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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 44 STAT. · June 30, 1927 · Chapter 43

Chapter 43. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for PUBLICLAW purposes

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CHAP. 43.— An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for PUBLICLAW purposes.March 2, 1926.[[H. R. 5959](/us/bill/69/hr/5959).][[Public, No. 35](/us/pl/69/35).] TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENT *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Treasury Department appropriations. That the following sums arc appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARYSecretary’s Office. Secretary, Undersecretary, Assistants and office personnel.Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, $15,000; Undersecretary of the Treasury, $10,000; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $125,000; in all, $150,000: *Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.*Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “ The Classification Vol. 42, p. 1488.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 If only one position in a grade.which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade Advances in unusually meritorious cases.except that in unusually meritorious 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 137restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanicalRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Persons transferred. service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different Bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a ratePayments under higher rates permitted. 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. For expenses incident to the discharge of the duties imposed uponExpenses under specified laws.Vol. 41, p. 456.Vol. 40, p. 451; Vol. 41, pp. 359, 1145.Vol. 40, pp. 35, 288, 504, 844, 1312. the Secretary of the Treasury by the Transportation Act, 1920, the Federal Control Act, approved March 21, 1918, as amended, and for expenses arising in connection with loans and credits to foreign governments under the Liberty Loan Acts and the Victory Liberty Loan Act and in connection with credits granted or conditionsVol. 41, p. 548. entered into under the Acts providing for the relief of populations in Europe and contiguous countries, and in connection with creditsVol. 41, p. 949. granted or conditions entered into under the Act providing for the sale of surplus war material, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $7,640. office of chief clerk and superintendentChief Clerk’s Office Salaries: For the chief clerk, who shall be the chief executiveChief clerk, and office personnel. officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assist-ant Secretaries of the department, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the operating force of theOperating force of Treasury buildings. Treasury, Liberty Loan and Register’s Annex Buildings and the Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, and of other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $482,500. contingent expenses, treasury departmentDepartment contingent expenses. For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories,Reference books. and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. For freight, expressage, telegraph, and telephone service, $10,000.Freight, etc. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use ofRent, District of Columbia. the Treasury Department, $12,500. For purchase exchange, maintenance (including gasoline and oil),Motor vehicles. and repair of motor trucks and bicycles, and maintenance and repair of one passenger automobile for the Secretary of the Treasury, all to be used for official purposes only, $9,400. For purchase of file holders and file cases, $5,000.File holders, etc. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils, and grease, grate basketsFuel, etc. and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $19,000. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes,Lighting, etc. gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $20,000. For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings andMiscellaneous supplies. fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, 138crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery’ removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street-car fares not exceeding $300, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in the District of Columbia of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $11,600. Labor Paving machines.For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $14,000. Carpets, etc.For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $500. Furniture.For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, type-writers, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, wash-stands. water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $7,500. Operating expenses.Madison Place Annex.For Operating expenses of the Treasury Department Annex Numbered 1 (Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $13,000. Darby Building.Darby Building: For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, and miscellaneous items, $4,000. Stationery.Stationery: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, and field services thereof, including tags, labels, and index cards, printed in the course of manufacture, packing boxes and other materials necessary for shipping stationery supplies, and cost of transportation of supplies purchased free on board point of shipment and of supplies shipped from Washington to field offices, $180,000. general supply committeeGeneral Supply Committee. Personal services and office expenses.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “ The classification Act of 1023 ” not exceeding $113,700; necessary expenses, including office supplies and materials, maintenance of motor trucks, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, maintenance Expenses transfering office supplies for departments.of motor trucks, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war *Provisos*.Service continued to June 30, 1927.activities; in all, $120,000: *Provided*, That the said Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1927, without modification, except that the price charged shall be the current market value at time of issue, less a discount for usage, but in no instance shall the discount be more than 25 per centum, and that the proceeds from the transfer of appropriations thereunder shall be covered into the Cooperation of departments, etc., in transfers, etc.Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That the heads of the executive departments and independent establishments and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall cooperate 139with the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with the storage and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment transferred under the foregoing order and for effecting the transfer or disposition of other surplus and waste material or supplies: *Provided further*,Use of unfit typewriters, etc., for exchange. That typewriters and computing machines transferred to the General Supply Committee as surplus, where such machines have become unfit for further use, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be issued to other Government departments and establishments at exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies or sold commercially. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billingTypewriter repairs by Supply Committee. machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counter warrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, General Supply Committee.” No part of any money appropriated by this or any other ActTypewriting machines.Prices of standard machines for 1927. shall be used during the fiscal year 1927 for the. purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50. All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal yearAll purchases to be from surplus stock of committee. 1927 by executive departments and independent establishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the Held, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Supply Committee. The War Department shall furnishImmediate inventory, etc., of War Department stock to be furnished. the General Supply Committee, immediately upon the approval of this Act, a complete inventory of the various makes, models, and classes of typewriters in its possession, the condition of such machines, and the point of storage, and shall turn over to the General Supply Committee such typewriting machines in such quantities as the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time may call for by specific requisition for sale to the various services of the Government. If the General Supply Committee is unable to furnish serviceableUnserviceable machines allowed for exchange. machines to any such service of the Government it shall furnish unserviceable machines, if available, at current exchange prices, and such machines shall then be applied by the service of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewriting machines to the various servicesAcceptance in part payment. the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies. office of commissioner of accounts and depositsAccounts and Deposits office. For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personalCommissioner, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “ The Classification Act of 1923,” $78,660. For books of reference, law books, books on finance, technical andBooks, etc. scientific books, newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance, and periodicals, for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, for library cards, supplies, and for all other necessary expenses, $2,000. 140 division of bookkeeping and warrantsBookkeeping and Warrants Division. Chief of division, and office personnel.For the chief of the division, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $160,000. Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several [R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718).depositories, including national banks acting as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised Statutes, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $‘200,000. Recoinage of gold coins.Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins [R. S., sec. 3512. p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696).in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section 3512 of the Revised Statutes, $3,000. Recoinage of minor coins,Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $15,000. public debt servicePublic Debt Service. Office personnel, and other expenses.For necessary expenses connected with the administration of any public debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including rent in the District of Columbia, and including the Commissioner of the Public Debt and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $2,700,000: *Provisos*.Services to the District.Indefinite appropriation discontinued.Vol. 40, p. 292.*Provided*, That the amount to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $2,608,250: *Provided further*, That the indefinite appropriation “Expenses of loans,” Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended, shall not be used during the fiscal year 1927 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service. Distinctive paper for securities.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Quantities authorized.Federal reserve bank currency, not exceeding 216,316,000 sheets, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, Personal services.and salaries of employees, and expense of officer detailed from the Treasury Department, $50 per month when actually on duty; in all, $1,456,993.63. world war foreign debt commissionWorld War Foreign Debt Commission. Expenses.For expenses of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and printing and binding, $5,000. division of appointmentsAppointments Division. Chief of division, and office personnel.Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the classification Act of 1923, $61,200. 141 division of printingPrinting Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal servicesChief of division, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia in accordance with the classification Act of 1923, $53,000. For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, includingPrinting and binding. all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located inBookbinding. Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, including materialsWork excluded. for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Department,Vol. 40, p. 1270. but not including work done at the New York customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919, $835,000. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal UnionPostage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000. office of disbursing clerk Salaries: For the disbursing clerk and other personal services inDisbursing dork, and office personnel. the District of Columbia, in accordance with the classification Act of 1923, $53,300. CUSTOMS SERVICECustoms service. For collecting the revenue from customs, for the detection andCollecting customs revenue. prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, and not to exceed $10,000 for the securing of evidence of violation of the customs laws, including not to exceed $5,000 for the hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $16,993,000, of which such amount asRetired general appraisers. may be necessary shall be available for salaries of general appraisers retired under the provisions of section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1922,Vol. 42, p. 973. and $138,980 shall be available for personal services in the DistrictServices in the District. of Columbia exclusive of eight persons from the field force authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the Tariff Act of 1922:Vol. 42, p. 975. *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the total amount appropriated*Proviso*.Advances to disbursing officers. shall be available for advances to be made by disbursing officers when authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, the provisions[R. S., sec, 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary not with standing. Scales for customs service: For construction and installation ofAutomatic scales. special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, including not to exceed $4,400 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $100,000. Compensation in lien of moieties: For compensation in lieuCompensation in lieu of moieties. of moieties in certain cases under the customs laws, $155,000. BUREAU OF THE BUDGETBudget Bureau. Director, $10,000; Assistant Director, $7,500; for all other necessaryDirector, Assistant, personnel, and all other expenses. expenses of the bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923”; contract stenographic reporting services, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, street-car fares, $147,500; in all, $165,000, For printing and binding, $25,000.Printing and binding. 142 FEDERAL FARM LOAN BUREAUFederal Farm Bureau salaries and expenses Members of the board, office and field personnel.Salaries: For six members of the board, at $10,000 each; for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $293,000; in all, $353,000, of which amount not to exceed $163,000 may be Contingent expenses.expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers and employees; per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4; and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including books of reference and maps; and for the examination of national farm-loan associations, $100,000; Payable from specified assessments.In all, Federal Farm Loan Bureau, $453,000, payable from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks and Federal intermediate credit banks. OFFICE OF TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATESTreasurer’s Office. Treasurer, and office personnel.Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, $8,000; for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “ The Classification Act of 1923,” $1,052,000; in all, $1,060,000. Redemption of Federal reserve and national currency.Personal services.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” in redeeming Federal reserve and national currency, $320,000, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCYOffice of Comptroller of the Currency. Comptroller, and office personnel.Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency, $5,000; for personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “ Federal reserve and national currency.Personal services.The Classification Act of 1923,” $215,000; in all, $220,000. For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “ The Classification Act of 1923,” in connection with Federal reserve and national currency, $64,500, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. Special examinations.For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $1,506. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICEInternal Revenue Service. Stamp agent.For one stamp agent, $1,860, to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Commissioner, and all office and field force.For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, including the employment of a Commissioner of Internal Revenue at $10,000 per annum, an assistant to the commissioner, three deputy commissioners, and the necessary officers, collectors, deputy collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, storekeeper-gaugers, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internal-revenue agents, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia and not to exceed $11,500 for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, expenses of seizure and sale, injuries to horses not exceeding $250 for any horse 143crippled or killed, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internal-revenue agents, $35,170,000, of which amount not to exceed $10,718,000Services in the District.*Proviso*.Distilled spirits may be removed to warehouse tor bottling in bond. may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That for purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and under regulations prescribed by him, distilled spirits may be removed from any internal-revenue bonded warehouse to any other such warehouse, and may be bottled in bond in any such warehouse before or after payment of the tax, and the commissioner shall prescribe the form and penal sums of bond covering distilled spirits in internal-revenue bonded warehouses, and in transit between such warehouses: *Provided further*, That no part of this amount shall be used in defrayingWitness fees. the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to at tend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner,*Post*, p.346. which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts ”: *Provided further*, That not moreDetecting, etc., violations of internal revenue laws. than $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation. For expenses to enforce the provisions of the National ProhibitionProhibition and Narcotic Acts.Enforcement expenses. Act and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound,Vol. 41, p. 305, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” approved December 17, 1914, as amended by the RevenueVol. 38, p. 785. Act of 1918, and the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes,’ approved February 9, 1909,” as amendedVol. 40, p. 1130. by the Act of May 26, 1922, known as “ The Narcotic Drugs ImportVol. 42, p. 298. and Export Act, including the employment of executive officers, agents, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; not to exceed $50,000 for the collection and dissemination of informationDisseminating information, securing evidence, etc. on law enforcement, including the necessary printing in connection therewith: the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the District of Columbia and the several field offices; hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; and for rental of necessary quarters; in all, $10,635,685, of which amount not toServices In the District. exceed $598,640 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,329,440 of the*Proviso*.Narcotic Acts enforcement. foregoing sum shall be expended for enforcement of the provisions of the said Acts of December 17, 1914, and May 26, 1922, and the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the use, by narcotic agents,Use of seized vehicles. of motor vehicles confiscated under the provisions of the Act ofVol. 43, p. 1116. March 3, 1925, and pay the maintenance, repair, and operation thereof from this allotment: *Provided further*, That not to exceedAdvances to disbursing agents. $250,000 of the total amount appropriated shall be available for advances to be made by special disbursing agents when authorized 144by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and approved by the [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).Secretary of the Treasury, the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding, and $50,000 of Restriction on payments for storage of seized goods in private warehouse.this sum shall be available immediately: *Provided further*, That no money herein appropriated for the enforcement of the National Prohibition Act, the customs laws, or internal revenue laws, shall be used to pay for storage in any private warehouse of intoxicating liquors or other property in connection therewith seized pursuant to said Acts and necessary to be stored, where there is available for that purpose space in a Government warehouse or other suitable Government property in the judicial district wherein such property was seized, or in an adjacent judicial district, and when such seized property is stored in an adjacent district the jurisdiction over such property in the district wherein it was seized shall not be affected thereby. COAST GUARDCoast Guard. Office personnel.Office of the commandant: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $230,000. Technical services.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard vessels and boats, to be *Post*, p. 145.paid from the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard vessels and *Proviso*.Limitation.boats”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1927 shall not exceed $10,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the Budget. Service expenditures.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Coast Guard, including the expense of maintenance, repair, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and Vol. 43, p. 1116.delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the Act, approved March 3, 1925, as follows, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes: Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, cadets and cadet engineers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, and surfmen, substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, rations or commutation thereof for cadets, cadet engineers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, $17,100,000; Fuel and water.For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $2,800,000; Outfits, stores, etc.For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, $1,375,000; Stations, houses of refuge, etc.For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard Death allowance.Vol. 41, p. 825.purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $400,140; For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920, $25,000; Traveling expenses, etc.For mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers; and actual traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen, $270,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Limit on Government owned vessels.hereafter officers of the Coast Guard performing travel by Government-owned vessels for which no transportation fare is charged shall 145only be entitled to reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses incurred; For draft animals and their maintenance, $35,000;Draft animals. For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance,Coastal communication. $60,000; For compensation of civilian employees in the field, includingField employees. clerks to district superintendents, $79,000; For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistenceContingent expenses. of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $20,000; instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and experimental and research work in relation to telephony and radiotelegraphy, not exceeding $4,000; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and enlisted men, including those who die in Government hospitals; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $214,000; For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats, $1,625,000;Repairs to vessels. For repair and reconditioning of one of the steamers of the CoastVessel ns an ice-breaker. Guard for use as an icebreaker, $100,000, to be immediately avail-able; Total Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $24,083,140. BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTINGEngraving and Printing Bureau. Office of Director: For the Director, three Assistant Directors, andDirector, assistants, and office personnel. other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $470,000. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,Work authorized for fiscal year. during the fiscal year 1927, of not exceeding 205,500,000 delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency, 101,943,522 delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, 2,953,125 delivered sheets of withdrawal permits, 587,450 delivered sheets ofVol. 38, p. 785: Vol. 40, p. 1130.Vol. 42, p. 295. opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, and 8,135,674 delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employeesSalaries of employees. required for the administrative work of the bureau of the class provided for and specified in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, $3,893,000: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall*Proviso*.Large notes. be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value,Vol. 31, p. 45. to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March 14, 1900. For wages of rotary press plate printers, at per diem rates, andWages. all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $1,916,900, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended*Proviso*.Large notes. for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denom 146ination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far Vol. 41, p. 45.as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March 14, 1900. Materials, etc.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper, except distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and grounds and for minor alterations to buildings; directories, technical books, and periodicals, and books of reference, not exceeding $300; rent of warehouse in the District of Columbia; Emergency room, etc.traveling expenses not to exceed $650; equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection of the person of Vehicles.employees; and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,487,500, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Proceeds of work to be credited to Bureau.During the fiscal year 1927 all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation tor said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as Vol. 24, p. 227.provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 227), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year 1927. SECRET SERVICESecret Service. Chief of division, and office personnel.Secret Service Division, salaries: For the Chief of the Division and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “ The Classification Act of 1923,” $25,180. Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, Federal reserve notes, Federal reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign Governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign Governments, and other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control;. hi re and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when Per diem subsistence.necessary; per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to Vol. 38, p. 680.section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August Protecting person of the President.1, 1914, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President and the members of Ids immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, *Proviso*.Witness fees.$460,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses *Post*, p. 348.shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United 147States courts ”: *Provided further*, That no person shall be employedPay restriction. hereunder at a compensation greater than that allowed by law. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICEPublic Health Service. Salaries. Office of Surgeon General: For personal services in theOffice personnel. District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $101,000. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissionedPay etc., Surgeon medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistantGeneral, etc surgeon generals at large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $1,160,000. For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medicalActing assistant surgeons. officers), $300,000. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth),Other employees. $1,000,000, For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including theFreight, travel, etc. expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, and the packing, crating, dray age, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, pharmacists, and nurses of the Public Health Service, upon permanent change of station, $25,000: *Provided*, That hereafter officers of the Public Health Service performing*Proviso*.Travel on Government owned vessels. travel by Government-owned vessels for which no transportation fare is charged shall only be entitled to reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses incurred. For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $43,000.Hygienic Laboratory.Transporting remains of officers. For preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in the line of duty, $1,500. For journals and scientific books, $500.Books, etc. For medical examinations, including the amount necessary forMedical examinations, hospital services to beneficiaries, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885. the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917, medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for beneficiaries (other than patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau) of the Public Health Service and persons detained under the immigration laws and regulations at Ellis Island Immigration Station, including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance,General expenses. minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance, exchange and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles, and including not exceeding $6,000 for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each including the value of any vehicle exchanged, except for ambulances), transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $5,250,000, of which not to exceed $256,891 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Immigration Service shall permit the PublicServices in the District.*Provisos*.Use of Fills Island hospital. Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients tree of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and moneys collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospitalReceipts to be covered into the Treasury. expenses of persons detained under the immigration laws and regulations at Ellis Island Immigration Station shall be covered into 148Uses forbidden.the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for tinder the appropriations which follow. Disposal of receipts.All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscal year 1927, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Quarantine service.Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and including not exceeding $5,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each including the value of any vehicle exchanged except for ambulances), $460,000. Prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, influenza, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $430,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. Field investigations.Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $280,000, Interstate quarantine service.Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $69,000. Rural sanitation.Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of *Proviso*.Subject to local contribution.motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $75,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expenses of such demonstration work. Biologic products.Regulating side of viruses, etc.Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $45,000. Venereal DiseasesDivision.Maintenance.Vol. 40, p, 886.For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, Chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918, including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $75,000, of which amount not Services in the District.to exceed $37,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICESMints and assay offices. office of director of the mintOffice of Director of the Mint. Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the classification Act of 1923, $33,400. 149 For transportation of bullion and coin, by registered mail orFreight on bullion and coin. otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $7,500, For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent expenses. under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $900, For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeExaminations, etc. of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the UnitedPrecious metals statistics. States, $5,100, carson city, nevada, mintMints. Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $5,280.Carson City, Nev. For incidental and contingent expenses, $800. denver, colorado, mint Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $156,710.Denver, Colo. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, net wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $50,000. new orleans, louisiana, mint Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $11,160.New Orleans, La. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. philadelphia mint Salaries: For compensation of officers and other employees,Philadelphia, Pa. $600,000. . For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $110,000. san francisco, california, mint Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $256,000.San Francisco, Calif. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, net wastage in the melting and relining department and in the coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $57,500. boise, idaho, assay officeAssay offices. Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $6,300.Boise, Idaho. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. deadwood, south dakota, assay office Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $5,480.Deadwood, S. Dak. For incidental and contingent expenses, $300. 150 salt lake city, utah, assay office Salt Late City, Utah.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $3,960. For incidental expenses, $300. helena, montana, assay office Helena, Mont.Salaries: For compensation of officers and other employees, $5,280. _ For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,100. new york assay office New York, N. Y.Salaries: For compensation of officers and other employees, $255,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, net wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $85,000. seattle, washington, assay office Seattle, Wash.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $19,680. For incidental and contingent expenses, $5,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGSPublic buildings. office of supervising architectSupervising Architect’s Office. Supervising Architect, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Supervising Architect, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “ The Classification Act of 1923,” $274,440. public buildings, construction and rentConstruction, and rent. Chicago, Ill., post office, etc,Chicago, Illinois, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For ventilation system for basement driveway, $10,000. Philadelphia, Pa., mint.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Mint: For new roof covering on east, south, and west wings, $25,000. Saint Louis, Mo., customhouse.Saint Louis, Missouri, Customhouse: For new floor at fourth-story level through court room, remodeling in other portions of the building, and all necessary changes and repairs, $55,000. Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings.Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling, enlarging, and extending completed and occupied public buildings, including any necessary and incidental additions to or changes in mechanical equipment thereof, so as to provide or make available additional space in emergent cases, not to exceed an aggregate of $20,000 at any one building, $600,000. marine hospitalsMarine hospitals. Carville, La.Carville, Louisiana, Marine Hospital Numbered 66: For improving existing facilities, $32,500. New Orleans, Lu.New Orleans, Louisiana, Marine Hospital Numbered 14: For improving existing facilities, $8,000. New York, N. Y.New York, New York, Marine Hospital Numbered 21: For improving existing facilities, $5,700. San Francisco, Calif.San Francisco, California, Marine Hospital Numbered 19: For repairs to gutters and downspouts, $2,000. 151 quarantine stationsQuarantine stations. Boston, Massachusetts, Quarantine Station: For repairs toBoston, Mass. wharf, roofs, and so forth, $8,000. Charleston, South Carolina, Quarantine Station: For improvingCharleston, S. C. existing facilities, $3,000. Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, Quarantine Station: For additionalMarcus Hook, Pa. wharf facilities, installation of new boiler, and miscellaneous mate-rials for repairs, $18,500. Mobile. Alabama, Quarantine Station: For completion, $100,000.Mobile, Ala. New Orleans, Louisiana, Quarantine Station: For improving existing facilities, $2,000. New York, New York, Quarantine Station: For improvingNew York, N. Y. existing facilities, $7,540. Port Townsend, Washington, Quarantine Station: For improvingPort Townsend Wash. existing facilities, $2,500. The foregoing work under marine hospitals and quarantine stationsWork under Supervising Architect. shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. public rowings, repairs, equipment, and general expensesRepairs, equipment, etc. Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of allRepairs and preservation. completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor; Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 15 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not*Provisos*.Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc. exceeding $115,000 may be used for the repair and preservation of marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook) and completed and occupied outbuildings (including wire partitions and fly screens for same), and notTreasury Department buildings. exceeding $24,500 for the Treasury, Treasury’ Annex. Liberty Loan, Butler, and Auditors’ Building in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*,Personal services restriction. That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $930,000. Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanicalMechanical equipment. equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting,Heating, lighting, etc. plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumaticlube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 10 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*,*Provisos*. 152Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc.That of the sum herein appropriated, not exceeding $100,000 may be used for the installation and repair of mechanical equipment in marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook J, and not exceeding $38,000 for the Treasury Department buildings.Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, Butler, and Auditors’ Buildings, in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors’ Building, and not Pneumatic-tube service, New York City.exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance, changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new custom-house in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessary incident to or resulting from such maintenance, Personal services restriction.changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building $521,700. Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $100,000. General expenses.Additional pay. Supervising Architect.Vol. 35, p. 537.Technical service.*Post*, p. 875.General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page 537): For salaries of architectural and engineering personnel and inspectors in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, not exceeding $428,960; expenses of Expenses of superintendence, etc.superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from Transporting household goods of superintendents, etc.the Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total Office rant, supplies, etc.expenditure of $4,500; office rent and expenses of superintendents, including temporary, stenographic, and other assistance, in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telegraph and telephone service; freight, expressage, and postage incident to shipments of drawings, superintendent’s furniture and supplies, testing instruments, and so forth, including articles and supplies not usually *Proviso*.Transporting operating supplies.payable from other appropriations: *Provided*, That no expenditures shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; ground rent at Salamanca, New York, for which payment may be made in advance; Salamanca, N. Y.contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, Other contingencies.photo-graphic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental 153expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitorObjects excluded. service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, piaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $521,960, of which amount not to exceed $226,860 may be expendedServices in the District. for personal services in the District of Columbia. public buildings, operating expensesOperating expenses. Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary ofOperating force.Personal services, assistant custodians, etc. the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shallPay restriction. the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed, $6,500,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing*Proviso*.Buildings for which available. appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, andFurniture, etc. repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extension of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marineBuildings excluded. hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or establishments of the Government, $775,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing*Provisos*.Personal services restriction. appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency, and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by theUse of present furniture. United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heatingOperating supplies.Fuel, light, power, water, etc. purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury 154Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishings in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings, and for the transportation of articles or supplies authorized herein (including the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one Gas governors.building), $3,011,500. The appropriation made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors when ordered by the *Provisos*.Rental therefor.Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than 35 per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct:Advance fuel contracts authorized. *Provided further.* That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department in advance of the availability of the appropriation for the payment thereof. Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current fiscal year. Custody of lauds, etc.Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of kinds and other property [R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739).of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 anti 3750 of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $50. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, TREASURY DEPARTMENTMiscellaneous. american printing house for the blingPrinting House for the Blind. Expense.Vol. 41, p. 272.To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 4, 1919, $40,000. TITLE II.— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Post Office Department appropriations.Vol. 5, p. 80.The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836, for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, namely: post office department; Washington, district of ColumbiaDepartment expenses. office of the postmaster generalOffice of Postmaster General. Postmaster General, and office personnel.Postmaster General, $15,000; for personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $187,840; in all, $202,840. post office department buildingsDepartment buildings. Personal services, operating force.For personal services in the District of Columbia In accordance with “ The Classification Act of 1923.” for the care, maintenance, 155and protection of the main Post Office Department Building, the Washington City Post Office Building, and the Mail Equipment Shops Building, $225,632. salaries in bureaus and offices For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordanceDepartment bureaus and offices.Allotments for personal services with “ The Classification Act of 1923,” in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $406,320. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $284,920. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $678,260. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $374,860. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $57,760. Office of the Chief Inspector. $148,680. Office of the Purchasing Agent, $33,300. Bureau of Accounts, $38,280. Contingent Expenses, Post Office DepartmentDepartment contingent expenses. For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders,Stationery, etc. and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $25,000. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice and power plant,Heating, lighting, etc. including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $53,000. For telegraphing, $6,500.Telegraphing Miscellaneous For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; not Io exceed $3,000 for purchase, exchange, hire,Vehicles, etc. and maintenance of motor trucks and motor-driven passenger-car Tying vehicles; street car fares not exceeding $540; plumbing; repairs to department buildings; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 43 of the Stockholm convention of the Universal Postal Union, $52,000, of which sum not exceeding $14,500 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,800 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the department, and not exceeding $500 may be expended foi’ actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department. For furniture and filing cabinets, $8,000.Furniture. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, includingPrinting and binding. all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,124,620. For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office or CapitolReimbursing for heating, etc., Washing-ton City post office building. Power Plant for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $47,000. Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the PostField service appropriations not to be used, for the Department. Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and*Proviso*.Payment of traveling expenses of officials from service appropriations. employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is 156performed, and appropriations for 1927 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor. Field Service, Post Office DepartmentField service. office of postmaster generalPostmaster General. Equipment shops building.For gas, electric power, and light, and the repair of machinery, United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $8,000. Cash rewards to employees for inventions or improving service, etc.The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to pay a cash reward for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an improvement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Postal Service submitted by one or more employees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficiency, and for that purpose the sum of $2,500 is hereby appropriated: *Provisos*.Additional to regular pay.*Provided*, That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with Amount limited.this Act shall be in addition to their usual compensation; *Provided further*, That the total amount paid under the provisions of this Act shall not exceed $1,000 in any month or for any one invention or Agreement for Government use required.suggestion: *Provided further*, That no employee shall be paid a reward under this Act until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by him, Use restricted.his heirs, or assigns: *Provided further*, that this appropriation shall be available for no other purpose. Shipment of equipment, supplies, etc.For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $425,000. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Postmaster General, $1,000. Damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 63.To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921, $10,000. Inspectors.Office of chief inspector: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions, at $4,500 each; and five hundred and twenty *Proviso*.Civil service eligibles.inspectors, $1,885,400; in all, $1,952,900: *Provided*, That the appointment of additional inspectors shall be made upon certification of the Civil Service Commission, as heretofore practiced. Traveling expenses, etc.For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, and the chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases, and for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, $440,000. MiscellaneousFor necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters, $14,000. Clerks, division headquarters.For compensation of one hundred and fifteen clerks at division headquarters, $288,500. Rewards, etc.For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, $35,000: *Provisos*.Death of offender.*Provided*, That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: Rates limited.*Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Depart- 157ment Order 7708, dated July 1, 1922: *Provided further*, That of theSecuring information. amount herein appropriated not to exceed $7,500 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. office of the fie st assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Posh muster General. For compensations to postmasters, $51,250,000.Postmasters. For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and secondAssistant postmasters. class post offices, $7,150,000. For compensation to clerks and employees at first and secondClerks and employees, first and second class offices. class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, and printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers, $163,650,000. For compensation to watchmen, messengers, laborers, and substitutes,Watchmen, messengers, etc. $7,634,600. For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations,Contract station clerks. $1,650,000. For separating mails at third and fourth class post offices, $500,000.Separating mails. For unusual conditions at post offices, $100,000.Unusual conditions. For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost ofClerks, third class offices. clerical services, $8,650,000, For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class postRent, light, and fuel. offices, $16,495,000. For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices ofMiscellaneous, first and second class offices. the first and second classes, $1,602,000. For village delivery service in towns and villages having postVillage delivery. offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,980,000. For Detroit River postal service, $18,000.Detroit River. For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery carCar fare and bicycles. fare, $1,175,000. For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $116,600,000.City delivery, carriers. For fees to special-delivery messengers, $8,600,000.Special delivery fees. For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similarPneumatic tubes, New York and Brooklyn. devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, $526,373. For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, notBoston.Rent of tube service. including labor and power in operating the same, for the trans-mission of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000: *Proviso*.Contract provisions.Vol. 32, p. 114; Vol. 35. p. 412.*Provided*, That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902, and May 27, 1908, relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental ofVehicle allowance for delivery, collection, etc. vehicles, and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection service, $17,394,537: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may,*Provisos*.Leases of garages, etc. in his disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned auto-mobiles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years: *Provided, further*, That this appropriation is available forGarage, Washington, D. C. the maintenance of the Government-owned post-office garage at Washington, District of Columbia, including such changes and additions to the mechanical equipment as, in the opinion of the Postmaster General, may be necessary. 158 Travel etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of’ the second assistant postmaster generalSecond AssistantPostmaster General. Star routes, Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $170,000. Steamboat, etc., routes.For inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,550,000. Railroad routes, and messenger service.*Provisos*.Freight-train conveyance.For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $113,500,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,500,000 of this appropriation may be expended for pay of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed Messenger service accounting.Services in the District.under special arrangement in freight trains or otherwise: *Provided further*, That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service: *Provided further*, That there may be expended from this appropriation for clerical and other assistance in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $82,000 to Vol. 39, p. 425.carry out the provisions of section 5 of the Act of July 28, 1916 Vol. 43, p. 104.(the space basis Act), and not exceeding the sum of $33,000 to carry out the provisions of section 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (cost ascertainment). Airplane service, New York and San Francisco.For the operation and maintenance of the airplane mail service between New York, New York, and San Francisco, California, via Chicago, Illinois, and Omaha, Nebraska, and for the Installing night flying, etc.installation, equipment, and operation of the airplane mail service by night flying, and to enable the department to make the additional charges for both night and day service on first-class mail matter, in accordance with existing law, including necessary incidental expenses *Proviso*.Personnel in the District.and employment of necessary personnel, $2,650,060: *Provided*, That $50,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the. payment of personal services in the District of Columbia, and incidental and travel expenses in connection with such personnel. Railway Mail Service.Division superintendents, etc.Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents at large, one assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $55,904,121. Travel allowances to clerks.For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $3,800,000. Traveling expenses, etc., away from headquarters.For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $62,000. Miscellaneous,For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, and badges for railway postal clerks, and Rent, etc., for terminal offices.rental of space for terminal railway post offices for the distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution can not, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $1,170,000. Electric and cable cars.Foreign mails.*Provisos*.Aircraft allowance.For electric and cable car service, $725,000. For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise, $8,000,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $150,000 of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft: *Pro* 159*vided further*, That the Postmaster General shall be authorized toSea post service. expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $200,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to and from the United States; and not to exceed $3,000 for the salary of the AssistantAssistant superintendent, New York. Superintendent, Division of Foreign Mails, with headquarters at New York City: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $6,000 ofDelegates to Pan American Postal Congress. this sum may be immediately available for the delegates to the Pan American Postal (Congress to be held at Mexico City to be designated from the Post Office Department by the Postmaster General, and to be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General and accounted for on his certificate, which certificate shall be conclusive on the accounting offices of the United States. For balances due foreign countries, $1,700,000.Balances to foreign countries.Travel, etc. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. For the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, under contract,Aircraft mail contracts.Vol. 43, p. 805.*Post*, p. 692.*Proviso*.Services in the District. in accordance with the Act approved February 2, 1925, $2,000,000: *Provided*, That $12,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia, incidental and travel expenses. office of the third assistant postmaster generalThird Assistant Postmaster General. For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-deliveryStamps, stamped envelopes postal cards, etc. stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and for coiling of stamps, $7,750,000. For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stampedDistribution agency. envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, $23,350. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of piecesIndemnity for lost registered, etc., mall.Domestic. of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, $3,600,000. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of internationalForeign. mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $75.000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General. For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-orderStationery. and registry systems; and also for the purchase of supplies for thePostal Savings System supplies. Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes, and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the SecretaryBond expenses. of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25,Vol. 36, p. 817. 1910, $894,000. For miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchaseMiscellaneous equipment and supplies. and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange ofLetter boxes, etc. equipment, the erection and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair or presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps,Postmarking stamps, etc. and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, envelope-opening machines, and computing 160machines, copying presses, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales, test weights, and miscellaneous articles Post route maps, etc.purchased and furnished directly to the Postal Service; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural-delivery service, Sale of maps.and for letter boxes, $1,485,700; and the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added; of this amount $1,500 may be expended in the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Amount for equipment and furniture.$200,000 of this appropriation may be used for the purchase of equipment and furniture for post-office quarters and for no other purposes. Twine, etc.For wrapping twine and tying devices, $470,000. Shipping supplies.For defraying expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and the pay of employees in Pay of employees.connection therewith in the District of Columbia at the following annual rates: Storekeeper, $2,050; foreman, $2,100; ten requisition fillers, at $1,800 each; one requisition filler, at $1,600; two requisition fillers, at $1,200 each; nine packers, at $1,800 each; one packer, at $1,600; two packers, at $1,200 each; and two chauffeurs, at $1,400 each; in all, $67,750. Canceling and labor saving machines.For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including Traveling mechanicians.salaries of five traveling mechanicians and for per diem allowance of traveling mechanicians while actually traveling on official business away from their homes and their official domiciles, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster General, not to exceed $4 per day, $561,000. Mail bags, locks, etc.For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for Equipment shop materials etc.incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; for Labor.compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops at Washington, disstrict of Columbia, $2,000,000, of which not to exceed $500,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Proviso*.Distinctive equipment for departments, Alaska, and island possessions.*Provided*, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. Star routes, except Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, $13,100,000. Rural delivery.For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $105,600,000, of which $350,000 shall be immediately available. 161 For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000, If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficientAppropriation from the Treasury for field service to supply deficiency in postal revenues. to meet the appropriations made under Title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. Sec. 2. Those civilian positions in the field services under theCivilian field employees in executive departments to be paid adjusted compensation. several executive departments and independent establishments, the compensation of which was fixed or limited by law but adjusted for the fiscal year 1925 under the authority and appropriations contained in the Act entitled “An Act making additional appropriationsVol. 43, p. 704. for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, to enable the heads of the several executive departments and independent establishments to adjust the rates of compensation of civilian employees in certain of the field services,” approved December 6, 1924, may be paid under the applicable appropriations for the fiscal year 1927 at rates not in excess of those permitted for them under the provisions of such Act of December 6, 1924. Sec. 3. The head of an executive department or independentQuarters, subsistence, etc., to be furnished civilians of departments, etc., infield service. establishment, where, in his judgment, conditions of employment require it, may continue to furnish civilians employed in the field service with quarters, heat, light, household equipment, subsistence, and laundry service; and appropriations for the fiscal year 1927Appropriations available. of the character heretofore used for such purposes are hereby made available therefor: *Provided*, That the reasonable value of such*Proviso*.Value considered part of compensation. allowances shall be determined and considered as part of the compensation in fixing the salary rate of such civilians. Approved, March 2, 1926.
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