Chapter 706. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes
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Chap. 706: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes. 1929-03-04 706 Chapter 45 Stat. 1607 70 2 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 public 1607 Chapter 706.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes. March 4, 1929.[[H. R. 15848](/us/bill/70/hr/15848).][[Public, No. 1034](/us/pl/70/1034).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the followingFirst Deficiency Act, 1929. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other wise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes, namely:
LEGISLATIVELegislative. senateSenate. To pay Amanda J. Gooding, widow of Honorable Frank R. Gooding,Frank R. Gooding.Pay to widow. late a Senator from the State of Idaho, $10,000. For payment to Ingham G. Mack for services rendered as assistantIngham G. Mack.Services. clerk to the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys investigating the occupation, leasing of, and contracts for oil and oil lands in the Salt Creek field in Wyoming; the transactions and activities of the Continental Trading Company of Canada and the continued investigation of all oil leases as authorized by Senate resolutions of the present Congress numbered 101, 202, and 237, respectively, and resolutions numbered 282 and 294 of the Sixty-ninth Congress, continued during the present Congress, fiscal year 1929, $2,500.
For the purchase and exchange of an automobile for the ViceAutomobile for Vice President. President, fiscal year 1929, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For stationery for Senators, committees, and officers of the Senate,Stationery. fiscal year 1929, $3,500. house of representativesHouse of Representatives. For payment to the widow of Thomas S. Butler, late a RepresentativeThomas S. Butler.Pay to widow. from the State of Pennsylvania, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Louis A.
Frothingham, late a RepresentativeLouis A. Frothingham.Pay to widow. from the State of Massachusetts, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Henry R. Rathbone, late a RepresentativeHenry R. Rathbone.Pay to widow. from the State of Illinois, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Thomas L. Rubey, late a RepresentativeThomas L. Rubey.Pay to widow. from the State of Missouri, $10,000. The four preceding appropriations shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Committee on Ways and Means:
Those members of the CommitteeWays and Means Committee.Members elect of 71st Congress, authorized to hold meetings, employ experts, etc., to gather information for revision of Tariff Act of 1922, etc. on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives of the Seventieth Congress who are Members elect to the Seventy-first Congress, or a majority of them, after March 4, 1929, and until the meeting of the first session of the Seventy-first Congress, are authorized, by subcommittee or otherwise, to hold such hearings and to sit at such times and places within the United States, to employ such expert, clerical, and stenographic services, and to gather such information, through Government agents or otherwise, as to them may seem fit in the preparation of a bill or bills for the revision of the Tariff Act of 1922 and other customs laws; and they are authorizedPrinting and other necessary expenses. to have such printing and binding done (notwithstanding any limitation in existing law as to number of copies of any document) and to incur such other expenses as may be deemed necessary; all such expenses (except for printing and binding, which shall be charged 1608Amount from contingent fund.to the appropriation for printing and binding for Congress), not to exceed $2,500, to be paid out of the contingent fund of the House on the usual vouchers approved as now provided by law.
Committee on Revision of the Laws.Completing District of Columbia Code.Committee on Revision of the Laws: For expenses, including personal services, of completion of the Code of Laws relating to the District of Columbia, $5,848, to remain available during the fiscal year 1930. Preparation, etc., of the laws.*Ante*, p. 1008.For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by section 10 of the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 1008), $6,500, to remain available during the fiscal year 1930.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than special and select committees, fiscal year 1929, $15,000. Special and Select Committees.For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, fiscal year 1929, $15,000. joint committee on inaugural ceremonies of 1929Inaugural ceremonies. Congressional expenses.To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremonies of the President of the United States, March 4, 1929, in accordance with such program as may be adopted by the joint *Post*, p. 2395.committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed under a concurrent resolution of the two Houses, including the pay for extra police, fiscal year 1929, $45,000. joint committee to investigate northern pacific land grantsJoint Committee to Investigate Northern Pacific land grants.
Pay of secretary, etc,, to March 4, 1929.Not to exceed $300 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for expenses of the committee shall be available to compensate *Ante*, p. 886.the secretary and special disbursing officer from July 1, 1928, to March 4, 1929, inclusive, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act. architect of the capitolArchitect of the Capitol. Senate Office Building.Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including furniture, furnishings, and equipment, and for Maintenance.labor and material incident thereto and repairs thereof; and for personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, fiscal year 1929, $8,400.
House Office Building.House Office Building: Toward carrying out the provisions of the Acquiring site, etc.*Ante*, p. 1071.Act entitled “An Act to provide for the acquisition of a site and the construction thereon of a fire-proof office building or buildings for the House of Representatives,” approved January 10, 1929, including not to exceed $900,000 for acquisition of a site, expenses of removal of buildings and other structures located upon the site acquired, printing and binding, and miscellaneous expenses, $2,100,000, to remain available until expended. library of congressLibrary of Congress.
Purchase of books, etc.Increase of the Library: For purchase of books for the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, fiscal year 1924, $33.23. 1609 botanic gardenBotanic garden. Improvements: For replacing nursery stock lost on account ofImprovements. high water and repairing damages to overflowed land, including ditching and tiling and all expenses connected therewith, fiscal year 1929, $15,000.
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT BUILDING COMMISSIONSupreme Court Building Commission. To enable the United States Supreme Court Building CommissionProcuring plans, etc., for construction of building. to carry out the provisions, of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the submission to the Congress of preliminary plans and estimates of costs for the construction of a building for the Supreme Court of the United States,” approved December 21, 1928,*Ante*, p. 1067. including the procurement of models, $25,000, to remain available during the fiscal year 1930.
PORTO RICAN HURRICANE RELIEF COMMISSIONPorto Rican Hurricane Relief Commission.Making loans to. For the purpose of making loans to any individual coffee planter, coconut planter, fruit grower, or other agriculturist in the island of Porto Rico, $5,000,000, of which $3,000,000 shall become immediately available and $2,000,000 shall become available on January 1, 1930; for rebuilding and repair of schoolhouses damaged or destroyed byRepairs of schools, roads, etc. the hurricane in small towns and rural districts of Porto Rico, and for the employment of labor and the purchase of materials for repairing insular and rural municipal roads, $2,000,000; for purchaseSeeds and seedlings, etc. and distribution of seeds and seedlings, $100,000; and for administrative expenses of the commission, $30,000; in all, $7,130,000, fiscal year 1929, to remain available until expended, as authorized by*Ante*, p. 1068.
Public Resolution Numbered 74, approved December 21, 1928. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREDepartment of Agriculture. office of experiment stationsExperiment Stations Office. Salaries and general expenses, Office of Experiment StationsRepairing, etc., buildings in Porto Rico and Virgin Islands. (insular experiment stations): For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain agricultural experiment stations for the purpose of repairing or restoring property damaged or destroyed at the Porto Rico and Virgin Islands experiment stations by the hurricane of September 13, 1928, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agriculturaf Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, $12,500. center market, district of columbiaCenter Market, D.
C. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue operation ofOperation, etc. the Center Market, Washington, District of Columbia, including the same objects and purposes specified under this head in the Agricultural*Ante*, p. 563. Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, $60,000. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDepartment of Commerce. bureau of foreign and domestic commerceForeign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. Customs statistics: For an additional amount covering the sameCustoms statistics.Expenses of collecting, etc. objects and purposes specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1929, to remain available until June 30, 1930, $10,000, of which amount not to exceed $8,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 1610 INTERIOR DEPARTMENTInterior Department. solicitor’s officeSolicitor’s office.
Personal services.For an additional amount for personal services, fiscal year 1929, $1,720. bureau of indian affairsIndian Affairs Bureau. General support, etc.Support of Indians and administration of Indian property: For an additional amount for general support of Indians, including Sioux Indians, and for administration of Indian property, including pay of employees, fiscal year 1929, $30,000. Haskell Institute, Kansas.Repairing flood damages.For repairing dikes, opening ditches, repairing bridges, repairing and rebuilding fences, and so forth, at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, damaged by flood, $7,400; and for replacement of hay, grain, and feed destroyed by flood, $1,600; total, $9,000.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice. contingent expenses, department of justiceContingent expenses. Miscellaneous expenses.For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice, for the fiscal year 1924, $7.17. Traveling expenses, etc.For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1927, $108.07; For 1928, $1,031.88. salaries of judgesJudges. Circuit, district, and retired.For salaries of circuit, district, and retired judges, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1927, $57.92. territorial courtsTerritorial courts. Hawaii.Hawaii: For salaries of the chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii, and judges of the circuit court of said Territory, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1928, $1,583.36; For 1929, $19,000. expenses of united states courtsUnited States courts. Commissioners, etc.Fees.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).[U. S. Code, p. 506](/us/usc/p506).Bailiffs, etc.For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace, acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 506, sec. 591), fiscal year 1922, $3,400.20. For pay of bailiffs and criers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1926, $798.07.
Jurors.Transfer from witness fees.Vol. 44, p. 1196.Not to exceed $44,000 of the appropriation fees of witnesses, United States courts, 1928, may be transferred to the appropriation fees of jurors, United States courts, 1928. penal and correctional institutionsPenal, etc., institutions. Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1924, $208.48; For 1928, $172,000. 1611 NAVY DEPARTMENTNavy Department. Navy pension fund: The Navy pension fund is hereby made availableNavy pension fund.Payment of claims from.Vol. 40, p. 499. for the payment of the claims, amounting to $42.40, allowed by the General Accounting Office in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 29, 1918 (40 Stat., p. 499), as set forth in House Document Numbered 464, Seventieth Congress. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTPost Office Department. out of the postal revenuesFrom postal revenues. office of the postmaster generalPostmaster General.
Salaries in bureaus and offices: For an additional amount forSalaries in office of Second Assistant Postmaster General. salaries in the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, fiscal year 1929, $3,560. Personal or property damage claims: To enable the PostmasterProperty damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 63.[U. S. Code, p. 50](/us/usc/p50). General to pay claims for damages to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921 (U.
S. C., p. 50, sec. 392), fiscal year 1927, $3,000. office of first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Postmaster General. For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerkTemporary, etc., clerk hire. hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, fiscal year 1923, $182.52. office of second assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster General.
Contract Air-Mail Service: For an additional amount for theContract Air Mail Service. inland transportation of mail by aircraft, under contract, as authorized by law, and for the incidental expenses thereof, fiscal year 1929, $5,000,000: *Provided*, That $5,900 of this appropriation shall be available*Proviso*.Services in the District. for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia, incidental and travel expenses. office of fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General.
Rural Delivery Service: For pay of rural carriers, substitutes forRural Delivery Service. rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, fiscal year 1925, $13.73. DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State. diplomatic and consularDiplomatic and consular. Transporting remains of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign ServiceTransporting remains of officers from abroad. officers:
For 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 years that follow: For 1927, $65.09; For 1928, $138. Salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim: For salaries of ForeignCharges d’affaires ad interim. Service officers or vice consuls while acting as charges d’affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer, fiscal year 1928, $1,728.60. 1612 international obligations International Radiotelegraphic Conventions.International Radiotelegraphic Conventions:
For additional amounts for the share of the United States for the calendar years 1927, 1928, and 1929, as a party to the international radiotelegraphic conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne as follows: Fiscal year 1927, $1,777; Fiscal year 1928, $1,777; Fiscal year 1929, $1,777. International Bureau of Weights and Measures.International Bureau of Weights and Measures: For additional amounts for the contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the conventions of May 20, 1875, and October 6, 1921, the same to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1928, $1,342.50; For 1929, $1,342.50. International Conference for the Safety of Life at Sea.Expenses of participating in.*Ante*, p. 1016.International Conference for the Safety of Life at Sea: For the expenses of participation by the United States in the International Conference for the Revision of the Convention of 1914 for the Safety of Life at Sea, as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 70, approved December 7, 1928, including travel and subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), compensation of employees, stenographic and other services by contract if deemed necessary, rent of offices, purchase of necessary books and documents, printing and binding, printing of official visiting cards, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, $90,000, to remain available until June 30, 1930.
Foreign Service buildings fund.Payments authorized.Vol. 44, p. 403.[U. S. Code, p. 1953](/us/usc/p1953).Foreign Service buildings fund: For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Foreign Service buildings Act, 1926 (U. S. C., p. 1953, sec. 295), and for each and every object thereof, including the initial alterations, repair, and furnishings of buildings heretofore required under specific authorization of Congress for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments in foreign countries, fiscal year 1929, $700,000, to remain available until expended.
Mexican Water Boundary Commission.Balance available:*Ante*, p. 60.Water Boundary, United States and Mexico: Any unexpended balance on June 30, 1929, of the appropriation “Water Boundary, United States and Mexico, 1928 and 1929,” contained in the Act approved February 10, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 60), shall continue available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1930. judicial United States Court for China.United States Court for China: For an additional amount for compensation of the judge as provided by law for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1928, $166.66; For 1929, $2,000. prisons for american convicts Consular prisons, etc.Available for Morocco and Ethiopia.The appropriations for “Prisons for American Convicts,” for the fiscal years 1928 and 1929 are hereby made available for like expenses which have been or may be incurred in Morocco and Ethiopia during those fiscal years, respectively. 1613 TREASURY DEPARTMENTTreasury Department. bureau of internal revenueInternal Revenue. Refunding taxes illegally collected:
For an additional amount forRefunding taxes illegally collected. refunding taxes illegally or erroneously collected, as provided by law, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1929 and prior years, $75,000,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to*Proviso*.Report to Congress of all refunds over $500.*Ante*, p. 996. Congress by internal-revenue districts, and alphabetically arranged, of all disbursements hereunder in excess of $500 as required by section 3 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 996), including the names of all persons and corporations to whom such payments are made, together with the amount paid to each: *Provided*, ThatHearing, etc., hereafter, of claims over $20,000. no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be used to pay any refund of an income or profits tax pursuant to a claim allowed after the enactment of this Act in excess of $20,000 (other than payments in cases in which a suit in court or a proceeding before the Board of Tax Appeals has been or shall be instituted or payments in cases determined upon precedents established in decisions of courts or the Board of Tax Appeals) unless a hearing has been held before a committee or official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue; and the decision of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in any such refund allowance in excess of $20,000 shall be a public record. bureau of prohibitionProhibition Bureau.
For an additional amount for enforcement of the National ProhibitionAdditional amount for enforcing law. Act, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1930, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $1,719,654, of which not exceeding $50,000 may be expended for the collection and disseminationDisseminating information, etc. of information and appeal for law observance and law enforcement, including cost of printing and other necessary expenses in connection therewith.
For the purposes of a thorough inquiry into the problem of theInvestigation of problem of enforcement, etc. enforcement of prohibition under the provisions of the eighteenth amendment of the Constitution and laws enacted in pursuance thereof, together with the enforcement of other laws, $250,000, or as much thereof as may be required, to be expended under authority and by direction of the President of the United States, who shallReport to Congress with recommendations. report the result of such investigation to the Congress together with his recommendations with respect thereto.
Said sum to be available for the fiscal years of 1929 and 1930 for each and every object of expenditure connected with such purposes notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act. federal farm loan bureauFederal Farm Loan Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the Federal Farm Loan Bureau, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1929, $71,500, payable from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks and Federal intermediate credit banks: *Provided*, That, at the request*Proviso*.Expenses, destruction of paid bonds, etc. of the Federal Farm Loan Board, whenever in its opinion the expense will be reduced thereby, the work in Washington incident to the verification for destruction of paid and canceled intermediate credit bank debentures, farm-loan bonds and coupons thereof, may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, be performed by the office of the Register of the Treasury, and the appropriation from 1614which salaries of employees in the office of the Register of the Treasury are paid may be reimbursed from this appropriation for the actual expense of such work. office of treasurer of the united statesTreasurer’s Office.
H. Theodore Tate.Payment to, of salary under recess appointment.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to H. Theodore Tate salary as Treasurer of the United States at the rate of $8,000 per annum from June 1, 1928, to January 17, 1929, both dates inclusive, from appropriations heretofore provided for salaries of the Office of the Treasurer of the United States, fiscal [R. S., sec. 1761, p. 313](/us/rs/s1761/p313).[U. S. Code, p. 31](/us/usc/p31).years 1928 and 1929, the provisions of section 1761 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. bureau of the mintBureau of the Mint.
Lincoln Ellsworth.Gold medal to.*Post*, p. 2026.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act awarding a gold medal to Lincoln Ellsworth,” approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., pt. 2, p. 326), fiscal year 1929, $2,380. Thomas A. Edison.Gold medal to.*Ante*, p. 1012.For carrying out the provisions of the public resolution entitled, “Joint resolution to provide for the striking of a medal commemorative of the achievements of Thomas A. Edison, in illuminating the path of progress through the development and application of inventions that have revolutionized civilization in the last century,” approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 1012), fiscal year 1929, $1,000. office of the supervising architectSupervising Architect’s Office. public buildingsPublic buildings.
Contractors.Payment of claims, for work under war conditions.Relief of contractors: For an additional amount for the payment of the balance due on an approved claim of a contractor arising under the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of contractors and subcontractors for the post offices and other buildings, and work under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and for other Vol. 41, pp. 281, 507.purposes,” approved August 25, 1919, as amended (41 Stat. pp. 281, 507), fiscal year 1928, $606.46.
Rent of temporary quarters, D. C.Rent of temporary quarters: For an additional amount for rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into leases for this purpose for periods not exceeding three years, fiscal year 1929, $225,000. Government buildings, D. C.Model of proposed, in the triangle.*Ante*, p. 1045.Model showing proposed Government buildings:
For payment for model of proposed buildings in the triangle, District of Columbia, including subsequent changes, together with stand and protective covering, fiscal year 1929, $15,000. Supreme Court Building.Acquisition of site.Vol. 44, pp. 631,1254.Supreme Court Building: For acquisition of a site for a building for the Supreme Court, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made, $268,741. WAR DEPARTMENT—NONMILITARY ACTIVITIESWar Department. national home for disabled volunteer soldiersVolunteer Soldiers’ Home.
Santa Monica, Calif.Building construction.Pacific Branch: For the construction and installation of four 3-story barrack buildings, and utilities and appurtenances thereto, including two mess halls with dormitories, kitchen, heating facilities, furniture, equipment, and accessories, and including not to exceed $55,000 for repairs to existing buildings, $1,050,000, and in addition thereto the Board of Managers is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such purposes for not to exceed $305,000. 1615 judgments, united states courtsJudgments, United States courts.
For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costsPayment of.Vol. 24, p. 505; Vol. 36, p. 1137.[U. S. Code, pp. 867, 898, 938](/us/usc/p867/898/938). of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” as amended by the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911 (U. S. C., p. 867, par. 20; p. 898, sec. 258; p. 938, secs. 761–765), certified to the Seventieth Congress, in House Document Numbered 463, under the following departments and establishments, namely:
United States Veterans’Classification. Bureau, $6,042.33; Department of the Interior, $4,747.55; Department of Labor, $6,652.56; Navy Department, $10,707.75; War Department, $9,457.14; in all, $37,607.33, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respectiveInterest. 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 StatesVol. 43, p. 1112. district 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 (U.
S. C., p. 1529, secs. 781–789), certified to the Seventieth Congress[U. S. Code, p. 1529](/us/usc/p1529). in House Document Numbered 462, under the following departments, namely: Department of Commerce, $26,217.23;. Navy Department, $8,704.08; Treasury Department, $5,428.24; in all, $40,349.55, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest as and where specified in such judgments. 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 (U.
S. C., p. 870, sec. 52), and certified to the Seventieth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 192, and House Document Numbered 473, as follows: Under the Treasury Department, $377,566.23. For payment of the judgment rendered against the GovernmentVirginia eastern district.Housing Corporation.Vol. 44, p. 1846. by the United States district court for the Eastern District of Virginia under the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1927 (44 Stat., pt. 3, p. 1846), and certified to the Seventieth Congress in House Document Numbered 460, under the Navy Department, $6,363.98.
For payment of the judgments, including costs of suits, renderedJudgments under private Acts. against the Government by United States district courts under the provisions of certain special Acts and certified to the Seventieth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 193, under the following departments, namely: Navy Department, $47,870.51; War Department, $1,886.20.; in all, $49,756.71. None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paidRight of appeal. 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.
Payment of interest wherever provided for judgments containedInterest. in this Act shall not in any case continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of the Act. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMSJudgments, Court of Claims. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of ClaimsPayment of. and reported to the Seventieth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 194, and House Document Numbered 465, under the following departments, namely: Department of the Interior, $100,000;
NavyClassification. 1616Department, $340,383.61; Treasury Department, $8,343.89; War Department, $1,369,608.36; in all, $1,818,335.86, together with such Interest.additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certain of the judgments at the legal rate per annum as and where specified in said judgments. None final until expiration of time for writ of certiorari.None of the judgments contained under this caption which have 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 a Vol. 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 [U. S. Code, p. 900](/us/usc/p900).Court, and for other purposes,” approved February 13, 1925 (U. S. C., p. 900, sec. 288). AUDITED CLAIMSAudited Claims. Sec. 2. Payment of, certified by General Accounting Office. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the Vol. 18, p. 110.[U. S. Code, p. 1022](/us/usc/p1022).balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., p. 1022, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1926 and prior years, unless Vol. 23, p. 254.[U. S. Code, p. 43](/us/usc/p43).otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., p. 43, sec. 266), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 468, Seventieth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: legislative Senate.For contingent expenses, Senate, miscellaneous items, $725.87. independent offices Independent offices.For salaries and expenses, office of Alien Property Custodian, $61.81. For salaries and expenses, Board of Tax Appeals, $4. For contingent expenses, Civil Service Commission, $30.25. For expenses, Commission of Fine Arts, $1.93. For housing for war needs, $2,939.03. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $7.26. For Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, $1.18. For United States Tariff Commission, $34.16. For increase of compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $410. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $5,229.96. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $84.45. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $3,773.86. district of columbia District of Columbia.For fees of witnesses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, $18. The preceding audited claims shall be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. department of agriculture Department of Agriculture.For general expenses, States Relations Service, $42.38. For general expenses, office of experiment stations, $4.35. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $38.74. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $11.76. 1617 For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $24.25. For botanical investigations and experiments, $125. For general expenses, Forest Service, $1,503.37. For general expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $948.27. For general expenses, Federal Horticultural Board, $17.30. department of commerce For expenses of the Fourteenth Census, $24.20.Department of Commerce. For commercial attaches, Department of Commerce, $1,417.07. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $2,504.74. For promoting commerce in the Far East, $7.16. For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, $2.15. For general expenses, Bureau of Mines, $9.49. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $9.28. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $44.49. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $18.92. department of the interior For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, $2.38.Interior Department. For Geological Survey, $54.16. For education of natives of Alaska, $35.75. For medical relief in Alaska, $22.94. For Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $17.50. For Army pensions, $205.33. For general expenses, Indian Service, $2.76. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $509.12. For equalizing allotments, Chickasaw freedmen, Five Civilized Tribes, $8.40. For water supply, Navajo and Hopi Indians, Arizona, $48. For irrigation project, Gila River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $30. For Indian schools, support, $809.40. For Indian boarding schools, $69.63. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $253.41. For support and civilization of Indians, $66.50. For support of Indians in California, $5.10. For support of Indians in New Mexico, $7.20. For support of Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Montana, $166.50. department of justice For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneousDepartment of Justice. items, $21.57. For printing and binding, Department of Justice and courts. $194.50. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $10.85. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts. $3,294.11. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $3,500. For salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts, 43 cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $39.80. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $10. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $74.50. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $126.87. For supplies for United States courts, $142.50. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $149.55. 1618 department of labor Department of Labor.For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $4.14. For expenses of regulating immigration, $89.51. navy department Navy Department.For pay, miscellaneous, $28,299.71. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $2,140.82. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $1,260.23. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $1,301.07. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $110.32. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $22,417.20. For pay of the Navy, $8,509.81. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $88.40. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $905.60. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $280.22. For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $12,907.25. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $833.50. For bringing home remains of officers, and so forth, Navy Department, $48.40. For aviation, Navy, $37,951.69. For Geological Survey (Interior transfer to Navy, Act May 21, 1920), $147. For pay, Marine Corps, $409.69. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $25.03. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $288.30. department of state Department of State.For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $4,109.99. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $1,089.97. For relief and protection of American seamen, $84. For salaries, Consular Service, $8.03. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $25. treasury department Treasury Department.For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, $4.98. For Public Debt Service, $36.58. For collecting the revenue from customs, $1,408.26. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $73. For collecting the internal revenue, $4,628.67. For refunding internal revenue collections, $2,425. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $75.74. For enforcement of National Prohibition Act, internal revenue, $25.60. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $10,599.62. For Coast Guard, $4,009.34. For repairs to Coast Guard vessels, $11.20. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $369.90. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $4,570,41. 1619 For control of biologic products, Public Health. Service, $30. For Quarantine Service, $32. For maintenance, hygienic laboratory, Public Health Service, 78 cents. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $1,948.15. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $90.50. For general expenses of public buildings, $3.10. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $169.97. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $10.82. For operating force for public buildings, $30. For operating supplies for public buildings, $369.75. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $60.38. For vaults and safes for public buildings, $9. war department For registration and selection for military service, $8.70.War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army (longevity Act January 29,Vol. 44, p. 1054. 1927), $50,340.10. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $67,850.78. For pay of the Army, $8,325.42. For pay, and so forth, of the Army (estates of deceased soldiers), $285,064.21. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $74.39. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $4.01. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $36.44. For mileage of the Army, $202.75. For increase of compensation, War Department, $581.39. For increase of compensation, military establishment, $39,139.44. For Army transportation, $4,075.02. For barracks and quarters, $6,137.62. For clothing and equipage, $263.81. For construction and repair of hospitals, $673.75. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $73,675.37. For horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, $5.15. For incidental expenses of the Army, $155.57. For regular supplies of the Army, $781.71. For shooting galleries and ranges, $100. For national security and defense, War Department, $49,496.30. For subsistence of the Army, $73.80. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $54,798.14. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps,Vol. 40, p. 196. Act June 15, 1917, $27,104.79. For compensation for land and damages, Camp Knox, Ky., $336.53. For replacing medical supplies, $886.27. For Signal Service of the Army, $2,852.56. For medical and hospital department, $3,461.74. For engineer operations in the field, $112.97. For ordnance stores and supplies, Act June 15, 1917, $10,250.05.Vol. 40, p. 197. For ordnance stores and supplies, $38,212.82. For manufacture of arms, $20.13. For armament of fortifications, $6.41. For field artillery armament, $135.63. For terminal storage and shipping buildings, $6,550.63. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, Act*Ante*, p. 704. May 22, 1928, $387.94; For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $3,248.41. For pay of the National Guard for armory drills, $21.23. For civilian military training camps, $11.51. 1620 For Organized Reserves, $61.67. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $40.02. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $51.71. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, $21.33. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwestern Branch, $14.93. For Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system, $18.33. For Geological Survey (Interior transfer to War, Act May 21, 1920), $4,335.42. post office department (Out of the postal revenues) Post Office Department.For contingent expenses, Post Office Department, telegraphing, $35.85. For balances due foreign countries, $4,927.74. For city delivery carriers, $308.74. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $836.76. For compensation to assistant postmasters, $76.66. For compensation to postmasters, $199.51. For freight, express, or motor transportation of equipment, and so forth, $1.30. For foreign mail transportation, $47.68. For indemnities, domestic mail, $3,754.43. For indemnities, international registered mail, $172.80. For indemnities, international mail, $675.27. For labor-saving devices., $6. For mail messenger service, $40.99. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $31.95. For personal or property damage, $592.29. For post-office equipment and supplies, $8. For railroad transportation and mail messenger service, $1,064.96. For railway postal clerks, travel allowances, $45.70. For rent, light, and fuel, $1,375.50. For rural delivery service, $176.98. For separating mails, $270.06. For shipment of supplies, $20.97. For special-delivery fees, $40.56. For temporary clerk hire, $52.18. For vehicle service, $41. For village delivery service, 90 cents. Additional to meet increases in rates of exchange.Total, audited claims, section 2, $939,092.75, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims. Sec. 3. Payment of additional. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the Vol. 18, p. 110.[U. S. Code, p. 1022](/us/usc/p1022).provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., p. 1022, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1926 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Vol. 23, p. 254.[U. S. Code, p. 43](/us/usc/p43).Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., p. 43, sec. 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 195, Seventieth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: 1621 independent offices For housing for war needs, $1,782.Independent offices. For salaries, General Accounting Office, $7.50. For salaries and expenses, Board of Tax Appeals, $3. For increase of compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,071.33. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $322.55. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,538.68. department of agriculture For general expenses, Forest Service, $309.22.Department of Agriculture. For general expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $12.18. For salaries and expenses, Federal Horticultural Board, $3.21. department of commerce For district and cooperative office service, Department of Commerce,Department of Commerce. $6.58. For investigating mine accidents, $126.57. department of interior For Geological Survey, $42.Interior Departments For Wind Cave National Park, $30. For Army pensions, $155. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $18. For Indian schools, support, $130.72. For support and civilization of Indians, $189. For support of Indians in California, $2.63. department of justice For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts,Department of Justice. $1,295.73. For salaries and expenses, district attorneys, $111.83. For salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts, $4,293.00. department of labor For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, $1.Department of Labor. For salaries and expenses. Commissioners of Conciliation, $4.50. For general expenses, Children’s Bureau, $6.05. For expenses of regulating immigration, $281.64. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $1.90. navy department For pay, miscellaneous, $43.81.Navy Department. For increase of compensation, Naval Establishment, $1.74. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $295.03. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $42. For pay of the Navy, $2,626.11. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $75.11. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $81.29. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $62.93. For aviation, Navy, $5,657.50. For pay, Marine Corps, $166.61. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $132.73. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $243.48. For scrapping of naval vessels, $3,590.76. 1622 For Air Service, Army (War transfer to Navy Act May 21, 1920), $5,657.50. department of state Department of State.For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $101.26. For water boundary, United States and Mexico, $6.68. treasury department Treasury Department.For contingent expenses, Treasury Department, miscellaneous items, $57.33. For stationery, Treasury Department, $1.50. For collecting the revenue from customs, $2.56. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, $295.08. For Coast Guard, $50. For repairs to Coast Guard vessels, $384.15. For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $345.12. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $10.04. war department War Department.For Army War College, $210.97. Vol. 44, p. 1054.For pay, and so forth, of the Army (longevity Act January 29, 1927), $78,330.22. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $7,569.96. For pay of the Army, $1,206.90. For increase of compensation, War Department, $50.60. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $5,873.64. For Army transportation, $405.33. For barracks and quarters, $2,660. For clothing and equipage, $18.04. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $33,734.79. For regular supplies of the Army, $51.78. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $11,049.37. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $193.91. For supplies for seacoast defenses, 13 cents. For Ordnance Service, $2.15. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $92.03. For armament of fortifications, $155.57. For field artillery armament, $41.35. For proving grounds, Army, $79.64. For terminal storage and shipping buildings, $3. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $4,413.59. For arms, uniforms, and equipment for field service, National Guard, $1,267.91. For organized reserves, $103.54. post office department—postal service (Out of the postal revenues) Post Office Department.For indemnities, domestic mail, $645.77. For indemnities, international registered mail, $9.65. For indemnities, international mail, $182.30. For railroad transportation, $109.74. For rent, light, and fuel, $120. For rural delivery service, $35.06. For vehicle service, $77.45. 1623 Total, audited claims, section 3, $180,371.43, 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. 4. For the payment of claims allowed by the General AccountingClaims of Army officers formerly disallowed.Vol. 44, p. 1828. Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 476, approved March 3, 1927 (44 Stat., pt. 3, p. 1828), and certified to the Seventieth Congress, in House Document Numbered 461, $69.33. Sec. 5. For the payment of the claim allowed by the GeneralFrank Murray.Payment to.*Post*, p. 2024. Accounting Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 279, approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., pt. 2, p. 324), and certified to the Seventieth Congress, in Senate Document Numbered 196, $3,000. Sec. 6. This Act may be cited as the “First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1929.” Approved, March 4, 1929.
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Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes
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