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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 44 STAT. · June 30, 1928 · Chapter 58

Chapter 58. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 58.— An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes.January 26, 1927.[[H. R. 14557](/us/bill/69/hr/14557).][[Public, No. 571](/us/pl/69/571).] TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENT *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Treasury Department appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARYSecretary’s Office. Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, $15,000; UndersecretarySecretary, Undersecretary, Assistants, and office personnel. of the Treasury, $10,000; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $125,000; in all, $150,000: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification.
Vol. 42, p. 1488 in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in whichIf only one person in a grade. only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a gradeAdvances in unusually meritorious eases. advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That thisRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service. restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of anyNo reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490. person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accord- 1028 Transfers to another position without reduction.ance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a Higher salary rates permitted.different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, and is specifically authorized by other law. Expenses under specified laws.Vol, 41, p. 456.Vol. 40, p. 451; Vol. 41, pp. 359,1145.For expenses incident to the discharge of the duties imposed upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the Transportation Act, 1920, the Federal Control Act, approved March 21, 1918, as amended, and for expenses arising in connection with loans and credits to foreign Vol. 40, pp. 35, 288, 504, 841, 1312.Vol. 41, p. 548.governments under the Liberty Loan Acts and the Victory Liberty Loan Act and in connection with credits granted or conditions entered into under the Acts providing for the relief of populations in Europe and contiguous countries, and in connection with credits Vol. 41, p. 949.granted or conditions entered into under the Act providing for the sale of surplus war material, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $7,640. office of chief clerk and superintendentChief clerk’s office. Chief clerk and office personnel.Salaries: For the chief clerk, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assistant Secretaries of the department, and for other personal services in the Operating force of Treasury buildings.District of Columbia, including the operating force of the Treasury, Liberty Loan and Register’s Annex Buildings and the Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, and of other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $466,023. contingent expenses, treasury departmentDepartment contingent expenses. Reference books, etc.For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. Freight, etc.For freight, expressage, telegraph, and telephone service, $10,000. Rent, D. C.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Treasury Department, $12,500. Motor vehicles.For purchase, exchange, maintenance (including gasoline and oil), and repair of motor trucks and bicycles, and maintenance and repair of one passenger automobile for the Secretary of the Treasury, all to be used for official purposes only, $9,400. File holders, etc.For purchase of file holders and file cases, $8,000. Fuel, etc.For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils, and grease, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $19,000. Lighting, etc.For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $18,500. Miscellaneous sup-plies.For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match 1029 safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street-car fares not exceeding $300, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in the District of Columbia of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $11,600. For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same,Labor saving machines, etc, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $20,000. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats,Carpets, etc. rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $1,000. For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers,Furniture, etc. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, wash stands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $7,500. For operating expenses of the Treasury Department Annex NumberedOperating expenses.Madison Place Annex. 1 (Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $12,000. Darby Building: For heating, electric current, electrical equipment,Darby Building. ice, and miscellaneous items, $4,000. division of supplySupply Division. Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Supply, and other personalChief of Division and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $169,400: *Provided*, That employees detailed to the Bureau of Supply on June 30, 1927, shall be eligible for transfer*Proviso*.Transfer of detailed employees. to the Division of Supply on July 1, 1927. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the TreasuryPrinting and binding. Department, including all or its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, including materials for the use of the bookbinder located in theBookbinding. Treasury Department, but not including work done at the NewWork excluded. York customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919, $820,000.Vol. 40, p. 1270. Stationery: For stationery for the Treasury Department and itsStationery. several bureaus and offices, and field services thereof, including tags, labels, and index cards, printed in the course of manufacture, packing boxes and other materials necessary for shipping stationery supplies, and cost of transportation of stationery supplies purchased free on board point of shipment and of such supplies shipped from Washington to field offices, $470,000. Postage: For postage required to prepay matter addressedPostage. to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000. general supply committeeGeneral Supply Committee. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia inPersonal services and office expenses. accordance with the Classification Act of 1923 not exceeding $110,000; necessary expenses, including office supplies and materials, maintenance of motor trucks, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, and other nec 1030 essary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of Transferring office supplies for departments.*Provisos*.Service continued to June 30, 1928.December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities; in all, $115,000: *Provided*, That the said Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1928, without modification, except that the price charged shall be the current market value at time of issue, less a discount for usage, but in no instance shall the discount be more than 25 per centum, and that the proceeds from the transfer of appropriations thereunder shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous Cooperation of departments, etc., in transfers, etc.receipts: *Provided further*, That the heads of the executive departments and independent establishments and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall cooperate with the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with the storage and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment transferred under the foregoing order and for effecting the transfer or disposition of other surplus and waste Use of unfit typewriters, etc., for ex-change.material or supplies: *Provided further*, That typewriters and computing machines transferred to the General Supply Committee as surplus, where such machines have become unfit tor further use, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be issued to other Government departments and establishments at exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies or sold commercially. Typewriter repairs by Supply Committee.Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counter-warrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “ Salaries and expenses, General Supply Committee.” Typewriting machines.Prices of standard machines for 1928,No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1928 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50. All purchases to be from surplus stock of Committee.All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1928 by executive departments and independent establishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter Unserviceable machines allowed for exchange.provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Supply Committee. If the General Supply Committee is unable to furnish serviceable machines to any such service of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines, if available, at current exchange prices, and such machines shall then be applied by the service of the Government receiving them as part payment Acceptance in part payment.for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewriting machines to the various services the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies. office of commissioner of accounts and depositsAccounts and Deposits Office. Commissioner of, and office personnel.For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $78,660. 1031 For books of reference, law books, books on finance, technical andBooks, etc. scientific books, newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance, and periodicals, for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, for library cards, supplies, and for all other necessary expenses, $1,000. division of bookkeeping and warrantsBookkeeping and Warrants Division. For the chief of the division, and other personal services in theChief of division, and office personnel. District of Columbia, in accordance with “ The Classification Act of 1923,” $145,000. Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expensesContingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719). under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on handExamination of depositories, etc. at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised[R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718). Statutes, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $210,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins inRecoinage of gold coins. the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section 3512 of the Revised Statutes,[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696). $3,000. Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecoinage of minor coins. to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $15,000. public debt servicePublic Debt Service. For necessary expenses connected with the administration of anyOffice personnel and other expenses. public debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including rent in the District of Columbia, and including the Commissioner of theCommissioner. Public Debt and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $2,625,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Services in the District. That the amount to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $2,570,000: *Provided further*, That the indefinite appropriation “ Expenses of loans,” Act of SeptemberIndefinite appropriation discontinued.Vol. 40, p. 292. 24, 1917, as amended and extended, shall not be used during the fiscal year 1928 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctiveDistinctive paper for securities.Quantities authorized. paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, not exceeding 212,435,233 sheets, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, and salaries of employees, and expense of officer detailed from the Treasury Department, $50 per month when actually on duty; in all, $1,421,715. division of appointmentsAppointments Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal servicesChief of division, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $61,200. 1032 office of disbursing clerk Disbursing clerk and office personnel.Salaries: For the disbursing clerk and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $52,880. CUSTOMS SERVICECustoms Service. Collecting customs revenue, etc.*Post*, p. 1381.For collecting the revenue from customs, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, and not to exceed $10,000 for the securing of evidence of violations of the customs laws, including not to exceed $5,000 for the hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $17,700,000, of which such amount as Retired general appraisers.may be necessary shall be available for salaries of general appraisers and justices of the United States Customs Court retired under the Vol. 42, p. 973.provisions of section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1922, and $160,000 Services in the District.Vol. 42, p. 975.*Proviso*.Advances to disbursing officers.shall be available for personal services in the District, of Columbia exclusive of eight persons from the field force authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the Tariff Act of 1922: *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the total amount appropriated shall be available for advances to be made by disbursing officers when [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. Automatic scales.Scales for customs service: For construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, including not to exceed $4,400 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $100,000. Compensation in lieu of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs laws, $150,000. bureau of the budgetBudget Bureau. Director, Assistant, personne!, and other expenses.Director. $10,000; Assistant Director, $7,500; for all other necessary expenses of the bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923; contract stenographic reporting services, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, street-car fares, $140,500; in all, $158,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $25,000. FEDERAL FARM LOAN BUREAUFederal Farm Loan Bureau. salaries and expenses Members of the Board, office and field personnel.Salaries: For six members of the board, at $10,000 each; for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $415,000; in all, $475,000, of which amount not to exceed $194,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Contingent expenses.For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers and employees; per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $6: and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including books of reference and maps; and for the examination of national farm-loan associations; and for the expenses of registrars’ offices, including rent and miscellaneous items, $205,000; Payable from specified assessments.In all, Federal Farm Loan Bureau, $680,000, payable from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks and Federal intermediate credit banks. 1033 office of treasurers of the united statesTreasurer’s Office. Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, $8,000; for personalTreasurer, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $1,062,000; in all, $1,070,000. For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordanceRedeeming Federal reserve and national currency.Personal services. with the Classification Act of 1923, in redeeming Federal reserve and national currency, $310,000, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. office of the comptroller of the currencyOffice of the Comptroller of the Currency. Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency, $5,000; for personal servicesComptroller, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $230,000; in all, $235,000. For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordanceFederal reserve and national currency.Personal services. with the Classification Act of 1923, in connection with Federal reserve and national currency, $48,960, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. For special examinations of national banks and bank plates,Special examinations, etc. keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $1,500. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICEInternal RevenueService. For one stamp agent, $1,860, to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers.Stamp agent. For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes,Commissioner, and all office and field force. including the employment of a Commissioner of Internal Revenue at $10,000 per annum, a general counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue at $10,000 per annum, an assistant to the commissioner at $8,000 per annum, four assistant general counsel at $8,000 per annum each, a special deputy commissioner at $7,500 per annum, three deputy commissioners, and the necessary officers, collectors, deputy collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, storekeeper-gaugers, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, clerks, janitors, and. messengers in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internal-revenue agents, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters outside theRent outside and La the District. District of Columbia and not to exceed $51,500 for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, expenses of seizure and sale, injuries to horses not exceeding $250 for any horse crippled or killed, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses including stenographicStenographic reportings. reporting services, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internal-revenue agents, $33,600,000, of which amount not to exceed $9,000,000 may be expended for personal services in the District ofServices in the District.*Proviso*.Distilled spirits may be removed to warehouse for bottling in bond. Columbia: *Provided*, That for purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and under regulations prescribed by him, distilled spirits may be removed from any internal-revenue bonded warehouse to any other such warehouse, and may be bottled in bond in any such warehouse before or after payment of the tax, and the commissioner shall prescribe the form and penal sums of bond covering distilled spirits in internal-revenue 1034 bonded warehouses, and in transit between such warehouses: Witness fees. *Provided further*, That no part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, *Post*, p. 1190.Detecting, etc., violation of internal revenue laws.which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “ Fees of witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further.* That not more than $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation. Prohibition and Narcotic Acts.Enforcement expenses.Vol. 38, p. 785.*Post*, p. 1381.For expenses to enforce the provisions of the National Prohibition Act and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” approved Vol. 41, p, 305.Vol. 40, p. 1130.December 17, 1914, as amended by the Revenue Act of 1918, and the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes,’ Vol. 42, p. 298.approved February 9, 1909,” as amended by the Act of May 26, 1922, known as “The Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act,” including the employment of executive officers, agents, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, Disseminating information, collecting evidence, etc.to be appointed as authorized by law; not to exceed $50,000 for the collection and dissemination of information on law enforcement, including the necessary printing in connection therewith: the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the District of Columbia and the several field offices; hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; and for rental of necessary quarters; in all, $13,320,405, of Services In the District.*Proviso*.Narcotic Act enforcement.Use of seized vehicles.Vol. 43, p. 1110.which amount not to exceed $590,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,329,440 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for enforcement of the provisions of the said Acts of December 17, 1914, and May 26, 1922, and the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the use, by narcotic agents, of motor vehicles confiscated under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1925, and pay the maintenance, repair, and Restriction on paying for storage of seized goods in private warehouses.operation thereof from this allotment: *Provided further*, That no money herein appropriated for the enforcement of the National Prohibition Act, the customs laws, or internal revenue laws, shall be used to pay for storage in any private warehouse of intoxicating liquors or other property in connection therewith seized pursuant to said Acts and necessary to be stored, where there is available for that purpose space in a Government warehouse or other suitable Government property in the judicial district wherein such property was seized, or in an adjacent judicial district, and when such seized property is stored in an adjacent district the jurisdiction over such property in the district wherein it was seized shall not be affected thereby. coast guardCoast Guard. Office personnel.Office of the commandant: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $260,000. Technical services.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary may be 1035 employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard vessels and boats, to be paid from the appropriation “ Repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats ”:*Post*, p. 1006.*Proviso*.Limitation, etc. *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1928 shall not exceed $10,460. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the Budget. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedService expenditures work of the Coast Guard, including the expense of maintenance, repair, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the ActVol, 43, p. 116. approved March 3, 1925, as follows, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissionedPay, etc., officers and enlisted men. 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, $19,000,000; For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge,Fuel and water. $3,100,000;. For outfits, ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same,Outfits, stores, etc. $1,700,000; For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporaryStations, houses of refuge, etc. leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $305,000; For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920, $35,000;Death allowances.Vol. 41. p. 825.Traveling expenses, etc. For mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers; and traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen, $350,000; For draft animals and their maintenance, $30,000;Draft animals. For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance,Coastal communication. $125,000; For compensation of civilian employees in the field, includingCivilian field employees. clerks to district superintendents, $79,000; For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistenceContingent expenses. of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $20,000; instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and experimental and research work in relation to telephony and radio-telegraphy, not exceeding $4,000; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and enlisted men, including those who die in Government hospitals; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and alt other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $250,000; For completion of three cutters authorized in the Act entitled “AnCompleting three cutters.*Ante*, pp. 725, 869. Act to provide for the construction of ten vessels for the Coast Guard,” approved June 10, 1926, $1,700,000; For commencing the construction of two of the Coast GuardCommencing construction of two cutters.*Ante*, p. 725. cutters authorized in the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the 1036 construction of ten vessels for the Coast Guard,” approved June 10, *Proviso*.Cost limited.1926, $666,000, to be available until June 30, 1929: *Provided*, That the total cost of these two vessels and equipment shall not exceed Contracts authorized.$1,800,000, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for their construction and equipment in sums not to exceed this aggregate amount; Repairs to cutters.For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats, $2,000,000; Total, Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $29,340,000. bureau of engraving and printingEngraving and Printing Bureau. Director, Assistants, and office personnel.Office of Director: For the Director, three Assistant Directors and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $465,000. Work authorized for fiscal year.For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, during the fiscal year 1928, of not exceeding two hundred and five million delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency, eighty-eight million eight hundred seventy-nine thousand Vol. 38, p. 78b; Vol. 40, p. 1130.Vol, 42, p. 295.*Ante* p. 99.and forty-nine delivered sheets of internal revenue stamps, three million and ninety thousand delivered sheets of withdrawal permits, five hundred eighty-seven thousand four hundred and fifty delivered sheets of opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, and seven million four hundred thousand four hundred and thirty-one delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: Salaries of employees.For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees required for the administrative work of the bureau of the class provided for and specified in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the *Proviso*.Large notes.Secretary of the Treasury. $3,659,590: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or Vol. 31, p. 45.retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “ To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March 14, 1900. Wages.For wages of rotary press plate printers, at per diem rates, and all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed,$1,888,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Proviso*.Large notes. *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than Vol. 31, p. 45.those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “ to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March 14, 1900. Materials, etc.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper, except distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and grounds and for minor alterations to buildings; directories, technical books, and periodicals, and books of reference, not exceeding $300; rent of warehouse in the District of Columbia; Emergency room, etc.traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000; equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who may be taken sud- 1037 denly ill or receive injury while on duty; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection of the person of employees; and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessaryVehicles. motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,160,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year 1928 all proceeds derived from work performedProceeds of work to be credited to Bureau. by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 227), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year 1928.Vol. 24, p. 227. secret serviceSecret Service. Secret Service Division, salaries: For the Chief of the DivisionChief of Division, and office personnel. and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $27,640. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes., Federal reserve notes, Federal reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; hire and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; purchase of arms and ammunition; traveling expenses; and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of theProtecting person of the President, etc. President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $495,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the*Proviso*.Witness fees. expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall*Post*, p. 1196. be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts ”: *Provided further*, That no person shall be employedPay restriction. hereunder at a compensation greater than that allowed by law. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICEPublic Health Service. Salaries, Office of Surgeon General: For personal services in theOffice personnel. District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $103,000. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissionedPay, etc., Surgeon General, etc. medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistant surgeon generals at large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $1,200,000. For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medicalActing assistant surgeons. officers), $300,000. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth),Other employees. $990,000. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including theFreight, travel, etc. expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed 1038 to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, pharmacists, and nurses of the Public Health Service, upon permanent change of station, $25,000. Hygienic Laboratory.Transporting remains of officers.Books, etc.For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $43,000. For preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in the line of duty, $2,000. For journals and scientific books, $500. Medical examinations, hospital services to beneficiaries, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885.For medical examinations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917, medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for beneficiaries (other than patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau) of the Public Health Service and persons detained under the immigration laws and regulations at Ellis Island Immigration Station, including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in the District General expenses.of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance, exchange and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles, and including not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged, except for ambulances), Lepers and insane persons.transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including transportation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not Services in the District.exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $5,325,000, of which not to exceed $200,000 may be expended for personal services in the *Provisos*.Use of Ellis Island Hospital.District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Immigration Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to Receipts to be covered into the Treasury.be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and moneys collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained under the immigration laws and regulations at Ellis Island Immigration Station shall be covered into the Uses forbidden.Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. Disposal of receipts.All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscal year 1928, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Quarantine service.Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and including not exceeding $2,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged except for ambulances), $460,000. Prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, 1039 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, $400,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man andField Investigations. conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal services, $280,000. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State andInterstate quarantine service. municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $71,000. Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration workRural sanitation. in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-prop filled passenger-carrying vehicles, $85,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Subject to local contributions. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expenses of such demonstration work. Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses,Biologic products.Regulating sale of viruses, etc. serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $45,000. For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of VenerealVenereal Diseases Division.Maintenance.Vol. 40, p. 88«. Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, Chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918, including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $70,000, of which amount not to exceed $28,000 may be expended for personal services in theServices in the District. District of Columbia. For completion of the survey of the salt-marsh areas of the. SouthSalt-marsh areas in Southern States.Completing survey of, for controlling mosquito breeding. Atlantic and Gulf States, to determine the exact character of the breeding places of the salt-marsh mosquitoes, in order that a definite idea may be formed as to the best methods of controlling the breeding of such mosquitoes, $10,000, to be expended by the Public Health Service in cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture: *Provided*, That any unexpended balance*Proviso*.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 869. of the appropriation of $25,000 for the fiscal year 1927 for similar purposes is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1928. Mints and Assay OfficesMints and Assay Offices. office of director of the mintOffice of Director of the Mint. Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal servicesDirector, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $33,600. For transportation of bullion and coin, by registered mail orTransporting bullion and coin. otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $7,500. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent expenses. under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $900. For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeExaminations, etc. of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the UnitedPrecious metals statistics. States, $5,100. 1040 carson city, nevada, mintMints. Carson City, Nev.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $5,280. For incidental and contingent expenses, $800. denver, colorado, mint Denver, Colo.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $156,710. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, net wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $50,000. new orleans, lousiana, mint New Orleans, La.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $11,160. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. philadelphia mint Philadelphia, Pa.Salaries: For compensation of officers and other employees, $598,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $109,000. san francisco, california, mint Sen Francisco, Calif.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $248,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, net wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $56,000. boise, idaho, assay officeAssay offices. Boise, Idaho.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $6,300. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. helena, montana, assay office Helena, Mont.Salaries: For compensation of officers and other employees, $5,280. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. new york assay office Now York, N. Y.Salaries: For compensation of officers and other employees, $254,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, net wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $84,000. salt lake city, utah, assay office Salt Lake City, Utah.Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $3,960. For incidental and contingent expenses, $300. 1041 seattle, washington, assay office Salaries: For compensation of officers and employees, $19,680.Seattle, Wash. For incidental and contingent expenses, $6,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGSPublic buildings. office of supervising architectSuper vising Architect’s Office. Salaries: For the Supervising Architect, and other personal servicesSupervising Architect, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $360,000. public buildings, construction and rentConstruction and rent. Bristol, Rhode Island, post office and customhouse: For acquisitionBristol, R. I., post office, etc. of additional land, construction of driveway, improvements and repairs to building, $5,000. Chicago, Illinois, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For installationChicago, Ill., post office, etc. of additional generating unit, $25,000. Cincinnati, Ohio, customhouse and post office: For new conduits,Cincinnati, Ohio, customhouse, etc. wiring, and fixtures, and repairs and painting incidental to such installations, $50,000. New Haven, Connecticut, post office: For renewal of water-supplyNew Haven, Conn., post office. system, $16,000. New York, New York, customhouse: For renewal of water-supplyNew York, N. Y., customhouse. system, $33,500. Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling,Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings. enlarging, and extending completed and occupied public buildings, including any necessary and incidental additions to or changes in mechanical equipment thereof, so as to provide or make available additional space in emergent cases, not to exceed an aggregate of $25,000 at any one building, $500,000. Treasury Building, Washington, District of Columbia: For anTreasury Building, D. C., cash room. additional amount for changes in screen, new furniture, and so forth, in cash room, $20,000. Rent of temporary quarters: For rent of temporary quarters forTemporary quarters, rent, etc. the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $175,000. marine hospitalsMarine hospitals. Key West, Florida, Marine Hospital: For remodeling, exteriorKey West, Fla. and interior painting, wire screens, wood shutters, main hospital and residence of pharmacist, $6,000. New York, New York, Marine Hospital: For improving existingNew York, N. Y. facilities, $23,000. Saint Louis, Missouri, Marine Hospital: For improving existingSaint Louis, Mo. facilities, $10,000. quarantine stationsQuarantine station. Columbia River (Astoria), Oregon, Quarantine Station: ForAstoria, Oreg. repairs to wharf, approaches, and so forth, $9,000. The foregoing work under marine hospitals and quarantineWork under Supervising Architect. stations shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expensesRepairs, equipment, etc. Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completedRepairs, preservation, etc., of completed and occupied buildings. and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under 1042 the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor; Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed *Proviso*.Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc.15 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $115,000 may be used for the repair and preservation of marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook) and completed and occupied outbuildings (including wire partitions and Treasury Department buildings.fly screens for same), and not exceeding $24,500 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, Butler, and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $700 for acoustical treatment of ceiling of room 324, Treasury Building: Personal services restriction. *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $1,010,000. Mechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, etc.Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 10 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum *Provisos*.Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc.herein appropriated, not exceeding $100,000 may be used for the installation and repair of mechanical equipment in marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Treasury Department buildings.Hook), and not exceeding $38,000 for the ’Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, Butler, and Auditors’ Buildings, in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors’ Building, and not exceeding $10,000 for the Pneumatic-tube service, New York City, N. Y.maintenance, changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessary incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, Personal services restriction.That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $540,000. Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, 1043 except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $140,000. General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury toGeneral expenses. execute and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the ActAdditional pay, Supervising Architect. of Slay 30, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page 537): For salaries of architectural and engineering personnel and inspectors in theVol. 35, p. 537. District of Columbia and elsewhere, not exceeding $1,104,800;Technical services. expenses of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectorsExpenses of superintendence, etc. and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Treasury Department; for the transportation ofTransporting household goods of superintendents, etc. household goods, incident to change of headquarters of district engineers, construction engineers, inspection engineers, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total expenditure of $4,500; office rent and expenses of field force, including temporary, stenographic,Office rent, field supplies, etc. and other assistance, in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising: office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telegraph and telephone service; freight, expressage, and postage incident to shipments of drawings, furniture and supplies for the field forces, testing instruments, and so forth, including articles and supplies not usually payable from other appropriations: *Provided*, That no expenditures shall be made*Proviso*.Transporting operating supplies excluded. hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; ground rent at Salamanca, New York,Salamanca, N. Y, Other contingencies. for which payment may be made in advance; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including neat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, orObjects excluded. any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test-pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $1,300,000, of which amount not to exceed $700,000 may be expended for personal services in the DistrictServices in the District. of Columbia. Outside professional services: To enable the Secretary of theOutside professional services.*Ante*, p. 631. Treasury to obtain architectural services, as provided in the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926, namely, “to procure by contract the floor plans and designs of buildings developed sufficiently to serve as guides for the preparation of working drawingsPreparing working models, etc. and specifications, or to employ advisory assistance involving design or engineering features, and to employ, to the extent deemed necessary by him in connection with the construction of buildings for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, the architects who wereArchitects for Departments of Commerce and Labor. successful in competition heretofore held for a building for the then Department of Commerce and Labor, and to pay reasonable compensation for such services,” $100,000. 1044 public buildings, operating expensesOperating expenses. Operating force.Personal services, custodians, etc.Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, Pay restriction.plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services *Proviso*.Buildings for which available.are employed, $6,650,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall be available for use in connection with nil public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the custom-house in the District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices. Furniture, etc.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extension of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody Buildings excluded.and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or *Provisos*.Personal services restriction.establishments of the Government, $800,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under Use of present furniture.exigency, and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies.Fuel, light, power, water, etc.Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting anti power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishings in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings, and for the transportation of articles or supplies authorized herein (including the customhouse in the Buildings excluded.District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine sta- 1045 tions, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), $3,050,000. The appropriation made herein for gas shallGas governors. include the rental and use of gas governors when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall*Provisos*.Rentals therefor. not be paid for such gas governors greater than 35 per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury isAdvance fuel contracts authorized. authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department in advance of the availability of the appropriation for the payment thereof. Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current fiscal year. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care,Custody of lands, etc.[R. S., secs. 3719, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3719/3750/p739). protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $50. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, TREASURY DEPARTMENTMiscellaneous. american printing house for the blindPrinting House for the Blind. To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequatelyExpenses.Vol. 41, p. 272.*Post*, p. 1060. to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 4, 1919, $40,000. TITLE II.— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT The following sums are Appropriated, in conformity with the ActPost Office Department appropriations.Vol. 5, p. 80. of July 2, 1836, for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, namely: post office department; washington, district of columbiaDepartment expenses. office of the postmaster generalOffice of Postmaster General. Postmaster General, $15,000; for personal services in the office ofPostmaster Genera!, and office personnel. the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $192,010; in all, $207,010. post office department buildingsDepartment buildings. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordancePersonal services, operating force. with the Classification Act of 1923, for the care, maintenance, and protection of the main Post Office Department Building, the Washington City Post Office Building, and the Mail Equipment Shops Building, $233,042. salaries in bureaus and officesDepartment bureaus and offices. For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordanceAllotments for personal services. with the Classification Act of 1923, in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $416,590. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $289,330. 1046 Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $694,670. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $392,250. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $59,660. Office of the Chief Inspector, $159,520. Office of the Purchasing Agent, $34,170. Bureau of Accounts, $39,350. Contingent Expenses, Post Office DepartmentDepartment contingent expenses. Stationery, etc.For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $25,000. Heating, lighting, etc.For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $53,000. Telegraphing.For telegraphing, $6,500. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other Vehicles, etc.labor-saving devices; not to exceed $3,000 for purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of motor trucks and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles; street car fares not exceeding $540; plumbing; repairs to department buildings; door coverings; postage stamps for *Post*, p. 2243.correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 43 of the Stockholm convention of the Universal Postal Union, $54,000, of which sum not exceeding $14,500 may be expended for telephone service, not exceeding $1,800 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the department, and not exceeding $2,000 may be expended for expenses, Attendance at meetings, etaexcept membership fees, of attendance at meetings or conventions concerned with postal affairs, when incurred on the written authority of the Postmaster General, and not exceeding $800 may be expended for expenses of the purchasing agent and of the solicitor and attorneys connected with his office while traveling on business of the department. Furniture.For furniture and filing cabinets, $8,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,150,000. Reimbursing for heating, etc., Washington Post Office Building.For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office or Capitol Power Plant for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $47,000. Field service appropriations not to be used tor the department.Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: *Proviso*.Payment of traveling expenses of officials from service appropriations. *Provided*, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is performed, and appropriations for 1928 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor. Field Service, Post Office DepartmentField service. office of postmaster generalPostmaster General. Equipment shops budding.For gas, electric power, and light, and the repair of machinery, United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $8,000. 1047 The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to pay a cash rewardCash rewards to employees for inventions for improving the service. for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an improvement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Postal Service submitted by one or more employees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall Ge adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficiency, and for that purpose the sum of $1,500 is hereby appropriated: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Additional to regular pay. That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with this Act shall be in addition to their usual compensation: *Provided further*,Amount limited. That the total amount paid under the provisions of this Act shall not exceed $1,000 in any month or for any one invention or suggestion: *Provided further*, That no employee shall be paid a reward underAgreement for Government use required. this Act until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by him, his heirs, or assigns: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall beUse restricted. available for no other purpose. For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, andShipment of equipment, supplies, etc. supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $370,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of (he Postmaster General, $1,000. To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages toDamages claims.Vol. 42, p. 63. Persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the efficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921, $10,000. Office of chief inspector: For salaries of fifteen inspectors inInspectors. charge of divisions, at $4,500 each; and five hundred and twenty-fiveCivil service eligibles. inspectors, $1,945,475; in all, $2,012,975: *Provided*, That the appointment of additional inspectors shall be made upon certification of the Civil Service Commission, as heretofore practiced. For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chiefTraveling expenses, etc. post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases, and for tests, exhibits, documents, photo-graphs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, $479,085. For necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters,Miscellaneous. $14,000. For compensation of one hundred and fifteen clerks at divisionClerks at division headquarters. headquarters, $290,875. For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and convictionRewards, etc. of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, $45,000: *Provided*, That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the*Provisos*.Death of offender. Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used toRates limited. pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office apartment Order 7708, dated July 1, 1922, except that not moreRobbing postal employees. than $2,000 may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the arrest and conviction of any person on the charge of robbing a postmaster or any employee of a post office of money or property of the United States: *Provided further*, That of the amount hereinSecuring information. appropriated not to exceed $10,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. 1048 office of the first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Postmaster General. Postmasters.For compensation to postmasters, $51,500,000. Assistant postmasters.For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second class post offices, $7,150,000. Clerks and employees first and second class offices.For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, and printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers, $172,400,000. Watchmen, messengers, etc.For compensation to watchmen, messengers, laborers, and substitutes, $8,100,000. Contract station clerks.Separating mails.For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, $1,800,000. For separating mails at third and fourth class post offices, $515,000. Unusual conditions.For unusual conditions at post offices, $100,000. Clerks, third class offices.For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services, $8,800,000. Rent, light, and fuel.For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post office, $18,100,000. Miscellaneous, first and second class offices.For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices of the first and second classes, $1,750,000. Village delivery.For village delivery service in towns and villages having post offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,680,000. Detroit Elver.For Detroit River postal service, $18,000. Car fare and bicycles.For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery car fare, $1,325,000. City delivery carriers.For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $122,200,000. Special delivery fees.For fees to special-delivery messengers, $8,000,000. Pneumatic tubes.For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn New York and Brooklyn.of the city of New York, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, $526,373. Boston, Mass.For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, not Rental.including labor and power in operating the same, for the *Proviso*.Contract.transmission of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000: *Provided*, That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, Vol. 32, p. 114; Vol. 35, p, 412.1902, and May 27, 1908, relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. Vehicle allowance for delivery, collection, etc.For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection service, *Provisos*.Allowance for garages, etc.$19,000,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned automobiles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years: Garage, Washington, D. C. *Provided further*, That this appropriation is available for the maintenance of the Government-owned post-office garage at Washington, District of Columbia, including such changes and additions to the mechanical equipment as, in the opinion of the Postmaster General, may be necessary. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the second assistant postmaster generalSecond AssistantPostmaster General. Star routes, Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $165,000. Steamboat, etc., routes.For inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boat routes, including ship, steamboat, anti way letters, $1,425,000. Railroad routes and messenger service.*Proviso*.For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $111,000,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,500,000 1049 of this appropriation may be expended for pay of freight andFreight train conveyance. incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special arrangement in freight trains or otherwise: *Provided further*,Messenger service accounting. That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service: *Provided further*, That there may be expendedServices in the District. from this appropriation for clerical and other assistance in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $82,000 to carry out the provisions of section 5 of the Act of July 28, 1916 (the spaceVol. 39, p. 425; Vol. 43, p. 1069. basis Act), and not exceeding the sum of $33,000 to carry out the provisions of section 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (cost ascertainment). For the operation and maintenance of the airplane mail serviceAirplane service, New York and San Francisco.Installing night flying. 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*Proviso*.Personnel in the District, etc. of necessary personnel, $2,150,000: *Provided*, That $50,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the, payment of personal services in the District of Columbia, and incidental and travel expenses in connection with such personnel: *Provided further*, That $500,000 ofTransfer to contract Air Mail Service.*Post*, p. 1050. this appropriation may be transferred to and expended for “ Contract Air Mail Service, 1928,” in the event that the service on the Government-operated routes is changed to contract service, of which not exceeding $3,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents,Railway Mall Service.Division superintendents, etc. fifteen assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents at large, one assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $56,750,000. For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railwayTravel allowance, clerks. postal clerks, $3,875,000. For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent andTraveling expenses, etc., away from head-quarters. assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $75,000. For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and officeMiscellaneous. expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, for theArms for mail protection. purchase or rental of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of the mails, and rental of space for terminal railwayRent, etc., terminal offices. post offices for the distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution can not, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $1,225,000. For electric and cable car service, $735,000.Electric and cable cars.Foreign mails.*Provisos*.Aircraft allowances. For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise, $8,700,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $150,000 of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General shall be authorized toSea post service. expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $200,000 to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to and from the United States; 1050 Assistant superintendent, New York.and not to exceed $3,000 for the salary of the Assistant Superintendent Division of Foreign Mails, with headquarters at New York Contract payments restricted.City: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be Vol. 41, p. 998.expended for payments on any contracts heretofore made under the authority of section 24 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920. Balances to foreign countries.Travel, etc.For balances due foreign countries, $1,850,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. Aircraft mail contracts.Vol. 43, p. 805.*Ante*, p. 692.For the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, under contract, and for the incidental expenses thereof, in accordance with the Act approved February 2, 1925, and amended June 3, 1926, $2,000,000: *Ante*, p. 1049.*Proviso*.Services in the District. *Provided*, That $12,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia, incidental and travel expenses. office of the third assistant postmaster generalThird Assistant Postmaster General. Stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc.For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and for coiling of stamps, $7,900,000. Distribution agency.For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, $23,550. Indemnities for lost mail.Domestic, registered, etc., matter.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges, $3,000,000. International.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of inter-national mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $75,000. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General. Stationery.For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-order and registry systems; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System supplies.Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and Bond expenses.free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and Vol. 36, p. 817.registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910, $825,000. Miscellaneous equipment and supplies.For miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, Letter boxes, etc.straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erection and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; Postmarking stamps, etc.for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, copying presses, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales, test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and Post route, etc., maps.furnished directly to the Postal Service; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the 1051 fourth class having or to have rural-delivery service, and for letter boxes, $1,480,000; and the Postmaster General may authorize theSale of maps. sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added; of this amount $1,500 may be expended in the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works: *Provided*, That $200,000 of this*Proviso*.Amount for equipment and furniture. appropriation may be used for the purchase of equipment and furniture for post-office quarters and for no other purposes. For wrapping twine and tying devices, $460,000.Twine, etc. For expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware,Shipping supplied. boxing, packing, and the pay of employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia at the following annual rates: Storekeeper, $2,650; foreman, $2,100; requisition fillers—ten at $1,800 each, one at $1,600, two at $1,200 each; packers—nine at $1,800 each,Pay of employees. one at $1,600, two at $1,200 each; and two chauffeurs, at $1,400 each; in all, $67,750. For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machinesCanceling and labor saving machines, etc. and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including salaries of seven traveling mechanicians and for travelingTraveling mechanicians. expenses, $575,000. For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and otherMail bags, locks, etc. mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also material, machinery, and toolsEquipment shops, materials, etc. necessary for the manufacture and repair in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient: for compensation toLabor. labor employed in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, $1,980,000, of which not to exceed $500,000 may beServices in the District.*Proviso*.Distinctive equipment for departments, Alaska, and island possessions. expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service inStar routes, except Alaska. Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, and not to exceed $200,000 for Government-operated star-route service, $13,400,000. For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary carriers, substitutes for ruralRural Delivery Service. carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $105,506,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficientAppropriations from the Treasury for field service to supply deficiency in postal revenues. to meet the appropriations made under Title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. Sec. 2. Those civilian positions in the field services under the severalCivilian field employees in executive departments, etc., to be paid adjusted compensation. executive departments and independent establishments, the compensation of which was fixed or limited by law but adjusted for the 1052 fiscal year 1925 under the authority and appropriations contained in Vol. 43, p. 704the Act entitled “An Act making additional appropriations for the fiscal year ending dune 30, 1925, to enable the heads of the several executive departments and independent establishments to adjust the rates of compensation of civilian employees in certain of the field services,” approved December 6, 1924, may be paid under the applicable appropriations for the fiscal year 1928 at rates not in excess of those permitted for them under the provisions of such Act of December 6, 1924. Sec. 3. Quarters, subsistence, etc., to be furnished civilians of departments, etc., in field service. The head of an executive department or independent establishment, where, in his judgment, conditions of employment require it, may continue to furnish civilians employed in the field service with quarters, heat, light, household equipment, subsistence, and Appropriations available.laundry service: and appropriations for the fiscal year 1928 of the character heretofore used for such purposes are hereby made *Proviso*.Value considered part of compensation.available therefor: *Provided*, That the reasonable value of such allowances shall be determined and considered as part of the compensation in fixing the salary rate of such civilians. Approved, January 26, 1927.
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