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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 44 STAT. · June 30, 1926 · Chapter 44

Chapter 44. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1926, and June 30, 1927, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 44.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1926, and June 30, 1927, and for other purposes.March 3, 1926.[[H. R. 8722](/us/bill/69/hr/8722).][[Public, No. 26](/us/pl/69/26).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,First Deficiency Act, 1926 That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1926, and June 30, 1927, and for other purposes, namely: legislativeLegislative. senateSenate.
Senators.Compensation, 1925, 1926.Salaries: For compensation of Senators, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1925, $75,000; For 1926, $240,000. Vice President.Compensation. 1925, 1926.For compensation of the Vice President, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1925, $975; For 1926, $3,275. 162 Medill McCormick.Pay to widow.To pay Ruth Hanna McCormick, widow of Honorable Medill McCormick, late a Senator from the State of Illinois, $7,500. Robert M. La Follette.Pay to widow.To pay to Belle Case La Follette, widow of Honorable Robert M.
La Follette, late a Senator from the State of Wisconsin, $10,000. Selden P. Spencer.Pay to widow.For payment to Susan B. Spencer, widow of Honorable Selden P. Spencer, late a Senator from the State of Missouri, $10,000. Samuel M. Ralston.Pay to widow.For payment to Jennie C. Ralston, widow of Honorable Samuel M. Ralston, late a Senator from the State of Indiana, $10,000. Edwin F. Ladd.Pay to widow.To pay to Rizpah S. Ladd, widow of Honorable Edwin F. Ladd, late a Senator from the State of North Dakota, $10,000.
Inquiries and investigations.For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Sen-ate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per *Proviso*.Limit of cost.hundred words, fiscal year 1926, $125,000: *Provided*, That hereafter Senate resolutions providing for inquiries and investigations shall contain a limit of cost of such investigation, which limit shall not be exceeded except by vote of the Senate authorizing additional amounts.
Automobile for Vice President.For the purchase and exchange of an automobile for the Vice President, fiscal year 1926, $5,135.75. Stationery.For stationery for Senators, committees, and officers of the Senate, fiscal year 1926, $2,500. Folding.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 43, p. 581.The unexpended balance of the appropriation “ Contingent Expenses, Senate, Folding Documents, 1925,” is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1926. Financial Clerk, deemed successor to Secretary as disbursing officer in event of death, etc.Hereafter, in the event of the death, resignation, or disability of the Secretary or the Senate, the Financial Clerk of the Senate shall be deemed his successor as a disbursing officer, under his bond as Financial Clerk, and he shall serve as such disbursing officer until the end of the quarterly period during which a new Secretary shall have been elected and qualified, or such disability shall have been ended. house of representativesHouse of Representatives.
George B. Churchill.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of George B. Churchill, late a Representative from the State of Massachusetts, $10,000. Arthur B. Williams.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Arthur B. Williams, late a Representative from the State of Michigan, $10,000. John Jacob Rogers.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of John Jacob Rogers, late a Representative from the State of Massachusetts, at the rate of $10,000 per annum from the date of his death to the date of her election as a Representative in Congress, $2,527.78.
The foregoing appropriations shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Compensation of Members, etc.Salaries: For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philip-pine Islands, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1925.For 1925, $367,833.33; For 1926.For 1926, $1,103,000. Additional telephone operators.For compensation of three additional telephone operators at the rate of $100 per month each from April 1 to June 30, 1926, inclusive, $900.
Substitute telephone operator.Miscellaneous items.For pay of substitute telephone operator, fiscal year 1926, $623.70. Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous items, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Appropriation Additional reappropriation.Vol. 42, p. 1271.Act for the fiscal year 1925, $13,856.10, and in addition thereto the sum of $8,000 of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1924 is reappropriated and made available. 163 The unexpended balance of the appropriation “ ContingentFolding.Reappropriation.Vol. 43, p. 585.
Expenses, House of Representatives, Folding Documents, 1925,” is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1926. The limitation on expenditures by the Clerk of the House ofBarber shop.Limit on purchases for, removed.Vol. 38, p. 462. Representatives for supplies or utensils used in the barber shops of the House Office Building or House wing of the Capitol, made by the Act of July 16, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 462), shall not hereafter apply to the purchase of necessary furniture. biographical directory of the american congressBiographical Congressional Directory.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay, upon vouchersCompleting new edition. approved by the chairman or vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, for completing the new edition of the Biographical Congressional Directory, 1789 to 1925, inclusive, including illustrations, as provided for in House concurrent resolution adopted FebruaryVol. 43, p. 1616. 6, 1925, fiscal year 1926, $7,500; and said sum or any part thereof, in the discretion of the chairman or vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, may be paid as additional compensation to any employee of the United States : *Provided*, That the manuscript*Proviso*.Preservation of manuscript. from which such Directory is printed shall be returned by the Public Printer to the Joint Committee on Printing for preservation. architect of the capitolArchitect of the Capitol.
House Office Building: For bronze letter slots for the doors ofHouse Office Building.Letter slots for doors. the building, fiscal year 1926, $1,800. For reimbursement of the maintenance fund of the House OfficeNew telephone exchange. Building for expenditures incurred under the direction of the House Office Building Commission in the construction of the new telephone exchange, fiscal year 1926, $9,862.63. library of congressLibrary of Congress. For priming and binding, including the copyright office and thePrinting and binding. publication of the catalogue of title entries of the copyright office, binding, rebinding, and repairing of Library books, and for the Library building, fiscal year 1926, $25,000.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICEGovernment Printing Office. To enable the Public Printer to pay for two Congressional RecordTwo Congressional Record printing presses. printing presses contracted for during the fiscal year 1923 under appropriations the balances under which have lapsed and been covered into the Treasury, $122,350. EXECUTIVE OFFICEExecutive Office. For the expenses of the Aircraft Board appointed by the PresidentAircraft Board.Expenses. in September, 1925, to be expended at the discretion of the President and to include the reimbursement of the traveling and subsistence expenses of the members of the board, fiscal year 1926, $11,963.34.
UNITED STATES BOARD OF TAX APPEALSTax Appeals Board. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work ofAll expenses.Vol. 43, p. 336.*Ante*, p. 105. the Board of Tax Appeals, including personal services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, stenographic reporting services, traveling expenses, necessary expenses for subsistence or 164per diem in lieu of subsistence, ear fare, stationery, furniture, office equipment, purchase and exchange of typewriters, law books and books of reference, periodicals, and all other necessary supplies, fiscal year 1926, $79,650, of which amount not to exceed $36,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Printing and binding.For printing and binding, fiscal year 1926, $9,000. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCYEfficiency Bureau. Salaries and expenses.For an additional amount required for salaries and expenses of the Bureau of Efficiency, including the same objects specified for this purpose in the Act making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, $15,000. COMMISSION OF FINE ARTSCommission of Fino Arte.
Expenses.For additional amount required for the Commission of Fine Arts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes, $1,400. ERICSSON MEMORIAL COMMISSIONEricsson Memorial Commission. Dedication expenses.For all expenses incident to the dedication of the John Ericsson Memorial, including printing and binding, fiscal year 1926, $3,500.
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICEGeneral Accounting Office. Accounts of disbursing officers for expenses of employees, examining parks, etc., for President’s Committee on Outdoor Recreation, to be credited.The Comptroller General is authorized and directed to credit the accounts of the disbursing officers of the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture with payments heretofore or hereafter made from the appropriations for maintenance of national parks and national forests on account of obligations heretofore incurred, for transportation, subsistence, supplies, and other necessary expenses incurred by the committee of departmental employees and collaborators created upon recommendation of the President’s Committee on Outdoor Recreation, to examine and report on proposed changes in the status of lands reserved for national park or national forest purposes.
OFFICE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITALNational Capital Public Buildings, etc. Repairs to temporary buildings.For extraordinary structural repairs to temporary buildings, $140,000, to continue available until June 30, 1927. UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAUVeterans’ Bureau. Additional hospital facilities and services.Vol. 43, p. 389.Hospital facilities and services: For further carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation to enable the Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau to provide additional hospital facilities,” approved June 5, 1924, $3,000,000, Contracts.Vol. 43, pp. 681, 1317.to remain available until June 30, 1927, being the amount of the contract authorization contained in the “ Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924,” as amended by the “ Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925,” Further facilities, etc.Vol.43, p. 1213.
” For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation to provide additional hospital and out- 165patient dispensary facilities for persons entitled to hospitalization under the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924,” approved March 3, 1925, $5,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1927. Adjusted service certificate fund: For an amount necessary underAdjusted service certificate fund.Payment of certificates.Vol. 43, p. 128. section 505 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of May 19, 1924, to provide for the payment of the face value of each adjusted service certificate in twenty years from its date or on the prior death of the veteran, $70,000,000, to remain available until expended.
Military and naval compensation: For an additional amountMilitary and naval compensation.Vol. 41, p. 371; Vol 43, p. 1304. required for the payment of military and naval compensation accruing during the fiscal year 1926 or in prior fiscal years for death or disability provided by the Act approved October 6, 1917, as amended, fiscal year 1926, $11,250,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance*Proviso*.Balance available.Vol. 43, p. 332. of the appropriation made for “Military and naval compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, 1925 and prior years” in the Act approved June 7, 1924, shall be available for the fiscal year 1926 and prior years.
Military and naval insurance: For an additional amount requiredMilitary and naval insurance. for military and naval insurance, fiscal year 1926, $27,000,000. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIADistrict of Columbia. general expenses Office of the director of traffic: For personal services in accordanceDirector of traffic.Personal services, expenses, etc.Vol. 43, p. 1118. with the classification Act of 1923; for purchase, installation, and maintenance of traffic lights, signals, controls, and markers, painting white lines, labor, traffic surveys, city planning in relation to traffic regulation and control, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the commissioners, fiscal year 1926, $41,755.
Plumbing inspection division: For temporary employment ofPlumbing Inspection division. additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be required, fiscal year 1926, $2,100. free public libraryFree Public Library. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofPersonal services. 1923, fiscal year 1926, $1,800. District of Columbia employees’ compensation fund: For carryingEmployees’ compensation fund, D. C.Payments for injuries. out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of theVol. 41, p. 104.Vol. 39, p. 742.
Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, fiscal year 1926, $5,000. contingent and miscellaneous For postage for strictly official mail matter, fiscal year 1926, $4,000.Postage. street and road improvement and repairStreets, etc. For paving roadways under the permit system, fiscal year 1926,Paving roadways. $20,000. Street improvements:
For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwiseStreet improvements. improving streets, avenues, suburban roads, and suburbanPavings, etc. 166streets, respectively, including the maintenance of non passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, as follows: Ingraham Street NW.Northwest: For paving Ingraham Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, $6,500; Center Street NW.Northwest: For paving Center Street, Meridian Place to Ogden Street, $4,700; Decatur Street NW.Northwest:
For paving Decatur Street, Kansas Avenue to Fifth Street, $7,600; Eighth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Eighth Street, Decatur Street to Emerson Street, $6,800; T Street NE.Northeast: For paving T Street, Lincoln Road to Second Street, $12,600; Neal Street NE.Northeast: For paving Neal Street, West Virginia Avenue, Trinidad Avenue, $20,200; Oates Street NE.Northeast: For paving Oates Street, Montello Avenue to Trinidad Avenue, $10,200; Trinidad Avenue NE.Northeast: For paving Trinidad Avenue, Neal Street to Queen Street, $14,000;
Grading, etc.For grading, including necessary culverts, drains, and retaining walls, the following: Albemarle Street NW.Northwest: Albemarle Street, Murdock Mill Road to Wisconsin Avenue, $6,500; Cathedral Avenue NW.Northwest: Cathedral Avenue, Conduit Road to Weaver Place, $13,600; Garfield Street NW.Northwest: Garfield Street, Tunlaw Road to Forty-fourth Street, $5,500; Twenty-ninth Street NW.Northwest: Twenty-ninth Street, Woodley Road to Calvert Street, $15,000; Dix Street NE.Northeast:
Dix Street, Forty-fourth Street to Forty-ninth Street, $4,400; Firth-Sterling Avenue BE.Southeast: Firth-Sterling Avenue, Howard Road to Stevens Road, $8,100; Accounting.In all, fiscal year 1926, $135,700, to be disbursed and accounted for as “ Street improvements,” and for that purpose shall constitute one *Proviso*.Restricted to specified improvements.fund: *Provided*, That no part of such fund shall be used for the improvement of any street or section thereof not herein specified.
Opening streets, etc., highways system.Vol. 43, p. 1227.The indefinite appropriation in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926 for the payment of awards and expenses in the opening, extension, and widening of streets and highways to conform with the permanent system of highways Available for damages, etc., in extending designated streets.in the District of Columbia, shall be available for the payment of amounts awarded as damages and the costs and expenses of proceedings in the matter of the extension of Brandywine, Thirty-eighth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Streets northwest, District Court Numbered 1647.
Gasoline-tax road and street improvements.Paving, etc., streets, etc., from.Gasoline-tax road and street improvements: For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, suburban roads, and suburban streets, respectively, including personal services and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, as follows, to Vol. 43, p. 106.be paid from the special fund created by section 1 of the Act entitled “Am Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved April 23, 1924, and accretions by repayment of assessments:
Connecticut Avenue and Eleventh Street.Payment of costs of widening In part by abutting property owners.In the widening and repaving of roadways of Connecticut Avenue and Eleventh Street, hereinafter provided for, 40 per centum of the entire cost thereof in each case shall be assessed against and collected from the owners of abutting property in the manner provided in Vol. 38, p. 524; Vol. 39, p. 716.the Act approved July 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 524), as amended by section 8 of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 716); and the owners 167of abutting property also shall be required to modify, at their own expense, the roofs of any vaults that may be under the sidewalk or parking on said street if it be found necessary to change such vaults to permit of the roadway being widened;
Northwest: For widening by fifteen feet on each side to a totalConnecticut Avenue NW.Widening and repaving. width of eighty feet and repaving the roadway of Connecticut Avenue from K Street to M Street and for widening by fifteen feet on the east side to a total width of sixty-five feet and repaving the roadway of this avenue from M Street to Eighteenth Street, $66,000; Northwest: For widening to seventy feet and repaving the road-wayEleventh Street NW.Widening and repaving. of Eleventh Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to New York Avenue, $93,000; and in addition thereto the appropriation of $22,000 for paving and repaving the roadway of Eleventh Street from E Street to G Street, fifty-five feet wide, contained in theAdditional sum available.Vol. 43, p. 1225.
District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, is hereby made available for the purpose of widening and repaving the roadway of this street seventy feet wide from Pennsylvania Avenue to New York Avenue; For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing andPaving, repaving, etc., designated road-ways.Columbia Road NW. gutters where necessary, the following: Northwest: Columbia Road, Sixteenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $22,000; Northwest: Massachusetts Avenue, Fourteenth Street to SixteenthMassachusetts Avenue NW.
Street, $25,000: Northwest : Vermont Avenue, Thomas Circle to Iowa Circle,Vermont Avenue NW. $28,000; Northwest: Vermont Avenue, R Street to T Street, $13,500; Northwest: T Street, Ninth Street to Fourteenth Street, $32,000;T Street NW. Northeast: West Virginia Avenue, Florida Avenue to PennWest Virginia Avenue NE. Street, $20,700 Southeast: Kentucky Avenue, H Street to Admiral Barney Circle,Kentucky Avenue SE $9,400; Southeast: Kentucky Avenue, Fifteenth Street to South Carolina Avenue, $34,200;
Southeast: C Street, Twelfth Street to Fifteenth Street, $35,200;C Street SE. Northwest: Kansas Avenue, Sherman Circle to Emerson Street,Kansas Avenue NW. $24,000; Northwest: Buchanan Street, New Hampshire Avenue toBuchanan Street NW. Kansas Avenue, $22,000; Northwest: South and east side of Sherman Circle, Kansas AvenueSherman Circle, etc., NW. to Crittenden Street and Illinois Avenue, Buchanan Street to Sherman Circle, $12,000; Northwest: Scott Circle, $25,000;Scott Circle NW.
In all, fiscal year 1926, $462,000, to be disbursed and accountedDisbursement, etc. for as “Gasoline tax road and street improvements” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That no part of such*Provisos*.Restricted to designated streets, etc.Assessments under existing laws. fund shall be used for the improvement of any street or section thereof not herein specified: *Provided further*, That assessments in accordance with existing law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways, where such roadways are paved or repaved, with funds derived from the collection of the tax on motor-vehicle fuels.
Lamond grade crossing: For additional amount required to completeLamond grade crossing.Completing elimination of.Vol. 43, p. 1097, 1319. carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for elimination of the Lamond grade crossing in the District of Columbia and for the extension of Van Buren Street, approved March 2, 1925, $25,000. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorizedAltering sidewalk widths, etc., authorized. and empowered, in their discretion, to fix or alter the respective widths of sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and park 168ing) of all highways that may be improved under appropriations contained in this or preceding appropriation Acts. street repair, grading, and extensionStreet repairs, etc.
Current work.Repairs: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, and including the Motor vehicles.maintenance of non passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, Street railways pave meets.fiscal year 1926, $150,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad Vol. 20, p. 105.companies as provided by section 5 of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. sewersSewers.
Assessment and permit work.Main and pipe.For assessment and permit work, fiscal year 1926, $255,000. For main and pipe servers and receiving basins, fiscal year 1926, $20,000. Right of way, Luzon Avenue trunk.For payment of the award of the jury of condemnation for right of way for the Luzon Avenue trunk sewer through parcel 89/3, district court cause numbered 1526, $750. public schoolsPublic schools. Western High.Furniture and equipment.Buildings and grounds: For the completion of the furnishing and equipment, including necessary repairs and remodeling of furniture and equipment, of the Western High School, fiscal year 1926, $22,000.
Athletic field.Reappropriation.Vol. 43. p. 558.The sum of $125,000, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925, for an athletic field for the Western High School is reappropriated and continued available until June 30, 1927. Macfarland Junior High.For additional amount for the construction of a wing to the Macfarland Junior High School, $55,000. Fifth and Buchanan Streets,For additional amount for the construction of an eight-room building on the site near Fifth and Buchanan Streets northwest, *Proviso*.Expenditure authorized.Vol. 43, p. 1233.$25,500: *Provided*, That so much as may be necessary of this appropriation and any balance remaining unobligated of the $140,000 appropriated for such building in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926 may be expended, in the discretion of the commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of the existing contract for the construction of the building.
Fifth and Sheridan Streets NW.For additional amount for the construction of an eight-room extensible building on the site at Fifth and Sheridan Streets *Proviso*.Expenditures authorized.Vol. 43, p. 1233.north-west. $27,500: *Provided*, That so much as may be necessary of this appropriation and any balance remaining unobligated of the $140,000 appropriated for such building in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926 may be expended, in the discretion of the commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of the existing contract for the construction of the building.
Brightwood Park addition.*Proviso*.Expenditure authorized.Vol. 43, p. 1233.For additional amount for the construction of an eight-room addition to the Brightwood Park School, $30,000: *Provided*, That so much as may be necessary of this appropriation and any balance remaining unobligated of the $140,000 appropriated for such building in the District of Columbia, Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926 may be expended, in the discretion of the commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of the existing contract for the construction of the building. 169 metropolitan policePolice.
For two additional cells in the second police precinct station house,Second precinct station house. fiscal year 1926, $2,250. Harbor patrol: For the purchase and installation of a gasolineHarbor patrol. engine and necessary attachments for a new boat for the harbor patrol, fiscal year 1926, $1,050. policemen and firemen’s relief fundPolicemen’s, etc., relief fund. To pay the relief and other allowances authorized by law, aPayments from. further sum not to exceed $90,000 is appropriated from the police-men and firemen’s relief fund, fiscal year 1926. health departmentHealth department For maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the pound service,Motor vehicles. fiscal year 1926, $200.
For equipping, maintaining, and operating the motor ambulance, and keeping it in good order, fiscal year 1926, $200. courts Juvenile Court : Not exceeding $1,000 of the appropriation ofJuvenile court.Use of rent appropriations, 1926.Vol. 43, p. 1238. $2,000 contained in the District of Columbia. Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, for rent of the juvenile court is made available for maintenance and other expenses of said court during the fiscal year 1926, in addition to the sum of $2,500 appropriated for said purposes for said fiscal year. charities and correctionsCharities and corrections.
Industrial Home School : For repairs and improvements toIndustrial Home School.*Post*, p. 1326.Gallinger Hospital.Sewer connection. heating plant, fiscal year 1926, $2,500. Gallinger Municipal Hospital : For construction of sewer to connect power house of Gallinger Municipal Hospital with the combined sewer system, fiscal year 1926, $3,100. Jail: For repairing roof of the jail building and for the purposeJail.Repairs, etc. of converting the upper floor of the administration wing of the building into a dormitory, $7,400; and for furnishing and installing ventilating ducts to ventilate the laundry room, $1,600; in all, fiscal year 1926, $9,000.
Not to exceed $5,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriationDeath chamber.Expenditures for apparatus. of $10,000 carried in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925, to provide a death chamber and necessary apparatus for inflicting the death penalty by electrocution, as required by the Act entitledBalance reappropriated.Vol. 43, pp. 799,1322, “An Act to provide the method of capital punishment in the District of Columbia,” approved January 30, 1925, is reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year 1926.
Workhouse: For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care,Workhouse.Maintenance, etc. and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine, and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live-stock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of non passenger-carry in g motor vehicles; supplies and labor; and all other necessary items, fiscal year 1926, $26,000. 170 District Train log School.Maintenance.Vol. 43, p. 1135.District Training School:
For maintenance, salaries, and other necessary expenses, including the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, and maintenance of horses and wagons, fiscal year 1926, $8,500. Support of indigent insane.Saint Elizabeths Hospital: For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, fiscal year 1926, $260,000. national capital park commissionNational Capital Park Commission. Amount for personal services 1926, increased.Vol. 43, p. 1247.The portion of the appropriation of $600,000, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia is hereby increased from not to exceed $9,120 to not to exceed $12,000. judgmentsJudgments.
Payment of.For payment of the judgments, including costs, rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in House Document Numbered 177, Sixty-ninth Congress, $15,573.33, together with the further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same become due until date of payment. Proportion from District revenues.The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwise therein specifically provided, shall be paid as follows:
Such sums as For fiscal year 1920, and prior.relate to the fiscal year 1920 and prior fiscal years, 50 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 50 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States; such sums as relate to the fiscal 1921–1924.years 1921. 1922,1923, and 1924, 60 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of 1925–1926.the United States; and such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1925 and 1926 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed for defraying the expenses of the District of Columbia by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for such years. water departmentWater department.
(Payable from the water revenues) Extending distribution system.For extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, fiscal year 1926, $125,000. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREDepartment of Agriculture. weather bureauWeather Bureau. Additional amount or telegraphing.General expenses: For an additional amount during the fiscal year 1926 for telegraphing official reports and messages necessary in conducting the work of the Weather Bureau at increased rates agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the telegraph company performing the services, effective July 1, 1925, $168,312, as follows: $16,500 in the city of Washington an ci $147,112 outside of the city of Washington incident to collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological and marine information; $2,000 in connection with reports, forecasts, warnings, and advice for the protection of horticultural interests, and $2,700 in connection with investigations of atmospheric phenomena. 171 For an additional amount to enable the Weather Bureau to extendForest-fire warnings. its forest-fire weather-warning service, fiscal year 1926, $2,500. forest serviceForest Service.
General expenses: For an additional amount for fighting and preventingFighting forest fires, etc. forest fires on or threatening the national forests and for the establishment and maintenance of a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires on the lands revested in the UnitedRevested Oregon-California Railroad lands, etc.Vol. 39, p. 219. States by the Act approved June 9, 1916, and the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of the Southern Oregon Company against the United States (numbered 2771). in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, fiscal year 1926, $800,000. damage claimsDamages claims.
To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned propertyPayment of. adjusted and determined by the Department of Agriculture, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method forVol. 42, p. 1066. the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 181, Sixty-ninth Congress, $636.46. forest roads and trailsFederal Highway Act.
For carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal HighwayRoads and trails in forests.Vol. 42, pp.218, 660. Act, approved November 9, 1921, $3,775,000, to remain available until expended, being part of the sum of $7,500,000 authorized to beVol. 43, p. 889. appropriated for the fiscal year 1926 by section 2 of the Act approved February 12, 1925, and authorized to be apportioned and proratedApportionment. among the States and obligated by contracts and otherwise by theVol. 43, p. 1326.
Act of March 4, 1925. federal aid highway system For the construction of rural post roads under the provisions ofRural post roads.Construction.Vol. 39, p. 355; Vol. 40. p. 1201; Vol. 42, p. 1157. the Act entitled “An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes,” approved July 11, 1916, and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of such Act as amended, including not to exceed $16,500 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia,Services in the District. $22,900,000, to remain available until expended, being part of the sum of $75,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal yearVol. 42, p. 660. 1925 by the Act approved June 19, 1922.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDepartment of Commerce. bureau of lighthousesLighthouses Bureau. Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged inRetired pay, officers, etc. the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continually employed in District offices and shops, fiscal year 1926, $55,000. Damage claims: To pay the claim adjusted and determined by theCollision damages claims. Department of Commerce under the provisions of section 4 ofVol. 36, p. 537. the Act approved June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 537), on account of damages occasioned to private property by collision with vessels of the Lighthouse Service and for which the vessels of 172the Lighthouse Service were responsible, certified in House Document Numbered 179, Sixty-ninth Congress, $330.
Property damages claim.To pay the claim for damage to or loss of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Department of Commerce, Vol. 42, p. 1060.under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 179, Sixty-ninth Congress, $520. bureau of the censusCensus Bureau.
Census of agriculture.Additional amount for.Vol. 43, p. 228.Census of agriculture: For an additional amount for the census of agriculture, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1925, $230,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1927. bureau of minesMines Bureau. Helium conservation.Acquiring lands, etc., for.Helium conservation: For the conservation of helium and helium-bearing gas through the acquirement of interests in land or wells by purchase or condemnation, fiscal year 1926, $130,000, to be expended under a contract or contracts to be made by the Secretary of the Vol. 43, p. 1110.Interior under the authority of section 1 of the Act of March 3, *Proviso*.Restriction.1925 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1110): *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended until an area has been added to Helium Reserve Numbered 1, established March 21, 1924, adequate to prevent the field from drainage, and all permits or other interests in lands or wells on the reserve, as enlarged, have been relinquished or canceled, or agreements therefor have been obtained. bureau of standardsStandards Bureau.
Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal year 1926, $5,000. Sugar standardization.Sugar standardization: For the standardization and design of sugar-testing apparatus; the development of technical specifications for the various grades of sugars, with particular reference to urgent problems made pressing by conditions following the war, especially involving the standardization and manufacture of sugars; for the study of the technical problems incidental to the collection of the revenue on sugar and to determine the fundamental scientific constants of sugars and other substances: for the standardization and production of rare and unusual types of sugars required for the medical service of the Government departments; and for other technical and scientific purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1927. coast and geodetic surveyCoast and Geodetic Survey.
Collision damages claims.Vol. 41, p. 1054Damage claims: To pay the claims approved by the Secretary of Commerce under the provisions of the Act approved June 5, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1054), on account of damage occasioned by acts for which the Coast and Geodetic Survey has been found to be responsible, certified in House Document Numbered 180, Sixty-ninth Congress, $708. 173 bureau of fisheriesFisheries Bureau. Fish hatchery, Nashua, N. H.: For the construction and repair ofNashua, N.
H.Fish hatchery construction, etc. buildings and ponds, improvement to water supply, and for equipment, to remain available during the fiscal year 1927, $25,000. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORInterior Department. contingent expensesContingent expenses. Rent: For rent of quarters for Interior Department garage fromRent.Garages. July 1, 1925, to and including June 30, 1926, $1,800; and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to reimburse therefrom the Government fuel yards the amount expended from its appropriation for rental of garage for use of the Interior Department during said period, or any part thereof.
So much of the Interior Department Appropriation Act for theJoint use of garage, by Department and fuel yards, repealed.Vol. 42, p. 1211, fiscal year 1924 as requires the garage therein authorized to be constructed to be used jointly by the Government fuel yards and the Department of the Interior, and as requires that the Department of the Interior shall from applicable appropriations reimburse the appropriations for the fuel yards for its proportionate share of the expense of maintaining and operating the garage mentioned, is hereby repealed. indian serviceIndian Service.
Chippewa Indians of Minnesota: For compensating the ChippewaChippewa Indians of Minnesota.Payment for timber, etc., in Minnesota National Forest. Indians of Minnesota for timber and interest in connection with the settlement for the Minnesota National Forest, $422,939.01, with interest thereon at the rate of 5 per centum per annum from February 1, 1923, to the date of settlement, said total amount to be deposited to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota as interest on the permanent fund arising under the provisions of section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889, as authorized by the ActVol. 25, p. 646.Vol. 43, p. 1052. of February 28, 1925.
For compensating the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota for landsCompensation for lands of, disposed of as homesteads.Vol 31, p. 179. disposed of under the provisions of the Free Homestead Act of May 17, 1900 (Thirty-first Statutes, page 179), fiscal year 1926, $1,787,751.36, with interest thereon at the rate of 5 per centum per annum from December 31, 1922, to the date of settlement, the principal of such amount to be credited to the principal of the permanent fund of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota and the interest to the credit as interest thereon in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889, as authorized by theVol. 25, p. 645.Vol. 43, p. 816.
Act of February 9, 1925. L’Anse and Vieux Desert Indian Reservation, Michigan : To reimburseL’Anse and Vieux Desert Reservation, Mich.Reimbursing purchasers of lands In.Vol. 43, p. 1586. John Terhorst, Bernard Tangen. and the estate of Simon Denomie, purchasers or holders of title from the State of Michigan, of certain lands within the L’Anse and Vieux Desert Indian Reservation, $4,180, $3,495, and $2,113, respectively, a total of $9,788, fiscal year 1926, to be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of March 3, 1925.
Paiute Indians: For the purchase, of nine lots or parts of lots inPaiute Indians.Lots in Cedar City for.Vol. 43, p. 1096. the town of Cedar City, Utah, for the use and occupancy of a small band of Paiute Indians as authorized by the Act of March 2, 1925, fiscal year 1926, $1,275. Clallam Indians, Washington: For payment to the Clallam IndiansClallam Indians.Per capita payment to.Vol. 43, p. 1102. of the State of Washington and to their attorney as authorized by the Act approved March 3, 1925, fiscal year 1926, $400,000. 174 Omahas, Nebr.Per capita paymentVol. 43, p. 820,To pay the Omaha Tribe of Indians of Nebraska, in accordance with the Act of Congress approved February 9, 1925, estimated for by the Budget Bureau and forwarded to the House of Representatives by the President and printed in House Document numbered 617, Sixty-eighth Congress, second session, the sum of $374,465.02.
San Juan River, N. Mex.One-half cost of bridge across, at Bloomfield, from Navajo funds.Vol. 43, p. 800.Bridge near Bloomfield, New Mexico: To defray one-half the cost of the construction of a bridge across the San Juan River near Bloomfield, New Mexico, as authorized by the Act of January 30, 1925, $6,620, to remain available until June 30, 1927, and to be reimbursed from funds hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Navajo Indians. Colorado River.One-half cost of bridge, etc., across near Lee Ferry, Ariz., from Navajo funds.Vol. 43, p. 994.Bridge near Lee Ferry, Arizona:
To defray one-half the cost of the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across the Colorado River at a site about 6 miles below Lee Ferry, Arizona, as authorized by the Act of February 26, 1925, $100,000, to remain available until June 30, 1927, and to be reimbursed from funds hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Navajo Indians. Charles H. Burke School, N. Mex.Repairs, etc.Charles H. Burke School, Fort Wingate, New Mexico: For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including heat, light, power, water, and sewer systems, construction of new buildings, drayage, and equipment, $134,895, to remain available until *Proviso*.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 43, p. 1157.June 30, 1927: *Provided*, That the unexpended balances of all appropriations for this school for the fiscal year 1926 are reappropriated and made available for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned and shall remain available until June 30, 1927.
Nisqually Indians, Wash.Relief of.Nisqually Indians, Washington: The unexpended balance of $6,124.25 of the appropriation of $85,000 made by the Act of December 5, 1924, for the relief of dispossessed Indian allottees of the Nisqually Reservation, Washington, shall remain available until June 30, 1927. Stevens and Ferry Counties, Wash. ,Payment to, of taxes on allotted Colville Indian lands.Vol. 43, p. 599.Payment to Stevens and Ferry Counties, Washington: For payment of certain local taxes to the counties of Stevens and Ferry, in the State of Washington, on allotted Colville Indian lands, as provided by the Act of June 7, 1924, $81,640.37, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, Idaho.Remodeling buildings, etc.Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, Idaho: For remodeling and reconstructing the present boys’ dormitory and hospital buildings including the purchase of necessary equipment, $52,000, to remain *Proviso*.Girls’ dormitory.Vol. 43, p. 1159.available until June 30, 1927: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of approximately $8,000 of the appropriation contained in the Act of March 3, 1925, for the construction and equipment of a girls’ dormitory is hereby made available until June 30, 1927, for the remodeling and reconstructing of the boys’ dormitory and hospital building. pension officePension Office.
Examining surgeons’ tees.The appropriation of $500,000 for fees of examining surgeons, pensions, fiscal year 1926, is hereby made available for the settlement of outstanding obligations of like character incurred in the fiscal year 1925. bureau of reclamationReclamation Bureau. North Platte, Nebr., Wyo.Amount available for construction, etc.North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For continuation of construction and incidental operations, including the general objects of expenditure enumerated in the second paragraph under the Vol. 43, p. 1167.caption “Bureau of Reclamation,” contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, $300,000, to remain available until June 30, 1927, and to be paid out of the “reclamation fund.” 175 Yakima project (Kittitas division), Washington:
For continuationYakima, Wash.Continuing construction of Kittitas division. of construction and incidental operations, including the general objects of expenditure enumerated in the second paragraph under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation,” contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, $2,000,000,Vol. 48, p. 1170. to remain available until June 30, 1927, and to be paid out of the “reclamation fluid.” united states geological surveyGeological Survey.
For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. including the general objects of expenditure enumerated in the second paragraph under the caption “ United States Geological Survey,” in the Interior Department. Appropriation Act, for the fiscal year 1926 and including not to exceed $33,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1926, $73,300, to be expended in cooperation with States or municipalities on standardCooperation with States. topographic surveys and on a basis on which the share of the Geo-logical Survey shall in no case exceed 50 per centum. national park serviceNational parks.
For emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires in nationalFighting forest fires. parks, fiscal year 1926, $40,000. territory of alaskaAlaska. For salary of the secretary of Alaska from July 1, 1925, to JuneSecretary’s salary. 30, 1926, inclusive, $3,600. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice, contingent expenses For contingent expenses, including the same objects specifiedContingent expenses. under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1926, $4,000.
Pueblo Lands Board: For equipment and supplies, including thePueblo Lands Board.Equipment and supplies. purchase of an automobile (at a cost not exceeding $800) and for the maintenance, repair, and upkeep thereof, and the purchase of aVol. 43, p. 636. photostat machine complete (at a cost not to exceed $1,600) and for repairs and supplies therefor, fiscal year 1926, $3,000. Rent of buildings: For rent of buildings and parts of buildingsRent in the District. in the District of Columbia, if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in buildings under the control of that commission, fiscal year 1926, $16,666.66: *Provided*, That payments*Proviso*.Rate allowed from November 1, 1925. may be made to the lessors of the building now occupied by the Department of Justice at the rate of $8,333.33 per month from November 1, 1925, to June 30, 1926. united states supreme courtSupreme Court.
Not exceeding $500 of the unexpended balance of the appropriationBust of late Chief Justice Edward Douglass White.Bracket for. to enable the Joint Committee on the Library to procure for the court room of the Supreme Court of the United States a marble bust, with a pedestal, and for the robing room an oil portrait of the late Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, made in the ThirdVol. 42, p. 1541. Deficiency Act for the fiscal year 1923, approved March 4, 1923, is hereby reappropriated and made available for procuring a marble bracket or pedestal for said bust. 176 court of claimsCourt of Claims.
Repairs to building.For labor, materials, and general repairs to the Court of Claims Building, $9,000, to be expended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol. Credit allowed for repairs to annex.Vol. 43, p. 1023.Credit is authorized and directed in the accounts of the chief disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, for payments aggregating $144.80 from the appropriation “ Repairs of building, Court of Claims, 1924 and 1925,” to cover necessary repairs to the roof of the annex to the building. united states courtsUnited States courts.
Regular assistant district attorneys.For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, fiscal year 1926, $81,150. Special assistant attorneys.For assistants to the Attorney General and to the United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in *Proviso*.Amount transferred to Department salaries.special cases, fiscal year 1926, $46,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $100,000 of the appropriation “ Pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts ” may be transferred to the appropriation “Salaries.
Department of Justice.” Marshals.For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the Judiciary for the fiscal year 1925, $65,000. penal institutionsPenal Institutions. Support of prisoners.Support of United States prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the Judiciary for the fiscal year, 1925, $115,000.
Industrial Institution for Women.Road to Alderson, W. Va., from, authorized.Vol. 43, p, 1334.Federal Industrial Institution for Women: Not to exceed $6,000 of the appropriation for this institution in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925, shall be available for construction and maintenance, in cooperation with the town of Alderson, West Virginia, of the road connecting the streets of the town with the roads on the institution grounds. Industrial Reformatory, Ohio.Expenses.Vol. 43, p. 724.United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio:
For the United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio, including not to exceed $18,200 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, for the fiscal year 1926, to be available in so far as may be necessary for any and all objects specified in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for Vol. 43, p. 1031,the judiciary, and so forth, approved February 27, 1925, for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $37,500.
National Training School for Boys, D. C.Maintenance.National Training School for Boys: For support of inmates, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the judiciary, and so forth, for the fiscal year 1926, $12,000. DEPARTMENT OF LABORDepartment of Labor. office of the secretary Secretary.Additional for salary.Vol. 43, p. 1301.For the additional amount required to pay the salary of the Secretary of Labor as authorized by the Act of March 4, 1925, fiscal years 1925 and 1926, $2,400. 177 bureau of immigrationImmigration Bureau.
Regulating immigration: For expenses of regulating immigration,Regulating immigration. including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1926, except personal services in the District of Columbia, $600,000: *Provided*, That $150,000 of this amount shall be available*Proviso*.Motor vehicles for border patrol. only for coast and land border patrol of which not to exceed $25,000 shall be available for the purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles.
The amount which may be expended for personal services in theIncrease of amount for services In the District.Vol. 43, p. 1049, amended. District of Columbia from the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration, 1926,” is increased from $125,000 to $134,000. NAVY DEPARTMENTNavy Department. contingent expenses, navy department For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings,Contingent expenses. drawing materials, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, $17,500. damage claims To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned propertyProperty damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066. adjusted and determined by the Navy Department, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922. as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 154, Sixty-ninth Congress, $7,268.33.
To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by theCollision damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066. Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 164, Sixty-ninth Congress, $42,281.24. public works, bureau of yards and docksYards and Docks Bureau.
Puget Sound, Washington, Navy Yard: To complete the repairPuget Sound, Wash.Completing pier. and fitting out pier, under the present limit of cost, fiscal year 1926, $540,000. bureau of aeronauticsAeronautics Bureau. For new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipmentAircraft, etc., for Naval Academy training. for training graduates of the United States Naval Academy, fiscal year 1926, $340,000. civil government of american samoaSamoa. For the repair to roads, water systems, school and other publicHurricane damages repairs. buildings as the result of the hurricane which visited American Samoa on.
January 1, 1926, to be expended under the direction of the Governor of American Samoa, fiscal year 1926, $11,000. 178 POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTPost Office Department. (Out of the postal revenues) office of postmaster generalPostmaster General, Property damages claims.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Post Office Vol. 42, p. 1066.Department, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 156, Sixty-ninth Congress, $21,828.27. increased compensation and allowancesIncreased pay and allowances.
Additional amounts under Act reclassifying salaries, etc.Vol. 13, p. 1053.For additional amounts required, from January 1, 1925, to June 30, 1926, inclusive, on account of the increased compensation and allowances granted by the Act entitled “ An Act reclassifying the salaries of postmasters and employees of the Postal Service, readjusting their salaries, and compensation on an equitable basis, increasing postal rates to provide for such readjustment, and for other purposes,” approved February 28, 1925, under the following appropriation accounts, respectively:
Inspectors.“ Post-office inspectors, 1926 ’’ (inspectors, $186,606, and clerks at division headquarters, $46,770), in all $233,376. Postmasters.“ Compensation to postmasters, 1926,” $4,746,722; Assistant postmasters.“ Compensation to assistant postmasters, 1926,” $1,311,350; Printers, etc.“Printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers, 1926,” $21,251; Clerks, first and second class offices.“ Clerks, first and second class post offices, 1926,” $30,880,324; Watchmen, etc.“Watchmen, messengers, and laborers, 1926,” $1,275,850;
Clerks, third class offices.“ Clerks, third-class post offices, 1926,” $5,590,000; Village delivery.“Village delivery service, 1926,” $198,286; City carriers.“ City delivery carriers, 1926,” $21,899,450; Special delivery.“ Special deliver;' fees, 1926,” $436,729; Vehicle service.“ Vehicle service, 1926,” $1,321,327; Railway Mail.“Railway Mail Service, salaries, 1926,” $7,049,139.22; “Railway Mail Service, travel allowances, 1926,” $1,322,314.89; Distribution of stamped envelopes, etc.“ Distribution of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, 1926,” $2,300;
Rural delivery.“ Rural delivery service, 1926,” $20,977,402.73; Credited to specified accounts.In all, $97,265,821.84, which shall be credited, respectively, to the appropriation accounts above enumerated. office of first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Postmaster General. Clerks, etc., first and second class offices.For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, fiscal year 1926, $1,302,675.
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices of the first and second class, fiscal year 1926, $295,000. Car fare, etc.For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special delivery car fare, fiscal year 1926, $62,000. City letter carriers.For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, fiscal year 1926, $1,552,679. Temporary clerk hire.Temporary clerk hire: For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, fiscal year 1923, $663.04. 179 Temporary city-delivery carriers:
For pay of substitutes for letterSubstitute carriers, etc. carriers absent with pay, and of auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices where city delivery is already established, fiscal year 1924, $69.63. For fees to special delivery messengers, fiscal year 1924, $213.06.Special delivery. office of second assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster General. For the operation and maintenance of the airplane mail serviceAirplane service. New York and San Francisco. between New York, New York, and San Francisco, California, via Chicago, Illinois, and Omaha, Nebraska, and for the 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 and employment of necessary personnel, fiscal year 1926, $210,000: *Provided*, That $15,000 of the appropriation “Aeroplane service*Proviso*.Personal services in the District, etc.Vol. 43, p. 785. between New York and San Francisco, 1926,” shall be immediately available for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia and incidental and travel expenses in connection with such personnel.
For balances due foreign countries for the fiscal years that follow:Balances due foreign countries. For 1920, $4,196.37: For 1922, $18,120.75; For 1923, $56,317.54. office of fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General. Not to exceed $506,077 of the appropriation “Mail bags and equipment,Mail bags. etc.Amount for services in the District, increased.Vol. 43, p. 787. 1926,” may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State.
Preparatory commission on armaments: For the expenses of participationPreparatory commission on armaments.Expenses of. by the United States as the President may, in his discretion, determine, in the work of the preparatory commission, which*Ante*, p, 3. is to meet at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926, for the purpose of making preliminary studies and preparations for a conference on the reduction and limitation of armaments; and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including compensation of employees, travel, subsistence expenses (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act); and such other expenses as the President shall deem proper, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, to remain available until June 30, 1927, $50,000.
Revision of Chinese customs tariff: To enable the United StatesRevision of Chinese tariff.Expenses under treaty obligation.*Post*, p. 2122.*Post*, p. 866. Government to carry out its obligations arising under the treaty relating to the Chinese customs tariff signed February 6, 1922, including the compensation of delegates or other representatives, clerks, and employees, rent of offices, expenses of transportation and Subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), stationery and supplies, telegraph, and such other objects as the President may deem necessary, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, fiscal year 1926, $25,000.
Immigration of aliens: To enable the Department of State toImmigration of aliens.Expenses under laws regulating.Vol. 43, p. 153. perform the duties devolving upon it under the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the same objects specified in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1926, under the heads of salaries and contingent expenses of the Department of 180binding, salaries of Foreign Service officers, allowance for clerk hire at United States consulates, transportation of diplomatic and consular officers and clerks, and contingent expenses, United States consulates, fiscal year 1926, $17,000.
TREASURY DEPARTMENTTreasury Department. federal farm loan bureauFarm Loan Bureau. Personal services.For personal services for the fiscal years that follow: For 1926, $41,325; For 1927, $119,020; *Proviso*.Amounts available for services in the District.In all, $160,345: *Provided*, That $17,841 for the fiscal year 1926 and $42,820 for the fiscal year 1927 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia. Miscellaneous expenses.For miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Acts for the fiscal yea is that follow:
For 1926, $18,750; For 1927, $55,000. Payable from bank assessments.In all, Federal Farm Loan Bureau, $234,095, payable from assessments upon Federal and Joint-Stock Land Banks and Federal Intermediate Credit Banks. bureau of internal revenueInternal Revenue Bureau. Refunding illegally collected etc., taxes.Vol. 40, p. 1145; Vol. 42, p. 314; Vol. 43, p. 342.For refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisions of sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the acts of February 24, 1919, November 23, 1921, and June 2, 1924, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1927 and prior years, *Proviso*.Report of payments to Congress.$149,250,000, to remain available until June 30, 1927: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by such Acts, including the names of all persons and corporations to whom payments are made, together with the amount paid to each.
Refunding collections.Vol. 35, p. 325.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May 27, 1908, fiscal year 1925, $488,000. Property damages claims.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately-owned property adjusted and determined by the Treasury Vol. 42, p. 1006.Department, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 153, Sixty-ninth Congress, $704. customs serviceCustoms Service.
Collecting revenue.Collecting the customs revenue: For collecting the revenue from customs and for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, including $5,625 for personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1926, $462,800. Compensation in lieu of moieties.For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs laws, fiscal year 1926, $125,000. Refund of duties on domestic animals crossing frontiers.Vol. 43, pp. 2, 963.For the payment of claims for refund of duties paid on domestic animals and offspring thereof returned to the United States in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Joint Resolutions Numbered 82 and 325, approved January 25, 1924, and February 21, 1925, respectively, fiscal year 1925 and prior years, $15,000. 181 coast guardCoast Guard, Additional vessels:
For additional motor boats and their equipmentAdditional motor boats, seaplanes, etc. and for five seaplanes and their equipment for the use of the Coast Guard in enforcing the laws of the United States, and in performing the duties with which the Coast Guard is charged, to be constructed or purchased in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for repairs or alterations to or for equipping and placing in commission vessels or boats transferred from the Navy department to the Treasury Department for the use of the Coast Guard, $3,900,000, to remain available until December 31, 1926.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedAdditional expenditures. work of the Coast Guard, as follows: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissionedPay, etc., officers and enlisted men, for 1926. officers, cadets and cadet engineers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, and surf men. substitute surf men, and one civilian instructor, fiscal year 1926, $1,235,000; For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissionedFor 1927. 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, fiscal year 1927, $1,218,141;
For rations or commutation thereof for petty officers and otherRations for 1926, enlisted men, fiscal year 1926, $109,000; For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses or refuge forFuel, etc. the fiscal years that follow: For 1926, $20,000; For 1927, $336,206; For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores, fiscal year 1927,Outfits, stores, etc. $102,700; ' For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920 for theDeath allowances.Vol. 41, p. 825. fiscal years that follow :
For 1926, $10,000; For 1927, $3,000; For mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers, and actualTraveling expenses etc. 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; rent of rendezvous and expense of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen, for the fiscal years that follow :
For 1926, $20,009; For 1927, $12,000; For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance,Coastal communication lines. fiscal year 1926, $30,000; For draft animals and their maintenance, fiscal year 1926, $4,000;Draft animals. For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistenceContingent expenses. of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard : 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, for the fiscal years that follow :
For 1926, $10,000; For 1927, $20,000; 182 Repairs to vessels.For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats for the fiscal years that follow: For 1926, $500,000; For 1927, $143,410; Total, exclusive of additional vessels, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1926, $1,929,000; For 1927, $1,835,457. Additional employees in office of Commandant.Office of the commandant: For additional personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “ the Classification Act of 1923,” for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1926, $1,650; For 1927, $6,750.' Collision damages claims.Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Treasury Vol. 42, p. 1060.Department, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 153, Sixty-ninth Congress, $1,634.96. public health servicePublic Health Service.
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, fiscal year 1926, $37,527.30, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health.
WAR DEPARTMENTWar Department. quartermaster corpsQuartermaster Corps. Hot Springs Hospital, Ark.Sewer.Construction and repair of hospitals: For reconstruction of the power plant and installation of a new sewer line at the Army and Navy General Hospital. Hot Springs, Arkansas, $159,960. Walter Reed Hospital, D. C.Additional facilities.Vol. 43, p. 1264,Walter Reed General Hospital: For continuing the construction of additional facilities authorized by the Act entitled “An Act *Proviso*.Contracts authorized.authorizing the construction of additional facilities at Walter Reed General Hospital, in the District of Columbia,” approved March 4, 1925, $1,050,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such additional facilities as may be necessary to complete the project authorized by said Act, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $950,000, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated.
Land for Camps Custer. Dix, and Grant.Vol. 42, p. 339.Camps Custer, Dix, and Grant: For completion of the acquisition of certain parcels of land heretofore authorized to be taken, $20,999, to remain available until June 30, 1927. Memorials to John and John Quincy Adams.Erecting.Vol 43, p. 1302.Memorials to John Adams and John Quincy Adams: For the erection of tablets or other form of memorials in the city of Quincy, Massachusetts, in memory of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, *Proviso*.Contract authorized.fiscal year 1926, $5,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract without competition to cover costs of these memorials. 183 Restoration of Fort McHenry, Maryland:
For the restoration ofFort McHenry, Md.Repairs, etc., for the restoration of. Fort McHenry, Maryland, including repairs, improvements, changes, and alterations in the grounds, buildings, or other appurtenances to said reservation according to detailed plans which shall be approved by the Secretary of War, as authorized in the Act approved March 3,Vol. 43, p. 1109. 1925, $28,522.35, to remain available until June 30, 1927, and to be paid from the proceeds of sales under such Act. air service, armyAir Service.
For continuation of the transfer of the testing and experimentalMcCook Field, Dayton, Ohio.Transfer of plant, to new site. plant of the Air Service now located at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, and the reestablishment thereof on a permanent site in the same vicinity, including the preparation of grounds, construction of buildings, installation of roadways and utilities, and all other expenses of whatever character connected with this project, $1,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1927: *Provided*, That such portion of the*Proviso*.Sewer connection with Montgomery County system authorized. funds herein appropriated for this project as may be determined by the Secretary of War to be just and equitable may be expended under the direction of the authorities of Montgomery County, Ohio, for extending and connecting the county sewer system to the post sewer system, Wright Field, Ohio. ordnance departmentOrdnance Department.
Not exceeding $100,000 of the appropriation of $1,000,000 made byBethlehem Steel Company.Payment of expenses connected with award to employees of.Vol. 43, p. 1603. the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the carrying out of the award of the National War Labor Board of July 31, 1918, in favor of certain employees of the Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,” approved March 4, 1925, shall be available for such administrative purposes including office rent, supplies and equipment, printing, personal services, and traveling expenses, including mileage of Army officers while on such duty, as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of War to carry into effect the purposes of such Act. finance departtmentFinance Department, Damage claims :
To pay claims for damages to or losses of privatelyProperty damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066. owned property adjusted and determined by the War Department under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 176. Sixty-ninth Congress, except claims Numbered 4 and 5, $2,499.95. muscle shoals, alabamaMuscle Shoals.
For the continuation of the work on Dam Numbered 2, on theContinuing Dam No. 2, Tennessee River. Tennessee River, and for the purchase of transformers and accessories, $2,000,000. For operating, maintaining, and keeping in repair the works atOperating, etc., works at Dam No. 2. Dam Numbered 2, Tennessee River, including the hydroelectrical development, $300,000, to remain available until June 30, 1927, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: *Provided*, That this*Proviso*.Available for prior expenses. appropriation shall also be available for the payment of any such expenses incurred during the fiscal year 1926 prior to the date of this appropriation. 184 battle fields commission, petersburg, virginiaVirginia Battle Fields Commission.
Pay men I to Commissioners James Anderson and Carter R. Bishop.Vol. 43, p. 856.For payment to Colonel James Anderson, Springfield, Massachusetts, $965.22, and to Captain Carter R. Bishop, Petersburg, Virginia, $520, as compensation and reimbursement for expenses incurred as members of the commission authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the inspection of the battle fields of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia,” approved February 11, 1925, fiscal year 1926; in all, $1,485.22. national home for disabled volunteer soldiersVolunteer Soldiers' Home.
Milwaukee, Wis.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For repairing main roadway through the reservation, approximately one and one-fourth miles in length, $17,500, to continue available until June 30, 1927. Hampton, Va.Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For replacing and repairing revetment and dredging Jones Creek, $56,000, to continue avail-able until June 30, 1927. Santa Monica, Calif.Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For demand charge, city of Los Angeles, California, for right of the home to connect with the sewer system of that city, fiscal year 1926, $10,000.
JUDGMENTS OF UNITED STATES COURTSJudgments, United States Courte. Payment of.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs Vol. 24, p. 505.of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” as amended by Vol. 36, p. 1137.the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911, certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress by the Attorney General in House Document Classification.Numbered 162 and Senate Document Numbered 50, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the United States Veterans’ Bureau, $2,977.89; under the Department of Labor, $2,981.55; under the Navy Department, $4,539.58; under the War Department, $50,468.13; in all, $60,967.15, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. Moran Towing and Transportation Company.For payment to the Moran Towing and Transportation Company, in accordance with the final decree rendered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on mandate of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and as certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 161, $13,974.27, together with such sum as may be necessary to pay interest as specified in such decree.
Salvage judgments.Vol. 43, p. 1112.For payment of the judgments rendered against the Government by United States district courts under authority of the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1112), and certified to the Classification.Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 168 and Senate Document Numbered 51, as follows: Under the Department of Commerce, $3,319.50; under the Navy Department, $17,261.47; Hillcrest Schooner Company.Interest.under the War Department, $802.80; in all $21,383.77, together with such sum as may be necessary to pay interest as specified in the judgment in favor of the Hillcrest Schooner Company (Limited).
Judgments under private Acts.For payment of the judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government by United States district courts under the Vol. 42, p. 1565; Vol. 43, p. 1567.provisions of certain private Acts and certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 169, as follows: Under the 185Navy Department, $28,613.02; under (he War Department, $30,000;Vol. 43, pp. 1370, 1547. under the Department of Labor, $5,301.85; in all, $63,914.87, togetherKing Coal Company.Vol. 41, p. 1407. with such sum as may be necessary to pay interest as specified in the judgment in favor of the King Coal Company.
For payment of the judgment in favor of J. B. Glanville andJ. B. Glanville and others.Vol. 43, p. 1327. others rendered by the United States District Court for the District of Kansas under authority of the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925, and certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 171, $251,703.16. For payment of the judgment, including cost of suit, in favor ofThomas P. U. Whitelaw.Fur scaling seizure.Vol. 43, p. MS. Thomas R H. Whitelaw, rendered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California under the Act of June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 595), and certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 172, $76,096.65.
For payment of the. judgment, including costs of suit, in favor ofStandard Oil Company of New Jersey. the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, rendered by the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on mandate of the United States Supreme Court, and certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 173, $163,182.91, together with such sums as may be necessary to pay interest on the judgment and the costs as set forth in the judgment. For payment of judgment rendered against the United States byBothwell Company.Lands for reclamation reservoir. the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming, on September 2, 1925, in favor of the Bothwell Company, in condemnation proceedings under section 7 of the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-secondVol. 32, p. 386.
Statutes, page 388), for the acquisition of lands for the Path-finder reservoir, $9,600, together with interest thereon at 8 per centum per annum from July 3, 1909, to and including February 19, 1923, and at 7 per centum per annum from February 20, 1923, until the date of payment, payable from the “reclamation fund ”From reclamation fund. created by said Act. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until theRight of appeal. right of appeal shall have expired. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMSJudgments, Court of Claims.
For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of ClaimsPayment of. and reported to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 163 and Senate Documents Numbered 52 and 54, namely: Under the Department of Agriculture. $1.50; under the DepartmentClassification. of the Interior, $4,180; under the Department of Labor. $8,768; under the Navy Department, $870,608.55; under the Treasury Department, $153,109.22; under the War Department, $864,261.49; in all, $1,900,928.76, together with such additional sura as may beInterest. necessary to pay interest on certain of the judgments at the legal rate per annum as and where specified in said judgments.
NoneRight of appeals. of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims, Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certifiedPayment of, certified by General Accounting Office. to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874,Vol. 18, p. 110. and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1923 and prior years, unless other-wise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under sectionVol. 23, Ji. 204. 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document 186Numbered 149, Sixty-ninth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: legislative Capitol power plant.For Capitol power plant, $325,93.
House of Representatives.For clerk hire, Members and Delegates, House of Representatives, $78,35. For salaries, officers and employees, House of Representatives, $6, Library of Congress.For increase of Library of Congress, $23.33. independent offices Independent offices.For Federal Trade Commission, 96 cents. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $150.98, For Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, $2.67. For American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, $11.95, For National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, $104.
For preservation of collections, National Museum, $39.78, For increase of compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $28.17. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $195,890.28. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $276.90. For vocational rehabilitation. Veterans’ Bureau, $65,989.87. district of columbia District of Columbia.Support of convicts.For support of convicts, District of Columbia, $230, payable 60 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States. department of agriculture Department of Agriculture.For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $73.50.
For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $5.59. For general expenses, Forest Service, $637.83. For general expenses, Bureau of Soils, $40.23, For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $1. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $2.49. For general expenses, Division of Publications, $33.95. For general expenses, Bureau of Markets, $16.79. For operation of Center Market, Washington, District of Columbia, $9.23. For acquisition of lands for protection of watersheds of navigable streams, $2.50.
For experiments and demonstrations in livestock production, $14.11. . For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $1.75. department of commerce Department of Commerce.For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $721.34. For printing and binding, Department of Commerce, $91.31. For commercial attachés, Department of Commerce, $31.65. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $22.50. For promoting commerce in the Far East, $6. For expenses of the Fourteenth Census, $2.70.
For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, $4,62. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $98.71. For general expenses. Bureau of Standards, $222. 187 For incidental expenses of the Army (War transfer to Commerce, Act May 21, 1920), $46.98. For industrial research, Bureau of Standards, $389.70. For aviation, Navy (Naw transfer to Commerce, Bureau of Mines, Act May 21, 1920), $80. For investigations, petroleum and natural gas, Bureau of Mines, $8.88. For testing fuel, Bureau of Mines, $1.
For pay and allowances, commissioned officers, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $101.03. For’ general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $3. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $1,150.28. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $335.48. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $241.50. department of the interior For investigating mine accidents, $13.05.Interior Department For Geological Survey, $13.76. For Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $1,737.60. For reindeer for Alaska, $100.
For surveying the public lands, $17.04. For buildings and grounds, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $192. For national security and defense, Department of the Interior, $1.67. For Mesa Verde National Park, $62. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, 20 cents. For Army pensions, $30. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $1,598.30. For lands and improvements for Choctaws in Mississippi, $2,783.25. For industry among Indians, $58.91. For drainage assessments, Indian lands in Minnesota (reimbursable), $25,777.88.
For Indian schools, support, $9,793.79. For Indian school transportation, $11.80. For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, repairs and improvements, $7.13. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, $2. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $90. For support of Indians, Blackfeet agency, Montana, $22.05. department of justice For printing and binding, Department of Justice, $10.Department of Justice tics. For defending suits in claims against the United States, $53.42.
For detection and prosecution of crimes, $26.25. For maintenance and transportation of aliens, Department of Justice, $59.20. For national security and defense. Department of Justice, $242.80. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $3,079.45. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $64.06. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $230. For salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts, $344.32.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $212.25. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $3. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $83.90. 188 For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $679.01. For books for judicial officers, $132. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $24,626.58. department of labor Department of Labor.For expenses of regulating immigration, $1.80. For investigation of child welfare, Children’s Bureau, $6.60. For employment service, Department of Labor, $103.19.
For national security and defense, Department of Labor, 59 cents. navy department Navy Department.For pay of the Navy, $36,544.02. For pay, Marine Corps, $2,050.59. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $2,364.67. For pay, miscellaneous, $1,530.14. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $11,856.87. For aviation, Navy, $100,257.93. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $2,012.40. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $385.44. For maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy, $4,890.65.
For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $885.74. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $87.90. For maintenance, quartermaster’s department, Marine Corps, $486.60. For construction and repairs. Bureau of Construction and Repair, $7,714.30. For care of hospital patients, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $140.10. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $110.50. For gunnery and engineering exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $25. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $96.53.
For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $84.97. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $2,074.07. For engineering experimental station, Annapolis, Maryland, Bureau of Engineering, $200.60. For contingent, Medicine and Surgery, $1,916.80. For maintenance. Bureau of Yards and Docks, $45. For recreation for enlisted men, Navy, $7.50. department of state State Department.For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, $486.11. For salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim, $11.59.
For clerks at embassies and legations, $96.22. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $3,787.90. For salaries, Consular Service, $3,179,07. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $718.74. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $875.01. For relief and protection of American seamen, $418. For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $645.44. For emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, 43 cents. For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $216.86.
For international bureau of weights and measures, $1,052.96. For international bureau at Brussels for repression of African slave trade, $34.48. For books and maps, Department of State, $8.91. 189 For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $1,717.98. For national security and defense, Department of State, $68.56. For relief and transportation of American citizens in Mexico, $1,174.42. For salaries and expenses of interpreters and guards to consulates, $14.23. For salaries and expenses, United States Court for China, $700.54.
For boundary line, Alaska and Canada, and United States and Canada, $556.24. treasury department For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $41.41.Treasury Department. For expenses of loans, $39,12. For expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended, $170.50. For expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended, $160.33. For collecting the revenue from customs, $619.06. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $1,186.89.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue. $24.70. For collecting the, war revenue, $475.83. For collecting the internal revenue, $62.79. For enforcement of National Prohibition Act, internal revenue, $141.51. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $10,942.15. For allowance of drawback (internal revenue), $1,639.42. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $2,210.20. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $3,672.34.
For Coast Guard, $9,041.14. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $60.96. For pay of commissioned officers, and so forth, Public Health Service, $230. For pay of other employees, Public Health Service, $5.69. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $1.35. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $6,024.08. For medical and hospital services. Public Health Service, $11,422.27. For quarantine service, $327.26.
For field investigations of public health, $94.25. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $15.42. For interstate quarantine service, 76 cents. For control of biologic products, Public Health Service, $23.46. For protecting the health of military forces, Public Health Service, $16.25. For suppressing “Spanish influenza” and other communicable diseases, $1.11. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $278.22. For general expenses of public buildings, $7.16. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $100.23.
For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $1,284.25. For operating force for public buildings, $1,979.81. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $196.95. For operating supplies for public buildings, $1,456.95. 190 war department War Department.For military post exchanges, $466.13. For registration and selection for military service. $878.50. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $341,611.74. For increase of compensation, War Department proper, $705.82. For increase of compensation, War Department, $134.90.
For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $798.04. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $452.04. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $20,425.68. For mileage of the Army, $41.79. For mileage, officers and contract surgeons, $942.15. For subsistence of the Army, $5,088.05, For regular supplies of the Army, $182.51. For clothing and equipage, $305.44. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $50.85. For Army transportation, $15,769.55. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $20.92.
For incidental expenses of the Army, $278.13. For inland and port storage and shipping facilities, $26.70. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $35,892.35. For horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, $14.40. For supplies, services, and transportation. Quartermaster Corps, $22,768.91. ' For barracks and quarters, $8,106.32, For water and sewers at military posts, $52,50. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $1,424.96. For completion of acquisition of lands for military posts, $2,470.50.
For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $858.79. For Signal Service of the Army, $4,898.35. For replacing Signal Corps supplies and equipment, $875. For Air Service, Army, $837.21. For Air Service, military, $11,042.75. For Medical and Hospital Department, $972.45. For engineer operations in the field, $2,443.50. For gun and mortar batteries, $2,046.71. For preservation and repair of fortifications, $6.66 For fortifications in insular possessions, $2.25. For Ordnance Service, $11,787.29.
For manufacture of arms, $61.20. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $3,284.96. For ordnance stores and supplies, $8,693.84. For armament of fortifications, $3,327.74. For Chemical Warfare Service, Army, $1,089.97. For maintenance, United States Military Academy, $49.08. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $39,313.86. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $4.24. For vocational training of soldiers, $4.19. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $7.72.
For national cemeteries, $20. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $30.83. For Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph systems, $6.75. For payment of claims for loss of firearms, and so forth, taken by United States troops during labor strikes, in 1914, in Colorado, $28. For increase of compensation, rivers and harbors. $120. 191 For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, $2.10. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair (Navy transfer to War, Act May 21, 1920), $4.13.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance (Navy transfer to War, Act May 21, 1920), 23 cents. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT—POSTAL. SERVICE Out of the Postal Revenues For balances due foreign countries, $5,999.39. For city delivery carriers, $762.57.Post Office Department. For clerks, contract stations, $20.14. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $2,722.17. For clerics, third-class post offices, $150. For compensation to postmasters, $329.19. For electric and cable car service, $260.93.
For foreign mail transportation, $14,228.86. For indemnities, domestic mail, $10,478.14. For indemnities, international registered mail, $1,963.89. For labor-saving devices? $13.50. For mail messenger service, $388. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $707.57. For person and property damage claims, $98.20. For post office equipment and supplies, $13.76. For railroad transportation, $30,646.51. For rent, light, and fuel, $2,156.12. For Rural Delivery Service, $176,61.
For separating mails, $313.19. For special-delivery fees, $33.84. For temporary city delivery carriers, $738.78. For temporary clerk hire, $2,742.04. For unusual conditions at post offices, $200. For village delivery service, $70.81. For vehicle service, $777.28. Total, audited claims, section 2, $1,212,033.67, together with suchPitt River Power Company. additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange, as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the certificates of settlement of the General Accounting Office.
For payment of the claim in favor of the Pitt River Power Company,Vol. 43, p. 1M0. San Francisco, California, allowed by the Comptroller General under the authority of the Act of February 2, 1925 (Private Act Numbered 118), $1,767. The Navy pension fund is hereby made available for the paymentNavy pension fund. of the claims, amounting to $349.86, allowed by the General Accounting Office in accordancePayment of claims from. with the provisions of the Act of MarchVol. 40, p. 490. 29, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 499), as set forth in House Document Numbered 229, Sixty-ninth Congress.
AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certifiedPayment of additional. to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, andVol. 18, p. HO. under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the services of the fiscal year 1923 and prior years unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2Vol. 23, p. 2M.
Additional to meet increases in rates of ex-change. 192of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 53, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: independent offices Food Administration.For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, $4.20. Veterans’ Bureau.For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $563.95. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $49.40. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $2,414.42. department of agriculture Department of Agriculture.For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $5.42. department of commerce Department of Commerce.For industrial research, Bureau of Standards, $170. department of the interior Interior Department.For education of natives of Alaska, $275.
For fees of examining surgeons, Pensions, $3. For increase of compensation, Indian Service, $2.33. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $94.71. department of justice Department of Justice.For increase of compensation, Department of Justice, $277.33, For books for judicial officers, $2. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $2.50. For salaries, circuit judges, $291.68. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $2,842.11. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $20.
For pay of regular assistant attorneys, United States courts, $216.67. For salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts, $607.79. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $1.80. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $1,091.90. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $1,060.02. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $70.45. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $152.87. department of labor Department of Labor.For expenses of regulating immigration, $32.25. navy department Navy Department.For pay of the Navy, $9,932.47.
For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $1,120.25. For pay, Marine Corps, $35.77. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $198.35. For aviation, Navy, $313.13. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,828.60. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps. $101.25. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $758.04. 193 For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $10.33. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $206.43. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,$18. department of state For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, $1,663.73.State Department.
For allowance for clerks at consulates, $101.10. treasury department For increase of compensation, Treasury Department. $9.33.Treasury Department. For collecting the revenue from customs, $551.91. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $13.59. For collecting the war revenue, $986.10. For collecting the internal revenue, $70. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $1,499.91. For refunding internal-revenue collections. $3,321.51.
For Coast Guard. $1,204.48. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $28. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $237.74. For medical and hospital services, Public Health Service, $105.74. For quarantine service, $65.40. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $250. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $48. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $25.25. For operating force for public buildings, $217.05.
For operating supplies tor public buildings, $6,50. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $149.62. war department For registration and selection for military service, $268.80.War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $54,891.09. For increase of compensation, War Department, $480. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $25.83. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $49.32. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $3,289.05.
For mileage, officers, and contract surgeons, $234.78. For subsistence of the Army, $329.84. For regular supplies of the Army, $30,18, For clothing and equipage, $127,11. For Army transportation, $10,998.19. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $39.67. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $4,719,82. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $4,126.99. For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $2,198.64. For Signal Service of the Army, $512.76.
For Air Service, Army, $80.96. For preservation and repair of fortifications, $798.83. For manufacture of arms, $3,37. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $11,625.34. For ordnance stores and supplies, $21,911,91. For armament of fortifications, $21,381.77. 194 For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $5,137.77. For vocational training of soldiers, $760. For armament of fortifications, insular possessions, $7,225.31. For automatic rifles, $3,276.90. For civilian assistants to engineer officers, $533.15.
For civilian military training camps, $127.94. For claims for medical and hospital treatment rendered members of Officers’ Reserve Corps, Air Service, Army, $464. For hospital care, Canal Zone garrisons, $43.09. For proving grounds, Army, $23,085.67. For replacing medical supplies, $71.97. For quartermaster supplies and services, rifle ranges, civilian instruction, $1,746.70. For searchlights and electrical installations for seacoast defenses, $3,652.32. For transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers, $18.31.
For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $242.57. For aviation, Navy (Navy transfer to War, Act May 21, 1920), $1.47. For construction and maintenance military and post roads, $4,827.69. For preventing spread of moths, Bureau of Entomology (Agriculture transfer to War, Act May 21, 1920), $96.93. For Vicksburg National Military Park. $10.02. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT—POSTAL SERVICE (Out of the postal revenues) Post Office Department.For aeroplane service between New York and San Francisco, $190.65.
For balances due foreign countries, $7.28. For city delivery carriers, $349.89. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $216.60. For compensation to postmasters, $31.87. For indemnities, domestic mail, $2,512.37. For indemnities, international registered mail, $433.40. For rent, light, and fuel, $901.16. For shipment of supplies, $26.03. For temporary clerk hire, $537.60. Additional, to meet increase In rotes of exchange.Total, audited claims, section 3, $229,982.29, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange, as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the certificates of settlement of the General Accounting Office. national sesquicentennial expositionNational Sesquicentennial Exposition.
Sec. 4. Government exhibits. etc., at Philadelphia Exhibition. For carrying out the public resolution of the Sixty-ninth Congress entitled “Joint Resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the sesquicentennial celebration in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and authorizing an appropriation Allotment of expenses.therefor, and for other purposes,” as follows: For the exhibit and participation by the executive departments and independent *Ante*, p. 133.establishments of the Government and such other expenditures as may be deemed necessary by the National Sesquicentennial Exhibition Commission, including salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, actual and necessary traveling expenses, rent, and all other expenditures authorized by section 1 ; compensation 195of the Commissioner of Sesquicentennial Exposition as authorizedCommissioner. by section 3 ; $1,186,500. of which not more than $250,000 shall be allocated to the War Department and not more than $350,000 to the Navy Department as authorized by section 1; for the furtherBuildings. participation by the Government, for the construction of buildings as authorized by section 2, $1,000,000; in all, $2,186,500, to remain available during the fiscal year 1927. boston sesquicentennial celebrationBoston Sesquicentennial Celebration.
Sec. 5. To enable the Government of the United States toEvacuation Day Sesquicentennial Commission created. participate in the Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Evacuation of Boston by the British, to be held in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, March 17, 1926, there is hereby created a Federal Commission to be known as the United States Evacuation Day Sesquicentennial Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission) and to be composed of five commissioners, as follows:
One person to be appointed by the President of the United States, two Senators by the President of the Senate, and two Representatives by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The commissionComposition. shall serve without compensation and shall select a chairman from among their number. For actual and necessary traveling andExpenses of commission and participation in celebration. subsistence expenses of the commission while discharging its official duties outside the District of Columbia, $1,000; and for participation on the part of the United States in such celebration, $5,000, to be expended in the discretion of the commission ; in all, fiscal year 1926, $6,000.
Sec. 6. This Act hereafter may be referred to as the “FirstTitle of Act. Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926.” Approved, March 3, 1926.
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