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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · June 30, 1928 · Chapter 5

Chapter 5. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes

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Chap. 5: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes. Chapter 5 45 Stat. 2 1927-12-22 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 5.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes.
December 22, 1927.[[H. R. 5800](/us/bill/70/hr/5800).][[Public, No. 2](/us/pl/70/2).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * First Deficiency Act, 1928. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes, namely:
LEGISLATIVELegislative. senateSenate. To pay to Kate F. McKinley, widow of William B. McKinley,William B. McKinley.Pay to widow. late a Senator from the State of Illinois, $10,000. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for salaries of officers and employees of the Senate, fiscal year Kathleen W. Kivett.Services.1927, to Kathleen W. Kivett, for services rendered as clerk to the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys from October 15 to November 3, 1926, both dates inclusive, at the rate of $3,300 per annum.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriationLinn W. Nesmith.Services. for salaries of officers and employees of the Senate, fiscal year 1927, to Linn W. Nesmith for services rendered as assistant clerk to the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, from October 15 to November 3, 1926, both dates inclusive, at the rate of $1,830 per annum. For payment for services rendered the Senate or committeesWilliam A. Folger. thereof, as follows: William A. Folger, fiscal year 1927, $1,200.
For payment to Dorothy E. Bent, assistant clerk to the CommitteeDorothy E. Bent.Additional salary. on Irrigation and Reclamation, at the rate of $2,150 per annum in lieu of the salary she is now receiving, from December 16, 1926, to June 30, 1928, $323.75. To pay additional sums to such persons engaged in the work ofPennsylvania election, 1926.Services transporting, etc., ballot boxes, etc., from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. collecting, packing, and forwarding from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the ballot boxes and other election paraphernalia of the general election of November 2, 1926, and receiving and storing same in the Senate Office Building; said persons to be designated by the Sergeant at Arms and paid in such proportions as he may deem just, fiscal year 1927, $1,960.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriationChristopher Woodlen.Services. for salaries of officers and employees, Senate, 1928, to Christopher Woodlen for services rendered in transferring, rearranging, re-marking, cleaning, and refiling papers of the Senate, $200. 3 The unexpended balance of the appropriation for expenses ofInquiries and investigations.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 540. inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate for the fiscal year 1927 is made available for use during the fiscal year 1928. house of representativesHouse of Representatives.
To pay to Rhea Thomas, a son, and Barber Nell and Annie LeeR. Y. Thomas, junior.Pay to children of. Thomas, daughters, of R. Y. Thomas, junior, late a Representative from the State of Kentucky, $10,000, to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House by paying one-third thereof to Rhea Thomas, one-third to Barber Nell Thomas, and one-third to the legal guardian of Annie Lee Thomas. To pay the widow of Maurice E. Crumpacker, late a RepresentativeMaurice E. Crumpacker.Pay to widow. from the State of Oregon, $10,000.
To pay the widow of Ladislas Lazaro, late a Representative fromLadislas Lazaro.Pay to widow. the State of Louisiana, $10,000. To pay the widow of Walter W. Magee, late a Representative fromWalter W. Magee.Pay to widow. the State of New York, $10,000. To pay the widow of A. E. B. Stephens, late a Representative fromA. E. B. Stephens.Pay to widow. the State of Ohio, $10,000. To pay the widow of William N. Vaile, late a Representative fromWilliam N. Vaile.Pay to widow. the State of Colorado, $10,000.
The five preceding appropriations shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Contingent expenses: For stationery for Representatives, Delegates,Stationery. and Resident Commissioners, fiscal year 1928, $125. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1Folding. per thousand, fiscal year 1928, $4,000. Committee employees: The unexpended balance of the appropriationCommittee on Revision of the Laws.Balance for compiling District of Columbia Code reappropriated.Vol. 44, p. 542. for the fiscal year 1927, granted to the Committee on Revision of the Laws for the employment of competent persons to assist in compiling and codifying the laws relating to the District of Columbia, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1928.
The unexpended balances of appropriations for salaries of assistant clerks to the Committee on Appropriations for the fiscal yearCommittee on Appropriations.Payment to assistant clerks.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 542. 1927 are made available to pay to the assistant clerks of that committee, for the period from February 23 to June 30, 1927, inclusive, amounts representing the difference between the rates of compensation received by them during such period and the rates of compensation provided for them by the Legislative Appropriation Act, approved February 23, 1927.
Committee on Ways and Means: For defraying such expensesCommittee on Ways and Means.Expenses for revision of customs administration laws. as may be deemed necessary by the Committee on Ways and Means in connection with the preparation of a bill or bills for the revision of the laws relating to the administration of customs, $2,500, to remain available until June 30, 1928, and to be available also for the reimbursement and/or payment for expenses incurred, in connection with a similar study and investigation by members of such committee of the Sixty-ninth Congress, during the period from March 5 to December 5, 1927. joint committee to investigate northern pacific land grantsNorthern Pacific land grants.
The unexpended balance on June 30, 1927, of the appropriationJoint Committee to investigate.Balance reappropriated for expenses of.Vol. 44, p. 843.Vol. 43, p. 673. available during the fiscal year 1927 to provide for expenses of the joint committee created by section 3 of the public resolution entitled “Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to withhold his approval of the adjustment of the Northern Pacific land grants, and for other purposes,” approved June 5, 1924, is continued and made available until June 30, 1928.
And the joint committee (not-4 withstanding the provisions of any other Act) is authorized to compensate the secretary and special disbursing officer at the rate of not to exceed $50 per month from June 30, 1927, to June 30, 1928. Pay of secretary, etc. architect of the capitolArchitect of the Capitol. Subway transportation: Not to exceed $2,000 of the unexpendedSenate Office Building.Subway cars, etc.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 843. balance of the appropriation of $5,000 for the fiscal year 1927 for subway transportation between the Capitol and Senate Office Building shall remain available until June 30, 1929.
House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneousHouse Office Building.Maintenance. items, fiscal year 1920, $889.80. For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, fiscal year 1928, $5,500. Capitol power plant: For maintenance, including the same objectsCapitol power plant.Maintenance. specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $178. botanic gardenBotanic Garden. Enlargement and relocation:
For carrying out the provisions ofEnlargement and relocation expenses.Vol. 44, p. 931. paragraphs 1 and 2 of section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for enlarging and relocating the United States Botanic Garden, and for other purposes,” approved January 5, 1927, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $600,000. government printing officeGovernment Printing Office. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, andSamuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Eontes, and Preston L.
George. Preston L. George, messengers on night duty during the second session of the Sixty-ninth Congress, $900 each, fiscal year 1928, $3,600. library of congressLibrary of Congress. Copyright office: For the register of copyrights, assistant register,Copyright office. and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal year 1928, $8,000. Sunday opening: To enable the Library of Congress to be keptSunday opening. open for reference use on Sundays and on holidays within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, fiscal year 1928, $1,000.
Printing and binding: For the printing of catalogue cards, fiscalPrinting and binding. year 1928, $32,000. Index to State legislation: To enable the Librarian of Congress toBiennial index of State legislation.Preparation of.Vol. 44, p. 1066. undertake the preparation of an index to the legislation of the several States as authorized and directed by the Act entitled “An Act providing for the preparation of a biennial index to State legislation,” approved February 10, 1927, including personal and other services within and without the District of Columbia (including not to exceed $2,500 for personal services at rates to be fixed by the Librarian), travel, necessary material and apparatus, stationery, and incidentals, fiscal year 1928, $15,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929.
EXECUTIVE OFFICEExecutive Office. For expenses arising in connection with carrying into effect theNaval oil lands.Expenses canceling leases, etc.Vol. 43, p. 5.Vol. 43, p. 16. public resolution entitled “Joint resolution directing the President to institute and prosecute suits to cancel certain leases of oil lands and incidental contracts, and for other purposes,” approved February 8, 1924, and for the same purposes authorized in the public resolution5 entitled “Joint resolution to provide an appropriation for the prosecution of suits to cancel certain leases and for other purposes,” approved February 27, 1924, including the reimbursement and/or payment for expenses incurred for such purposes during the period from June 30, 1927, to the date of the approval of this Act, $90,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929; and in addition thereto theUnexpended balance reappropriated.Vol. 44, p. 843. unexpended balance of the appropriation of $100,000 for such purposes, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, approved July 3, 1926, is reappropriated and made available.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $60,000 forNaval oil reserves, California.Balance for expenses, reappropriated.Vol. 43, p. 15.Vol. 44, p. 843.*Post, * p. 1625. expenses arising in connection with carrying into effect the public resolution entitled “Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to institute proceedings touching sections 16 and 36, township 30 south, range 23 east, Mount Diablo meridian,” approved February 21, 1924, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926, shall remain available until June 30, 1929.
Not to exceed $25,000 of the appropriation of $375,000 for reconstructingExecutive Mansion.Balance for reconstructing roof available,Vol. 44, p. 844. the roof, attic, and ceilings of the second story of the Executive Mansion, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926, approved July 3, 1926, shall remain available until June 30, 1929, for refurnishing and for necessary repairs and alterations to the Executive Mansion, to be prosecuted by contract or otherwise as the President may determine.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONCivil Service Commission. For an additional amount for personal services in the District ofServices in the District. Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal year 1928, $103,000. For an additional amount for necessary traveling expenses, includingTraveling expenses. the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $82,500. For an additional amount for contingent and miscellaneousContingent expenses. expenses of the Civil Service Commission, including same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $6,000.
EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSIONEmployees’ Compensation Commission. For an additional amount for personal services in the District ofServices in the District and contingent expenses. Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923 and for contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under these heads in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928 and including personal services in the field, fees, and mileage of witnesses, contract stenographic reporting services and rent, fiscal year 1928, $240,000.
For an additional amount for printing and binding for thePrinting and binding. Employees’ Compensation Commission, fiscal year 1928, $10,000. For an additional amount for the payment of compensation forPayments from compensation fund. the fiscal year 1928 and prior fiscal years, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $700,000. FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSIONFederal Radio Commission. For five commissioners at rates fixed by law, and for all otherCommissioners, personnel, etc.Vol. 44, p. 1162. authorized expenditures of the Federal Radio Commission in performing the duties imposed by the Radio Act of 1927, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, contract stenographic reporting services, printing and binding, supplies and 6 equipment, travel and other necessary expenses, for the period from February 1 to June 30, 1928, inclusive, and including for the period prior to February 1, 1928, such amounts as may be legally due to commissioners who have not been compensated, $52,186.
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICEGeneral Accounting Office. Contingent expenses: For an additional amount of rent of buildings,Rent. fiscal year 1928, $10,400. INTERNATIONAL TRADE EXHIBITIONInternational Trade Exhibition. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toMaintenance expenses.Vol. 44, p. 1095. provide for maintaining, promoting, and advertising the International Trade Exhibition,” approved February 14, 1927, fiscal year 1928, $150,000. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSIONInterstate Commerce Commission.
For an additional amount for printing and binding for the InterstatePrinting and binding. Commerce Commission, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $170,000. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICSNational Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. For an additional amount for scientific research and technicalResearch and investigations. investigations, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $25,000.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITALPublic Buildings, etc., of the National Capital. For an additional amount for personal services in the District ofPersonal services. Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal year 1928, $16,560. For an additional amount for general expenses in connection withGeneral expenses. the maintenance of public buildings in the District of Columbia under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $14,960: *Provided, *That not exceeding $7,000*Proviso.*Uniforms to employees. of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1928 is hereby made available for furnishing uniforms for employees.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONSmithsonian Institution. Natural History Building: For safeguarding the dome of theNatural History Building.Repairs, etc. rotunda, Natural History Building, United States National Museum, including all necessary incidental repairs and alterations of the building (the work to be performed under the direction and supervision of the Supervising Architect, Treasury Department) $80,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929; of this sum not to exceed $5,000 may be used to reimburse the Supervising Architect’s Office for preparing necessary drawings and specifications and superintending the work.
UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSIONTariff Commission. For additional amount for printing and binding for the TariffPrinting and binding. Commission, fiscal year 1928, $4,000. 7 UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAUVeterans’ Bureau. Military and naval compensation: For an additional amount forMilitary and naval compensation.Vol. 44, p. 1084.Unexpended balances available. the payment of military and naval compensation accruing during the fiscal year 1928 or in prior fiscal years, $19,400,000, and in addition thereto unexpended balances of the appropriations of the United States Veterans’ Bureau are hereby reappropriated and made available under the appropriation “Military and naval compensation,Items specified.
Veterans’ Bureau, fiscal year 1928 and prior years,” as follows: Military and naval compensation, fiscal year 1926, $1,732,000; military and naval compensation, fiscal year 1927, $259,000; salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1926, $3,136,000; salaries and expenses, fiscal year 1927, $5,517,000; medical and hospital services, fiscal year 1926, $1,148,000; medical and hospital services, fiscal year 1927, $4,499,000; vocational rehabilitation, fiscal year 1926, $166,000; vocational rehabilitation, fiscal year 1926, $10,140,000; printing and binding, fiscal year 1926, $83,000; military and naval insurance, fiscal year 1926, $8,920,000.
Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privatelyDamages claims. owned property adjusted and determined by the United StatesVol. 42, p. 1066. Veterans’ Bureau under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 731, Sixty-ninth Congress, $477.02.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIADistrict of Columbia. general expensesGeneral expenses. Purchasing division: For personal services in accordance with thePurchasing division. Classification Act of 1923, fiscal year 1928, $1,250. License bureau: For purchase of metal identification tags for horsedrawnVehicle tags. vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, or for the purchase of material for the manufacture of tags, fiscal year 1927, $1,644.56. Office of director of traffic:
The appropriation of fees receivedDirector of traffic.Use of fees continued.Vol. 44, p. 421. for reissuing motor-vehicle operators’ permits, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, is continued available until June 30, 1928. Register of wills: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephoneRegister of wills. bills, printing, typewriters, towels, towel service, window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, fiscal year 1928, $5,000. contingent and miscellaneous expenses Condemnation of insanitary buildings:
For expenses necessary andInsanitary buildings, condemnation. incident to the enforcement of an Act entitled “An Act to create aVol. 43, p. 157. board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May 1, 1906, fiscal year 1927, $120.75. Advertising: For general advertising, authorized and required byAdvertising. law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1926, $2,398.60; For 1927, $2,972.56. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1926, as requiredAdvertising taxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24. to be given by the Act of March 19, 1890, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, fiscal year 1927, $2,085.44. 8 Employees’ compensation fund: For carrying out the provisionsEmployees’ compensation fund.Payments from.Vol. 41, p. 104.Vol. 39, p. 742. of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, fiscal year 1928, $21,500.
Refund of erroneous collections: To enable the commissioners, inRefund of erroneous collections. any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the proportion required by law, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia AppropriationBuilding permits.Vol. 34, p. 967.
Act approved March 2, 1911, fiscal year 1928, $2,000: *Provided,**Proviso.*Prior cases. That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. Rent: For rent of a building or buildings for activities of theRent of buildings, etc. District of Columbia vacating quarters in squares 226, 227, and 228, $17,425; for repairs and alterations thereof and for equipment, fuel, and other necessary expenses, $7,575; in all, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $25,000. street and road improvement and repairStreets, etc.
Street repair, grading, and extension: The indefinite appropriationOpening streets, etc., under permanent highways’ system. “Extension, and so forth, of streets and avenues, District of Columbia, 1928,” contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, is hereby made available to pay the awardsAmounts available.Vol. 44, p. 1308.Street from Georgia Avenue ‘to Ninth Street NW.Vol. 44, p. 972. and expenses under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the opening of a street from Georgia Avenue to Ninth Street, northwest, through squares 2875 and 2877, and for other purposes,” approved January 13, 1927; the Act entitled “An Act to provide for theNichols Avenue SE.Vol. 44, p. 1090. widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street, southeast,” approved February 14, 1927; and the Act entitled “AnFirst Street NE.Vol. 44, p. 203.
Act to provide for the widening of First Street between G Street and Myrtle Street, northeast, and for other purposes,” approved March 11, 1926: *Provided, *That the time for filing the petition to*Proviso.*Time extended. condemn land under the provisions of the Act last named is hereby extended for six months from and after the date of approval of this Act. For current work of repairs to suburban roads and suburbanSuburban roads and streets. streets, including maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, fiscal year 1928, $100,000.
Chain Bridge: For reconstruction of Virginia abutment of ChainChain Bridge.Reconstruction. Bridge, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise, in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $40,000. Refund to Charles Schneider Baking Company: For refund to theCharles Schneider Baking Company.Refund to. Charles Schneider Baking Company of amount paid on September 26, 1923, for land comprised in part of a public alley in square 516, fiscal year 1928, $442.44. public schoolsPublic schools.
Not exceeding $80,000 of the unobligated balances of appropriationsGarnet-Patterson Junior High.Balances available for extension.Vol. 44, pp. 433, 1315. for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, and any unobligated balance remaining in the appropriations for the construction of the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School are made 9 available for the construction of an addition to the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School, to be expended, in the discretion of the commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of the existing contract for the construction of said junior high school.
For completely furnishing and equipping combination assemblyWest and Petworth Schools.Furnishing, etc. hall and gymnasium, West School, $3,000; and combination assembly hall and gymnasium, Petworth School, $3,000; including a piano for each school; in all, fiscal year 1928, $6,000. policemen’s and firemen’s relief fundPolicemen’s, etc., relief fund. To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, aPayments from. sum not to exceed $120,000 is appropriated from the policemen’s and firemen’s relief fund, fiscal year 1928. courts and prisonsCourts and prisons.
Police court: For compensation of jurors, fiscal year 1926, $431.Police court. Supreme Court, District of Columbia: For the additional amountJurors.Supreme Court.Increased pay of justices.Vol. 44, p. 919. required for the compensation of the chief justice and five associate justices in accordance with the Act approved December 13, 1926, fiscal year 1927, $7,500. For fees of jurors, fiscal year 1926, $1,985.Jurors. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia: For the additional amountCourt of Appeals.Increased pay of justices.Vol. 44, p. 919. required for the compensation of the chief justice and two associate justices in accordance with the Act approved December 13, 1926, fiscal year 1927, $5,750.
Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, including the same objects specified for this purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, $890.88. Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs deLunacy writs.Expenses executing. lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, fiscal year 1926, $783.28.
Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the SupremePrinting and binding. Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1927, $1,620.96. board of children’s guardiansBoard of Children’s Guardians. For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), fiscal year 1926, $1,356.62.Feeble-minded children. Board of Children’s Guardians, District of Columbia: For boardBoard, etc., of children. and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of all children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, and so forth, fiscal year 1926, $1,096.40. public welfarePublic welfare.
Division of child welfare: For board and care of all childrenChild welfare division.Board, etc., of children. committed to the guardianship of the Board of Public Welfare by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, fiscal year 1927, $40,000. 10 Jail:
For maintenance of prisoners at the jail, including pay ofJail.Support of prisoners, etc. guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, fiscal year 1928, $6,125. For furniture, furnishings, and other equipment necessitated byEquipping, etc., buildings. the enlargement and remodeling of the jail building, including dormitory, cell, kitchen and hospital equipment, fiscal year 1928, $13,000: *Provided, *That any unobligated balance of the appropriation*Proviso.*Balance available.
Vol. 44, p. 849. of $275,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926, for an additional building at the jail of the District of Columbia, is made available for the purposes of this paragraph. Workhouse: For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care,Workhouse.Maintenance, etc. and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine, and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipments; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, livestock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles; supplies and labor; and all other necessary items, fiscal year 1927, $12,764.71.
Reformatory: For additional amount for maintenance, for theReformatory.Maintenance, etc. purchase of material for the manufacture of metal (automobile number) tags, fiscal year 1928, $13,000. Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patientsMedical charities. under contracts made by the Board of Public Welfare with the following institutions for the fiscal years named: Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital: Fiscal year 1924,Emergency Hospital. $1,216.85; fiscal year 1926, $383.55; fiscal year 1927, $1,261.60;
Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, fiscal year 1927,Casualty Hospital. $5,438.40; in all, $8,300.40. Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairsColumbia Hospital.Repairs, etc. and for additional construction, including labor and material, and for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, fiscal year 1926, $565.45; Saint Elizabeths Hospital:
For support of indigent insane of theSaint Elizabeths Hospital.Support of indigent insane. District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, fiscal year 1927, $214,162. audited claimsAudited claims. Audited claims, District of Columbia: For the payment of thePayment of, certified by District accounting officers. following claims, certified by the accounting officers of the District of Columbia to be due, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisionsVol. 18, p. 110. of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, being for the service of the fiscal year 1924 and prior years:
Courts (1921), reports of opinions, court of appeals, $71.50;Amounts specified. streets (1922), disposal of city refuse, $42.30; public schools (1922), fuel, gas, and electric light, $750.24; public schools (1923), fuel, gas, and electric light, $750.24; contingent and miscellaneous expenses (1923), maintenance of motor vehicles, $61.81; improvements and repairs (1923), repairs to suburban roads, $6.50; small parks (1923), $1.10; electrical department (1923), street lighting, $5;
Rent Commission (1923), expenses, $241.50; water department (1923), maintenance and operation, $97.81; street improvements (1923–24), Thirteenth Street, Spring Road to Shepherd Street, $4; contingent and miscellaneous expenses (1924), judicial expenses, $591.61; contingent 11 and miscellaneous expenses (1924), maintenance of motor vehicles, $15.50; contingent and miscellaneous expenses (1924), general advertising, $9; Rent Commission (1924), salaries and expenses, $13.07; in all, audited claims, $2,661.18. judgmentsJudgments.
For payment of final judgments, including costs rendered againstPayment of. the District of Columbia, as set forth in House Document Numbered 74, Seventieth Congress, $6,817.12, together with the further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until date of payment. proportion of expensesProportion of expenses. The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwiseFrom District revenues.For fiscal year 1929, and prior years. therein specifically provided, shall be paid as follows:
Such sums as relate to the fiscal year 1920 and prior fiscal years, 50 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 50 perFor 1921–1924. centum out of the Treasury of the United States; such sums as relate to the fiscal years 1921, 1922, 1923, and 1924, 60 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States; and such sums as relateFor 1925–1929. to the fiscal years 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, and 1929, jointly or severally, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed for defraying the expenses of the District of Columbia by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for such fiscal years. water department—out of the water revenuesWater department.
For purchase of a site for a new third high service reservoir,New high service reservoir site.Vol. 44, p. 451. $34,000, in addition to $50,000 for this purpose contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927: *Provided, *That the amounts herein specified shall be available until*Proviso.*Time available. June 30, 1928, for the acquisition of such site in accordance with a final award in condemnation proceedings. The rates of assessment in effect on June 30, 1927, for laying orRates of assessments for mains and sewers. constructing water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Act of April 22, 1904, shallVol. 33, p. 244. continue in effect during the remainder of the fiscal year 1928 and thereafter.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREDepartment of Agriculture. office of the secretarySecretary’s Office. Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privatelyDamages claims. owned property adjusted and determined by the Department of Agriculture under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toVol. 42, p. 1066. provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 731, Sixty-ninth Congress, $1,086.36. weather bureauWeather Bureau.
Credit is authorized and directed in the accounts of the disbursingLansing, Mich.Payment of expert services for Building at. clerk of the Department of Agriculture with payments heretofore or hereafter made for expert services under existing agreements entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with the erection of a building for the Weather Bureau at Lansing, Michigan. 12 General expenses: For an additional amount for necessary expensesExpenses in Washington, etc. in the city of Washington and elsewhere incident to collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, evaporation, and aerology, fiscal year 1928, $7,660, of which amountServices in the District. not to exceed $3,540 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. bureau of plant industryPlant Industry Bureau.
For an additional amount for the investigation, improvement, andGrazing lands, etc. utilization of wild plants and grazing lands, and for determining the distribution of weeds and means for their control, fiscal year 1928, $2,400. For an additional amount for the investigation and improvementFruits investigation. of fruits, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $10,000. forest serviceForest Service.
For an additional amount for fighting and preventing forest fires,Fighting forest fires. including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $769,000: *Provided,**Proviso.*Insect infestation. That not to exceed $50,000 of this amount may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture in meeting emergencies caused by forest insects on national forests. For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of sectionFederal Highway Act.Additional, of rroads and trails, 1928.Vol. 44, p. 760. 23 of the Federal Highway Act, approved November 9, 1921, $1,880,000, to remain available until expended, being part of $7,500,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1928 byState apportionment.Vol. 44, p. 1006. the Act approved June 22, 1926, and authorized to be apportioned and prorated among the States and obligated by contracts and otherwise by the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928. bureau of animal industryAnimal Industry Bureau.
Inspection and quarantine: For an additional amount for inspectionInspection and quarantine work. and quarantine work, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $11,000. bureau of chemistry and soilsChemistry and Soils Bureau. General expenses: For an additional amount for the investigationInsecticides and fungicides investigations. and development of methods of manufacturing insecticides and fungicides, and for investigating chemical problems relating to the composition, action, and application of insecticides and fungicides, fiscal year 1928, $10,000. bureau of entomologyEntomology Bureau.
For an additional amount for investigations of insects affectingFruits, etc., investigations. deciduous fruits, orchards, vineyards, and nuts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $5,000. For an additional amount for investigations of insects affectingSouthern field crops. southern field crops, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $45,000.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to undertake controlMexican fruit worm.*Post, * p. 1216. operations, inspections, surveys, and investigations necessary for the control and eradication of the Mexican fruit worm, in cooperation 13 with the Federal Horticultural Board in establishing, maintaining,Quarantines for control of, etc.Vol. 37, pp. 315, 854. and enforcing quarantines promulgated under the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended, and in cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations, or individuals as may be deemed necessary, and in cooperation with the MexicanCooperation with Mexican, etc., authorities.
Government and local Mexican authorities or organizations, including rent outside the District of Columbia, the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1928, $100,000, of which amount not to exceed $1,680 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Preventing spread of Japanese and Asiatic beetles: For an additionalJapanese and Asiatic beetles.Additional emergency amount for preventing spread of. amount to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the spread of the Japanese beetle, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $50,000, of which amount not to exceed $3,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. bureau of agricultural economicsAgricultural Economics Bureau.
The appropriation for administration of the United States WarehouseWarehouse Act.Payment to Curtis-Martin Newspapers.Vol. 43, p. 845. Act for the fiscal year 1926 is hereby made available for payment of the claim of the Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Incorporated, for advertising for the Department of Agriculture during the fiscal year 1922, in the sum of $25.53 found due by the Comptroller General. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect theCotton grade and staple length statistics.Vol. 44, p. 1372. provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and publish statistics of the grade and staple length of cotton,” approved March 3, 1927, including employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, and the purchase, operation, and maintenance of passenger-carrying automobiles outside of the city of Washington, fiscal year 1928, $70,000, of which amount not to exceed $12,350 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
For an additional amount to enable the Bureau of AgriculturalWool clip of 1918.Completion of work on. Economics to complete the work of the domestic-wool section of the War Industries Board and to enforce Government regulations for handling the wool clip of 1918, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $2,500. Administration of the Produce Agency Act: To enable the SecretaryPerishable farm products.Administration of agency to prevent dumping, etc.Vol. 44, p. 1355. of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to prevent the destruction or dumping, without good and sufficient cause therefor, of farm produce received in interstate commerce by commission merchants and others and to require them truly and correctly to account for all farm produce received by them,” approved March 3, 1927, including the employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, and the purchase of such perishable farm products as may be necessary for the detection of violations of the Act, fiscal year 1928, $10,000: *Provided, *That all*Proviso.*Use of receipts, etc. receipts from the sale of such products shall be credited to this appropriation and shall be reexpendable therefrom. federal horticultural boardFederal Horticultural Board.
Eradication of pink bollworm of-cotton: For an additional amountPink bollworm of cotton.Eradication expenses in Arizona. to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet an emergency caused 14 by the appearance of the pink bollworm of cotton in Arizona, New Mexico, and adjoining States, including the same objects specified under the heading “Eradication of pink bollworm ” in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $90,000. For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of AgricultureParlatoria date scale eradication. to meet the emergency caused by the existence of the Parlatoria dates scale in California, Arizona, or any other State, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1928, $25,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929. food, drug, and insecticide administrationFood, Drug, and Insecticide Administration.
For an additional amount for enabling the Secretary of AgriculturePure food inspection, etc.Vol. 34, p. 768. to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1906, entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated, or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,” including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $5,000.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect theMilk and Cream Act.Enforcement expenses.Vol. 44, p. 1101. provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the importation of milk and cream into the United States for the purpose of promoting the dairy industry of the United States and protecting the public health,” approved February 15, 1927, fiscal year 1928, $50,000, of which amount not to exceed $4,350 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. miscellaneous To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisionsFederal Caustic Poison Act.Enforcement expenses.Vol. 44, p. 1406. of the Act entitled “An Act to safeguard the distribution and sale of certain dangerous caustic or corrosive acids, alkalies, and other substances in interstate and foreign commerce,” approved March 4, 1927, fiscal year 1928, $23,000, of which amount not to exceed $10,490 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the ActSouth Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station.Cooperation with, in dairying and livestock industries.Vol. 44, p. 1397. entitled “An Act authorizing an appropriation to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with the South Carolina Experiment Station,” approved March 3, 1927, including the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, fiscal year 1928, $25,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct special investigationsMushrooms.Investigations of insect pests, etc., of. of insect pests and fungous diseases attacking mushrooms, including the employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and other expenses, as may be necessary, $12,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929; of such amount $7,400 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. national arboretumNational Arboretum.
For the acquisition of land pursuant to the Act entitled “An ActAcquiring land for.Vol. 44, p. 1422. authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national arboretum, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1927, and for necessary expenses incident thereto, including the employment of persons and contracting for title abstract services in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $300,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929. 15 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDepartment of Commerce. office of the secretarySecretary’s Office.
Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privatelyDamages claims. owned property adjusted and determined by the Department of Commerce under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toVol. 42, p. 1066. provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 569 and 731, Sixty-ninth Congress, and House Document Numbered 73, Seventieth Congress, $869.80.
Aircraft in commerce: Of the appropriation for aircraft in commerceAircraft in Commerce.Allowance for personal services in the District.Vol. 44, p. 1200. contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1928, a total of not to exceed $165,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. bureau of foreign and domestic commerceForeign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees:Transporting families of officers, etc.
For an additional amount covering the same objects and purposes specified under this heading in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1928, $10,000. bureau of lighthousesLighthouses Bureau. Claims for damages: To pay the claims adjusted and determinedCollision damages claims.Vol. 36, p. 537. by the Commissioner of Lighthouses and approved by the Secretary of Commerce under the provisions of section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 537), on account of damages occasioned to private property by collision with vessels of the Lighthouse Service and for which the vessels of the Lighthouse Service were responsible, as set forth in House Document Numbered 568 and Senate Document Numbered 222, Sixty-ninth Congress, and House Document Numbered 73, Seventieth Congress, $609.52.
Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged inRetired pay. the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, fiscal year 1928, $33,000. bureau of the censusCensus Bureau. Census of agriculture: For an additional amount for the censusAgricultural census.Expenses of compiling.Vol. 43, p. 228. of agriculture, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1925, and including compensation of temporary employees who may be appointed under the civil-service rules at perTemporary employees. diem rates to be fixed by the Director of the Census without regard to the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal year 1928, $55,000. bureau of standardsStandards Bureau.
Power plant equipment, Bureau of Standards: For the purchaseNew power plant, etc. and installation of new power and heating plant equipment, together with such auxiliary equipment as may be necessary, the moving and installing of equipment on hand and the tie-in with the present heating and power systems; including contract labor and personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1928, $100,000. Sugar standardization, Bureau of Standards: For an additionalSugar standardization.Additional amount. amount covering the same objects and purposes specified under this heading in the Act making appropriations for the Department of 16 Commerce for the fiscal year 1928, $25,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929, of which amount not to exceed $11,040 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. bureau of navigationNavigation Bureau.
Wireless communication laws: For an additional amount coveringWireless communication laws.Expenses of administering.Vol. 44, p. 1174. the same objects and purposes specified under this heading in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1928, including expenses of the Federal Radio Commission to and including January 31, 1928, $84,000, and, in addition thereto, $60,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriationUnexpended balance available.Vol. 44, p. 355.
“Enforcement of wireless communication laws,” fiscal year 1927, is hereby reappropriated and made available under the appropriation for similar purposes for the fiscal year 1928. coast and geodetic surveyCoast and Geodetic Survey. For all necessary expenses for the construction and equipment ofSurveying vessel, etc.Constructing and equipping. one surveying vessel, including purchase or preparation of plans and specifications and traveling expenses of inspectors, and for the purchase or construction of one tender of from fifty to sixty tons, including equipment, $408,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929. bureau of fisheriesFisheries Bureau.
Power vessel: For the purchase or construction of a vessel for theBoothbay Harbor, Me.Power vessel for station at. Boothbay Harbor, Maine, fisheries station, including Diesel engine and equipment, and including contract personal service, not to exceed $1,000, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere as may be necessary to prepare plans and specifications therefor, $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929. Fish hatchery, Neosho, Missouri: For general repairs and improvementsNeosho, Mo.Repairs, etc., to hatchery. to grounds, ponds, water supply, and buildings, $15,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929.
Fish hatchery, Springville, Utah: For repairs to the cottage,Springville, Utah.Repairs, etc., to hatchery. ponds, and water supply, and for the construction of a garage and workshop at the Springville, Utah, fisheries station, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $8,000. bureau of minesMines Bureau. Oil-shale investigations: For development of oil shale, includingOil shale investigations.Operation of plant, etc. purchase or mining and transportation of shale, operation, repairs, and alteration of plant, the construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto, and the alteration, operation, and maintenance of experimental refinery, and for all necessary expenses incident thereto, including personal services, supplies, equipment, and traveling expenses, fiscal year 1928, $45,000, of which amount not to exceed $4,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Economics of mineral industries, Bureau of Mines: Of the appropriationMineral industries investigations.Allowance for service in the District increased.Vol. 44, p. 1217. for economics of mineral industries contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1928, a total of not to exceed $170,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Garage at Norton, Virginia, Bureau of Mines: For building andNorton, Va.Addition to garage. equipping an addition to the garage at Norton, Virginia, for storage and handling of mine rescue and first-aid supplies and equipment, fiscal year 1928, $5,000. 17 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORInterior Department. office of the secretarySecretary’s Office.
Damage claims: To pay the claims for damages to privatelyDamages claims. owned property adjusted and determined by the Department of theVol. 42, p. 1066. Interior under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in Senate Dciument Numbered 222 and House Document Numbered 645, Sixty-ninth Congress, $1,654.58. bureau of indian affairsIndian Affairs Bureau.
Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies: For expensesSupplies, purchase, transportation, etc. necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith, including advertising, storage, and transportation of Indian goods and supplies for the fiscal years that follow: For 1923, $110.06; 1924, $12,193.05; 1926, $91,910.27; 1927, $80,286; in all, $184,499.38. Payment of judgment against Cherokee Indians, Oklahoma (tribalCherokees, Okla.Payment of judgment against, from tribal funds. funds):
For payment of the judgment rendered June 23, 1924, by the United States Court of Claims against the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma, and in favor of the United States, in the case of the Cherokee Nation against the United States, Numbered 34449, in the Court of Claims, which judgment was for the cost of printing the record in the case and was affirmed on April 12, 1926, by the Supreme Court of the United States, $31.70, payable from funds to the credit of the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma.
Suppressing contagious diseases among livestock of Indians: ForDiseased livestock.Reimbursing Indians for animals destroyed. reimbursing Indians for livestock which may be hereafter destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $20,000.
Paiute allotted lands, Truckee-Carson project, Nevada (reimbursable):Paiute Indian Reservation, Nev.Payment to Truckee-Carson irrigation district for irrigation charges, etc., on lands of.Vol. 44, p. 771.*Post, * p. 1575. To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the cancellation and remittance of construction assessments against allotted Paiute Indian lands irrigated under the Newlands reclamation project in the State of Nevada and to reimburse the Truckee-Carson irrigation district for certain expenditures for the operation and maintenance of drains for said lands,” approved June 26, 1926, fiscal years 1924 and 1925, $611.55.
Indian pueblos, New Mexico: For carrying out the provisions ofIndian pueblos, N. Mex.Survey, etc., as to irrigability of lands of.Vol. 44, p. 1098. the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation for reconnaissance work in conjunction with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District to determine whether certain lands of the Cochiti, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Sandia, and Isleta Indians are susceptible of reclamation, drainage, and irrigation,” approved February 14, 1927, fiscal year 1928, $50,000.
Indian school, Santa Fe, New Mexico: For construction and equipmentSante Fe School, N. Mex.Boys’ dormitory. of new boys’ dormitory, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $80,000. Sequoyah Orphan Training School, Oklahoma: To provide anSequoyah Orphan Training School, Okla.Water supply. adequate water supply, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $12,000. Compensation to certain pueblos in New Mexico for losses: ToPueblos in New Mexico.Payment for loss of lands, by Pueblo Lands Board findings. compensate the Indians of Jemez and Tesuque pueblos, in the State of New Mexico, for loss of lands and water rights, in accordance 18 with the findings of the Pueblo Lands Board created by section 2 of the Act approved June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, pageVol. 43, p. 636.Distribution. 636), $29,801.20, of which sum $500 shall be credited on the books of the Treasury Department to the Indians of Jemez pueblo and $29,301.20 to the Indians of Tesuque pueblo, such sums to draw interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum: *Provided, *That the*Provisos.* $500 credited to the Indians of Jemez pueblo is hereby made availablePurchase of land and water rights. until June 30, 1929, for the purchase of land and water rights for such Indians, and $14,150 of the sum credited to the Indians of Tesuque pueblo is hereby authorized to be expended during the fiscal years 1928 and 1929 in providing an additional water supply for such pueblo: *Provided further, *That the remainder of such funds,Distribution of remainder. and the interest thereon, shall be subject to future appropriation by Congress.
Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians (tribal funds): To enableKiowas, etc., Okla.Payment of attorneys from oil royalties trust fund of.Vol. 44, p. 740.Concurrent Resolutions, p. 1. the Secretary of the Interior to make payment of fees to the attorneys (their heirs or their assignees now of record, as their interest may appear) of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, under a tribal contract approved October 12, 1923, fiscal year 1928, $85,000, payable out of the fund held in trust for said tribes under the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered 36, approved June 12, 1926.
To pay to the Indians of the Shawnee Tribe, and thirteen DelawareShawnees, etc., Okla.Payment to, under treaty provisions.*Post, * p. 1550. Indians affiliated with the same tribe, their heirs or legal representatives, in accordance with the official findings, arbitration award, and report of the Secretary of the Interior to Congress made in pursuance of the twelfth article of the treaty between the United States and the Shawnee Indians proclaimed October 14, 1868 (Fifteenth Statutes at Large, page 513), the sum of $463,732.49:Vol. 15, p. 513. *Provided, *That out of said sum there shall be paid to the attorneys*Provisos.*Amount for attorneys. for said Indians 10 per centum of the above amount in full satisfaction and in lieu of the contract dated May 26, 1909, and extensions thereof dated April 21, 1919, and January 31, 1924, calling for 20 per centum: *And provided further, *That before payment of the*Provisos.*Amount for attorneys. amount hereby appropriated the Indian beneficiaries or their legal representatives entitled to said awards shall execute in writing a receipt, release, and relinquishment of any and all claims arising under the twelfth article of said treaty which they may have against the United States, and which receipt, release, and relinquishment shall be approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior and which shall be binding, when executed and approved, on all parties thereto.
The Shawnee Indian superintendent and the council of the tribe at Shawnee, Oklahoma, are authorized to execute and shall execute a release binding on all beneficiaries having no legal representatives. Road, Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona: For the improvementPapago Reservation, Ariz.Improvement of road within, from Tucson to Ajo.Vol. 44, p. 762. and construction of the uncompleted part of the road from Tucson to Ajo, by way of Indian Oasis, within the Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona, as authorized by the Act approved June 23, 1926, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $125,000.
Coolidge Dam across canyon of Gila River near San Carlos,Coolidge Dam, Gila River, Ariz.Construction of, under San Carlos project. Arizona (reimbursable): For construction of the Coolidge Dam across the canyon of the Gila River near San Carlos, Arizona, as authorized by the Act of June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, pagesVol. 43, p. 475. 475, 476), and under the terms and conditions of, and reimbursable as provided in said Act, $3,450,000, to continue available until June 30, 1929: *Provided, *That not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be*Provisos.*Southern Pacific Railway Company.
Payment to, for relocating railroad. Property damages. available for payment to the Southern Pacific Railway Company for relocating its railroad pursuant to its existing contract with the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided further, *That not to exceed 19 $163,452 shall be available for payment of property and other damages: *Provided further. *That not to exceed $72,324 shall beReplacing agency buildings at Rice Station.*Post, * p. 211. available for the replacement at Rice Station, Arizona, of agency buildings to be abandoned at San Carlos, Arizona: *And provided further, *That not to exceed $17,718 shall be available for enlargementEnlarging boarding school. of the Rice Station boarding school to accommodate pupils from the day school to be abandoned at San Carlos. bureau of pensionsPensions Bureau.
Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minorArmy and Navy pensions. children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, fiscal year 1928, $46,000,000: *Provided, *That the appropriation*Provisos.*Navy, from naval pension fund. aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for thatSeparate accounting. purpose: *Provided further, *That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. bureau of reclamationReclamation Bureau.
Refund of construction charges: For refunds of constructionPermanently unproductive lands.Construction charges on, refunded. charges heretofore paid on permanently unproductive lands excluded from the Federal reclamation projects specified in the Act approved May 25, 1926, in accordance with section 42 of such Act, fiscal yearsVol. 44, p. 647. 1928 and 1929, $100,000, to be paid out of the reclamation fund. For personal services and traveling and other expenses necessaryHatch and Santa Teresa, N.
Mex.Expenses determining property losses by overflow of Rio Grande at. to enable the Secretary of the Interior to determine the property loss by flood sustained by certain property owners residing at or in the vicinity of Hatch and Santa Teresa, New Mexico, in accordanceVol. 44, p. 1792. with the provisions of the Act of February 25, 1927 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 1792, Private, Numbered 396, Sixty-ninthFrom reclamation fund. Congress), $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended from the Reclamation fund. national park serviceNational Park Service.
Roads and trails, national parks: For the construction, reconstruction, Roads and trails. and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, $1,000,000, being part of theVol. 44, p. 966. amount of the contractual authorization contained in the Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928, approved January 12, 1927. bureau of educationEducation Bureau.
Education of natives of Alaska: Not exceeding $3,064.84 of theAlaska natives.Balance available for travel and the “Boxer.” unexpended balance of this appropriation for the fiscal year 1926 shall be available for the payment of obligations, as follows: Traveling expenses, $625, and freight, including operation of UnitedVol. 43, p. 1180. States ship Boxer, $2,439.84, in addition to the amounts appropriated for those objects under this head for said fiscal year. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice. office of the attorney generalAttorney General’s Office.
Salaries: For salaries, Department of Justice, including the sameOffice personnel. objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1928, $25,400. 20 Contingent expenses: For the purchase of law books, books ofLaw books, etc. reference, and periodicals, including the exchange thereof, for the Department of Justice, fiscal year 1928, $1,925: *Provided, *That not*Proviso.*Price limit, U. S. Code, Annotated. to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid for the current and future volumes of the United Sates Code, Annotated. contingent expenses, department of justice Traveling and miscellaneous expenses:
For traveling and otherTraveling and miscellaneous expenses. miscellaneous and emergency expenses, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, fiscal year 1927, $2,746.82. miscellaneous objects, department of justice For the enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce, including theEnforcing interstate commerce laws. same objects specified for this purpose in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary, for the fiscal year 1926, $2.50. salaries of judgesJudges, etc.
For the additional amounts required from January 1 to June 30,Additional amount for salaries increased. 1927, inclusive, on account of the increased compensation granted by the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of certain judges of theVol. 44, p. 919. United States,” approved December 13, 1926, under the following appropriation accounts respectively:Designated amounts. “Salaries, Supreme Court, 1927,” $17,452.75; “Salaries of circuit, district, and retired judges, 1927,” $198,457;
“United States Court of Customs Appeals, 1927,” $10,000; “Salaries, Court of Claims, 1927,” $11,441.29; “Salaries, judges, marshals, and so forth, Territory of Alaska, 1927,” $4,503.88; In all, $241,854.92, which shall be credited, respectively, to the appropriation accounts above enumerated. For salaries of United States district judges, including the sameDistrict judges. objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1928, $51,000. marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courtsUnited States courts.
Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals: For salaries, fees, andMarshals. expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1924, $3,841.56. Pay of special assistant attorneys: For assistants to the AttorneySpecial assistant attorneys. General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, for the fiscal year 1923 and prior years, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary, for the fiscal year 1923, $5,000.
Salaries and expenses of clerks: For salaries of clerks of UnitedClerks. States district courts, their deputies, and assistants, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1.928, $25,000. 21 Fees of commissioners: For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes of the United States, for the fiscal years that follow:Commissioners.[R.
S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189). For 1922, $585.70. For 1925, $13,098.70. For 1927, $25,000. Costs taxed against the United States: For the payment of costsMexican Petroleum Company.Costs taxed against United States in case of. taxed against the United States by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in the case of United States of America, owner of the steamship Samoset, libelant, against Mexican Petroleum Company, owner of the oil barges Numbered 11 and Numbered 12, respondent, fiscal year 1926, $33.20.
For the payment of the cost of a transcript of testimony for theEarl Battice.Payment for transcript of testimony in case against. defendant, furnished by direction of the court, in the case of the United States against Earl Battice, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, fiscal year 1928, $672. Compensation and expenses of commissioner in case of State ofOklahoma against Texas.Compensation and expenses of boundary-line commissioners, etc. Oklahoma against State of Texas:
For payment of one third of the costs of executing the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, dated January 3, 1927, in the case of the State of Oklahoma, complainant, against the State of Texas, defendant; the United States of America intervenor, numbered 6, original, October term, 1926, including the compensation and expenses of the commissioner appointed by the court to run, locate, and mark the boundary between the State of Oklahoma and the State of Texas, $18,000, to remain available until the completion of such work and to be paid on thePayment on order of the court. order of the court.
Pay of bailiffs, and so forth: For bailiffs and criers, and so forth,Bailiffs, etc. including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1927, $20,162.78. Books for judicial officers: For the purchase and rebinding of lawLaw books.Purchase and rebinding. books, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1924, $10.
For the purchase of law books, including the exchange thereof, forAdditional appropriation. United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the libraries of the nine United States circuit courts ofFederal Reporter. appeals, for the purchase of the Federal Reporter and continuations thereto as issued, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, fiscal year 1928, $55,399: *Provided, *That all books purchased*Provisos.*Transmittal to successors. hereunder shall be marked, plainly, “The property of the United States,” and shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office: *Provided further, *That not to exceed $2 per volume shall bePrice limit for U.
S. Code, Annotated. paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated. penal and correctional institutionsPenal institutions, etc. United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the UnitedPenitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.Maintenance. States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1927, $5,000.
United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For establishmentAtlanta, Ga.Power plant, water system, etc. of a water system, purchase and installation of new boilers and other machinery, construction, repairs, and alterations to power plant, and all other expenses connected with either the water system or power plant, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $250,000, and in addition theretoUnexpended balance available for machinery, etc.Vol. 44, p. 348. the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 for the fiscal year 1927 for the purchase and installation of new boilers, shall 22 be available for the purposes of this paragraph: *Provided, *That the*Proviso.*Engineer for preparing plans, etc.
Attorney General may contract with an engineer for the preparation of plans, listing of specifications, supervision, superintendence of all work, and the performance of any other duties necessary to the construction of a complete power plant and the establishment of a water system. Not exceeding $14,000 of the working-capital fund for the fiscalTextile mill addition.Vol. 44, p. 348. year 1928 shall be available for the completion of the addition to the textile mill building. United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington:
For theMcNeil Island, Wash.Maintenance. United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1928, including not to exceed $12,900 for salaries of officers and employees, $12,900. For extension of underground water system and repairs to existingWater supply, etc. water system, equipment for wells, construction of water reservoir, installation of water supply on farm, repairs to docks and dolphins, construction of breakwater bulkheads, and purchase and installation of oil-burning equipment, oil-storage tanks, pumps and piping, including all necessary labor and supplies in connection with the above, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $62,250.
Credit is authorized and directed in the account of the warden ofWarden.Credited for purchase of engine room equipment.Vol. 41, p. 207. the United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, with payment of $523.46 made during the fiscal year 1924 for purchase of additional boiler and engine room equipment, which was inadvertently charged to the appropriation for construction of buildings contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved July 19, 1919. United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio:
Not toIndustrial Reformatory.Construction of brick manufacturing plant.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 348. exceed $100,000 of the appropriation “United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio, 1927,” shall remain available until June 30, 1929, to enable the Attorney General to furnish the necessary material, supplies, and equipment, and to defray such other expenses as may be necessary to provide adequate facilities for the employment of prisoners and the development of the institution inVol. 43, p. 724. accordance with the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of a United States Industrial Reformatory,” approved January 7, 1925: *Provided, *That the inmates of the United States Industrial Reformatory*Proviso.*Employment of inmates restricted. shall be employed only in the production and manufacture of supplies for the United States Government, for consumption in United States institutions, and in duties necessary for the construction and maintenance of the institution.
Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, WestFederal Institution for Women.Construction work.Balances available. Virginia: The unexpended balances of the appropriations for construction work of $909,100 contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925, and continued available during the fiscal year 1927 by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926, and of $1,509,300 containedVol. 43, p. 1334.Vol. 44, p. 861. in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926, shall remain available until June 30, 1929.
National Training School for Boys: For the National TrainingNational Training School for Boys.Support of inmates. School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1927, $1,805.37. Support of United States prisoners: For the support of UnitedSupport of United States prisoners. States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts mailing appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1924, $6,141.18. 23 For 1925, $7,576.26. For support of United States prisoners, including the same objectsFor 1927. specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice and for the judiciary for the fiscal year 1927, $420,965.07. DEPARTMENT OF LABORDepartment of Labor. office of the secretarySecretary’s Office. Damage claims: To pay the claim in favor of James O’ConnellJames O’Connell.Payment of property damage claim. for damage to his property, as adjusted and determined by the Secretary of Labor, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 inVol. 42, p. 1066. any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, and as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 645, Sixty-ninth Congress, $35.97.
Salaries: Not to exceed $5,240 of the appropriation for expenses ofSalaries.Transfer of immigration expenses for, in office of Secretary.Vol. 44, p. 1222. regulating immigration, fiscal year 1928, shall be available for transfer to the appropriation for salaries, office of the Secretary of Labor, fiscal year 1928. bureau of immigrationImmigration Bureau. For refund of amount covered by cashier’s check numbered 15824First State Bank and Trust Company, Laredo, Tex.Refund of security for alien Sergei Chacotcin. of the First State Bank and Trust Company, of Laredo, Texas, deposited as security on bond furnished in the case of the alien Sergei Chacotcin, who departed from the United States in accordance with the terms of the bond, fiscal year 1928, $500.
For refund of amount covered by cashier’s check numbered 15823Refund of security for alien Peter Koklagin. of the First State Bank and Trust Company, of Laredo, Texas, deposited as security on bond furnished in the case of the alien Peter Koklagin, who departed from the United States in accordance with the terms of the bond, fiscal year 1928, $500. children’s bureauChildren’s Bureau. For an additional amount required for the promotion of the welfareMaternity and infancy hygiene. and hygiene of maternity and infancy, including the same objects specified under this head in the appropriation Act for the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1927, $40,354.
NAVY DEPARTMENTNavy Department. office of the secretarySecretary’s Office. Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privatelyProperty damages claims. owned property adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide aVol. 42, p. 1066. method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 645 and 731, Sixty-ninth Congress, $2,861.22.
To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the SecretaryCollision damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066. of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 645 and 731, Sixty-ninth Congress, $12,815.45. 24 bureau of navigationBureau of Navigation.
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office: ForHydrographic Office.Expenses. purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, copperplates, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $14,000. bureau of engineeringBureau of Engineering. Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machineryEngineering repairs, etc. and auxiliary machinery, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $435,000. bureau of construction and repairBureau of Construction and Repair.
Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completionConstruction and repair of vessels. of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $565,000. bureau of supplies and accountsBureau of Supplies and Accounts. For the reimbursement of A. T. Marix, colonel, United StatesA. T. Marix.Reimbursement of. Marine Corps, retired, for the loss by fire of personal property in Christiania, Norway, fiscal year 1928, $1,500.
For reimbursement of Emanuel Xuiereb, chief mechanic, at theEmanuel Xuiereb.Reimbursement of. United States naval hospital, Canacao, Philippine Islands, for the loss of private funds in the form of Liberty bonds, fiscal year 1928, $1,750. For reimbursement of Thomas J. Ryan, lieutenant (junior grade),Thomas J. Ryan.Reimbursement of. United States Navy, for the loss of uniforms, equipment, clothing, and personal effects, as a result of the earthquake and fire disaster in Japan on September 1, 1923, fiscal year 1928, $1,221.65.
The Navy pension fund is hereby made available for the paymentNavy pension fund.Payment of allowed claims from. of the claims, amounting to $127.22, allowed by the General Accounting Office in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 29, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 499), as set forth in Senate DocumentVol. 40, p. 499. Numbered 221, Sixty-ninth Congress. The Navy pension fund is hereby made available for the payment of the claim, amounting to $175.43, allowed by the General Accounting Office in Certificate of Settlement 0162113, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 29, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 499). bureau of yards and docksBureau of Yards and Docks.
The limit upon expenditures for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger,Clerical, etc., services limit increased. and other classified work in the field from appropriating “Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, 1928,” is hereby increasedVol. 44, p. 1289. from $975,000 to $1,000,000. public works, bureau of yards and docksPublic works. Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: For rebuilding railroad,Puget Sound, Wash. $75,000. Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For improvements of centralBoston, Mass. power plant, $7,870.90.
Submarine base, New London, Connecticut: For replacement andNew London, Conn. repair of piers, $150,000. 25 Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba: For replacement of fuel-oilGuantanamo, Cuba. dock, $75,000; reconstruction of marine railway, $25,000; salt-water fire-protection system, $45,000; in all, $145,000. Navy yard, New York: For replacing public works facilitiesNew York, N. Y. destroyed by fire February 9, 1927, $25,000; improvement of Dry Dock Numbered 4, $250,000; in all, $275,000.
Air Stations: Toward the construction of buildings and improvementsAir stations.Construction and improvements at designated.Vol. 44, p. 1340. at air stations, as authorized by the Act approved March 2, 1927, as follows: Coco Solo, Canal Zone, $632,000; Sand Point, Washington, $210,000; San Diego, California, $380,000; Hampton Roads, Virginia, $640,000; in all, $1,862,000. Marine barracks, Parris Island, South Carolina: For constructionParris Island, S. C. of a steel bridge across Archers Creek, $30,000.
Marine barracks, Quantico, Virginia: For construction of publicQuantico, Va.Marine barracks construction.Vol. 44, p. 1101. works as authorized by the Act approved February 15, 1927, $1,650,000; and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such construction at a cost in the aggregate not to exceed $2,205,000. Naval Observatory, Washington, District of Columbia: For repairsNaval Observatory.Repairs. to heating tunnel at intersection of Gilliss Avenue and roadway to main building, and for repairs to balustrade around twelve-inch equatorial dome of main building, $7,500.
Not to exceed an aggregate of $40,000 is made available from theAdditional employees authorized for construction work. foregoing appropriations for “Public works, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” to provide for the employment of classified personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and in the field to be engaged upon such work and to be in addition to employees otherwise provided for. marine corpsMarine Corps. For additional amounts necessary to defray the increased expensesExpenses of guards for United States mails, etc. incident to maintaining armed guards of marines detailed for duty in protecting the United States mails and for expeditionary forces in Nicaragua and China, including the same objects specified in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, under the headings that follow:
Pay, Marine Corps: For allowance for lodging and subsistence ofPay, etc. enlisted men, $8,418, and for mileage and actual and necessary expenses to officers, and so forth, $117,213; in all, fiscal year 1927, $125,631. General expenses, Marine Corps: For provisions, subsistence, boardGeneral expenses. and lodging of enlisted men, and so forth, $596,700; for military supplies and equipment, and so forth, $470,300; for transportation of troops, and so forth, $400,000; for miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, $351,000; in all, fiscal year 1927, $1,818,000. increase of the navyIncrease of the Navy.
Construction and machinery: For an additional amount for theConstruction and machinery. purposes specified under this heading in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $10,800,000. alterations to naval vesselsAlterations to naval vessels. Major alterations, naval vessels: Toward the alterations andModernizing “Oklahoma” and “Nevada.” repairs required for the purpose of modernizing the United States ships Oklahoma and Nevada as authorized by the Act approved March 2, 1927, $6,575,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929:Vol. 44, p. 1343. *Provided, *That the alterations to the capital ships herein authorized*Proviso.*Treaty limitations.
Vol. 43, p. 1655. shall be subject to the limitations prescribed in the treaty limiting naval armaments ratified August 17, 1923. 26 POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTPost Office Department. Out of the Postal Revenues office of postmaster generalPostmaster General’s Office. Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privatelyProperty damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 1066. owned property adjusted and determined by the Post Office Department under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 570 and 731, Sixty-ninth Congress, and House Document Numbered 73, Seventieth Congress, $36,782.02.
Personal or property damage claims: For an additional amountDamages to persons or property. required to enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages to persons or property, in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved June 16, 1921, fiscal yearVol. 42, p. 63. 1926, $4,000. Freight, express or motor transportation of equipment, and soShipment of equipment, supplies, etc. forth: For an additional amount required for the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and supplies for the Post Office Department and the Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, fiscal year 1928, $30,000. office of the chief inspectorField service.Chief Inspector, office.
Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection,Payment of rewards. arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, fiscal year 1926, $25,500: *Provided, *That rewards may*Provisos.*Death of offender. be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: *Provided further, *That noRates limited. part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 7708, dated July 1, 1922. office of first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Postmaster General.
Compensation to postmasters: For an additional amount requiredPostmasters. for compensation to postmasters, fiscal year 1926, $93,693.50. Temporary city delivery carriers: For pay of substitutes forCity delivery carriers. letter carriers absent with pay and of auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices where city delivery is already established, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1923, $26.62; For 1924, $310.63. Special-delivery fees: For fees to special-delivery messengers,Special delivery fees. fiscal year 1925, $275.74.
Pneumatic-tube service: For an additional amount required forPneumatic tube service, New York and Brooklyn, N. Y. the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, fiscal year 1928, $1,800. office of second assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster General. Railway postal clerks, travel allowances: For an additional amountRailway Mail Service.Travel allowances. required for travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, fiscal year 1927, $26,000. 27 Balances due foreign countries:
For balances due foreign countries,Balances due foreign countries. fiscal year 1920, $3,648.41. Balances due foreign countries: For balances due foreign countries,For designated years. including payment of balances to Great Britain for excess parcel-post weights covering the period from January 1, 1919, to September 30, 1924, as follows: Fiscal year 1919, $31,764.90; 1920, $45,814.13; 1921, $10,731.15; 1922, $21,321.52; 1923, $13,567.56; 1924, $9,094.68; 1925, $2,273.68; in all, $134,567.62.
Balances due foreign countries: For an additional amount requiredNorway, Sweden, and Denmark.Interest on balances due.Vol. 35, p. 1661.Vol. 42, p. 1997. for payment of interest to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark on balances found due by arbitral sentence under the provisions of article 23 of the Universal Postal Union of Rome and under the provisions of article 25 of the Universal Postal Convention of Madrid, fiscal year 1927, $4,531.18. Contract air mail service: For an additional amount required forContract air mail service.Vol. 43, p. 805. 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, fiscal yearVol. 44, p. 692. 1928, $2,000,000. office of fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General.
Mail bags and equipment: Not to exceed $600,000 of the appropriationMail bags, etc.Amount for personal services increased.Vol. 44, p. 1051. “Mail bags and equipment, 1928,” may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, in lieu of the amount of $500,000 specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1928. out of the general fund of the treasury Payment to W. F. Morgareidge: For carrying into effect the ActW.
F. Morgareidge.Payment to.Vol. 44, p. 1745. entitled “An Act for the relief of W. F. Morgareidge,” approved July 3, 1926, fiscal year 1928, $364.30. DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State. Contingent expenses, United States consulates: For an additionalContingent expenses, consulates. amount for the contingent expenses of United States consulates, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1928, $35,000.
Contingent expenses, foreign missions: For contingent expensesContingent expenses, missions. of foreign missions, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1928, $70,000. Transportation of Foreign Service officers: To pay the travelingTransportation. expenses of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1928, $25,000.
Transporting remains of Foreign Service officers and clerks: ForTransporting remains from abroad. defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers of the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1926, $713.16. Foreign Service buildings fund: For the purpose of carrying intoForeign Service buildings fund.Payments authorized.Vol. 44, p. 403. effect the provisions of the “Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926,” and for each and every object thereof, including the initial alterations, repair, and furnishing of buildings heretofore acquired under specific authorization of Congress for the use of the diplomatic and 28 consular establishments in foreign countries, $700,000, to remain available until expended.
Consular building, Amoy, China: The unexpended balances of theAmoy, China.Balances available. appropriations for acquisition of buildings and grounds and construction at Amoy, China, continued available until June 30, 1927, by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926, shall remain availableVol. 44, p. 867. until expended. Water boundary, United States and Mexico: For an additionalMexican Water Boundary Commission.Additional amount for.Vol. 44, p. 1185. amount for the water boundary, United States and Mexico, covering the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1927, and including also personal services and supplies and equipment for the installation of additional gauging stations and the improvement and operation of existing stations on the Rio Grande, fiscal year 1928, $21,000, which amount, together with so much as may be necessary of the appropriation “Water boundary, United States and Mexico, 1928,” may be transferred by the Secretary of State, with theTransfer to Geological Survey. approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to the United States Geological Survey for direct expenditure.
International Radiotelegraphic Convention: The unexpended balanceInternational Radiotelegraphic Convention.Unexpended balance available for Conference on Revision of.Vol. 43, p. 1340. of the appropriation made by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925, approved March 4, 1925, for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to the Conference for Revision of the International Radiotelegraphic Convention of July 5, 1912, to be held in Washington, and continued available until June 30, 1927, by the Act approved July 3, 1926, shall remain available until June 30, 1928, for such purposes, and shall also be available to reimburse the appropriationVol. 44, p. 865.
“Emergencies Arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, 1928,” for expenditures made therefrom on account of such conference, including expenditures made for official cards and on contracts for stenographic reporting services. Preparatory Commission on Armaments: For the expenses ofPreparatory Commission on Armaments.Expenses, participating in.Vol. 44, p. 1404. further participation by the United States in the work of the preparatory commission at Geneva, for the purpose of making preliminary studies and preparations for a conference on the reduction and limitation of armaments, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including compensation of employees, travel, subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence in amounts authorized in the discretion of the Secretary of State (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act); and such other expenses as the President shall deem proper, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $70,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929.
Waterways treaty, United States and Great Britain; InternationalJoint Canadian Boundary Waterways Commission. Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain: For an additional amount for the waterways treaty, United States and Great Britain; International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain, covering the same objects specified under this headVol. 44, pp. 338, 1188. in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1927, approved April 29, 1926, and for the expenses of making such further investigations and taking such further action as may be deemed necessary in relation to the boundary waters within the scope of the treaty of January 11, 1909, between the United States and Great Britain, and waters flowing into or therefrom, including personal services within the District of Columbia or elsewhere, travel, and such other expenses as the Secretary of State shall deem proper, $25,000. to remain available until June 30, 1929.
International Fisheries Commission: For an additional amount forHalibut Fisheries Commission. the International Fisheries Commission, including the same objects 29 specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1928, $3,000. Expenses of prisons for American convicts: For an additionalPrisons for American convicts. amount for the expenses of prisons for American convicts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1928, $5,000.
International water commission, United States and Mexico: TheRio Grande and Colorado River.Unexpended balance for Commission on distribution of waters of.Vol. 43, pp. 692, 1340. unexpended balance of the appropriation of $20,000 made by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, and continued available until June 30, 1927, for the Commission on Equitable Use of Waters of the Rio Grande, shall remain available until June 30, 1928 for the expenses, including the purchase, at not to exceed $1,500, and maintenanceMotor vehicle for commission.Vol. 44, p. 1403. of a passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicle, of the commission authorized by the resolution approved March 3, 1927, entitled “Joint resolution amending the Act of May 13, 1924, entitled ‘An Act providing a study regarding the equitable use of the waters of the Rio Grande, and so forth.
” Any moneys received from the Republic of Mexico for the purposeMoneys from Mexico covered into the Treasury. of securing information on which to base a treaty between the United States and Mexico relative to the use of the waters of the Rio Grande, Lower Colorado, and Tia Juana Rivers as authorized by the Act of March 3, 1927, shall be covered into the Treasury. Payment to Etelka Bell: For payment to Etelka Bell, widow ofEtelka Bell.Payment to.Vol. 44, p. 1702. Edward Bell, late counselor of legation and chargé d’affaires at the American Embassy at Peking, China, as authorized by the Act approved July 3, 1926, fiscal year 1928, $9,000.
Payment to Edith L. Bickford: For payment to Edith L Bickford,Edith L. Bickford.Payment to.Vol. 44, p. 1701. widow of George F. Bickford, late consul at Antung, China, as authorized by the Act approved July 3, 1926, fiscal year 1928, $3,500. Payment to Agnes W. Wilcox: For payment to Agnes W. WilcoxAgnes W. Wilcox.Payment to.Vol. 44, p. 1766. widow of Henry T. Wilcox, late American consul at Vigo, Spain, as authorized by the Act approved February 9, 1927, fiscal year 1928, $4,500.
TREASURY DEPARTMENTTreasury Department. office of the secretarySecretary’s Office. Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses of privatelyDamages claims. owned property adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An ActVol. 42, p. 1066. to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 645 and 731 and Senate Documents Numbered 222 and 227, Sixty-ninth Congress, and House Document Numbered 73, Seventieth Congress, $6,467.37. division of bookkeeping and warrantsBookkeeping and Warrants Division.
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, fiscal year 1928, $7,500. 30 customs serviceCustoms Service. For the payment of claims for refund of duties paid on domesticDomestic animals.Refund of duties on, recrossing boundary.Vol. 44, p. 629. animals and offspring thereof returned to the United States in accordance with the provisions of the public resolution approved May 24, 1926, fiscal year 1928, $4,690.95. federal farm loan bureauFederal Farm Loan Bureau.
Salaries: For an additional amount required for salaries of membersSalaries, etc. of the board and for other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, fiscal year 1928, $75,000; Miscellaneous expenses: For an additional amount required forMiscellaneous expenses. miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects of expenditure specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1928, $10,000; and said appropriation for miscellaneous expenses is hereby made available for law books, periodicals, newspapers, contract stenographic reporting services, and expert services for the preparation of amortization tables: *Provided, *That whenever, during the fiscal year ending June*Proviso.*Motor-vehicle travel allowance. 30, 1928, the Farm Loan Board shall find that the expenses of travel can be reduced thereby, it may, in lieu of actual operating expenses, under such regulations as it may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for automobile, used for necessary travel on official business;
In all, Federal Farm Loan Bureau, $85,000, payable from assessmentsPayable from bank assessments. upon Federal and joint-stock land banks and Federal intermediate credit banks. internal revenueInternal Revenue. Refunding taxes illegally collected: For an additional amountRefunding taxes illegally collected. required for refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisions of sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the[R. S., secs. 3220, 3689, pp. 618, 725](/us/rs/s3220/3689/pp618/725).
Vol. 40, p. 1145; Vol. 42, p. 314; Vol. 43, p. 342; Vol. 44, p. 115. Revenue Acts of 1918, 1921, 1924, and 1926, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1928 and prior years, $43,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1928: *Provided, *That a report shall*Provisos.*Report to Congress. be made to Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by such Acts, including the names of all persons and corporations to whom payments are made together with the amount paid to each: *Provided further, *That no part of this appropriation shall be availableRefunding excise tax on automobile accessories, etc. to refund any amount paid by or collected from any manufacturer, producer, or importer in respect of the tax imposed by subdivision
(3)of section 600 of the Revenue Act of 1924, or subdivision
(3)of section 900 of the Revenue Act of 1921 or of the Revenue Act of 1918, unless the Commissioner of Internal Revenue certifies to theBond required from manufacturer, etc., to repay amount not distributed to purchaser, etc. proper disbursing officer that such manufacturer, producer, or importer has filed with the Commissioner, under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, a bond in such sum and with such sureties as the Commissioner deems necessary, conditioned upon the immediate repayment to the United States of such portion of the amount refunded as is not distributed by such manufacturer, producer, or importer, within six months after the date of the payment of the refund, to the persons who purchased for purposes of consumption (whether from such manufacturer, producer, importer, or from any other person) the articles in respect of which the refund is made, as evidenced by the affidavits (in such form and containing such statements as the Commissioner may prescribe) of such purchasers, and that such bond, in the case of a claim allowed after the passage of this Act, was filed before the allowance of the claim by the Commissioner. 31 bureau of prohibitionProhibition Bureau. Enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts: TheEnforcing Narcotic and Prohibition Acts.Limitation for services in the District increased. limitations upon the amount which may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia under this head in the Acts making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscalVol. 44, pp. 143, 1034. years 1927 and 1928, are hereby amended so as to authorize the expenditure of not to exceed $603,600 for said purpose during the fiscal year 1927, and not to exceed $658,320 for said purpose during the fiscal year 1928, and the limitation upon the amount which mayFrom collecting internal revenue. be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia from the appropriation “Collecting the internal revenue, 1928,” is herebyVol. 44, p. 1033. amended so as to authorize the expenditure of not to exceed $8,949,680 for said purpose. coast guardCoast Guard. Rebuilding and repairing stations, and so forth: For an additionalRebuilding stations, etc. amount for rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, fiscal year 1928, $61,600. Mileage, and so forth: For an additional amount for mileage andMileage, etc. expenses, including the same objects of expenditure specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1928, $15,000. Communication lines, and so forth: For an additional amount forCoastal communication, etc. coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance, fiscal year 1928, $30,000. public health servicePublic Health Service. Pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals: For an additionalHospitals.Personnel and maintenance. amount for pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1928, $124,891. Preventing the spread of epidemic diseases: For an additionalPrevention of epidemics. amount required for preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, including the same objects of expenditure specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1928, $95,388. Quarantine service: For an additional amount required for theQuarantine Service. quarantine service, including the same objects of expenditure specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1928, $25,000. miscellaneous public building projectsPublic buildings. New York, New York, courthouse and post office: For reconstructionNew York, N. Y.Courthouse, etc. of roof, $12,000. Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, quarantine station: For new boilerMarcus Hook, Pa. and necessary remodeling of boiler house, rehabilitation of river bulkhead, back filling, repairs of isolation ward, fencing, and incidental work, $21,000. Carville, Louisiana, marine hospital: For water-supply tank, additionalCarville, La. hydrants, additional filters, connecting pipe, $30,000. San Francisco, California, Mint Building: For an additional vaultSan Francisco, Calif.Mint. and work incidental thereto, removing, reconditioning, and using vault doors now in the Subtreasury Building, $90,000. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, post office and courthouse: For removalPittsburgh, Pa. of four old boilers and installation of three new ones, $25,000. 32 New York, New York, quarantine station: For restoration of chemicalNew York, N. Y.Quarantine station. storage building and new roof covering, buildings numbered 2 and 3, $12,000. Outside professional services: For an additional amount requiredOutside professional services. for outside professional services, including the same objects of expenditure specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1928, $350,000: *Provided, *That in all cases where contracts have heretofore been*Proviso.*Payments of contracts for, from appropriations available.Vol. 44, p. 631. entered into or may hereafter be entered into under the provisions of section 2 of the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926, for outside professional services, wherein the period of performance extends beyond the fiscal year in which such contract or contracts were entered into, payments thereunder shall be made from the appropriation “Outside professional services, public buildings,” available at the time payment is due for the particular services rendered. Relief of the Davis Construction Company: For the carrying outDavis Construction Company.Relief of.Vol. 44, p. 1461. of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the Davis Construction Company,” approved April 24, 1926, fiscal year 1928, $32,569.28. public building projects under section 3, public buildings act approved may 25, 1926, as amendedProjects under Public Buildings Act.Vol. 44, pp. 632, 869. Akron, Ohio, post office and other Government offices: For acquisitionAkron, Ohio. of additional land and completion, $366,280. Athens, Tennessee, post office, and so forth: For completion,Athens, Tenn. $30,000. Batavia, Illinois, post office and other Government offices: ForBatavia, Ill. completion, $8,000. Bayonne, New Jersey, post office, and so forth: For completion,Bayonne, N. J. $100,000. Branford, Connecticut, post office and other Government offices:Branford, Conn. For completion, $20,000. Buffalo, Wyoming, post office and other Government offices: ForBuffalo, Wyo. completion, $22,500. Caribou, Maine, post office and other Government offices: ForCaribou, Me. completion, $20,000. Central City, Nebraska, post office and other Government offices:Central City, Nebr. For completion, $10,000. Chicago, Illinois, marine hospital: For completion, $132,000.Chicago, Ill.Marine hospital. Cody, Wyoming, post office and other Government offices: ForCody, Wyo. completion, $40,000. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, post office, courthouse, and so forth: ForCoeur d’Alene, Idaho. completion, $148,200. Des Moines, Iowa, courthouse, and so forth: For completion,Des Moines, Iowa. $474,500. Detroit, Michigan, marine hospital: For completion, $350,000.Detroit, Mich. Donora, Pennsylvania, post office and other Government offices:Donora, Pa. For completion, $20,000. East Las Vegas, New Mexico, post office, courthouse, and otherEast Las Vegas, N. Mex. Government offices: For continuation, $30,000. East Orange, New Jersey, post office and other Government offices:East Orange, N. J. For completion, $160,000. Fallon, Nevada, post office and other Government offices: ForFallon, Nev.Vol. 44, p. 872. completion, $36,500, under an estimated total cost of $90,000, in lieu of $69,500 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926. Fort Fairfield, Maine, post office, customhouse, and other GovernmentFort Fairfield, Me.Vol. 44, p. 872. offices: For completion, $28,000, under an estimated total cost of $90,000, in lieu of $70,000 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926. Fort Plain, New York, post office and other Government offices:Fort Plain, N. Y.Vol. 44, p. 872.For completion, $20,000, under an estimated total cost of $85,000 in lieu of $75,000 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926. 33 Globe, Arizona, post office, courthouse, and other GovernmentGlobe, Ariz. offices: For completion, $65,000. Jamestown, North Dakota, post office, courthouse, and so forth:Jamestown, N. Dak. For completion, $125,000. Lancaster, South Carolina, post office, and so forth: For completion,Lancaster, S. C. $25,000. Leominster, Massachusetts, post office and other Government offices:Leominster, Mass. For continuation, $40,000. Lewistown, Pennsylvania, post office and other Government offices:Lewistown, Pa. For continuation, $45,000. McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, post office and other GovernmentMcKees Rocks, Pa. offices: For completion, $19,500. Madison, Wisconsin, post office, courthouse, and so forth: ForMadison, Wis. completion, $482,000. Marianna, Florida, post office, courthouse, and other GovernmentMarianna, Fla. offices: For continuation, $45,000. Metropolis, Illinois, post office and other Government offices: ForMetropolis, Ill. completion, $40,000. Millville, New Jersey, post office and other Government offices:Millville, N. J. For completion, $60,000. Missoula, Montana, post office, courthouse, and other GovernmentMissoula, Mont. offices: For continuation, $100,000. Montclair, New Jersey, post office, and so forth: For continuation,Montclair, N. J. $30,000. Montevideo, Minnesota, post office and other Government offices:Montevideo, Minn. For continuation, $15,000. Mount Carmel, Illinois, post office, and so forth: For continuation,Mount Carmel, Ill. $10,000. Newburyport, Massachusetts, post office and so forth: For completion,Newburyport, Mass. $27,000. Olyphant, Pennsylvania, post office and other Government offices:Olyphant, Pa. For completion, $5,000. Paxton, Illinois, post office and other Government offices: For completion,Paxton, Ill. $35,000. Red Bluff, California, post office and other Government offices:Red Bluff, Calif. For continuation, $40,000. Sand Point, Idaho, post offices and other Government offices: ForSand Point, Idaho, completion, $10,000. Sayre, Pennsylvania, post office and other Government offices: ForSayre, Pa. completion, $20,000. Shelbyville, Kentucky, post office and other Government offices:Shelbyville, Ky. For completion, $20,000. Southbridge, Massachusetts, post office and other GovernmentSouthbridge, Mass.Vol. 44, p. 872. offices: For completion, $48,000, under an estimated total cost of $110,000, in lieu of $80,000 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926. Syracuse, New York, post office, courthouse, and so forth: ForSyracuse, N. Y. completion, $700,000. Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, post office and other Government offices:Tamaqua, Pa. For completion, $37,000: *Provided, *That the Secretary of the Treasury,*Proviso.*Mineral rights reserved. in his discretion, may accept a title to a site for such building which reserves or excepts all coal or other minerals on the lands with the right of mining same. Tarentum, Pennsylvania, post office and other Government offices:Tarentum, Pa, For completion, $20,000. Tomah, Wisconsin, post office and other Government offices: ForTomah. Wis. completion, $25,000. Utica, New York, post office, customhouse, and courthouse: TowardUtica, N. Y. the construction of the building, $500,000. Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, post office and other GovernmentWaynesburg, Pa. offices: Toward the construction of the building, $50,000. 34 Williamson, West Virginia, post office, courthouse, and so forth:Williamson, W. Va. For completion, $99,000. Wilmington, Ohio, post office and other Government offices: ForWilmington, Ohio. completion, $55,000. Wilson, North Carolina, post office, courthouse, and so forth: ForWilson, N. C. completion, $95,000. Winchester, Massachusetts, post office and other Government offices:Winchester, Mass. For completion, $19,500. Wyandotte, Michigan, post office and other Government offices:Wyandotte, Mich. For completion, $65,000. Yonkers, New York, post office, and so forth: Toward the constructionYonkers, N. Y.Vol. 44, p. 871. of the building $318,603.56; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for the entire estimated cost of such building for not to exceed $520,000, in lieu of $500,000 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926. Total appropriations for projects under section 3, Act of May 25, 1926, as amended, $5,306,583.56. public building projects under section 5, public buildings act approved may 25, 1926, and second deficiency act approved july 3, 1926Remodeling, acquiring sites, etc.Vol. 44, pp. 633, 873. Birmingham, Alabama, post office and courthouse: For completion,Birmingham, Ala. including attic, remodeling, and so forth, $100,000. Chicago, Illinois, post office: For completion of acquisition of site,Chicago, Ill.Post office site. $450,000. Chicago, Illinois, marine hospital: For completion, $100,000, underMarine hospital.Vol. 44, p. 873. an estimated total cost of $200,000, in lieu of $184,000 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926. Memphis, Tennessee, subpost office: Toward extension and remodeling,Memphis, Tenn. $75,000. Total appropriations for projects under section 5, Public Buildings Act of May 25, 1926, and Deficiency Act approved July 3, 1926, $725,000. Corinth, Mississippi, post office, and so forth: For acquisition ofCorinth, Miss. additional land and commencement of extension and rehabilitation of the building, $35,000; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the entire estimated cost of such project for not to exceed $75,000. public building projects in the district of columbia under section 5, public buildings act approved may 25, 1926, as amendedDistrict of Columbia buildings.Vol. 44, pp. 663, 874. Agricultural Department buildings: Toward the construction ofAgricultural Department.Administration Building. the central part of the Administration Building, $750,000. Toward the construction of an extensible building, $1,000,000.Extensible building. Liberty Loan Building: For completion of the construction of twoLiberty Loan Building.Additional stories. additional stories, $125,000. Water mains and other utilities: For water mains, removal orWater mains, etc.Removal, etc., incident to building construction.Vol. 44, p. 631. diversion of such sewers and other utilities as may be necessary incident to construction of buildings in the District of Columbia under the Act approved May 25, 1926, $225,000. Total appropriations for projects in the District of Columbia under section 5, Act of May 25, 1926, as amended, $2,100,000. american printing house for the blindAmerican Printing House for the Blind. To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequatelyEducational books, etc.Vol. 41, p. 272.Vol. 44, 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, as amended by the Act approved February 8, 1927, fiscal year 1928, $25,000. 35 WAR DEPARTMENT—MILITARY ACTIVITIESWar Department. finance departmentFinance Department. Pay, and so forth, of the Army: For pay of the Army, includingPay, etc., of the Army.Fiscal year 1926. the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, $1,000,000. For pay of the Army, including the same objects specified underFiscal year 1927. this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, $2,426,809, and in addition thereto the sum of $271,050 ofAdditional amount available.Vol. 44, p. 262. the appropriation “Incidental expenses of the Army, 1927,” is reappropriated and made available. Damage claims: To pay claims for damages to or losses ofProperty damages claims. privately owned property adjusted and determined by the Secretary of War under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provideVol. 42, p. 1066. a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 567, Sixty-ninth Congress, and House Document Numbered 73, Seventieth Congress, $336.72. For the complete satisfaction of the claims of Colonel Nathan D.Nathan D. Ely and Charles Falkenthal. Ely, Judge Advocate General’s Department, and Charles Falkenthal, master sergeant, Quartermaster Corps, for the loss of personal property stored in Quartermaster warehouses, $375 and $27, respectively; in all, $402. quartermaster corpsQuartermaster Corps. Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies forSubsistence. issue as rations to troops, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $4,535,893. Army transportation: Credit is authorized and directed in theTransportation.Expert service for ferryboat allowed.Vol. 44, p. 877. accounts of disbursing officers of the War Department for the payment of obligations heretofore or hereafter incurred for expert services under existing contract entered into by the War Department in connection with the construction of the ferryboat authorized by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926. The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, through aAmmunition storage.Board of Army and Navy officers to survey location of, in dangerous proximity to populous communities, etc. joint board composed of officers appointed by them, shall make a survey of the points of storage of supplies of ammunition and components thereof for use of the Army and Navy, with special reference to the location of such ammunition and components as are in such proximity to populous communities and industrial areas as to constitute a menace to life and property. The results of such survey shall be embodied in a joint report which the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy shall make to Congress, not later than MarchReport to Congress of results, recommendations, etc. 15, 1928, with their recommendations as to what changes, if any, should be made in such storage facilities and their points of location and the feasibility of the joint use thereof by the Army and Navy. Such expenses of the survey as may not otherwise be chargeable to current appropriations may be defrayed in equal parts from currentAppropriations available. appropriations for “Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department,” and “Current Expenses, Ordnance Service, War Department.” Military posts: For construction and installation at military postsMilitary posts.Construction, etc., of buildings at.Vol. 44, p. 1235. of buildings, utilities, and appurtenances thereto, as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize appropriations for construction at military posts, and for other purposes,” approved February 25, 1927, without reference to sections 1136 and 3734, RevisedRestrictions waived. [R. S., secs. 1136, 3734, pp. 206, 737](/us/rs/s1136/3734/pp206/737). Statutes, including also in connection with the erection of barracks 36 at Fort Jay, Governor’s Island, not to exceed $30,000 for the employment,Fort Jay, N. Y., barracks.Vol. 44, p. 1236. by contract or otherwise, of the services of architects, or firms, or partnerships thereof, and other technical and professional personnel as may be deemed necessary without regard to civil service requirements and restrictions of law governing the employment and compensation of employees of the United States, $6,162,000, toDivision of appropriations.Vol. 44, p. 206. remain available until expended; of this amount $3,680,000 shall be payable from the military post construction fund created by section 4 of the Act approved March 12, 1926, and $2,482,000 shall be payable out of the general fund of the Treasury. For construction and installation of officers’ quarters at FortFort Riley, Kans.Officers’ quarters. Riley, Kansas, including utilities and appurtenances thereto, asVol. 44, p. 1235. authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize appropriations for construction at military posts, and for other purposes,” approvedRestrictions waived. [R. S., secs. 1136, 3734, pp. 206, 737](/us/rs/s1136/3734/pp206/737). March 3, 1927, without reference to sections 1136 and 3734 Revised Statutes, $126,000 to remain available until expended. Fort Douglas, Utah, water and sewers at military post: For theFort Douglas, Utah.Water supply improvement. construction of the necessary dam or dams, reservoir, and pipe lines, together with all necessary accessories and appliances, and for the repair and alteration of existing facilities, to improve and enlarge the water supply at the military post of Fort Douglas, Utah, including every expenditure requisite for and incidental thereto, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $370,000. Walter Reed General Hospital: For completion of the constructionWalter Reed Hospital, D. C.Additional facilities.Vol. 43, p. 1234. of additional facilities authorized by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of additional facilities at Walter Reed General Hospital, in the District of Columbia,” approved March 4,Vol. 44, p. 182. 1925, and the “First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926,” $950,000. Fort Mills, Corregidor, Philippine Islands, central power plant:Fort Mills, P. I.Power plant improvements. For completing repairs to steam plant and changing the present coal plant to oil, construction of facilities to house Diesel engines and oil storage, purchase and installation of three Diesel units in the central power plant, and all other necessary expenses incidental thereto, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $309,000. ordnance departmentOrdnance Department. Armament of fortifications: For purchase, manufacture, and test ofArmament of fortifications.Removing projectiles to Picatinny Arsenal from Lake Denmark. ammunition for seacoast cannon, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, approved February 23, 1927, for expenditure in connection with removing projectiles from Lake Denmark to Picatinny Arsenal, fiscal year 1928, $37,000. Rehabilitation of Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey: For repairingPicatinny Arsenal, N. J.Repairing, rebuilding, etc. and rebuilding the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, including the necessary construction, the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and the purchase of approximately three hundred and fifty acres of land in the vicinity of the arsenal as authorized inVol. 44, p. 1397. the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation to rehabilitate the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey,” approved March 3, 1927, $2,300,000. Distribution of captured war devices and trophies: The unexpendedWar trophies, etc.Unexpended balance available for distributing.Vol. 44, p. 878. balance on June 30, 1927, of the appropriation “Distribution of captured war devices and trophies,” contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926, is extended to June 30, 1928, for the completion of an equitable distribution of captured war devices and trophies under the provisions of an Act approved June 7, 1924,Vol. 43, p. 597; Vol. 44, p. 615. as amended by the Act approved May 22, 1926. 37 bureau of insular affairsInsular Affairs Bureau. Reimbursement of Philippine government: For full reimbursementPhilippine government.Reimbursing, for maintaining alien crews.Vol. 44, p. 1402 to the Philippine government for expenses incurred by it for maintaining alien crews prior to April 6, 1917, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize reimbursement of the Government of the Philippine Islands for maintaining alien crews prior to April 6, 1917,” approved March 3, 1927, fiscal year 1928, $11,400.81. office of chief of engineersChief of Engineers. Salaries, office of Chief of Engineers: In addition to the sumCivilian personnel.Amount for draftsmen, etc., increased.Vol. 44, p. 1124. authorized under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, approved February 23, 1927, the further expenditure of not to exceed $10,000 from appropriations heretofore made is authorized for the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other employees as the Secretary of War may deem necessary in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, surveys, preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, fortifications, engineer equipment of troops, engineer operations in the field, and other military purposes. WAR DEPARTMENT—NONMILITARY ACTIVITIESNonmilitary activities. quartermaster corpsQuartermaster Corps. National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalNational cemeteries.Maintenance. cemeteries, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $94,000. Headstones for graves of American soldiers in Europe: To completeHeadstones for graves in Europe. the furnishing and erecting of headstones for the graves of American soldiers in Europe, $186,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929: *Provided, *That the headstones furnished hereunder*Proviso.*Selection of designs,etc. shall be of such design and material as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of War and the American Battle Monuments Commission. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: For every expenditure requisiteTomb of Unknown Soldier.Securing competitive designs for completing.Vol. 44, p. 915. for or incident to the work of securing competitive preliminary designs for completing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Arlington National Cemetery, as authorized by the public resolution approved July 3, 1926, $2,500, to remain available until June 30, 1929: *Provided, *That in carrying into effect the provisions of such*Proviso.*General authority of Secretary of War. public resolution the Secretary of War is authorized to do all of the things necessary to accomplish this purpose, by contract or otherwise, with or without advertising, including payment for designs submitted under such conditions as he may prescribe. Shiloh National Military Park: For the purchase of additionalShiloh Military Park.Additional land.Vol. 44, p. 826. land within the boundaries of the park, $7,100, to remain available until December 31, 1928. For the payment of obligations incurred prior to July 1, 1925, inAcquiring land to connect with Corinth National Cemetery, Miss. accordance with the Act of June 7, 1924, in connection with the acquisition of a strip of land contiguous to the park, to connect the Shiloh National Military Park with the Corinth (Mississippi) National Cemetery, fiscal year 1928, $14,000. To complete the erection and equipment of a school building inEquipping, etc., school building. Shiloh National Military Park, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $10,000. Moores Creek National Military Park: The appropriationMoores Creek, Military Park.Appropriation continued.Vol. 44, p. 879. “Moores Creek National Military Park, 1927,” $1,500, is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1929. 38 Survey of battle fields: The balance of the appropriation “SurveySurvey of battle fields.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1140. of battle fields, 1928,” $15,000, contained in the War Department Appropriation Act, approved February 23, 1927, is hereby continued and made available for obligation to and including June 30, 1929, including mileage to officers and traveling expenses of civilian employees traveling on duty in connection with the survey of battle fields. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial:Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial.Establishing, as a National Military Park.Vol. 44, p. 1091. For commencing the establishment of a national military park to be known as the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial, as authorized by the Act approved February 14, 1927, including the condemnation, purchase or lease of the necessary lands, surveys, maps, marking the boundaries of the park, opening, constructing, or repairing necessary roads, pay and expenses of commissioners, salaries for labor and services, traveling expenses, supplies and materials, $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929. Stones River (Tennessee) National Military Park: For the establishmentStones River Military Park, Tenn.Establishment of.Vol. 44, p. 1399. of a national military park at the battle field of Stones River, Tennessee, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Stones River, Tennessee,” approved March 3, 1927, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $5,000. Memorials: The appropriations “Memorial to Virginia Dare, 1927,”Memorials to Virginia Dare and Roger Williams.Appropriations continued. $2,500, and “Memorial to Roger Williams, 1927,” $1,500, are continued and made available during the fiscal year 1929. Lincoln Birthplace Memorial: For improvement of the road providingLincoln Birthplace Memorial.Improving road to. access to the memorial hall and the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born and for repairs and minor improvements in connection with such buildings and reservation, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $5,000, to be expended under the direction of the Quartermaster General. medical departmentMedical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and the necessary transportation, fiscal year 1928, $36,385. chief of engineersChief of Engineers. Cape Cod Canal: For the purchase of the Cape Cod Canal and otherCape Cod Canal.Purchase of, etc.Vol. 44, p. 1015. property pertaining thereto, in accordance with seoction 2 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved January 21, 1927, $5,500,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929. Emergency flood control, Mississippi River: For reimbursementMississippi River flood control.Reimbursing appropriation for emergency expenses of.Vol. 44, p. 1142. of the appropriation for “Flood control, Mississippi River,” and the appropriation for “Maintenance and improvement of existing river and harbor works,” for amounts expended therefrom for emergency work on the lower Mississippi River on account of the flood of 1927, $7,000,000: *Provided, *That the allotment of funds for the flood of*Proviso.*Allotment of funds approved. 1927 by the Secretary of War from the appropriation for river and harbor works is hereby approved and validated. Examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors:Rivers and harbors.Examinations, etc. For examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors for which there may be no special appropriation, $50,000: *Provided,**Proviso.*Specific authority required. That no part of this sum shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law. River and harbor damage claims: To pay the claim adjusted andCollision damages claims. settled by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, with the approval of the Secretary of War, in accordance with the authority 39 contained in section 9 of the Act approved June 5, 1920 (Forty-firstVol. 41, p. 1015. Statutes, page 1015), and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 731, Sixty-ninth Congress, $1,317.20. Wharf and walk, Jamestown, Virginia: For the construction uponJamestown, Va.Construction of approach to monument at. Government-owned land of a suitable public wharf to provide access to the United States monument which commemorates the three hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, and for the construction of a suitable walk from the wharf to the monument, fiscal years 1928 and 1929, $15,000: *Provided, *That this sum shall be*Provisos.*Equal amount required from Virginia, etc. available only when an amount at least equal to this appropriation is provided by the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities: *Provided further, *ThatUnder Chief of Engineers. this appropriation and any contributed funds shall be expended under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. national home for disabled volunteer soldiersNational Home for Disabled Volunteers. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers:Support, etc. For “subsistence,” “household,” “current expenses,” and “hospital,” at the following branches, including the same objects respectively specified in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927 under each of such heads for the central branch, namely: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Subsistence, $15,283.86;Dayton, Ohio. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: Subsistence, $7,125.56; household,Togus, Me. $2,894.68; Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: Subsistence, $5,436.10;Hampton, Va. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: Current expenses, $300;Leavenworth, Kans. subsistence, $11,204.73; household, $15,778.10; Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: Repairs, $8,914.60;Santa Monica, Calif. Danville, Illinois, Branch: Household, $4,225.20; hospital,Danville, Ill. $2,544.82; Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: Subsistence,Hot Springs, S. Dak. $8,175.41; household, $13,923.17; hospital, $15,103.03: *Provided,**Proviso.*Sums to reimburse Home post fund. That the sums above specified, aggregating $110,909.26, shall be used to reimburse the post fund of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for sums expended to meet deficiencies during the fiscal year 1927. State and Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: ForState or Territorial Homes.Continuing aid to. continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August 27, 1888, as amended, including all classes of soldiers admissibleVol. 25, p. 450. to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, fiscal year 1927, $3,373.69: *Provided, *That for any sum or sums collected*Proviso.*Collections from inmates. in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. the panama canalPanama Canal. The appropriation for civil government, Panama Canal andCanal Zone district judges.Salary increase. Canal Zone, fiscal year 1927, shall be available for payment of the salary of the district judge of the Canal Zone at the rate authorizedVol. 44, p. 919. by the Act approved December 13, 1926. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTSJudgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costsPayment of. of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of 40 March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suitsVol. 24, p. 505.Vol. 36, p. 1137. against the Government of the United States,” as amended by the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911, certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 727 and Senate Document Numbered 218, and to the Seventieth Congress in House Document Numbered 75, namely: Under the Shipping Board, $3,150; underClassification. the Department of Commerce, $4,378.87; under the Department of Labor, $1,280.05; under the Navy Department, $10,413.81; under the War Department, $22,561.03; in all, $41,783.76, together with suchInterest. additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. For the payment of judgments, including costs of suits, renderedCollision damages, etc. against the Government of the United States by United States districtVol. 43, p. 1112. courts under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty for damage caused by and salvage services rendered to public vessels belonging to the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1112), certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 726 and Senate Document Numbered 220, and to the Seventieth Congress in House DocumentClassification. Numbered 79, as follows: Under the Department of Commerce, $1,834.75; under the Navy Department, $23,133.05; under the Treasury Department, $4,530.67; under the War Department, $12,682.79; in all, $42,181.26, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest as and where specified in such judgments. For payment of the judgment, including costs of suit, renderedOhio southern district.Judgment under Lever Act.Vol. 40, pp. 276–279. against the Government of the United States by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, under the provisions of the Act of August 10, 1917 (Fortieth Statutes, pages 276–279), and as certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 725, as follows: Under the War Department, $14,928.70, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest as and where specified in such judgment. For payment of the judgments rendered against the GovernmentCalifornia northern district.Sealing losses. by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California under the provisions of the Act approved June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 595), and certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 722, as follows: Under the Treasury Department, $61,398.48. For payment of the judgments, including costs of suits, renderedJudgments under private Acts, etc. against the Government by United States district courts in special cases and under the provisions of certain special Acts and certified to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Numbered 721 and Senate Document Numbered 226, and to the Seventieth Congress in House Document Numbered 76, as follows: Under the UnitedClassification. States Shipping Board, $29,251.73; under the Navy Department, $141,698.25; under the Treasury Department, $13,578.15; under the War Department, $7,948.17; in all, $192,476.30, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certain of theInterest. judgments as and where specified in such judgments. None of the judgments contained under this caption shall beRight of appeal. paid until the right of appeal shall have expired except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMSJudgments, Court of Claims. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of ClaimsPayment of. and reported to the Sixty-ninth Congress in House Document Num-41bered 723 and Senate Document Numbered 219, and to the Seventieth Congress in House Document Numbered 78, namely: Under the United States Shipping Board, $5,230,929.85; under the United States Veterans’ Bureau, $1,671.52; under the Navy Department, $1,151,223.72; under the Treasury Department, $9,730.98; under the War Department, $1,729,924.26; in all, $8,123,480.33, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certainInterest. of the judgments at the legal rate per annum as and where specified in said judgments. None of the judgments contained under this caption which haveNone final until expiration of time for writ of certiorari. not been affirmed by the Supreme Court or otherwise become final and conclusive against the United States shall be paid until the expiration of the time within which application may be made for aVol. 43, p. 939. writ of certiorari under subdivision (b), section 3, of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Judicial Code, and to further define the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of appeals and of the Supreme Court, and for other purposes,” approved February 13, 1925. AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toPayment of, certified by General Accounting Office. be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fundVol. 18, p. 110. under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1924 and prior years, unless otherwise stated,Vol. 23, p. 254. and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 720, Sixty-ninth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: independent offices For national security and defense, committee on public information, $635.80.Independent offices. For salaries and expenses, United States Shipping Board, $33.33. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $19.91. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $3. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $2,908.84. department of agriculture For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $10.21.Department of Agriculture. For cooperative fire protection of forested watersheds of navigable streams, $1.25. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $2.57. department of commerce For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $42.89.Department of Commerce. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $5.82. department of the interior For traveling expenses of inspectors, Department of the Interior, $4.Interior Department. For maps of the United States, $125. For Army pensions, $112.50. For support of Indians in Arizona, $2,620.25. For support of Sioux of different tribes: Subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $6. For support of Indians at Colville and other agencies and Joseph’s Band of Nez Perces, Washington, $1.05. 42 department of justice For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $18.99.Department of Justice. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $3,452.80. department of labor For war emergency employment service, $1.26.Department of Labor. navy department For pay of the Navy, $4,785.10.Navy Department. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $3.63. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $361.42. For pay, Marine Corps, $15,694.24. For pay, miscellaneous, $165.62. For aviation, Navy, $1,985.46. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $541.35. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $129. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $112.12. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $30.94. department of stateState Department. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $180.08. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $31.02. treasury department For collecting the revenue from customs, $37.38.Treasury Department. For collecting the war revenue, $9. For collecting the internal revenue, $8.02. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $1,116.22. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $5.82. For refunding internal revenue collections, $10. For Coast Guard, $543.70. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $55. For care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $321. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $65.24. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $45.98. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $11.10. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $180. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $2.50. For operating supplies for public buildings, $0.58. war departmentWar Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $32,847.46. For pay of the Army, $5,708.53. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $1,901.78. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $51.07. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $20. For subsistence of the Army, $35.70. For clothing and equipage, $55.08. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $40.44. For Army transportation, $996.23. 43 For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $1,746.08. For horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, $335.98. For construction and repair of hospitals, $1,454.93. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $6,952.44. For signal service of the Army, $934.99. For air service, production, $285.71. For medical and hospital department, $31.33. For Chemical Warfare Service, Army, $2. For armament of fortifications, $6,735.31. For Field Artillery armament, $6.49. For manufacture of arms, $387.50. For ordnance service, $4.45. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $13,796.84. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $36. For proving grounds, Army, 2 cents. For Organized Reserves, $101.25. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $9,615.03. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $2.94. For national cemeteries, $6.92. post office department—postal service (Out of the postal revenues) For airplane service between New York and San Francisco, $226.37.Post Office Department. For clerks, contract stations, $130.51. For compensation to postmasters, $11.15. For compensation to assistant postmasters, $60.36. For indemnities, domestic mail, $1,706.59. For indemnities, international mail, $380.73. For mail messenger service, $5.64. For rent, light, and fuel, $721.74. For separating mail, $40. For shipment of supplies, $14.45. Total, audited claims, section 2, $123,827.03, together with suchAdditional, to meet increases in rates of exchange. additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toPayment of additional. be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, andVol. 18, p. 110. under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1924 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 ofVol. 23, p. 254. the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 217, Sixty-ninth Congress, there is appropriated, as follows: independent officesIndependent offices. For Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 83 cents. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $244.93. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,261.19. 44 department of agricultureDepartment of Agriculture. For miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, 4 cents. For general expenses, Extension Service, $10.06. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $3.08. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $6.24. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $5.15. For suppressing spread of pink boll worm of cotton, 28 cents. department of the interiorInterior Department. For national security and defense, Department of the Interior, $42.90. For stationery, Department of the Interior, $22.30. department of justiceDepartment of Justice. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $150.34. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $720.80. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $90.99. department of laborDepartment of Labor. For expenses of regulating immigration, $4. navy departmentNavy Department. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, 33 cents. For pay of the Navy, $881.80. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $1,326. For pay, Marine Corps, $25. For pay, miscellaneous, $35.10. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $101.40. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $88.16. treasury departmentTreasury Department. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Stationery, $3.94. For collecting the revenue from customs, $332.04. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $103.19. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $25. For collecting the internal revenue, 42 cents. For Coast Guard, $231.67. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, 39 cents. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $268.12. war departmentWar Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $12,886.19. For pay of the Army, $337.45. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $1,310.56. For increase of compensation, War Department, $20. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $17.04. For Army transportation, $55.14. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $871.52. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $1,318.34. 45 For armament of fortifications, $1,813.99. For Chemical Warfare Service, Army, $610.09. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $16,–612.99. For aviation, Navy (Navy transfer to War, May 21, 1920), 76 cents. post office department—postal service (Out of the postal revenues) For city delivery carriers, $103.52.Post Office Department. For compensation to postmasters, $34.39. For indemnities, domestic mail, $559.01. For indemnities, international mail, $34.52. For rent, light, and fuel, $137.50. For vehicle service, $69.02. Total, audited claims, section 3, $42,777.72, together with suchAdditional, to meet increases in rates of exchange. additional sum due to increases’ in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims. Sec. 4. That for the payment of the following claims, certifiedPayment of additional. to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations for balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874,Vol. 18, p. 110. and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1925 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under sectionVol. 23, p. 254. 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 80, Seventieth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: legislative For Capitol power plant, $6,325.25.Capitol power plant. independent offices For United States Coal Commission, 90 cents.Independent offices. For salaries and expenses, Federal Board for Vocational Education, $1.64. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $37.86. For American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, $4.86. For fuel, lights, and so forth, State, War, and Navy Department Buildings, $9,257.33. For increase of compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $10. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $3,071.41. For military and naval insurance, Veterans’ Bureau, $57.50. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $152.01. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $16,512.63. district of columbia For fees of witnesses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia,District of Columbia. $37.75, to be paid in the proportions of 60 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States. For fees of witnesses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, $2.50, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. 46 department of agriculture For salaries, Department of Agriculture, $16.Department of Agriculture. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $1,599.66. For general expenses, Forest Service, $44.60. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $965.20. For general expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $6. For enforcement of packers and stockyards act, $510. department of commerce For increase of compensation, Department of Commerce, 67 cents.Department of Commerce. For collecting statistics, Bureau of the Census, $2,000. For expenses of the Fourteenth Census, $602. For commercial attaches, Department of Commerce, $10. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $15. For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, $5.20. For expenses, mining experiment stations, Bureau of Mines, $4.91. For industrial research, Bureau of Standards, $132.71. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $566.35. For testing structural materials, Bureau of Standards, $19. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, 50 cents. For investigation of public utility standards, Bureau of Standards, $405.50. For scientific library, Patent Office, $12.85. For pay, and so forth, of officers and men, vessels, coast survey, $23.47. For pay and allowances, commissioned officers, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $48. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $53.50. For salaries, lighthouse vessels, $1.83. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $50.03. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $14.18. department of the interior For aviation of the Navy (Navy transfer to Interior—Bureau of Mines, Act January 24, 1923), $528.89.Interior Department. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, $9.09. For contingent expenses of land offices, $15.90. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $16.24. For Geological Survey, $3. For Glacier National Park, $144. For Grand Canyon National Park, $60.15. For Mount Rainier National Park, $892.62. For Yellowstone National Park, $115.30. For roads and trails, national parks, $4,290.39. For medical relief in Alaska, $1.84. For investigation of school and home gardening, Bureau of Education, $425. For Army pensions, $110.91. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $983.16. For inspectors, Indian Service, $19.23. For pay of judges, Indian courts, $14. For expenses of Indian commissioners, $27.78. For industrial work and care of timber, $86.01. For industry among Indians, $83.50. For diversion dam, Gila River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $51.20. 47 For diversion dam, Gila River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $201. For irrigation project, Gila River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $57. For Indian schools: Support, $122.09. For Indian school and agency buildings, $1.38. For Indian boarding schools, $8.51. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, $13.54. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, assembly hall, $52.43. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, dairy herd, $51.07. For education, Sioux Nation, $19.20. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $999.60. For support and civilization of Indians, $136.54. For support of Indians in Arizona, $90. For support of Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Montana, $11.45. For support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, $27.91. department of justice For salaries, Department of Justice, $55.Department of Justice. For printing and binding, Department of Justice and courts, $2.50. For enforcement of acts to regulate commerce, $1.45. For investigation and prosecution of war frauds, $163.25. For salaries, fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $1,611.68. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $14.20. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $468.55. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $83. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $67.20. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $267.47. For support of United States prisoners, $25.50. department of labor For special examiners, and so forth, Division of Naturalization, 54 cents.Department of Labor. For employment service, Department of Labor, 50 cents. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, $3. For expenses of regulating immigration, $898. navy department For additional employees, Navy Department, $3.79.Navy Department. For increase of compensation, Navy Department, 67 cents. For pay, miscellaneous, $2,230.99. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $2,931.37. For gunnery and engineering exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $457.13. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $2,467.34. For organizing the naval reserve force, $328.66. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $94,823.75. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $4.50. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $56,746.10. For pay of the Navy, $34,267.06. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $164.35. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $264.73. 48 For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,246.12. For bringing home remains of officers, and so forth, Navy Department, $78.61. For care of hospital patients, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $60. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $1,016.91. For aviation, Navy, $3,638.54. For pay, Marine Corps, $414.94. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $435.78. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $1,799.01. department of state For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, $777.78.State Department. For salaries, chargé d’affairés ad interim, $68.61. For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $625. For clerks at embassies and legations, $291.66. For salaries, interpreters to embassies and legations, $63.66. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $881.20. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $239. For immigration of aliens, Department of State, $22.35. For relief and protection of American seamen, $304.91. For salaries, foreign service offices, $286.97. For salaries, diplomatic and consular officers, while receiving instructions and in transit, $118.91. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $1,146.19. For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $149.58. For arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between United States and Great Britain, $750. treasury department For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $45.95.Treasury Department. For collecting the revenue from customs, $892.73. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $23.64. For collecting the internal revenue, $162.31. For collecting the war revenue, $67.38. For enforcement of narcotic and national prohibition acts, internal revenue, $12,512.75. For payment of judgments against internal revenue officers, $28.75. For refunding internal revenue collections, $5,310.95. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $292.75. For Coast Guard, $1,255.21. For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $15.35. For additional vessels, Coast Guard, $3,828.16. For pay of other employees, Public Health Service, $4.75. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $710.64. For field investigations of public health, $144.24. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $120.05. For maintenance, hygienic laboratory, Public Health Service, $7. For medical and hospital services, Public Health Service, $658.50. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $11.02. For quarantine service, $31.50. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau (transfer to Public Health Service, Act February 13, 1923), $109.33. For general expenses of public buildings, $25.44. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $430.16. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $233.39. 49 For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $401.77. For vaults and safes for public buildings, $62. For operating force for public buildings, $2. For operating supplies for public buildings, $624.93. war department For additional employees, War Department, $40.War Department. For military post exchanges, $1. For registration and selection for military service, $1,159.24. For vocational training of soldiers, $115.39. For Army War College, $2.86. For pay, and so forth, of the Army (Longevity Act, January 29, 1927), $280,953.42.Vol. 44, p. 1054. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $160,065.49. For pay of the Army, $22,959.27. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, War with Spain, $171.08. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $302.68. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $215.39. For mileage of the Army, $9.50. For increase of compensation, War Department, $87.45. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $28,257.20. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $6.82. For Army transportation, $6,556.93. For barracks and quarters, $20,735.51. For clothing and equipage, $286.45. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $39,976.90. For incidental expenses of the Army, $116. For regular supplies of the Army, $2,640.72. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $100.81. For subsistence of the Army, $966.65. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $96,308.84. For completion of acquisition of land for military purposes, Camp Bragg, North Carolina, $59.17. For completion of acquisition of land, Scott Field, Illinois, $75. For water and sewers at military posts, $13,653.75. For replacing regular supplies of the Army, $714.36. For replacing medical supplies, $718.19. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $1,521.55. For Signal Service of the Army, $5,474.15. For Air Service, Army, $232.13. For medical and hospital department, $84.25. For ordnance service, $107.88. For ordnance stores and supplies, $7.65. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $185.37. For barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses, $428. For armament of fortifications, $29,220.81. For field artillery armament, $2.20. For proving grounds, Army, $25.22. For Chemical Warfare Service, Army, $301.37. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $42,129.25. For arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, National Guard, $1,502.75. For civilian military training camps, $11.46. For Organized Reserves, $378.63. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $8.76. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $30.38. 50 For headstones for graves of soldiers, $21.58. For national cemeteries, $45.30. For artificial limbs, $175. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, $15. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwestern Branch, $3.97. For increase of compensation, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $2.38. post office department—postal service (Out of the postal revenues) For airplane service between New York and San Francisco, $31.60.Post Office Department. For balances due foreign countries, $22,389.41. For city-delivery carriers, $1,651.49. For clerks, contract stations, $1. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $975.04. For clerks, third-class post offices, $1.66. For compensation to postmasters, $843.76. For indemnities, domestic mail, $6,687.53. For indemnities, international registered mail, $1,439.92. For indemnities, international mail, $796.37. For mail-messenger service, $40.23. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $67.57. For personal or property damage claims, $651.50. For post-office equipment and supplies, $22.40. For power-boat service, $2,000. For railroad transportation, $945.88. For railroad transportation and mail-messenger service, $743.90. For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $40.50. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $3.23. For railway postal clerks travel allowances, $14. For rent, light, and fuel, $777.25. For Rural Delivery Service, $465.85. For separating mails, $453.24. For shipment of supplies, $37.07. For special-delivery fees, $2.08. For star-route service, $74.39. For vehicle service, $252.58. Total, audited claims, section 4, $1,094,609.95, together with suchAdditional, to meet increases in rates of exchange. additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. Sec. 5. For the payment of claims certified to be due by thePayment of private claims.Vol. 44, pp. 1505,1832. General Accounting Office under the provisions of the Acts approved June 11, 1926, and March 3, 1927, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 77 of the Seventieth Congress, $3,955.42. Sec. 6. Appropriations for the fiscal years 1926, 1927, 1928, andCivilian officers.Travel allowance when transferred from one official station to another. 1929 available for expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer: *Provided, *That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer*Proviso.*Restriction. effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. Sec. 7. This Act hereafter may be referred to as the “FirstTitle of Act. Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928.” Approved, December 22, 1927.
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