Fisheries Service, $65,970; in all, $552,890. 1215 Administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner,Administration expenses including stationery, scientific and reference books, periodicals and newspapers for library, furniture and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, street-car fares not exceeding $150, compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $4,400. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration,Propagation expenses. improvement, equipment, and operation of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement,, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment (including rubber boots and oilskins) and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, and not to exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, $487,000. The appropriation of $30,000 for the fiscal year 1927 for a fish-culturalLeadville, Colo., auxiliary station.Appropriation for, available.*Ante*, p. 853.Lake Worth, Tex,, auxiliary station.Appropriation available for.*Ante*, p. 363. station as an auxiliary to the station at Leadville. Colorado, is continued available for such purposes during the fiscal year 1928. That portion of the appropriation “ Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, 1927,’’ which was made available for a fish-cultural station at Lake Worth, Texas, shall continue available for such purpose during the fiscal year 1928. The appropriation of $30,000 for the fiscal year 1927 for a fish-culturalWarm Springs, Ga.t auxiliary station.Appropriation for, available,*Ante*, p. 364. station as an auxiliary to the Warm Springs, Georgia, station shall continue available for such purposes during the fiscal year 1928. For the establishment of a fish-cultural station in the State ofSpearfish, Nebr.Establishing station auxiliary to. Nebraska at a point to be selected by the Secretary of Commerce for the propagation of food fishes indigenous to that region as a necessary auxiliary to the fish-cultural station at Spearfish, South Dakota, including the acquisition of land by gift, construction of buildings and ponds, water supply, improvements to grounds, and the purchase of equipment, $35,000: *Provided*, That such station*Proviso*.Use of Government land. may be established on Government-owned land with the consent of the head of the department which has jurisdiction over such land. For the establishment of a fish-cultural station in the State ofNeosho, Mo.Establishing station auxiliary to, in Oklahoma. Oklahoma at a point to be selected by the Secretary of Commerce for the propagation of food fishes indigenous to that region as a necessary auxiliary to the fish-cultural station at Neosho, Missouri, including the acquisition of land by gift and/or purchase, construction of buildings anti ponds, water supply, improvements to grounds, and the purchase of equipment, $35,000: *Provided*, That not more*Proviso*.Limit for purchase of land.Vessels.Maintenance, etc. than $5,000 shall be expended for the purchase of land. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels, $146,000, and $10,000 shall be immediately available for the procurement of supplies and equipment required for shipment to the Pribilof Islands for the service of the fiscal year 1928. Commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per day) may be paidCommutation of rations. to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries during the fiscal year 1928 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes ofFood fisheries inquiry. the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic 1216 animals, plants, and waters, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operations of biological stations, expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $77,000. Statistical inquiries.Fishery industries: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, and the methods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, including compensation of temporary employees, travel and preparation of reports, including temporary employees in the District of Columbia not to exceed $1,800, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $25,000. Sponge fisheries.Protecting.Sponge fisheries: For protecting the sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to Vol. 38, p. 692.carry out the provisions of the Act of August 15, 1914, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $2,500. Alaska.Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc.Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands, of Alaska; not exceeding $40,000 for construction, improvement, repair, and alteration of buildings and roads, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, purchase of sea otters, and for all expenses necessary to carry out Vol. 36, p. 326.the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved April 21, 1910, and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel, subsistence (or per diem in lieu of subsistence) of employees while on duty in Alaska, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $332,000, of which $100,000 shall be immediately available. Mississippi wild life and fish refuge.Construction, equipment, etc., expenses.Mississippi wild life and fish refuge: For construction of buildings and ponds, for equipment, maintenance, operation, repair, and improvements, including expenditures for personal services at the Vol. 43, p. 650.seat of government and elsewhere as may be necessary, as authorized in the Act approved June 7, 1924, $25,000. Alaska fisheries.Power vessel for off-shore patrol.Power vessel for Alaska fisheries: For the purchase or construction of a vessel of sufficient size and power to patrol offshore waters for the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, $60,000. patent officePatent Office. Commissioner, and office personnel.For the Commissioner of Patents and other personal services in the District, of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of *Proviso*.Temporary typists, etc.1923, $2,519,060 : *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $25,000 may be used for special and temporary services of typists certified by the Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $4 per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records. Reference books, etc.For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books and publications and scientific books, including their exchange, and expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, and directories, $8,000. Copies of weekly issues of patents, reproductions, etc.For producing copies of weekly issue of drawings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade-marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost 1217 plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $230,000. The headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multigraphedMultigraph headings. in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography. For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventionsInvestigating prior of inventions. for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; and expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, $800. For furniture and filing cases, $65,000.Furniture. bureau of minesMines Bureau. Salaries and general expenses: For general expenses, includingDirector, and office and field personnel.General expenses. pay of the director and necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees, in the office in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in the District of Columbia, and in the field, including not to exceed $2,000 for necessary traveling expenses ofAttendance at technical meetings. the director and employees of the bureau, acting under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, and scientific societies, when required in connection with the authorized work of the Bureau of Mines, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $86,000, of which amount not to exceed $78,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Investigating mine accidents: For investigations as to the causesInvestigating mine explosions, accidents, etc. of mine explosions, causes of falls of roof and coal, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the miningMining industry, etc. industry, including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $386,470, of which amount not to exceed $50,000,Services in the District. may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mining investigations in Alaska: For investigations and the disseminationInvestigations to improve conditions. of information with a view to improving conditions in the mining, quarrying, and metallurgical industries under the ActVol. 38, p. 957. of March 3, 1915, and to provide for the inspection of mines and the protection of the lives of miners in the Territory of Alaska,Alaska mines. including personal services, equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $10,860; Operating mine rescue cars and stations: For the investigationMine rescue cars and stations.Improving, etc. and improvement of mine rescue and first-aid methods and appliances and the teaching of mine safety, rescue, and first-aid methods, including the exchange in part payment for operation, maintenance, and repair of mine rescue trucks, the construction of temporaryRescue car stations, equipment, etc. structures and the repair, maintenance, and operation of mine rescue cars and Government-owned mine rescue stations and appurtenances thereto, including the purchase and equipment of one mine rescue car not to exceed $45,000, and including personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, equipment, and supplies including the purchase and exchange in part payment therefor of cooks’ uniforms, goggles, gloves, and such other articles or equipment as may be necessary in the operation of mine rescue cars and stations, including not to exceed $12,500 for personal services in the District ofServices in the District. 1218 *Proviso*.Mine rescue trophies, etc.Columbia. $327,630 : *Provided*, That of this amount not to exceed $500 may be expended for the purchase and bestowal of trophies in connection with mine rescue and first-aid contests; Investigating mineral fuel, etc.Testing fuel: To conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of mineral fuels, and for investigation of mineral fuels belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient utilization, to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and, upon request of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to investigate the fuel-burning equipment in use by or proposed for any of the departments, establishments, or institutions, of the United States in the District of Columbia, $154,000, of which amount not to Services in the District.exceed $28,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mineral mining.Studies, investigations, etc., for improving conditions in.Mineral mining investigations: For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and mineral substances, other than fuels, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence, and the purchase, operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange in part payment therefor, of Services in the District.*Proviso*.Private work forbidden.motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including not to exceed $9,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $99,570; *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation may be expended for an investigation in behalf of any private party; Oil, gas. and oil-shale investigations.Oil, gas, and oil-shale investigations: For inquiries and investigations and dissemination of information concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum, natural gas, and oil shale, including economic conditions affecting the industry, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the Newspapers.prevention of waste; for the purchase of newspapers relating to the *Proviso*.[R. S., sec. 192, p. 30](/us/rs/sec192/p30).oil, gas, and allied industries: *Provided*, That section 192 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to such purchase of newspapers All other expenses.from this appropriation; and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $198,260, Services in the District.of which amount not to exceed $25,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Oil shale.Maintenance of plant, etc.Oil-shale investigations: For maintenance and repair of plant, camp buildings and appurtenances .and experimental refinery, and for all necessary expenses incident thereto, including personal services, $5,000; Mining experiment stations.Personal, etc., expenses of.Vol. 38, p. 959.Mining experiment stations: For the employment of personal services and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, authorized by the Act approved March 3, 1915, $173,000, of which amount not to exceed $11,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Pittsburgh, Pa., station.Expenses,Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : For care and maintenance of buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh and Bruceton, Pennsylvania, including personal services, the purchase, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles for official use, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including not to exceed $5,000 for additions and improvements, $71,360; 1219 Persons employed during the fiscal year 1928 in field work outsideTemporary details from the field for service in the District. of the District of Columbia under the Bureau of Mines may be detailed temporarily for service in the District of Columbia for purposes of preparing results of their field work ; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only traveling expenses in going to and returning therefrom: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Payment of necessary expenses. nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines of their necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu of subsistence, while on temporary detail in the District of Columbia for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States. All details made hereinunder, and the purposes ofReports thereof to Congress. each, during the preceding fiscal year shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof; The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officersDetails from Public Health Service. of the Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of the officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines; Government fuel yards: For the purchase and transportation ofGovernment fuel yards.Purchase of fuel, maintenance. etc. fuel; storing and handling of fuel in yards: maintenance and operation of yards and equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors, purchase of equipment, rentals, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia, the unexpended balanceBalance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 368. of the appropriations heretofore made for these purposes is reappropriated and made available for such purposes for the fiscal year 1928, and for payment of obligations for such purposes of prior years, and of such sum not exceeding $500 shall be available to settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles used in delivering fuel: *Provided*, That all moneys received from*Provisos*.Sales credited to the appropriation.Inspection requirements not applicable.[R. S., secs. 3711, 3713, pp. 733, 734](/us/rs/sec3711,3713/). the sales of fuel shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph: *Provided further*, That the requirements of sections 3711 and 3713 of the Revised Statutes relative to the weighing of coal and wood and the separate certificate as to the weight, measurement, or quantity of coal and wood purchased shall not apply to purchases by the Government fuel yards at free-on-board destinations outside of the District of Columbia. Helium production and investigations; The sums made availableHelium production, etc.Advances from Army and Navy appropriations.Vol. 43, p. 1111.*Post*, p. 1387. for the fiscal year 1928, in the Acts making appropriations for the War and Navy Departments for the acquisition of helium from the Bureau of Mines shall be advanced from time to time upon requisition by the Secretary of Commerce in such amounts as may be determined by the President not in excess of the sums needed for the economical and efficient operation and maintenance of the plants for the production of helium for military and/or naval purposes, including not to exceed $12,260 for personal services in the DistrictServices in the District. of Columbia; For investigations of resources of helium-bearing gas and theInvestigations, etc. of resources of helium bearing gas, conservation thereof, and of processes and methods of producing, storing, purifying, and utilizing helium and helium-bearing gas, including supplies and equipment, stationery, furniture, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and all other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $25.080 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $75,000;Services In the District. Helium plants: For helium production and conservation, inHelium plants.Production, etc.Vol. 43 p. 11ll.*Post*, p, 1387. accordance with existing law, including acquisition of helium-bearing gas land by purchase, lease, or condemnation, or interest in such 1220 *Provisos*.Purchase of plants, etc.land, $1,063,000, to be immediately available : *Provided*, That not to exceed $563,000 of this amount shall be available for the purchase, lease, construction, or modification of plants, pipe lines and accessories, compressor stations, camp buildings, and other facilities for the production, transportation, storage, and purification of helium Acquisition of sites, etc.and helium-bearing gas, including acquisition of sites and rights of way by purchase, lease, or condemnation, and including supplies and equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and all other necessary expenses including not to exceed $6,200 for personal Subject to approval of the President.services in the District of Columbia : *Provided further*, That no part of the appropriation herein made may be expended except with the approval of the President; Potash deposits.Expenses of determining location of, etc.*Ante*, p. 768.For determining the location, extent, and mode of occurrence of potash deposits in the United States, and conducting the necessary laboratory tests incident thereto, as authorized under the Act *Post*, p. 1388.approved June 25, 1926; and for every expense incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia not exceeding $6,000, and elsewhere, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and the construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and *Proviso*.Transfer for expenditure by Interior Department.appurtenances thereto, $100,000: *Provided*, That such part of the amount herein appropriated as may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce shall be transferred on the books of the Treasury for direct expenditure by the Department of the Interior for the purposes herein set forth; Economics of mineral industries.Investigations, disseminating problems, of, etc.Economics of mineral industries: For inquiries and investigations, and the dissemination of information concerning the economic problems of the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, with a view to assuring ample supplies and efficient distribution of the mineral products of the mines and quarries, including studies and reports relating to uses, reserves, production, distribution, stocks, consumption, prices, and marketing of mineral Report on mineral resources.commodities and primary products thereof; preparation of the reports of the mineral resources of the United States, including special statistical inquiries; statistical studies and reports relating to mine accidents; and including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies ; typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs; newspapers; traveling expenses; purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses not included Services In tile District.Scientific investigations for departments, etc., by the Bureau.in the foregoing, $225,000, of which amount not to exceed $155,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; During the fiscal year 1928 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of Mines on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the Bureau of Mines such sums as may Transfer of funds to credit of the Bureau.be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Mines for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which *Proviso*.Expenditure of funds transferred.the transfer is made: *Provided*, That any sums transferred by any department or independent establishment of the Government to the 1221 Bureau of Mines for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended; The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement ofOpen market purchase of minor supplies, etc. services for the Bureau of Mines, at the seat of government, as well as in the field outside of the District of Columbia, may be made in open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised[R. S. sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/sec3709/p733). Statutes of the United States, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance; For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books,Purchase of books, etc. law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Bureau of Mines, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for such bureau not to exceed $3,500; Total, Bureau of Mines, $2,975,150. TITLE IV.— DEPARTMENT OF LABORDepartment of Labor. office of the secretarySecretary’s Office. Salaries: Secretary of Labor, $15,000; Assistant Secretary, SecondSecretary, Assistants, and office personnel. Assistant. Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $171,000; in all, $186,000. Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of LaborCommissioners of conciliation.Vol. 37, p. 738 to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department, of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, traveling expenses, and not to exceed $14,140 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and telegraph and telephone service, $210,000. contingent expenses, department of labor For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices andContingent expenses. bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street-car fares not exceeding $200; traveling expenses incident to examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; lighting and heating; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor cycles and motor trucks; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, newspapers not exceeding $275, for which payment may be made in advance; newspaper clippings not to exceed $1,800, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals not exceeding $3,250; in all, $43,700; and in addition thereto such sum as may be necessary, not in excess ofAdditional from immigration expenses for supplies.Vol. 36, p. 531. $13,500, to facilitate the purchase, through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes*Post*, p. 1222. at Large, page 531), of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from the appropriation “ Expenses of regulating immigration ” made for the fiscal year 1928 and added to the appropriation “ Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year: and the total sum thereof shall be and constitute the appropriationExpended through Publications and Supplies Division. for contingent expenses for the Department of Labor, to 1222 be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of *Proviso*.Expenses of motor passenger vehicles.Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor: *Provided*, That expenditures from appropriations contained in this Act for the maintenance, upkeep and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel and lubricants, on any one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle used by the Department of Labor shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class, and in any case not more than $500. Rent.Rent: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $68,000. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $205,000. bureau of labor statisticsLabor Statistics Bureau. Commissioner, and office personnel.Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $220,000. Special agents, experts, etc.Traveling expenses.Traveling expenses of special agents and employees; experts and temporary assistance for field service outside of the District of Columbia, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day; personal services in the District of Columbia not to exceed $29,500, Temporary statistical employees in the District.including also temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and type-writers in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registers, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months; traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of periodicals, documents, price quotations, and reports and materials for reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor *Proviso*.Reports from local special agents.Statistics, $80,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioner of Labor is authorized to collect statistical reports through local special agents paid on piece-price basis. Attendance at meetings.Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. bureau of immigrationImmigration Bureau. Commissioner General, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Commissioner General and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $91,840. Enforcing immigration laws.Vol. 41, p, 1008; Vol. 42, p. 5; Vol. 43, p. 155.Regulating immigration: For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract labor laws; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees Services In the District,appointed to enforce said laws, including not to exceed $150,900 for personal services in the District of Columbia, together with persons authorized by law to be detailed for duty at Washington, District Travel expenses.Other Acts.Vol. 39, p. 374; Vol. 40, p. 542; Vol. 41, p. 1008; Vol. 42, p. 5; Vol. 43, p, 155.of Columbia; traveling expenses; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February 5, 1917, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to and the residence of aliens in the United States,” and Acts amendatory thereof and in addition thereto; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; preventing the unlawful entry of aliens into the United' States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation Chinese exclusion,thereto; expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of 1223imprisonment and actual expenses of conveyance of Chinese per-sons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation; refunding of headRefunding bead tax, etc. tax, maintenance bills, and immigration fines upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $6,535,000: *Provided*, That $1,600,000 of*Provisos*.Coast and border patrol.Vehicles, etc., out-side of the District. this amount shall be available only for coast and land-border patrol: *Provided further*, That the purchase, exchange, use, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles and allowances for horses, including motor vehicles and horses owned by immigration officers when used on official business required in the enforcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of those laws, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe: *Provided further*,Limit for purchase, etc., of vehicles. That not more than $150,000 of the sum appropriated herein may be expended in the purchase and maintenance of such motor vehicles, and of such sum of $150,000 not more than $125,000 shallFor coast and land border patrol. be available for the purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles for coast and land border patrol. immigration stationsImmigration stations. For remodeling, repairing (including repairs to the ferryboat,Remodeling buildings, etc. Ellis Island), renovating buildings, and purchase of equipment, $50,000. bureau of naturalizationNaturalization Bureau. Salaries: For the Commissioner and other personal services inCommissioner, and office personnel. the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $98,000. General expenses: For compensation, to be fixed by the SecretaryPay of officers, clerks, etc. of Labor, of officers, clerks, and employees appointed, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, providedVol. 34, p. 596; Vol. 37. p. 736; Vol. 40, p. 542. for by the Act approved June 29, 1906, as amended by the Act approved March 4, 1913 (Statutes at Large, volume 37, page 736), and May 9, 1918 (Statutes at Large, volume 40, pages 542 to 548, inclusive), including not to exceed $58,940 for personal servicesServices in the District. in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, traveling expenses, street-car fare, telegrams, verificationsTraveling expenses, etc. of legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; necessary supplies and equipment for the Naturalization Service; not to exceed $25,000 for rent of officesOutside rent. outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; carrying into effect section 13 ofAssistance to clerks of courts.Vol. 34, p. 600; Vol. 36, pp. 765, 830; Vol. 40, p. 171. the Act of June 29, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 600), as amended by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 765), and in accordance with the provisions of the Sundry Civil Act of June 12, 1917; and for mileage and fees to witnesses subpoenaedWitness fees, etc. on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $656,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Clerks of Federal courts excluded. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the compensation of assistants to clerks of United States courts. children’s bureauChildren’s Bureau. Salaries: For the chief, and other personal services in the DistrictChief of, and office personnel. of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $105,000. To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfareChild welfare, Infant mortality, etc., investigation. of children and child life, and especially to investigate the ques 1224 tions of infant mortality, including not to exceed $125,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $135,000, Traveling expenses of employees.For traveling expenses of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children’s Bureau; experts and temporary assistants, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $6 a day, and interpreters to be paid at a rate not exceeding $4 a day when actually employed; Material for publications.purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $60,000:*Proviso*.Attendance at meeting. *Provided*, That appropriations herein made for the Children’s Bureau shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings for the promotion of child welfare and for the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary. Maternity and infancy hygiene Act.Expenses executing.Vol. 42, p. 224; Vol. 43, p. 17.*Proviso*.Apportionment to States, etc.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes,” approved November 23, 1921, as amended, $1,090,976: *Provided*, That the apportionments to the States, to the Territory of Hawaii, and to the Children’s Bureau for administration shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $1,252,079.96, as authorized by said Act of November 23, 1921, as amended. women’s bureauWomen’s Bureau, Salaries and expenses.Vol. 41, p. 987.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women’s Bureau,” approved June 5, 1920, including personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $92,170; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits, and traveling expenses, Attendance at meetings.$100,000, which sum shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. employment serviceEmployment service. Promoting welfare of wage earners.To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, including Objects designated.juniors legally employed, to improve their working conditions, to advance their opportunities for profitable employment by regularly collecting, furnishing, and publishing employment information as to opportunities for employment; maintaining a system for clearing labor between the several States; cooperating with and coordinating the public employment offices throughout the country, Traveling expenses.including personal services in the District of Columbia and else-where; traveling expenses; supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscellaneous expenses; $200,000, of which Services in the District.amount not to exceed $26,040 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Approved, February 24, 1927.
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