Definitions.
Officer.
Soldier.
Company.
Battalion.
STATUTES AT LARGE
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FROM
DECEMBER, 1915, TO MARCH, 1917
CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS
AND
RECENT TREATIES, CONVENTIONS, AND EXECUTIVE PROCLAMATIONS
EDITED, PRINTED, AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
VOL. XXXIX
IN TWO PARTS
PART 1—Public Acts and Resolutions
PART 2—Private Acts and Resolutions, Concurrent Resolutions, Treaties, and Proclamations
PART 1
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1917
PUBLIC LAWS
of the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
passed by the
SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS
1915–1917
PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS
UNITED STATES.
[H. R. 663.]
Mississippi River.
Citizens’ Bridge Company may bridge, at Burlington, Iowa.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 3638.]
Saint Francis River.
Time extended for bridging, at Saint Francis, Ark.
Vol. 38, p. 764.
Amendment.
Panama California Exposition.
Foreign exhibits at Panama Pacific Exposition transferable to.
Government exhibits may be transferred.
Post, p. 854.
Appropriation for expenses.
Vol. 38, p. 77.
Continuance of Government exhibit board, etc.
Nonliability of United States declared.
Emergency internal revenue taxes.
Act continued during 1916.
Vol. 38, p. 745.
Post, p. 792.
Appropriations made available.
Vol. 38, p. 1017.
Urgent deficiencies appropriations.
Department of State.
Pan American Scientific Congress.
Expenses.
Vol. 38, pp. 450, 1126.
Postal service.
Mail bags.
Interior Department.
Patent Office.
Printing weekly issue of patents, etc.
Legislative.
Capitol police.
Additional privates.
Congressional officers, etc., to be paid December salaries December 17, 1915.
Clerk hire to Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.
[S. 696.]
Allegheny River.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company may bridge at Oil City, Pa.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
District of Columbia.
Time extended for report by Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations with.
Vol. 38, p. 894.
[H. R. 3681.]
Arkansas River.
Tulsa County, Okla., may bridge, at Tulsa.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 136.]
Rock River.
Time extended for bridging, by Henry and Rock Island counties, Ill., Colona Ferry.
Vol. 37, pp. 24, 665.
Amendment.
[H. R. 4717.]
Black River.
Butler County, Mo. may bridge.
Construction.
Location.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[[S. 2409.]
Ohio River.
Ohio-West Virginia Bridge Company may bridge, at Steubenville, Ohio.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
[S. 1230.]
Fox River.
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company may bridge, at Aurora, Ill.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Location.
Approval of prior work.
Amendment.
[H. R. 320.]
Pend Oreille River.
Bonner County, Idaho, may bridge, at Priest River.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 775.]
Chattahoochee River.
J. P. Jones, etc., may bridge, between Coweta and Carroll Counties, Ga.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 7611.]
Back River.
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company may bridge, near Savannah, Ga.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 1773.]
Tug Fork of Big Sandy River.
Interstate Bridge Company may bridge, Warfield, Ky., to Kermit, W. Va.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 4716.]
Saint Francis River.
Dunklin County, Mo., and Clay County, Ark., may bridge, Browns Ferry, Mo.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 6448.]
Saint Francis River.
Butler and Dunklin Counties, Mo., may bridge.
Location.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 8235.]
That the appointment of the International High Commission.
Appointment of United States Section, approved. Vol. 38, p. 1126. Appropriation for expenses.
For the purpose of meeting such actual and necessary expenses on the part of the United States Section of the Commission as may arise from its work and investigations, or as may be incidental to its attendance at the meeting of the said International High Commission, the sum of $40,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be immediately available, and to remain available until expended.
[S. 900.]
Patent Office.
Officers and employees.
R. S., sec. 476, p. 80, amended.
Duties of assistant commissioners.
Salaries of officers increased.
R. S., sec. 477, p. 80, amended.
“The Commissioner of Patents, $5,000 a year.
“The First Assistant Commissioner of Patents, $4,500 a year.
“The Assistant Commissioner of Patents, $3,500 a year.
“Five examiners in chief, $3,500 a year each.”
Chief clerk and examiners.
R. S., sec. 440, p. 75, amended.
Post, p. 101.
“One chief clerk, who shall be qualified to act as a principal examiner.
“One librarian, who shall be qualified to act as an assistant examiner.
“Five law examiners.
“One examiner of classification.
“One examiner of interferences.
“One examiner of trade-marks and designs.
“One first assistant examiner of trade-marks and designs.
“Six assistant examiners of trade-marks and designs.
“Forty-three principal examiners.
“Eighty-six first assistant examiners.
“Eighty-six second assistant examiners.
“Eighty-six third assistant examiners.
“Eighty-six fourth assistant examiners; and such other examiners and assistant examiners in the various grades as the Congress shall from time to time provide for.”
[H. R. 8233.]
Mahoning River.
Republic Iron and Steel Company may bridge, at Youngstown, Ohio.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 9224.]
Naval Academy.
Allowance of midshipmen increased.
R. S., sec. 1513, p. 260, amended.
Vol. 38, pp. 103, 410.
Post, pp. 576, 1182.
Inconsistent laws repealed.
Confederate Veterans’ Reunion, Birmingham,
Ala.
Loan of tents, etc., for.
Provisos.
No expense.
Bond required.
Carlos Hevia y Reyes Gavilan.
May be admitted to Naval Academy.
Proviso.
No expense.
Conditions.
Navy.
Transfer of appropriations for extending New York and Mare Island navy yards.
Vol. 38, p. 952.
Mississippi River floods.
Loan of tents, etc., for relief of sufferers from.
[H. R. 9213.]
Grand Calumet River.
Gary Land Company may bridge, in Lake County, Ind.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Smithsonian Institution.
Alexander Graham Bell reappointed regent.
[H. R. 2.]
McKinley souvenir dollar.
Coinage of, authorized.
Legal tender, etc.
Delivery at par to Memorial Association.
[H. R. 73.]
United States courts.
Vol. 36, p. 1111.
Vol. 37, p. 734, amended.
Post, p. 55.
Iowa judicial districts.
Northern district.
Eastern division.
The State of Iowa is divided into two judicial districts, to be known as the northern and southern districts of Iowa. The northern district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Allamakee, Dubuque, Buchanan, Clayton, Delaware, Fayette, Winneshiek, Howard, Chickasaw, Bremer, Blackhawk, Floyd, Mitchell, and Jackson, which shall Cedar Rapids division. Central division. Western division. Terms. Southern district.
Eastern division. Central division. Western division. Southern division. Davenport division.
Ottumwa division. Terms. Offices.
[H. R. 322.]
Dayton, Ohio.
Sale of old Federal building in, authorized.
Proceeds.
[H. R. 8810.]
Public Utilities Commission, D. C.
Washington and Old Dominion Railway, outside of the District, excluded from authority of.
Vol. 37, p. 975, amended.
Post, p. 536.
[S. 4308.]
Sandusky, Ohio.
Public building at.
Vol. 37, p. 872.
Construction authorized.
Proviso.
Limit of cost increased.
“United States post office at Sandusky, Ohio, $215,000:
Former appropriations made available.
Vol. 38, p. 828.
That the appropriations of $80,000 and $12,000 made by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, eight hundred and twenty-eight), pursuant to said provision of the public building Act of Maren fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for temporary quarters and moving expenses for the Government officials in the present building, be, and the same are hereby, re appropriated and made immediately available for the purchase of said new site and the commencement of said new building.
Sale of old, on completion of new, building.
And that the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed, upon the completion and occupancy of said new building, to sell the present public building and the site thereof in Sandusky, Ohio, at such time, in such manner, and upon such terms as he may deem advisable; to convey said property to the purchasers thereof by the usual quit-claim deed; and to deposit the proceeds of said sale in the Treasury of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt: Proviso.
Minimum price.
[H. R. 6854.]
Missouri River.
Wolf Point Bridge and Development Company may bridge between Sheridan and Richland Counties, Mont.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 9416.]
Lincoln Memorial Commission.
Construction, etc., of memorial.
Limit of cost increased.
Vol. 36, p. 898.
Bureau of Efficiency.
Expenses of investigations, etc.
Provisos.
Created as an independent establishment.
Transfer of officials, etc.
Post, p. 76.
Duties transferred from Civil Service Commission.
Vol. 37, p. 413.
Vol. 37, p. 750.
Civil Service Commission.
For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners Traveling expenses, etc.
For field examiners at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, for Field examiners.
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Expenses.
Department of State.
Foreign intercourse.
Exposition in city of Panama: For additional amount for the Panama Exposition.
Participation expenses.
Vol. 38, p. 1127. Pay of commissioner.
Payment to Panama: To enable the Secretary of State to pay to Panama.
Annual payment to.
Vol. 33, p. 2238.
United States and Canada boundary.
Reimbursement to Great Britain.
Vol. 35, p. 2003.
International boundary, United States and Canada: To enable the Secretary of State to reimburse to the Government of Great Britain the excess paid by the Canadian Section of the International Waterways Commission over one-half of the joint expenses incurred under article four of the treaty of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, between the United States and Great Britain, in ascertaining and reestablishing accurately the location of the international boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada from the Saint Lawrence River near the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude, through the Great Lakes to the mouth of Pigeon River, $8,044.21.
International Bureau Permanent Court of Arbitration.
International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration: For an additional amount for the share of the United States for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fourteen, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $661.31.
Emergencies.
Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: For emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $75,000.
Latitude observatory, Ukiah, Cal.
Maintenance.
International Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, California: For the maintenance of the International Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, California, and the continuance of the international latitude work there from March first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, until the International Geodetic Association shall find it possible to resume its Proviso.
Deducted from quota to Geodetic Association.
International Geodetic Association.
To pay the subscription of the United States to the International Geodetic Association for the years nineteen hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,000.
Treasury Department.
Public buildings.
Construction, etc.
For sites, commencement, continuation, or completion of public buildings within the respective limits of cost authorized by law, severally, as follows:
Aberdeen, Wash.
Aberdeen, Washington, post office: For continuation, $45,000.
Aledo, Ill.
Aledo, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $500.
Alliance, Nebr.
Alliance, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $29,000.
Anoka, Minn.
Anoka, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $15,000.
Antigo, Wis.
Antigo, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $29,000.
Ashland, Ky.
Ashland, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Ashland, Ohio.
Ashland, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $20,000.
Attleboro, Mass.
Attleboro, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Aurora, Nebr.
Aurora, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $30,000.
Bakersfield, Cal.
Bakersfield, California, post office: For continuation, $53,000.
Barnesville, Ga.
Barnesville, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Bartow, Fla.
Bartow, Florida, post office: For continuance, $10,000.
Basin, Wyo.
Basin, Wyoming, post office: For commencement, $500.
Bay City, Tex.
Bay City, Texas, post office: For commencement, $500.
Bayonne, N. J.
Bayonne, New Jersey, post office: For commencement, $20,000.
Beardstown, Illinois, post office: For completion, $10,000.
Beardstown, Ill.
Beaufort, South Carolina, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $500.
Beaufort, S. C.
Beeville, Texas, post office: For commencement, $500.
Beeville, Tex.
Belton, Texas, post office: For continuation, $12,000.
Belton, Tex.
Berlin, New Hampshire, post office: For commencement, $26,000.
Berlin, N. H.
Binghamton, New York, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For site, $100,000.
Binghamton, N. Y.
Birmingham, Alabama, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $100,000.
Birmingham, Ala.
Blackwell, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $5,000.
Blackwell, Okla.
Brenham, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Brenham, Tex.
Buckhannon, West Virginia, post office: For commencement, $12,000.
Buckhannon, W. Va.
Burlington, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $13,000.
Burlington, N. C.
Burlington, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $500.
Burlington, Wis.
Butler, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $500.
Butler, Mo.
Caribou, Maine, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Caribou, Me.
Chadron, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Chadron, Nebr.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $500.
Chapel Hill, N. C.
Charles City, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $29,000.
Charles City, Iowa.
Charlotte, Michigan, post office: For commencement, $15,000.
Charlotte, Mich.
Cody, Wyoming, post office: For commencement, $500.
Cody, Wyo.
Cohoes, New York, post office: For site and continuation, $18,500.
Cohoes, N. Y.
Columbia, South Carolina, post office: For continuation, $40,000.
Columbia, S. C.
Commerce, Texas, post office: For commencement, $500.
Commerce, Tex.
Cordova, Alaska, post office and courthouse: For commencement, $500.
Cordova, Alaska.
De Land, Florida, post office: For commencement, $12,000.
De Land, Fla.
Dickinson, North Dakota, post office: For commencement, $18,000.
Dickinson, N. Dak.
Douglas, Arizona, post office and customhouse: For commencement, $40,000.
Douglas, Ariz.
Dowagiac, Michigan, post office: For commencement, $11,000.
Dowagiac, Mich.
Dubois, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $15,000.
Dubois, Pa.
Durango, Colorado, post office: For commencement, $40,000.
Durango, Colo.
East Orange, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $49,000.
East Orange, N. J.
Ellensburg, Washington, post office, For continuation, $30,000.
Ellensburg, Wash.
El Paso, Texas, post office: For commencement, $50,000.
El Paso, Tex.
Elyria, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $35,000.
Elyria, Ohio.
Falls City, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $15,000.
Falls City, Nebr.
Farmville, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $500.
Farmville, Va.
Fordyce, Arkansas, post office: For commencement, $500.
Fordyce, Ark.
Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Fort Atkinson, Wis.
Fort Morgan, Colorado, post office: For commencement, $500.
Fort Morgan, Colo.
Franklin, Virginia, post office: For commencement, $500.
Franklin, Va.
Frederick, Maryland, post office: For commencement, $36,000.
Frederick, Md.
Fremont, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $20,000.
Fremont, Ohio.
Fulton, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $5,000.
Fulton, Mo.
Gallatin, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $500.
Gallatin, Tenn.
Garden City, Kansas, post office: For completion, $6,050.
Garden City, Kans.
Gardiner, Maine, post office: For continuation, $5,000.
Gardiner, Me.
Girard, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $500.
Girard, Kans.
Glasgow, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $500.
Glasgow, Ky.
Glenwood, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $500.
Glenwood, Iowa.
Globe, Arizona, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $19,000.
Globe, Ariz.
Gouverneur, New York, post office: For continuation, $5,000.
Gouverneur, N. Y.
Grinnell, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $35,000.
Grinnell, Iowa.
Hackensack, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $45,000.
Hackensack, N.J.
Hammond, Louisiana, post office: For commencement, $500.
Hammond, La.
Hiawatha, Kansas, post office: For commencement, $500.
Hiawatha, Kans.
Honey Grove, Tex.
Honey Grove, Texas, post office: For continuation, $500.
Hoopeston, Ill.
Hoopeston, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $500.
Hornell, N. Y.
Hornell, New York, post office: For continuation, $15,000.
Humboldt, Tenn.
Humboldt, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $29,000.
Huntington, Ind.
Huntington, Indiana, post office, For continuation, $30,000.
Jamestown, N. Dak.
Jamestown, North Dakota, post office: For commencement, $30,000.
Jasper, Ala.
Jasper, Alabama, post office: For continuation, $19,000.
Kalispell, Mont.
Kalispell, Montana, post office: For continuation, $30,000.
Kirksville, Mo.
Kirksville, Missouri, post office (extension): For completion, $10,000.
Laconia, N.H.
Laconia, New Hampshire, post office: For commencement, $30,000.
La Junta, Colo.
La Junta, Colorado, post office: For completion, $20,000.
Lancaster, Ky.
Lancaster, Kentucky, post office: For commencement, $500.
Las Cruces, N. Mex.
Las Cruces, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For commencement, $500.
Laurel, Miss.
Laurel, Mississippi, post office: For completion, $10,000.
Lincoln, Nebr.
Lincoln, Nebraska, post office and courthouse (extension): For completion, $75,000.
Little Falls, Minn.
Little Falls, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $16,000.
Live Oak, Fla.
Live Oak, Florida, post office: For completion, $10,000.
Logan, Ohio.
Logan, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
McComb, Miss.
McComb, Mississippi, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Madison, S. Dak.
Madison, South Dakota, post office: For commencement, $12,000.
Maquoketa, Iowa.
Maquoketa, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Marion, S. C.
Marion, South Carolina, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Marlin, Tex.
Marlin, Texas, post office: For continuation, $7,000.
Martin, Tenn.
Martin, Tennessee, post office: For commencement, $500.
Maryville, Tenn.
Maryville, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $15,000.
Media, Pa.
Media, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $25,000.
Mena, Ark.
Mena, Arkansas, post office: For commencement, $500.
Merrill, Wis.
Merrill, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $15,000.
Middletown, Conn.
Middletown, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $55,000.
Middletown, Ohio.
Middletown, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Missoula, Mont.
Missoula, Montana, post office and courthouse (extension): For continuation, $15,000.
Moberly, Mo.
Moberly, Missouri, post office (continuation): For continuation, $10,000.
Montevideo, Minn.
Montevideo, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Mount Pleasant, Tex.
Mount Pleasant, Texas, post office: For continuation, $500.
Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Mount Vernon, New York, post office: For completion, $10,000.
Muskegon, Mich.
Muskegon, Michigan, post office and customhouse (extension): For continuation, $15,000.
Nacogdoches, Tex.
Nacogdoches, Texas, post office: For continuation, $5,000.
Naugatuck, Conn.
Naugatuck, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $25,000.
Navasota, Tex.
Navasota, Texas, post office: For continuation, $15,000.
Neenah, Wis.
Neenah, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $31,000.
New Braunfels, Tex.
New Braunfels, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Newburyport, Mass.
Newburyport, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement, $28,000.
Orlando, Fla.
Orlando, Florida, post office: For commencement, $12,000.
Palatka, Fla.
Palatka, Florida, post office: For continuation, $5,000.
Pittsburg, Tex.
Pittsburg, Texas, post office: For continuation, $500.
Pottstown, Pa.
Pottstown, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $36,000.
Pulaski, Va.
Pulaski, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Quitman, Ga.
Quitman, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Reading, Mass.
Reading, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement, $500.
Redfield, S. Dak.
Redfield, South Dakota, post office: For continuation, $25,000.
Richfield, Utah.
Richfield, Utah, post office: For commencement, $500.
Ridgway, Pa.
Ridgway, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Rockville, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Rockville, Conn.
Roseburg, Oregon, post office: For continuation, $39,000.
Roseburg, Oreg.
Rumford, Maine, post office: For continuation, $24,000.
Rumford, Me.
Salamanca, New York, post office: For continuation, $25,000.
Salamanca, N. Y.
Sanford, Florida, post office: For continuation, $500.
Sanford, Fla.
Savanna, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Savanna, Ill.
Seymour, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $25,000.
Seymour, Conn.
Shelby, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $24,000.
Shelby, N. C.
Shelbyville, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $5,000.
Shelbyville, Ky.
Sidney, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $35,000.
Sidney, Ohio.
Skowhegan, Maine, post office: For commencement, $15,000.
Skowhegan, Me.
South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $44,000.
South Bethlehem, Pa.
South Boston, Virginia, post office: For commencement, $20,000.
South Boston, Va.
Stamford, Texas, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Stamford, Tex.
Statesboro, Georgia, post office: For commencement, $500.
Statesboro, Ga.
Tarentum, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $11,000.
Tarentum, Pa.
Taylorville, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $15,000.
Taylorville, Ill.
Titusville, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $15,000.
Titusville, Pa.
Twin Falls, Idaho, post office: For commencement, $15,000.
Twin Falls, Idaho.
Vancouver, Washington, post office: For continuation, $45,000.
Vancouver, Wash.
Van Wert, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Van Wert, Ohio.
Vernon, Texas, post office: For continuation, $500.
Vernon, Tex.
Wahoo, Nebraska, post office: For commencement, $500.
Wahoo, Nebr.
Warrenton, Virginia, post office: For commencement, $10,000.
Warrenton, Va.
Washington, District of Columbia, central heating, lighting, and Washington, D. C.
Central heating, etc., plant. Proviso.
Service extended to additional buildings. Vol. 38, p. 25. Limit of cost increased.
Washington, District of Columbia, Interior Department offices: For continuation, $300,000.
Interior Department offices.
Washington, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $500.
Washington, Ga.
Washington, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $24,000.
Washington, Ind.
Washington, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $35,000.
Washington, Iowa.
Waterloo, New York, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Waterloo, N. Y.
Water Valley, Mississippi, post office: For continuation, $500.
Water Valley, Miss.
Waynesville, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $5,000.
Waynesville, N. C.
Webb City, Missouri, post office: For completion, $16,000.
Webb City, Mo.
Wellsburg, West Virginia, post office: For continuation, $10,000.
Wellsburg, W. Va.
West Point, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $500.
West Point, Ga.
Willow, California, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Willow, Cal.
Woodbury, New Jersey, post office: For commencement, $10,000.
Woodbury, N. J.
Yoakum, Texas, post office: For commencement, $15,000.
Yoakum, Tex.
Repairs and preservation.
Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $25,000.
Vaults and safes.
Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,000.
Operating force.
Personal services.
Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $100,000.
Operating supplies.
Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, light, water, ice, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $35,000.
Internal revenue.
Collectors, etc.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000.
Refund of corporation excise taxes.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is authorized to reopen and allow claims for taxes for the recovery of which suits are pending and which would be allowable under the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of McCoach, collector, against Minehill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company; and there is hereby appropriated for the payment of such claims a total sum not to exceed $300,000, this appropriation to be available for the payment of such of the aforesaid claims as are not payable out of moneys heretofore appropriated and available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the payment of claims.
Coast Guard.
Repair of Gulf stations.
Mints and assay offices.
New York.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $15,000.
Engraving and Printing Bureau.
Increase of work authorized.
Vol. 38, p. 833.
The limitation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen as to the number of delivered
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except Materials.
Transfers of appropriations to.
Vol. 38, p. 834.
Public Health Service.
For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of Outside treatment.
For special studies of and demonstration work in rural sanitation, Rural sanitation.
District of Columbia.
Public Utilities Commission.
Valuation expenses.
Q Street Bridge over Rock Creek.
Balances available for construction.
Street extensions.
Provision for publishing condemnation notices repealed.
Vol. 38, p. 213. District of Columbia Code.
Condemning land for streets.
Notice by advertisements.
Vol. 34, p. 151, amended.
Personal service.
City refuse.
Schools.
Addition to Powell.
M Street High School.
So much as may be necessary of the appropriations for the construction for the new M Street High School for colored pupils is made Equipment.
Police.
Motor patrol wagons.
Vol. 38, p. 912.
Temporary services.
Limit increased.
Vol. 38, p. 924.
Half from District revenues.
Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
War Department.
Army.
Pay.
State, War, and Navy Department Building.
Navy annex.
Navy Department.
Contingent expenses.
Rent.
For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, $1,250, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Naval Observatory.
Motor truck.
Naval Observatory: The superintendent of the Naval Observatory is authorized to purchase one motor-propelled nonpassenger-carrying vehicle out of the appropriation “Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Observatory, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.”
Paying claims for collisions with, naval vessels.
Vol. 36, p. 607.
Navy.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Bureau of Construction and Repair: For construction and repair of vessels, including the same objects specified under this head in
Bureau of Steam Engineering: For engineering, including the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to expend the two foregoing Additional for technical services.
Vol. 38, pp. 945, 946.
The limitations specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial Allowances increased in Bureaus.
Vol. 38, pp. 1027, 1028.
Interior Department.
Capitol.
Repairs, etc.
Alaska Engineering Commission.
Constructing railroads, etc.
Vol. 38, p. 305.
Geological Survey.
Alaska mineral resources.
National Parks.
Superintendent authorized from improvement, etc.
Post, p. 534.
Report required.
Postal service.
For mail messenger service, $160,000.
Messenger service.
For regulation screen or other wagon service, $305,000.
Wagon service.
Railroad routes.
For inland transportation by railroad routes, including the same objects appropriated for under this head in the joint resolution making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,729,000.
Electric and cable car service.
For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,389.74.
Indemnity lost matter.
For limited indemnity for the loss of domestic registered, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $116,000;
Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $25,000;
Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $5,000.
Stationery.
For stationery, including all money-order offices, S10,000.
City delivery supplies.
For supplies for the City Delivery Service, including letter boxes, letter-box fasteners, package boxes, posts, furniture, satchels, straps, baskets, time cards, time-card frames, time-recorder supplies, maps, transfer designs, and stencils, $10,000.
Twine, etc.
For wrapping twine and tying devices, $25,000.
Facing slips.
For facing slips, plain and printed, including the furnishing of paper for same; and for card-slide labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature, $10,000.
Star routes.
For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $50,000.
Department of Agriculture.
Forest Service.
General expenses.
Plant Industry Bureau.
Citrus canker.
Eradication of.
For the emergency caused by the infectious nature and continued spread of the destructive disease of citrus trees known as citrus canker, by conducting such investigations of the nature and means of communication of the disease, and by applying such methods of eradication or control of the disease as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, and to pay such expense and employ such persons and means, including not exceeding $2,000 for personal services in the city of Washington, and to cooperate with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations of growers, or individuals as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purpose, $300,000, no part of which shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property destroyed or damaged.
White pine tree blister rot.
Services, etc., eradicating.
For the emergency caused by the infectious nature and continued spread of the destructive disease of pine tree known as the white pine blister rust, by conducting such investigations of the nature and means of communication of the disease, and by applying such methods of eradication or control of the disease as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, $20,000; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay such expense and employ such persons and means, and to cooperate with such authorities of the States concerned, organization, or individuals, as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purpose.
Biological Survey Bureau.
Rabies in predatory animals.
Destruction, etc.
Department of Commerce.
Standards Bureau.
Chemical laboratory: For completing the construction of the fire-proof Chemical laboratory.
To equip the new chemical laboratory building, including the construction, Equipment.
Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.
Promoting commerce.
Steamboat-Inspection Service.
Contingent expenses.
Bureau of Navigation.
Enforcement of navigation laws: For enforcement of navigation Enforcing navigation laws.
Clerk hire, shipping service: For clerk hire, shipping service, Shipping service.
Clerk hire.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Repairs, “Explorer.”
Fisheries Bureau.
Maintenance of vessels.
Lighthouse Service.
General expenses: For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing Repairs, etc., damages by Gulf hurricane, 1915.
Paying claims for collisions with, vessels.
Claims for damages: To pay the claims for damages which have been considered, adjusted, and determined to be due to the claimants by the Commissioner of Lighthouses, under authority of the provisions Vol. 36, p. 537.
Department of Labor.
Commissioners of conciliation.
Expenses.
Labor Statistics Bureau.
Per diem, special agents, etc.
Vol. 38, p. 680.
Immigration Service.
Byron H. Uhl.
Payment of costs against.
For payment of costs assessed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in the case of Ali Gegiow and another against Byron H. Uhl, as acting commissioner of immigration at the port of New York, $126.40.
Purchases allowed.
The Secretary of Labor is authorized to charge against the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen not exceeding $15,000 for articles purchased for use during that period pursuant to orders placed during the preceding fiscal year.
Legislative.
Senate Office Building.
Maintenance, etc.
Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, and for all necessary 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, $2,500.
House Office Building.
Maintenance, etc.
House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $2,500.
Senate.
Jacob C. Donaldson.
Pay to niece of.
House of Representatives.
Folding.
Government Printing Office.
Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions Holidays.
Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $27,305.93;
Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $270.22.
Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with Leaves of absence.
Printing and binding.
Department of Labor.
Interstate Commerce Commission.
For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $30,000.
For printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Commission, $10,000.
Patent Office: For additional amount for printing the weekly Patent Office.
For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, $5,000.
Court of Claims.
Judgments, United States courts.
For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of Payment.
Vol. 24, p. 505. Classification.
Under the Treasury Department, $1,097;
Under the War Department, $5,714.42;
Under the Department of Justice, $583.75;
In all, $7,395.17; together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made.
Judgments, Court of Claims.
For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, Payment.
Classification
Under the Treasury Department, $52,988.23; .
Under the War Department, $87,645.05;
Under the Navy Department, $97,373.74;
Under the Post Office Department, $64.71;
Under the Department of Agriculture, $34.45;
In all, $238,106.18.
Judgments, Indian depredation claims.
For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Payment. Verbal correction. Post, p. 1599. Vol. 26, p. 853. Reimbursement. Proviso.
Not appealed.
Right to appeal.
None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
Audited claims.
Claims certified by accounting officers.
Vol. 18, p. 110.
Vol. 23, p. 254.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.
For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, 41 cents.
For collecting the revenue from customs, $2.17.
For salaries and expenses under act to amend the national banking laws, $117.20.
For care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $4.20.
For Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, $6.25.
For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $1,587.50.
For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $18.08.
For refunding internal-revenue collections, $150.
For refunding taxes illegally collected, $48,335.75.
For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $531,139.68.
For redemption of stamps, $150.
For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, $14.65.
For salaries, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $32.67.
For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $5.88.
For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $239.98.
For Life-Saving Service, $1,444.48.
For fuel, lights, and water tor public buildings, $88.78.
For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $478.87.
For furnishing new post office, courthouse, and customhouse, Cleveland, Ohio, $42.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $5.93.
For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $64.58.
For general expenses of public buildings, $25.53.
For salaries, Adjutant General’s Office, $6.67.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.
For Signal Service of the Army, $1.50.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $119,833.89.
For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks at Army division and department headquarters, $4,259.57.
For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $176.94.
For subsistence of the Army, $44.90.
For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $539.25.
For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $1,435.35.
For barracks and quarters, $316.67.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $15,227.02, together with a sufficient sum to pay interest, at six per centum, from October twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, until this appropriation is made, on the claim of $1,115.93, certificate numbered eleven thousand five hundred and three, in favor of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, due and payable under decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury of May tenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five Vol. 18, p. 481.
For medical and hospital department, $13.60.
For Ordnance Service, $129.83.
For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $1,196.92.
For headstones for graves of soldiers, $72.13.
For burial of indigent soldiers, $45.
For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $46.02.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: Central Branch, $6; Western Branch, $8.58; Marion Branch, $1.05.
For expenses of recruiting, $90.31.
For collecting, drilling, and organizing Volunteers, $6.29.
For pay of the Navy, $8,118.96.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.
For pay, Manne Corps, $12,780.13.
For pay, miscellaneous, $409.80.
For contingent, Navy, $8,750.22.
For provisions, Marine Corps, $6.55.
For commutation of quarters, Marine Corps, $12.80.
For contingent, Marine Corps, $143.32.
For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, $1.82.
For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $2,515.95.
For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, 50 cents.
For recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, $203.66.
For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $50.34.
For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $22.50.
For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $208.06.
For naval training station, California, Bureau of Navigation, $122.76.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $441.76.
For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $340.72.
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $4.05.
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $156.
For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,558.14.
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $2,481.52.
For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $221.13.
Vol. 28, p. 962.
For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $558.87.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $38.28.
For enlistment bounties to seamen, $75.
Vol. 37, p. 1380.
For reimbursement to Samuel Butter and Company, Act of March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $11,709.69.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.
Vol. 33, p. 31.
For salaries, Bureau of Education, $50.
For Office Building, House of Representatives (deficiency Act, February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four), $2,500.
For return of funds of patients, Government Hospital for the Insane, $42.31.
For education of natives of Alaska, $112.50.
For contingent expenses of land offices, $2.01.
For expenses of hearings in land entries, $19.45.
For surveying the public lands, $503.88.
For Geological Survey, $1,345.98.
For general expenses, Bureau of Mines, $2.48.
For investigating mine accidents, $53.51.
For mineral mining investigations, Bureau of Mines, $2.86.
For testing fuel, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, $11.72.
For Army pensions, $1,046.20.
For Navy pensions, $45.
For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $8.
For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $454.01.
For Indian schools, support, $13.54.
For Indian school and agency buildings, $824.
For industrial work and care of timber, $5.60.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $49,009.76.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $29,439.89.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $1,011.22.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $5.27.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, $1.77.
For expenses of Indian commissioners, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 18 cents.
For contingencies, Indian Department, $1.
For general expenses, Indian Service, $8.77.
For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $174.
For Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $107.43.
For Indian school, Truxton Canyon, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 94 cents.
For maintenance, irrigation system, Pima Indian lands, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $17.84.
For support of Indians in California, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $41.55.
For maintenance and operation, Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $35.90.
For Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $72.93.
For Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, 15 cents.
For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10.30.
For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $6.46.
For support of Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Oklahoma, $31.83.
For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $20.98.
For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, $92.68.
For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $16.
For Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, $20.32.
For Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $133.02.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $156.60.
For support of Sioux, Yankton Tribe, South Dakota, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $13.65.
For surveying and allotting Standing Rock Reservation, South Dakota and North Dakota (reimbursable), $162.88.
For support of Indians of Colville and Puyallup Agencies and Joseph’s Band of Nez Perces, Washington, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $138.96.
For maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $104.32.
For Indian school, Hayward, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10.08.
For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $20.78.
For salaries of vice consuls (Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.
Vol. 38, p. 806.
For allowance for clerks at consulates, $193.75.
For expenses, interpreters and guards in Turkish dominions, and so forth, $3.60.
For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $4,278.38.
For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $6,466.51.
For administration of the customs laws, $29.12.
For fuel, lights, and so forth, State, War, and Navy Department Building, $858.
For preservation of collections, National Museum, $23.03.
For library, Department of Agriculture, $8.33.
For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $4.70.
For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $176.24.
For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $47.81.
For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $50.91.
For general expenses, Forest Service, $319.64.
For improvement of the national forests, $4.50.
For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $21.83.
For laboratory, Department of Agriculture, $3.60.
For enforcement of the food and drugs Act, $4.05.
For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $57.57.
For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $1.89.
For general expenses, Division of Publications, $7.20.
For drainage investigations, $4.65.
For International Dry-Land Congress at Lethbridge, Canada, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $474.61.
For expenses of the Thirteenth Census, $7.90.
For expenses of the Twelfth Census, $17.19.
For salaries and expenses, special attorneys, examiners, and so forth, Bureau of Corporations, $3.19.
For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $321.55.
For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, 37 cents.
For testing machines, Bureau of Standards, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $80.64.
For testing machines, Bureau of Standards, $45.01.
For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $2.28.
For supplies of lighthouses, $100.
For repairs of lighthouses, $17.84.
For expenses of buoyage, $294.86.
For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $9.67.
For protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, $117.89.
For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $7.98.
For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $12.74.
For expenses of regulating immigration, $16.61.
For miscellaneous expenses, Division of Naturalization, 50 cents.
For naturalization of aliens, 72 cents.
For books for judicial officers, United States courts, $2.28.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $311.05.
For fees of clerks, United States courts, $192.67.
For fees of jurors, United States courts, $5.
For support of prisoners, United States courts, $111.66.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $24,258.97.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred, and fourteen, $9.25.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $5,274.25.
For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $189.74.
For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $1,514.
For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $195.95.
For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $356.90.
Additional claims.
Vol. 18, p. 110.
Vol. 23, p. 254.
For refunding taxes illegally collected, $28,406.30.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.
For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $2,985.95.
For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $17.77.
For Life-Saving Service, $600.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $5,412.54.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.
For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks at Army division and department headquarters, $369.60.
For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $28.10.
For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $81.88.
For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $5,592.65.
For barracks and quarters, $44.40.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $69.15.
For headstones for graves of soldiers, $1.66.
For raising four additional regiments, $46.35.
For pay of the Navy, $757.52.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.
For pay, miscellaneous, $127.12.
For pay, Marine Corps, $66.60.
For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $536.09.
For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $65.20.
For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $4.
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $204.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $80.73.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 70 cents.
For Indian school, Fort Bidwell, California, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $15.36.
For Army pensions, 10 cents.
For contingent expenses, Executive Office, nineteen hundred Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.
Vol. 38, p. 806.
For salaries of vice consuls (Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $79.17.
For allowance for clerks at consulates, $80.
For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $594.96.
For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $7.84.
For expenses of regulating immigration, $144.25.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $82.20.
For fees of jurors, United States courts, $51.
For support of prisoners, United States courts, $1.30.
[S. 2497.]
Mississippi River.
Great Northern Railway Company may bridge, above Minneapolis, Minn.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 157.]
Savannah River.
Time extended for damming, by Twin City Power Company.
Vol. 35, p. 36; Vol. 37, p. 120, amended.
Amendment.
[S. 3144.]
Pend Oreille River.
Pend Oreille County, etc., Wash., may bridge, Metaline to Metaline Falls.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 3873..]
Snake River.
Minidoka and Cassia Counties, Idaho, may bridge.
Location.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 9225.]
Flint River.
Georgia Lumber Company may bridge, De Vaughn’s Siding, Ga.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 403.]
Fort Sill Military Reservation, Okla.
Tract in, granted Oklahoma for fish, hatchery.
Description.
Provisos.
Rights, etc., retained.
Nonliability for damages.
Approval of plans etc., by Secretary of War.
Revocation.
Amendment.
Army. Maximum enlisted strength authorized. Post,
p. 166.
Proviso.
Recruits.
Post, p. 166.
Maintenance of strength prescribed.
[H. R. 10032.]
Ohio River.
Allegheny County, Pa., may bridge, Pittsburgh to McKees Rocks.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 10238.]
Mississippi River.
Interstate Bridge Company may bridge, Lansing, Iowa.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 10487.]
Calumet, Mich.
Public Building.
Vol. 37, p. 878, amended.
Mineral rights of site, excepted.
[H. R. 11628.]
Merrimack River.
Lowell, Mass., may bridge.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 3636.]
Lost, etc., checks.
Duplicates of lost, etc., checks, may be issued.
R. S., sec. 3646, p. 717, amended.
Vol. 35, p. 643.
Provisos.
Post Office Department checks or warrants.
Checks to employees, etc.
[H. R. 65.]
Hawaii.
Act of legislature relating to public utilities commission, confirmed.
Legislative act 135.
“An act relating to certain gas, electric light and power, telephone, railroad, and street railway companies and franchises in the Territory of Hawaii, and amending the laws relating thereto.
“Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii:
Franchises made subject to public utilities commission.
Vol. 33, p. 231, 227.
Vol. 34, p. 309.
Vol. 35, p. 607.
Vol. 35, p. 609.
Vol. 36, p. 845.
Vol. 37, p. 243.
“Approved this twenty-ninth day of April, anno Domini nineteen hundred and thirteen.
[H. R. 3042.]
Hawaii.
Act of legislature relating to harbor commissioners, etc., confirmed.
Board of harbor commissioners.
Appointment, duties, etc.
Powers, etc.
Powers and duties of board: Said board shall have and exercise all the powers and shall perform all the duties which may lawfully be exercised by or under the Territory of Hawaii relative to the control and management of the shores, shore waters, navigable streams, harbors, harbor and water front improvements, ports, docks, wharves, quays, bulkheads, and landings belonging to or controlled by the Territory, and the shipping using the same, and shall have the authority to use and permit and regulate the use of the wharves, piers, bulkheads, quays, and landings belonging to or controlled by the Territory for receiving or discharging passengers and for loading and landing merchandise, with a right to collect wharfage and demurrage thereon or therefor, and, subject to all applicable provisions of law, to fix and regulate from time to time rates for services rendered in mooring vessels, charges for the use of moorings belonging to or controlled by the Territory, rates or charges for the services of pilots, wharfage or demurrage, rents or charges for warehouses or warehouse space, for office or office space, for storage of freight, goods, wares, and merchandise, for storage space, for the use of donkey engines, derricks, or other equipment belonging to the Territory, under the control of the board, and to make other charges except toll or tonnage charges on freight passing over or across wharves, docks, quays, bulkheads, or landings. The board shall likewise have power to appoint and remove clerks, wharfingers and their assistants, pilots and pilot-boat crews, and all such other employees as may be necessary, and to fix their compensation; to make rules and regulations pursuant to this chapter and not inconsistent with law; and generally shall have all powers necessary fully to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
‘All moneys appropriated for harbor improvements, including new construction, reconstruction, repairs, salaries, and operating expenses, shall be expended under the supervision and control of the board, subject to the provisions of this chapter and of chapter one hundred. All contracts and agreements authorized by law to be entered into by the board shall be executed on its behalf by its chairman.
‘The board shall prepare and submit annually to the governor a report of its official acts during the preceding calendar year, together with its recommendations as to harbor improvements throughout the Territory.’
Rules and regulations.
Rules and regulations.
Rules and regulations: The board may from time to time make, alter, amend, and repeal such rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as it may deem necessary respecting the manner in which all vessels may enter and moor, anchor, or dock in the shore waters, navigable streams, harbors, ports, and roadsteads of the Territory, or move from one dock, wharf, bulkhead, quay, landing, anchorage, or mooring to another within such waters, streams, harbors, ports, or roadsteads; the examination, guidance, and control of pilots and harbor masters and their assistants, and their conduct while on duty; the embarking or disembarking of passengers; the expeditious and careful handling of freight, goods, wares, and merchandise of
‘Said board may also, from time to time, make, alter, amend, and repeal such rules not inconsistent with law as shall be deemed necessary for the proper regulation and control of all shipping in the harbors, shore waters, and navigable streams belonging to or controlled by the Territory, and of the entry, departure, mooring, and berthing of vessels therein, and for the regulation and control of all other matters and things connected with shipping in all such harbors, shore waters, and navigable streams; and rules and regulations to prevent the throwing into such harbors, shore waters, and navigable streams of rubbish, refuse, garbage, or other substances liable to make such harbors, shore waters, and navigable streams unsightly, unhealthful, or unclean, or liable to fill up or shoal or shallow such harbors, shore waters, and streams, and likewise to prevent the escape of fuel or other oils into such harbors, shore waters, and streams, either from any vessel or from pipes or storage tanks upon the land.
‘Any rules and regulations so made shall be published by said board in the manner prescribed for the promulgation of the laws of the Territory, and upon such publication shall have the force and effect of law.’”
Subject to legal restrictions.
[H. R. 13043.]
Urgent deficiencies appropriations.
District of Columbia.
Courts and prisons.
Support of convicts: For support of convicts, including the same Support of convicts.
Supreme court: For fees of witnesses and payment of the actual Supreme Court.
Witness’ fees.
For fees of jurors, $8,000.
Jurors’ fees.
For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Miscellaneous court expenses.
For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,010.64;
Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $192.25;
Nineteen hundred and eleven, $6.60.
Half from District revenues.
One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Navy.
Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and ordnance stores.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Construction and repair.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Engineering.
Interior Department.
Platt National Park, Okla.
Department of Justice.
Contingent expenses.
Penitentiaries.
Leavenworth, Kans.
Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $50,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.
Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $25,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.
Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust Enforcing antitrust laws.
Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary Defending suits in claims.
Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution Detection and prosecution of crimes.
Judicial.
Commissioner of Glacier National Park: Commissioner in Glacier Glacier National Park.
Commissioner.
Vol. 29, p. 184.
District courts: The salary of the United States district judge South Carolina western district.
Pay of judge.
Vol. 38, p. 961.
United States courts.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and Marshals.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $27,633.91.
For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys.
For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, 33 cents.
For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace Commissioners, etc.
For fees of jurors, $25,000.
Jurors’ fees.
Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the
For bailiffs and criers, including the same objects specified under Bailiffs, etc.
Miscellaneous expenses.
For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and thirteen, $92.23;
Nineteen hundred and twelve, $218.17;
Nineteen hundred am ten, $82.80.
Support of prisoners.
For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $200,000.
For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $101,893.05.
National Training School for Boys, D. C.
National Training School for Boys: For four hundred copies of the report of the board of trustees for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, delivered in June, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $13.42.
Penitentiaries.
Leavenworth, Kans.
Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $27,500.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,374.13.
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $19,500.
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,146.80.
For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,000.
For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $800.
Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $30,000.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $15,154.11.
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,000.
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,465.18.
For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,000.
For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $11.07.
[H. R. 13768.]
Urgent deficiencies appropriations.
Army.
Signal Service.
Expenses.
Proviso.
Purchase of airships, vehicles, etc.
Quartermaster Corps.
Pay: For pay of the Army, including the same objects, except Pay.
Mileage to officers and contract surgeons: For mileage to officers, Mileage, officers, etc.
Subsistence: For subsistence of the Army, including the same Subsistence.
Regular supplies: For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, Regular supplies.
Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: For incidental expenses, Incidental expenses.
Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth: For the Horses.
Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters, including Barracks and quarters.
Transportation: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, Transportation.
Water and sewers at military posts: For water and sewers at Water and sewers at posts.
Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.
Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage: For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,223,542.
Medical Department.
Supplies, etc.
Ordnance Department.
Current expenses.
Ordnance service: For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $20,000.
Manufacturing, etc., arms.
Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, and issuing arms at the national armories, $6,000.
Preserving, etc., ordnance.
Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $644,000.
Fort McHenry, Md.
Jurisdiction ceded to State over portion of.
Vol. 38, p. 382.
Provisos.
Punishment of crimes.
Acceptance by State.
Termination.
[S. 4657.]
Tennessee River.
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Railway Company may bridge, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 585.]
Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Indians.
Claims of, submitted to Court of Claims.
Provisos.
Procedure, etc.
Disposition of moneys found due.
Attorneys’ fees.
Limit.
[S. 1809.]
New Jersey judicial district.
Additional judge authorized.
Vol. 36, p. 1087.
Post, p. 818.
Effect.
[S. 3391.]
Public lands.
Time extended for relinquishing lands to Indians in Arizona, New Mexico, and California.
Vol. 37, p. 1007.
Proviso.
Total area.
[S. 3977.]
Susquehanna River.
Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg Railroad Company may bridge, Sunbury to Monroe, Pa.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 3978.]
Susquehanna River.
Catawissa Railroad Company may bridge, Milton, to West Milton, Pa.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 4190.]
Missouri River.
Yankton County Bridge Company may bridge, Yankton County, Nebr.
Location.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 4671..]
Public lands.
Desert land entries in Riverside County, Cal., allowed extension of time for final proof, etc.
[H. R. 13769.]
Paris, Tex.
Tents, etc., allowed fire sufferers at.
René W. Pintó y Wentworth.
May be admitted to Military Academy.
Provisos.
No expense.
Conditions.
Oath and service.
R. S., secs. 1320, 1321, p. 227.
[S. 5016.]
Wabash River.
Toledo, Saint Louis and Western Railroad
Company, etc., may reconstruct bridge, at Silverwood, Ind.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[ S. 1424.]
District of Columbia.
American Academy of Arts and Letters incorporated.
Incorporators.
Purposes.
Corporate powers.
Annual meeting and report.
Property holdings.
Amendment.
[H. R. 9923.]
Flint River.
Mitchell County or Baker County may bridge, Newton, Ga.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 10139.]
Monongahela River.
Fairmont, W. Va., may bridge.
Constriction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Confederate soldiers rand sailors.
Marking graves of, who died in northern prisons.
Vol. 34, p. 56.
Vol. 35, p. 567.
Vol. 36, pp. 875, 1453.
Vol. 38, p. 768.
Time continued.
Provisos.
Details required.
Pay of commissioner
[S. 5229.]
Allegheny River.
Warren County, Pa., may bridge.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 4701.]
Army and Navy medal of honor roll.
Conditions for entry on.
Applications.
Evidence considered.
Certificate to be issued.
Copy to Commissioner of Pensions.
Special pension to be paid.
Post, p. 242.
That each such surviving person whose name shall have been entered on said roll in accordance with this Act shall be entitled to and shall receive and be paid by the Commissioner of Pensions in the Department of the Interior, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, a special pension of $10 per month for life, payable quarter yearly. The Commissioner of Pensions shall make all necessary rules and regulations for making payment of such special pensions to the beneficiaries thereof.
Commencement.
Such special pension shall begin on the day that such person shall file his application for enrollment on said roll in the office of the Secretary of War or of the Secretary of the Navy after the passage and approval of this Act, and shall continue during the life of the beneficiary.
Other benefits not affected.
Such special pension shall not deprive any such special pensioner of any other pension or of any benefit, right, or privilege to which he is or may hereafter be entitled under any existing or subsequent law, but shall be in addition thereto.
Free from tax, etc.
The special pension allowed under this Act shall not be subject to any attachment, execution, levy, tax, lien, or detention under any process whatever.
Limitation.
That in case any person has been awarded two or more medals of honor, he shall not be entitled to and shall not receive more than one such special pension.
Rank not considered.
Rank in the service shall not be considered in applications filed hereunder.
[S. 683.]
Executive departments, etc.
Use of name of Congressman or official in advertising business before, unlawful.
[S. 1294.]
United States courts.
Vol. 36, p. 1111.
Vol. 37, p. 734, amended.
Ante, p. 12.
The State of Iowa is divided into two judicial districts, Iowa judicial districts.
The northern district shall include the territory embraced on the Northern district.
Eastern division. Cedar Rapids division. Central division. Western division.
Terms of the district court for the eastern division shall be held at Terms.
The southern district shall include the territory embraced on the Southern district.
Eastern division. Central division. Western division. Southern division. Davenport division. Ottumwa division.
Terms of the district court for the eastern division shall be held at Terms.
Offices.
The clerk of the court for said district shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at Davenport and at Ottumwa for the transaction of the business of said divisions.
[S. 4480.]
North Carolina eastern judicial district.
Terms at Raleigh.
Vol. 38, p. 729, amended.
[H. R. 9803.]
District of Columbia.
Judgment of juvenile court not a civil disqualification of child, etc.
Vol. 34, p. 73.
[H. R. 11471.]
Tariff of 1913.
Sugar schedule.
Vol. 38, p. 131, amended.
Free entry of sugar, etc., after May 1, 1916, repealed.
Maple sugar, etc.
Vol. 38, p. 131, amended.
Free entry of, after May 1, 1916, repealed.
[H. R. 6241.]
Hawaii.
Act of legislature amending franchise to Island Electric Company, Limited, confirmed.
Franchise.
Construction, etc.
Subject to public utilities commission.
Approval by Congress.
[H. R. 9909.]
Missouri River.
Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company may bridge, at Chamberlain, S. Dak.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Repeal of Act authorizing pontoon bridge of White River Valley Company.
Vol. 33, p. 711.
Temporary maintenance.
Proviso.
Use during construction of other bridge.
Amendment.
[H. R. 11320.]
Snake River.
Twin Falls and Minidoka Counties may bridge, near Hansen, Idaho.
Amendment.
Commission on Industrial Relations.
Final reports to be printed as Senate document.
Distribution.
Proviso.
Reprint authorized.
[S. 5415.]
Fox River.
Chicago and North Western Railway Company may bridge, Geneva, Ill.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 6442.]
Newark, Del.
Exchange of present public building for new site.
Proviso.
No additional expense.
Sir Francis Drake.
Representative at celebration of landing of, on coast of California, authorized.
Proviso.
No expense.
[H. R. 4746.]
Portland, Oreg.
Purchase of land by, authorized.
Proviso.
Reversion for nonuser.
Charleston, S. C., immigrant station.
South Carolina Naval Militia may use.
Provisos.
Repairs, etc.
Reoccupation.
[S. 3769.]
Railroad employees.
Hours of service restricted.
Vol. 34, p. 1416, amended.
Penalty for violations.
Prosecutions.
Provisos.
Unavoidable accidents, etc., excepted.
Wrecking, etc., crews.
[S. 4876.]
Military Academy.
Number of cadets increased.
R. S., sec. 1315, p. 226, amended.
Selection from “honor schools.”
Residence qualifications.
Provisos.
Appointing successors to cadets finishing three years’ course repealed.
Vol. 38, p. 1128.
Present appointments validated.
Appointments from Army and National Guard.
Proviso.
Limit.
Division of increase appointments.
[H. R. 28.]
Public lands.
Vol. 3 4, p. 1053, amended.
“That the following-described tract of land situate in suspended Durango, Colo.
Grant for water works, etc., modified.
Description. Use specified. Provisos.
Price. Forest patrol, etc. Timber disposal. Fencing, etc.
Reversion for nonuser
[H. R. 177.]
Wyoming.
Exchange of public lands with.
[H. R. 384.]
Public lands.
Assignment of homestead entries in reclamation
projects.
Vol. 36, p. 592, amended.
Assignments confirmed of entries limited by farm units. Conditions.
Alfred Noble.
Memorial fountain to be allowed in District of Columbia.
Provisos.
Approval by Commission of Fine Arts.
Time limit.
[H. R. 12207.]
Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations.
Legislative.
Senate.
Pay of Senators.
For compensation of Senators, $720,000.
Mileage.
For mileage of Senators, $51,000.
For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others:
Vice President’s office.
Chaplain.
Secretary of the Senate, assistant, clerks, etc.
Document room.
Superintendent, etc.
Clerks and messengers to committees.
Preparing Senate Manual.
Navy Yearbook, 1915.
For compiling the Navy Yearbook for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifteen, under the direction of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, $500.
Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistant, etc.
Messengers, etc. Laborers, etc. Pages.
Police, Senate Office Building.
For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant at Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,050 each; special officer, $1,200; in all, $18,000.
Postmaster, etc.
Folding Room.
Foreman, etc.
Chief engineer, etc.
Elevator conductors, Senate Office Building.
For the Senate Office Building, under the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject to the control and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules: Fourteen elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; in all, $16,800.
For assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, Assistance to Senators.
Contingent expenses. Stationery.
Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of Sergeant at Arms, $100; in all, $300.
Postage stamps.
For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for Motor vehicles, etc.
For driving, maintenance, and care of automobile for the Vice President, $1,500.
Automobile, Vice President.
For materials for folding, $1,500.
Folding.
For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $10,000.
For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $1,500.
Fuel, etc.
For purchase of furniture, $5,000.
Furniture.
For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000.
For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000.
For packing boxes, $970.
Packing boxes.
For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $1,800.
Storage warehouse.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $50,000.
Miscellaneous items.
For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Investigations.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable Reporting debates.
Capitol police.
For captain, $1,800; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each; two special Pay.
For contingent expenses, $200.
Contingent expenses.
One-half of the foregoing amounts under “Capitol police” shall Division of disbursements.
Joint Committee on Printing.
Clerk, etc.
Vol. 28, p. 603.
Congressional Directory.
House of Representatives.
For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.
Mileage.
For mileage of Representatives, Delegates, and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000.
Officers, clerks, etc.
For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others:
Speaker’s office.
Digest of Rules.
Chaplain.
Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200.
Clerk of the House, clerks, etc.
Chief engineer, etc.
Clerks, messengers, and janitors to committees.
Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen, Janitors. Appointment, etc.
For nine clerks to committees, at $6 each per day during the session, $6,372.
Clerks to committees, session.
Sergeant at Arms, deputy, etc.
For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Police, House Office Building.
Doorkeeper, special employee, etc. Messengers, etc. Folding room. Superintendent, etc. Pages, etc. Document room. Superintendent, etc.
For the employment of Joel Grayson in document room, $2,150.
Joel Grayson.
Minority employees.
For minority employees authorized and named in the resolution of December sixth, nineteen hundred and fifteen: Special employee, $1,800; special messenger and assistant pair clerk, $1, 800; two special messengers, at $1,500 each; special chief page and pair clerk, $1,800; in all, $8,400.
Special designated employees.
For assistant department messenger authorized and named in the resolution of December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, $2,000.
For special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, $1,500.
To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in the resolution of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, at $3.85 per day, $1,405.25.
To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as a laborer, $840.
To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, $840.
Appointment, etc.
Successors to any of the employees provided for in the six preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time.
Conference minority.
Clerks, etc.
Conference minority: Clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,200; janitor, $1,000; in all, $4,700; the same to be appointed by the chairman of the conference minority.
Caucus messengers.
To continue the employment of messengers in the majority and minority caucus rooms, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,200 each; in all, $2,400.
Postmaster, assistant, etc.
Horses and wagons.
For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $2,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Official reporters.
Stenographers to committees.
“During the session” to mean 118 days.
Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and eighteen days from December fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, both inclusive.
Clerk hire, Members and Delegates.
R. S., sec. 31, p. 6. Proviso.
To be placed on roll of employees.
Contingent expenses. Folding materials. Vol. 28, p. 624.
For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, $18,000.
Furniture.
For packing boxes, $4,350, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Packing boxes.
Miscellaneous items.
For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000.
For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000.
For postage stamps: Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant at Postage stamps.
For driving, maintenance, and operation of automobile for the Speaker, $1,500.
Automobile, Speaker.
Library of Congress.
General administration: Librarian, $6,500; chief assistant librarian, Librarian, etc.
Mail and delivery: Assistants—one in charge $1,500, one $960, Mail and delivery.
Order and accession: Chief of division, $2,500; assistants—one Order and accession.
Catalogue, classification, and shelf: Chief of division, $3,000; chief Catalogue, classification, and shelf.
Binding: Assistants—one in charge $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $2,880.
Binding.
Bibliography: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, Bibliography.
Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections: Reading rooms.
Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division, $2,000; Periodicals.
Documents.
Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $840; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $6,720.
Manuscript.
Manuscript: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—chief $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420: in all, $5,880.
Maps and charts.
Maps and charts: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,680.
Music.
Music: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,000, two at $840 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,600.
Prints.
Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840.
Smithsonian deposits.
Smithsonian deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistant, $1,500; messenger, $780; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,200.
Congressional Reference Library.
Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $1,500; assistants—one $1,200, one $960, one $840; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $5,340.
Law Library.
Law Library: Librarian, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,400 each, one $960, one $540, one (evening service), $1,500; junior messenger, $420; in all, $9,220.
Semitic and Oriental Literature.
Semitic and Oriental Literature: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant, $1,500; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,920.
Copyright office.
Legislative Reference.
Service designated.
Legislative Reference: To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and committees and Members thereof, $25,000.
Card indexes.
Temporary services.
Carrier service.
Sunday opening.
Increase of Library.
Purchase of books, etc.
For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, Law books.
For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, Books for Supreme Court.
For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $5,000;
Periodicals.
In all, $100,000.
Contingent expenses.
Care of buildings and grounds. Superintendent, etc.
For extra services of employees and additional employees under Sunday opening.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam General expenses.
For resurfacing west driveway and repairs to stone curb in Library Special repairs, etc.
For refitting of boiler room and coal vaults, $2,500.
For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical Furniture.
Botanic Garden.
For superintendent, $1,800.
For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Committee Superintendent, assistants, etc.
For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, Repairs and improvements.
Executive.
President.
For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000.
Vice President.
For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $12,000.
Executive Office.
Secretary, executive clerk, etc.
Office of the President: Secretary, $7,500; executive clerk, $5,000; chief clerk, $4,000; appointment clerk, $3,500; record clerk, $2,500; two expert stenographers, at $2,500 each; accountant and disbursing clerk, $2,500; two correspondents, at $2,500 each; clerks—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,000 each, five of class four, two of class three, four of class two, three of class one; messengers—three at $900 each, three at $840 each; three laborers at $720 each; in all, Proviso.
Details of employees.
Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $25,000.
Bureau of Efficiency.
Investigating administrative needs of executive departments, ratings, etc.
Ante, p. 15.
Vol. 37, pp. 413, 750.
Vol. 38, p. 1008.
Expenses.
Proviso.
Pay restriction.
Civil Service Commission.
Commissioners, examiners, etc.
For commissioner, acting as president of the commission, $4,500; two commissioners, at $4,000 each; chief examiner, $3,500; secretary, $2,500; assistant chief examiner, $2,250; chiefs of division—three at $2,000 each; examiners—one $2,400, three at $2,000 each, six at $1,800 each; clerks—six of class four, twenty-eight of class three, thirty-nine of class two, fifty-two of class one, thirty-four at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; four messenger boys, at $360 each. Custodian force: Engineer, $840; general mechanic, $840; telephone-switchboard operator; two firemen; two watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers; four charwomen; in all, $285,730.
Field force.
No details allowed from departments, etc.
No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departments or other Government establishments in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance Transfer of employees.
Expert examiners.
For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting Traveling expenses, etc.
For field examiners at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, for work Field examiners.
Department of State.
For Secretary of State, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Secretary, Assistants. Director of Consular Service, Counselor. Officers on drafting work. Assistant solicitors. Chief clerk, chiefs of bureaus, clerks, etc.
For the following additional force: Officer to aid in important Additional force. Officer on drafting work, assistant solicitor, law clerks, etc.
For the following further additional force: Officers to aid in important Further additional force.
No other appropriation to be used for services in the District.
Post, p. 255.
No money appropriated by any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen for employment and payment of personal service in the Department of State at Washington, District of Columbia.
Contingent expenses.
Library.
For books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the library, $2,000.
Lithographing.
For services of lithographer and necessary materials for lithographic press, $1,500.
Miscellaneous.
For miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, care, and subsistence of horses, to be used only for official purposes, repair and maintenance of horse-drawn passenger carrying vehicles; automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same, harness, equipment for drivers, street-car tickets not exceeding $100, and other items not included in the foregoing, $10,000.
Rent.
For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $11,200.
Treasury Department.
Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc.
Chief clerk, assistant superintendent, clerks, etc.
Office of chief clerk and superintendent: Chief clerk, including $300 as superintendent of Treasury Building, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the department, $4,000; assistant superintendent of Treasury Building, $2,500; clerks—one $2,000, four of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one (one transferred from Treasurer’s office at $1,400), one $1,000, one $900; operator of photographic copying machine, $800; two messengers; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; storekeeper, $1,200; telephone and Engineers, etc. Watchmen, laborers, etc. Winder Building. Cox Building. Auditors’ Building.
General Supply Committee: Superintendent of supplies, $2,250; General Supply Committee.
Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants: Chief of division, $4,000; Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.
Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,500; assistant chiefs of Customs Division.
Division of Appointments: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant Appointments Division.
Section of Surety Bonds: Chief, $2,000; clerks—two of class one, Surety Bonds Section.
Division of Public Moneys: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief Public Moneys Division.
Division of Loans and Currency: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant Loans and Currency Division.
Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500; Printing and Stationery Division.
Division of Mail and Files: Superintendent of mail, $2,500; registry Mail and Files Division.
Office of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, Disbursing clerk.
Supervising Architect. Post, p. 271.
Comptroller’s Office.
Office of Auditor for Treasury Department.
Office of Auditor for War Department.
Office of Auditor for Navy Department.
Office of Auditor for Interior Department.
Mechanical devices.
For rental of mechanical devices and the necessary expenses of their operation, $1,500.
Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments.
Office of Auditor for Post Office Department.
For compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of Employees on mechanical devices. Proviso.
Employees on leave.
The Secretary of the Treasury may, during the fiscal year nineteen Reduction in grades below chief of division. Payment to employees on mechanical devices.
Postal Savings System: Clerks—one of class three, five of class Postal Savings System.
Treasurer’s Office.
For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be, Redemption of national currency.
Postal Savings System.
Postal Savings System: Accountant, $2,000; clerks—three of class two, two of class one, three at $1,000 each; expert counter, $900; in all, $12,500.
For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $200.
Register’s Office.
Office of Comptroller of the Currency.
National currency expenses.
For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks): Superintendent, $2,500; teller, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; engineer, $1,000; counters—twelve at $840 each, three at $700 each; assistant messenger; fireman; messenger boy, $360; two charwomen; in all, $43,460.
Special examinations, etc.
For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $5,000.
Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Post, p. 804.
Additional employees on income tax.
For the following, formerly authorized and paid from the appropriation for “Classifying, and so forth, returns of corporations,” and for Deputy commissioner, heads of division, etc.
Clerks on emergency taxes.
Ante, p. 2.
Post, p. 804.
For the following employees in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue from July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, both dates inclusive: Clerks—two of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, one $900; two counters, at $900 each; in all, $6,050.
Temporary clerks.
For the employment of temporary clerical help in the Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at rates to be fixed by the commissioner with the approval of the Secretary, $10,000.
For stamp agents—one $1,600, one $900; counter, $900; in all, Stamp agents.
Coast Guard Office.
The services of skilled draftsmen, and such other technical services Skilled draftsmen etc. Post, p. 274. Proviso.
Limit, etc.
Engraving and Printing Bureau. Limit on paying for services.
Secret Service Division.
Office of Director of the Mint.
For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, Freight.
For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended Contingent expenses.
For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose Examinations, etc. Precious metals statistics.
Public Health Service.
Contingent expenses.
Stationery.
Additional deducted from bureaus, offices, etc.
Postage.
For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000.
Binding.
For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Department, $250.
Reference books, etc.
For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000.
Freight, etc.
For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $9,000.
Investigations to secure better administrative methods, etc.
For investigation and experimentation and to secure better methods of administration, with a view to increased efficiency or to greater economy in the expenditure of public money, including necessary traveling expenses, in connection with special work, or obtaining of better administrative methods in any branch of the service within or under the Treasury Department, including the temporary employment of agents, stenographers, accountants, or other expert services either within or without the District of Columbia, $15,000.
Rent.
For rent of buildings, $11,350.
Vehicles.
For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of horses, including shoeing; purchase and repair of wagons, horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, all to be used for official purposes only, $2,500.
Files.
For purchase of file holders and file cases, $4,000.
Fuel, etc.
For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $12,000.
Lighting.
For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas and electric light fixtures, electric light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $21,500.
For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, Miscellaneous.
For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including Labor - saving machines, etc.
For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, Carpets, etc.
For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, Furniture.
For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems in the Treasury Fire alarm.
Auditor for Post Office Department. Contingent expenses. Control of expenses.
For purchase of cards and tabulating equipment for use in auditing Tabulating supplies, etc. Proviso.
Rental limit.
Collecting internal revenue.
Collectors, surveyors, etc.
Post, p. 803.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, surveyors, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, $2,165,000: Proviso.
Witness fees. Post, p. 314
Emergency tax expenses.
Ante, p. 2.
For additional amount required for salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, surveyors, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000.
Provisos.
Daily deposits by collectors.
R. S., sec. 3229, p. 620. P. S., sec. 3143, p. 602. Not applicable to income tax. Vol. 38, p. 168.
Agents, gaugers, etc.
For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for by law, including per diem not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, $2,200,000.
Collecting income tax.
Vol. 38, p. 180.
Ante, p. 84.
Collecting the income tax: For expenses of assessing and collecting the income tax as provided in paragraph N, section two, of an Act entitled “An Act to reduce tariff duties, and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,” approved October third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the several collection districts, including not Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680. Personal services, etc., in District of Columbia.
Collecting cotton-futures tax.
Balance reappropriated.
Vol. 38, p. 698.
Post, p. 481.
Collecting the cotton-futures tax: The unexpended balance on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, of the appropriation of $50,000 provided by section nineteen of the Act approved August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “ Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.
Restricting sale of opium, etc.
Expenses.
Vol. 38, p. 785.
Restricting the sale of opium, and so forth: For expenses to enforce the provisions of the Act approved December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “ Employees, etc. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.
For rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone Miscellaneous. Ante, p. 84. Post, p. 804.
Hereafter the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall determine Posts of duty of employees. Per diem allowed when traveling away from, on orders. R. S., sec. 3152, p. 604.
Independent Treasury.
Assistant treasurers offices. Baltimore.
Boston.
Chicago.
Cincinnati.
New Orleans.
New York.
Philadelphia.
Saint Louis.
San Francisco.
Discontinuance of subtreasuries. Report to be made on, etc.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to report to Congress at the beginning of its next session which of the subtreasuries, if any, should be continued after the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and if, in his opinion, any should be continued the reasons in full for such continuance; also if any or all of said subtreasuries may be discontinued what legislation will be necessary in order to transfer their duties and functions to some other branch of the public service or to Federal Reserve Banks.
Mints and assay offices.
Carson City, Nev.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000.
Denver, Colo.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $90,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery Ante, p. 84.
New Orleans, La.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $5,350.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500.
Philadelphia, Pa.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $295,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery Ante, p. 84.
San Francisco, Cal.
For wages of workmen, and other employees, $120,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery Ante, p. 84.
Boise, Idaho.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000.
Deadwood, S. Dak.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500.
Helena, Mont.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,500.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000.
New York, N. Y.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $90,000.
Ante, p. 84.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $70,000.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
For wages of workmen, and other employees, $1,500.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $500.
Seattle, Wash.
For wages of ’workmen, and other employees, $15,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, $5,000.
War Department.
Secretary, Assistant, assistant and chief clerk, clerks, etc.
Post, p. 809.
Adjutant General’s Office.
Post, p. 809.
Inspector General’s Office.
Post, p. 809.
Judge Advocate General’s Office.
Post, p. 809.
Signal Office. Post, p. 809.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Skilled draftsmen, etc. Post, p. 339. Proviso.
Limit, etc.
The services of one radio engineer, and such radio assistants as the Radio engineers, etc. Post, p. 809. Proviso.
Limit, etc.
Quartermaster General’s Office. Post, p. 809.
Surgeon General’s Office. Post, p. 809.
Ordnance Office. Post, p. 809.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Skilled draftsmen etc. Proviso.
Limit, etc. Post, p. 350.
Office of Chief of Engineers.
Post, p. 809.
Skilled draftsmen, etc.
The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor Proviso.
Limit, etc.
Insular Affairs Bureau.
Militia Affairs Division, Office of Chief of Staff.
Vol. 35, p. 403.
Post, p. 203.
Vol. 38, p. 481.
Miscellaneous expenses.
For miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, and necessary printing and binding, $3,200, which sum, together with the foregoing amounts for salaries, shall R. S., sec. 1661, p. 290. Vol. 34, p. 449.
Contingent expenses.
Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.
Stationery.
For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $20,000.
For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required Postage.
For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia: Medical dispensary, Rent. Post, p. 809.
Public building and grounds.
Superintendent, assistant, clerks, etc.
For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the Foremen, etc.
For sergeant of park watchmen, $950.
Watchmen.
For second sergeant of park watchmen, $900.
Day force.
For day watchmen, as follows: One in Franklin Park and adjacent reservations on New York Avenue; one in Lafayette Park; two in Smithsonian Grounds and neighboring reservations; one in Judiciary Park; one in Lincoln Park and adjacent reservations; one in Iowa Circle and reservations to the northeast; one in Thomas and Scott Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Washington Circle and neighboring reservations; one in Dupont Circle and neighboring reservations; one in McPherson Park and Farragut Square; one in Stanton Park and neighboring reservations; two in Henry and Seaton Parks and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and reservations to the northeast; one in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; one in Garfield and Marion Parks and reservations to the east; one in Monument Park; four in Potomac Park; one in Montrose Park; twenty-three in all, at $840 each, $19,320.
For night watchmen, as follows: Two in Smithsonian Grounds and Night force.
For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Wakefield, Va.
For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional Contingent expenses
For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, $1,000.
For purchase of two motorcycles at $250 each, and for the upkeep of same at $144 each, $788.
For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, Monument, and bridge watchmen, $2,800.
Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildings and Part from District revenues.
State, War, and Navy Department Building.
Clerks, engineers, etc.
Office of superintendent: Clerk of class three; stenographer and typewriter, $900; chief engineer, $1,400; five assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; forty watchmen; carpenter, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; machinist, $1,000; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,000; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; seven skilled laborers or mechanics, at $840 each; messenger; foreman of laborers, $840; ten firemen; eleven elevator conductors, at $720 each; seventeen laborers; three second-class firemen, at $660 each; four forewomen of charwomen, at $300 each; sixty-seven charwomen; gardener, $720; in all, $103,560.
Fuel, lights, etc.
Provisos.
Reapportionment of space in building permitted.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $32,000: Conditions. Prohibition on museum use.
Navy Department annex.
For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $7,000.
State Department annex.
Navy Department.
Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.
Post, p. 813.
Solicitor’s Office.
Post, p. 813.
Office of Naval Records and Library.
Judge Advocate General’s Office.
Post, p. 813.
Office of Chief of Naval Operations. Vol. 38, p. 929. Post, p. 813.
Bureau of Navigation. Post, p. 813.
Naval Intelligence Office.
Hydrographic Office. Salaries.
For copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart Materials, etc. Post, p. 814. Pilot Charts.
Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Branch offices. Contingent expenses
Employees.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $17,960.
Personal services in Washington restricted.
No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding.
Naval Observatory.
Salaries.
Computations.
For miscellaneous computations, $5,000.
Library, etc.
For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $750.
Contingent expenses.
For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $2,000.
For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery; freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $3,000.
Miscellaneous.
For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, exchange, or operation of motor truck and of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $8,000.
Grounds and roads.
For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $5,000.
Nautical Almanac Office.
Computers.
For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $3,000.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Post, p. 813.
Technical services.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Steam Engineering and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Engineering,” to be paid from the Proviso.
Limit, etc. Post, p. 813.
Bureau of Construction and Repair. Post, p. 813.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Technical services. Proviso.
Limit, etc. Post, p. 813.
Bureau of Ordnance. Post, p. 813.
The services of clerks, draftsmen, and such other technical services Technical services, etc. Proviso.
Limit, etc. Post, p. 813.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Post, p. 813.
Bureau of Yards and Docks. Post, p. 814.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services Technical services. Proviso.
Limit, etc. Post, p. 814.
Naval Militia Division.
Vol. 38, p. 288.
Post, p. 814.
Miscellaneous expenses.
For miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, office equipment, postage, typewriters and exchange of same, and necessary printing and binding, $3,000, which sum, together with the foregoing amount for salaries, shall be paid from the appropriation for Post, p. 559.
Contingent expenses.
For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, including rental of stable; purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same, street car tickets not exceeding $250, freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines and exchange of same, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department anti its various bureaus and offices, $42,000; Post, p. 557.
Rent.
Post, p. 814.
For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, $33,000.
Restriction on use of naval appropriations.
No part of any appropriations made for the naval service shall be expended for any of the purposes (including freight and expressage) herein provided for on account of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, except for personal services in certain bureaus, as herein expressly authorized.
Interior Department.
Secretary, Assistants, chief clerk.
Assistant, inspectors, clerks, etc. Messengers, watchmen, etc. Clerk to sign tribal deeds, etc.
General Land Office Building: Engineer and electrician, $1,600; General Land Office Building.
Solicitor’s Office.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, while Per diem. Special inspectors. Vol. 38, p. 680.
For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to six Inspectors. Vol. 38, p. 680.
General Land Office.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, pursuant Per diem, etc., investigations. Vol. 38, p. 680.
Law books.
For law books for the law library, $400.
Maps.
Proviso.
Distribution.
For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared in the General Land Office, $20,000:
State and Territorial maps.
Enlarged homestead areas.
For separate State and Territorial maps of public land States including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior, under the enlarged homestead Acts prepared in the General Land Office, $3,000.
Indian Office.
Pension Office.
Restriction on filling vacancies.
Appointments shall not be made to any of the positions herein appropriated for in the classified service of the Bureau of Pensions not actually filled June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, nor shall more than twenty-five per centum of other vacancies actually occurring in any grade in the classified service of that Bureau, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, be filled by original
For per diem at not exceeding $3 in lieu of subsistence pursuant to Per diem, etc., investigations. Vol. 38, p. 680.
For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing Labor-saving devices, etc.
Patent Office. Ante, p. 9.
For purchase of professional and other reference books and publications Books, etc.
For producing copies of weekly issue of patents, designs, and trademarks; Copies of weekly issues of patents, etc.
For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions Investigating use of inventions.
For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau, Bern.
Bureau of Education.
Rural and industrial education.
For investigation of rural education, and industrial education, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and no salary shall be paid hereunder in excess of $3,500 per annum, $35,000.
Traveling expenses.
For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $3,000.
Library.
For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, $500.
School and home gardening.
For investigation of school and home gardening in cities and manufacturing towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $5,700.
Special reports.
For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,600.
Distributing documents, etc.
For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, textbooks, and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same, including personal services in the District of Columbia for the purpose of bringing the cataloguing up to date, $2,500.
Superintendent, Capitol Building and Grounds.
Contingent expenses.
Stationery.
For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, including not to exceed $6,500 for the Civil Service Commission, Additional deducted from bureaus, offices, etc.
For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete Books, periodicals, etc.
For rent of buildings: Geological Survey, $40,000; Civil Service
Rent.
Commission, $16,875; Bureau of Mines, $12,000; in all, $68,875.
For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required Postage Stamps.
Surveyors general.
For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingent Salaries and expenses of offices. Ante, p. 102.
Alaska: Surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the Territory, $4,000;
Alaska.
Clerks, $10,000;
Contingent expenses, $2,500; in all, $16,500.
Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000;
Arizona.
Clerks, $13,000;
Contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $17,500.
California: Surveyor general, $3,000;
California.
Clerks, $12,000;
Contingent expenses, $1,400; in all, $16,400.
Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000;
Colorado.
Clerks, $21,000;
Contingent expenses, $2,500; in all, $26,500.
Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000;
Idaho.
Clerks, $16,000;
Contingent expenses, $1,200; in all, $20,200.
Montana: Surveyor general, $3,000;
Montana.
Clerks, $18,500;
Contingent expenses, $600: in all, $22,100.
Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000;
Nevada.
Clerks, $10,000;
Contingent expenses, $400; in all, $13,400.
New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000;
New Mexico.
Clerks, $18,000;
Contingent expenses, $1,400; in all, $22,400.
Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000;
Oregon.
Clerks, $12,500;
Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $16,100.
South Dakota: Surveyor general, $2,000;
South Dakota.
Clerks, $3,100;
Contingent expenses, $500; in all, $5,600;
Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000;
Utah.
Clerks, $17,240;
Contingent expenses, $1,000; in all, $21,240.
Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000;
Washington.
Clerks, $8,000;
Contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $12,500.
Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000;
Wyoming.
Clerks, $15,000;
Contingent expenses, $500; in all, $18,500.
Restriction on clerk hire, etc.
Expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations for clerk hire and incidental expenses in the offices of the surveyors general shall not be incurred by the respective surveyors general in the conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Temporary details authorized.
The Secretary of the interior is authorized to detail temporarily clerks from the office of one surveyor general to another as the necessities of the service may require and to pay their actual necessary traveling expenses in going to and returning from such office out of the appropriation for surveying the public lands. A detailed statement of traveling expenses incurred hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof.
Office work, surveys in railroad land grants.
The use of the fund created by the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four (Thirteenth Statutes, page three hundred and Vol. 13, p. 365. Vol. 28, p. 937. Proviso.
Limit.
Government in the Territories.
Alaska.
For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $2,250; janitor service for the executive mansion and office building, not to exceed $1,200; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from Juneau on official business; repair and preservation of executive mansion; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $7,500, to be expended under the direction of the governor.
Legislative expenses.
Legislative expenses: For salaries of members, $21,600; mileage of members, $9,250; salaries of employees, $5,160; printing of laws, $4,000; rent of legislative halls and committee rooms, $2,000; stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth, $4,000; in all, $46,010, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska.
Hawaii.
For judges of circuit courts, at $4,000 each, so much as may be necessary, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,000, and for private secretary to the governor, $2,000; in all, $3,000.
Legislative expenses.
Legislative expenses: For furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and files, printing and binding, including printing, publication, and binding of the session laws and the House and Senate Journals, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, and incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, sergeant at arms, Proviso.
Restriction on pay to members. Vol. 31, p. 150.
Post Office Department.
Postmaster General, chief clerk, clerks, etc.
Messengers, engineers, etc. Watchmen, laborers, etc.
Division of Post-office Inspectors: Chief inspector, $4,000; chief Post Office Inspectors’ Division.
Division of Purchasing Agent: Purchasing agent, $4,000; chief Purchasing Agent’s Division.
Division of Solicitor: Assistant attorneys—one $2,750, one $2,500, Solicitor’s Division.
Washington, District of Columbia, post-office building: Two assistant Washington, D. C., post office. Care of building, etc.
Office of First Assist ant Postmaster General. Post Office Service Division, etc. Appointments Division. Dead Letters Division. Correspondence Division.
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
Railway Adjustments Division.
Foreign Mails Division.
Railway Mail Service Division.
Division of Railway Mail Service: General superintendent, $4,000; assistant general superintendent, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, five of class three, four of class two (two submitted at $1,200 each), nine of class one (two in lieu of two at $1,400 each and one in lieu of one at $1,000), two at $1,000 each (one submitted at $1,200), one $900 (one transferred to Second Assistant’s office at $720); in all, $40,400.
Third Assistant Postmaster General.
Stamps Division.
Finance Division.
Classification Division. Registered Mails Division. Money Orders Division.
Postal Savings System: Director, $4,800; assistant director, $3,000; Postal Savings System.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Rural Mails Division. Equipment and Supplies Division.
Contingent expenses.
Stationery, etc.
Heating plant.
For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $38,500.
Telegraphing, etc.
For telegraphing, $4,500.
For painting, $2,000.
For purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of horses and horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and repair of vehicles, including motor trucks and harness, $2,500.
Miscellaneous.
For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; street car tickets not exceeding $200; plumbing; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt under article eleven of the Rome convention of the Universal Postal Union, $30,000, of which sum not exceeding $3,985 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,500 may be expended for law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, books necessary to conduct the business of the department; and repairs to department buildings.
Furniture.
Post, p. 819.
Rent.
Official Postal Guide.
For furniture and filing cabinets, $7,000.
For rent of stables, $500.
For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, $21,000.
Supply for departments, etc.
Post, p. 819.
Hereafter contracts let for the publication of the Official Postal Guide shall provide for the supply of such copies as may be required for public use by the several executive departments and other Government establishments at a price not exceeding the cost of such guides to the Post Office Department.
Postal service appropriations not to be used for Department.
Vol. 5, p. 80.
Appropriations made for the service of the Post Office Department in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall not be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Post Office Department at Washington, District of Columbia.
Department of Justice.
Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants.
Solicitors for Departments, etc.
Attorneys, assistants, etc. Chief clerk, clerks, etc. Superintendent of prisons, etc. Investigation division. Messengers, watchmen, etc. Division of accounts.
Contingent expenses.
For books for law library of the department, including their exchange, $3,000.
For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of department, including their exchange, $500.
For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce, $300.
For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor, $500.
For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $6,500.
Stationery.
For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, Miscellaneous.
For official transportation, including purchase and exchange, keep and shoeing of animals, and purchase, exchange, and repairs of wagons, carriages, and harness, including those used for carrying passengers, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $2,500.
For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, $36,000.
Rent.
The Attorney General is authorized to enter into a contract for Five-year lease for office building authorized.
Solicitor of the Treasury.
For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, $300.
Solicitor of the Department of Commerce.
Solicitor of the Department of Labor.
Department of Commerce.
Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.
Lighthouses Bureau.
Census Office.
Securing information for reports.
For securing information for census reports, provided for by law, semimonthly reports of cotton production, periodical reports of stocks of baled cotton in the United states and of the domestic and foreign consumption of cotton; quarterly reports of tobacco; per diem compensation of special agents and expenses of same and of detailed employees, whether employed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records, temporary rental of quarters outside of the District of Columbia; for supervising special agents, and employment by them of such temporary Tobacco statistics. Provisos.
Division of Cotton and Tobacco Statistics created. Procuring tobacco information. Vol. 37, p. 106. Pay of special agents.
For experimental work in developing, improving, and constructing Tabulating machines, etc.
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
To further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce Promoting commerce. Provisos.
Purchase of publications, etc. Editorial assistants.
Investigating cost of production: For salaries and all other actual Investigating cost of production. Vol. 25, p. 183. Vol. 27, p. 407. Post, p. 796.
Promoting commerce, South and Central America: To further promote Promoting commerce with South and Central America.
Commercial attachés: For commercial attachés, to be appointed Commercial attachés. Clerks, traveling expenses, etc.
Steamboat-Inspection Service.
Supervising inspectors.
R.S., sec. 4404, p. 853.
Steamboat inspectors: For ten supervising inspectors, at $3,000 each, as authorized by section forty-four hundred and four, Revised Statutes, $30,000;
Inspectors.
Vol. 34, p. 106; Vol. 35, p. 428: Vol. 37, p. 785.
Inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as authorized by Acts approved April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, and March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $171,100;
Assistant inspectors.
Vol. 34, p. 106.
Assistant inspectors, as authorized by Act of April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, for the following ports: New York, thirty, at $2,000 each; New Orleans, six at $1,800 each; Baltimore, eight at $1,800 each; Providence, four at $1,800 each; Boston, six at $1,800 each; Philadelphia, eight at $1,800 each; San Francisco, ten at $1,800 each; Buffalo, six at $1,600 each; Cleveland, six at $1,600 each; Milwaukee, two at $1,600 each; Chicago, four at $1,600 each (including two transferred from Milwaukee); Grand Haven, four at $1,600 each (including two transferred from Milwaukee); Detroit, four at $1,600 each (including two transferred from Milwaukee); Norfolk, six at $1,600 each; Seattle, eight at $1,600 each; Portland (Oregon), two at $1,600 each; Albany (New York), two at $1,600 each; two traveling inspectors at $2,500 each ; $211,000;
In all, for inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $412,100.
Clerk hire, at large.
Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceeding $1,500 a year to each person, of clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to R. S., sec. 4414, p. 854. Vol. 34, p. 106; Vol. 36, p. 1229.
Contingent expenses.
Post, p. 116.
Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and other expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions R. S., Title LII, pp. 852–869. Vol. 25, p. 80; Vol. 24, p.80; Vol. 28, p. 699; Vol. 29, p. 530; Vol. 33, p. 1026; Vol. 34, p. 106; Vol. 35, p. 428.
Navigation Bureau.
Shipping service.
Commissioners.
Vol. 23, p. 59.
Shipping service: For shipping commissioners in amounts not exceeding the following: Baltimore, $1,200; Bath, Maine, $1,000; Boston, $3,000; New Bedford, $1,200; New Orleans, $1,500; New York, $5,000; Norfolk, $1,500; Philadelphia, $2,400; Portland, Maine, $1,300; Seattle, $3,500; Providence, $1,800; Rockland, $1,200: San Francisco, $4,000; in all, $28,600.
Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce, Clerk hire.
Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for Contingent expenses. Post, p. 116.
To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secure uniformity in Admeasurement of vessels.
Instruments for counting passengers: For purchase and repair of Counting passengers.
Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce Motor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws.
To enable the Secretary of Commerce to employ temporarily, in Temporary employees to prevent overcrowding of excursion vessels, etc.
Wireless-communication laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce Wireless apparatus on steamers. Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol. 37, p. 199. Vol. 37, p. 1565. Post, p. 116.
Standards Bureau.
Apparatus, etc.
Post, p. 116.
For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection with buildings or work of the bureau, laboratory supplies, materials, and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $50,000.
Repairs, etc.
For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $5,000.
Miscellaneous.
For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, books and periodicals; traveling expenses (including expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies when required in connection with standardization, testing, or other official work of the bureau); street car tickets not exceeding $100; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American International Committee of Weights and Measures.
Care of grounds.
For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, $6,000.
High-power electric currents, etc.
To investigate the dangers to life and property due to the transmission of electric currents at high potentials, and the precautions to be taken and the best methods of construction, installation, and operation to be followed in the distribution and return of such currents, in order to reduce to a minimum such dangers; also to investigate the best means of protecting life and property from lightning, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
Refrigeration investigations.
To complete the investigations incident to the establishment of units and standards of refrigeration, and the determination of the physical constants of materials used in the refrigeration industries, such as ammonia, aqueous ammonia solutions, carbonic acid, brines, and so forth, and the determination of the thermal conductivities of materials, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
Structural materials, investigations.
For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $100,000.
Testing machines for physical constants.
For maintenance and operation of testing machines, including personal services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $30,000.
Fire-resisting building materials.
For investigation of fire-resisting properties of building materials and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, and for the standardization of types of appliances for fire prevention, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000.
Measurement of public utilities.
For investigation of the standards and methods of measurements of public utilities, such as gas, electric light, electric power, water, telephone, and electric railway service, and the solution of the problems which arise in connection with standards in such service, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000.
For investigation of materials used in the construction of rails, Railway equipment investigations.
For testing miscellaneous materials, such as varnish materials, soap Miscellaneous testing, etc.
For investigation and standardization of methods and instruments Radio communication standardization.
To develop color standards and methods of manufacture and of Industrial color standards, etc.
To study methods of measurement and technical processes used in Clay products processes.
To determine experimentally important physical constants of materials Experiments in physical constants of industrial materials, etc.
To develop methods of testing and standardizing machines, motors, Aeronautical engineering investigations, etc.
Contingent expenses. Additional to be deducted from bureaus, etc., for purchase through supply committee. Vol. 36, p. 531. To be expended through Division of Supplies.
Rent.
For rent of biddings in the District of Columbia, $66,500.
Department of Labor.
Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.
Commissioners of conciliation.
Vol. 37, p. 738.
Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.
Labor Statistics Bureau.
For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, pursuant Per diem, special agents, etc. Vol. 38, p. 680. Temporary statistical assistance. Association for Labour Legislation.
For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library the sum of Library.
To enable the Secretary of Labor to provide and pay for the medical Medical examination of injured employees. Vol. 35, p. 557. Post, pp. 748, 821.
Immigration Bureau.
Division of Information: Chief, $3,500; assistant chief, $2,500; Information division.
Naturalization Bureau.
Children’s Bureau.
For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at not Per diem subsistence, etc. Vol. 38, p. 680. Experts, etc. Material for publications.
Contingent expenses.
Additional from immigration expenses. Vol. 36, p. 531. Post, p. 325. To be expended through Division of Publications and Supplies.
Rent.
Five-year lease for office building authorized.
The Secretary of Labor is authorized to enter into a contract for the lease of a modern fireproof building for the use of the Department of Labor for a period not to exceed five years, renewable, at the option of the Government, for an additional period not exceeding five years, at an annual rental not exceeding $24,000 and at a rate per annum per square foot of available floor space not to exceed thirty-six and three-tenths Proviso.
Renewal of present lease.
Judicial.
Supreme Court.
Circuit courts of appeals.
District judges.
Hawaii district court.
Retired judges. Vol. 36, p. 1161.
Court of Appeals, District of Columbia. Proviso.
Reports. Half from District revenues.
Supreme Court, District of Columbia. Half from District revenues.
Yellowstone Park. Commissioner. Vol. 29, p. 184.
Glacier Park. Commissioner. Vol. 29, p. 184.
Books for judicial officers. Proviso.
Transmittal to successors.
Court of Customs Appeals.
For rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, Miscellaneous expenses.
Court of Claims.
For auditors and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary, Auditors, etc.
For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles, Contingent expenses.
Reporting decisions.
For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the printing of the fifty-first volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to be paid on the order of the court to the reporter, notwithstanding R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314. Vol. 18, p. 109.
Custodian.
For custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims, R.S., sec. 1765, p.314.
Vol. 18, p. 109.
Pay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc., rated.
No pay for permanently incapacitated persons.
Typewriting machines.
Restriction on prices to be paid for.
Exception.
Proviso.
Determination of character of machines.
Details for service outside of District restricted.
Proviso.
Department of Justice investigations excepted.
Double salaries restricted.
Post, p. 582.
Exception.
[H. R. 10750.]
Missouri River.
Mondak Bridge Company may bridge, Sheridan and Richland Counties, Mont.
Location.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 4432.]
Antitrust Act, 1914.
Interlocking directorates.
Vol. 38, p. 733, amended.
“And provided further, That nothing in this Act shall prohibit any Federal reserve banks.
Permission for officers, etc., to serve in not more than two other banks, etc.
“The consent of the Federal Reserve Board may be procured before Consent of Federal Reserve Board.
[H. R. 3575.]
National banks.
R. S., sec. 1012, p. 189, amended.
Assets of insolvent banks.
Depositing in banks allowed.
Bond required. Interest to be paid.
[H. R. 6099.]
United States courts.
Vol. 36, p. 1107.
California judicial districts.
Southern district.
Northern division.
Southern division.
Terms.
Northern district.
Northern division.
Southern division.
Terms.
Office.
[S. 4603.]
Tombigbee River.
Jackson Highway Bridge Company may bridge, near Jackson, Ala.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 81.
Proviso,
Highway, etc., bridge.
Amendment.
[S. 4726.]
Military schools.
Army supplies may be issued to, for instruction camps.
Bond required.
[H. R. 10385.]
Indian Department appropriations.
For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in Surveying, allotting in severalty, etc.
Vol. 24, p. 388. Repayment. Proviso.
Use in New Mexico and Arizona restricted.
Irrigation, drainage, etc.
Available until expended.
For the construction, repair, and maintenance of ditches, reservoirs, and dams, purchase and use of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, lands necessary for canals, pipe lines, and reservoirs for Indian reservations and allotments and for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, Investigating new projects. Vol. 36, p. 858.
Reimbursable, etc. Vol. 38, p. 583. Provisos.
Use restricted. Irrigation inspectors. Superintendents of irrigation.
Suppressing liquor traffic.
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians, $150,000. The provisions of sections twenty-one hundred and forty and twenty-one hundred and forty-one of the Revised Beer, etc., included.
R. S., secs. 2140, 2141, p. 373.
Vol. 29, p. 506.
Relieving distress, preventing diseases, etc.
For the relief and care of destitute Indians not otherwise provided for, and for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, trachoma, smallpox, and other contagious and infectious diseases, including transportation of patients to and from hospitals and sanatoria, Provisos.
Amount for new hospitals. General treatment, etc. Limit for hospitals increased.
Vol. 38, p. 584. Maximum. Allotment to specified hospitals and sanatoria.
For support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided Support of schools. Provisos.
Deaf and dumb, or blind. Public school pupils. Parentage restriction. Schools specifically provided for not included.
For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of School and agency buildings, etc. Provisos.
Heat and light to employees Not included in compensation.
Vol. 37, p. 521. Sewers for Pala Reservation, Cal.
For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and Transporting, etc., pupils. Proviso.
Industrial employment. Alaska natives.
Preserving timber, etc.
Matrons.
For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons; and for Agricultural experiments, etc. Farmers and stockmen. Provisos.
Menominee Reservation, Wis. Farmers to have competency certificates. Present employees excepted. Tests of soils, etc. Allowance to matrons, etc. Vol. 37, p. 521.
Supplies.
Purchase, etc., of.
For 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, $300,000: Provisos.
Warehouses limited.
Small purchases without advertising. R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733. Vol. 36, p. 861, amended.
Telegraph and telephone messages.
For telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, $10,000.
Legal expenses In allotment suits.
For witness fees and other legal expenses incurred in suits institutedin behalf of or against Indians involving the question of title to lands allotted to them, or the right of possession of personal property Proviso.
No attorneys’ fees.
For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $10,000.
Citizen commission.
Indian police.
For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed $50 per month each and privates at not to exceed $30 per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, for purchase of equipments and supplies and for rations for policemen at nonration agencies, $200,000.
For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, $8,000.
Judges of Indian courts.
For pay of special agents, at $2,000 per annum; for traveling and Contingent expenses. Ante, p. 102.
For pay of six Indian Service inspectors, exclusive of one chief Indian Service inspectors.
For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allottees Determining heirs of allottees. Provisos.
Clerks in Indian Office. Osages and Five Civilized Tribes excepted. Payments by estates of decedents. Accounting. Partition of allotments. Issue of patents in fee.
For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support, among Encouraging farming industries, etc., among Indians. Provisos.
Repayment. Limitation of expenditures.
Passenger-carrying vehicles.
Maintenance.
That not to exceed $200,000 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allo ting, irrigation, and other Proviso.
Purchases limited.
Texas.
Restriction on Indians going into, repealed.
Vol. 21, p. 132.
That so much of section four of the Act of May eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty (Twenty-first Statutes at Large, page one hundred and thirty-two), as prohibits granting permission in writing or otherwise to any Indian or Indians on any Indian reservation to go into the State of Texas, under any pretext whatever, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Leases of arid allotments to aged, etc.,
Indians.
That whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that the allotted lands of any Indian are arid but susceptible of irrigation and that the allottee, by reason of old age or other disability, can not personally occupy or improve his allotment or any portion thereof, such lands or such portion thereof, may be leased for a period not exceeding ten years, under such terms, rules, and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the of the Interior.
Farmer John.
Payment to heirs of.
For payment to the heirs of Farmer John, an Indian, for land purchased by the Government for a boathouse site on Pelican Lake, Minnesota, $20.
Grand Junction School, Colo.
Modified use by State, authorized.
Vol. 36, p. 273.
That the lands, buildings, fixtures, and all property lights granted to the State of Colorado for educational purposes by section five of the Act of Congress approved April fourth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and seventy- three), may, in lieu of the use designated in said grant, be utilized by said State for the care of the insane, as an agricultural experiment station, or for such other public purposes as may be authorized by Proviso.
Admission of Indians.
Indian tribal funds.
Vol. 34, p. 1221, amended.
That section two of the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Largo, page twelve hundred and twenty-one), entitled “
Use of pro rata share of incompetent Indians.
“That the pro rata share of any Indian who is mentally or physically incapable of managing his or her own affairs may be withdrawn from the Treasury in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and expended for the benefit of such Indian under such rules, regulations, Proviso.
Withdrawals restricted.
Live stock of Indians.
Payments for destruction of diseased, etc.
For reimbursing Indians for live stock 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
For the payment to Charles J. Kappler for the work of compiling, Charles J. Kappler.
Payment to.
Section nine of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and Indian supplies.
Vol. 18, p. 450, amended.
“That hereafter all bidders under any advertisement published by Bids for goods, etc., to be accompanied with check or draft. Bond, etc., acceptable. Forfeiture on failure to execute contract. Return if executed.
Arizona and New Mexico.
For support and civilization of Indians in Arizona and Support, etc., of Indians in.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Fort Mojave School.
For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at Phoenix School.
For support and education of one hundred pupils at the Indian Truxton Canyon School.
For continuing the work of constructing the irrigation system for Gila River Reservation.
Continuing irrigation system.
Vol. 33, p. 1081. Repayment, etc.
Vol. 37, p. 522.
For the construction and repair of necessary channels and laterals Colorado River Reservation.
Extending irrigation system.
Vol. 36, p. 273. Repayment, etc.
Papago Indian villages.
Water supply for.
For improvement and sinking of wells, installation of pumping machinery, construction of tanks for domestic and stock water, and for the necessary structures for the development and distribution of a supply of water and for maintenance and operation of constructed works, for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, $20,000.
Navajos.
School facilities.
Vol. 15, p. 669.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect the provisions of the sixth article of the treaty of June first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, between the United States and the Navajo Nation or Tribe of Indians, proclaimed August twelfth, eighteen Kindred and sixty-eight, whereby the United States agrees to provide school facilities for the children of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, Proviso.
Discretionary use.
Developing water supply.
For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo Indians on the Navajo Reservation, $25,000, to be immediately available, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available.
Gila River.
Dam, etc., to divert water for irrigating lands, etc.
For beginning the construction by the Indian Service, of a dam with a bridge superstructure and the necessary controlling works for diverting water from the Gila River for the irrigation of Indian land and Indian allotments on the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as recommended by the Board of Engineers of the United States Army in paragraph two hundred and seventeen of its report to the Secretary of War of February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (House Document numbered seven hundred and ninety-one), $75,000, to be immediately available and to remain Repayment, etc.
Vol. 37, p. 522.
Salt River allotments.
Water rights for irrigating.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to provide for water rights in perpetuity for the irrigation of six hundred and thirty-one Salt River Indian allotments of ten acres each, to be designated by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, water from works constructed under the provision of the Reclamation Act, and Proviso.
Reimbursement. Initial charges.
Gila River Reservation, etc.
Diversion dam for irrigating lands in Pinal County.
For beginning the construction by the Indian Service of a diversion dam and necessary controlling works for diverting water from the Gila River at a site above Florence, Arizona, as estimated by the Board of Engineer Officers of the United States Army in paragraph one hundred and thirty-eight of its report to the Secretary of War of February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (House Document Numbered Seven hundred and ninety-one), $75,000, to remain available until expended, the total cost not to exceed $175,000: Provisos.
Project intended. Distribution of water. Division of construction charge. Reimbursement for Indian lands.
Vol. 37, p. 522. Private and public lands. Vol. 38, p. 686. Adjustment of water rights, etc.
For extension of the Ganado irrigation project on the Navajo Navajo Reservation.
Extension, etc., of Ganado project on. Vol. 37, p. 522.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized Gila River.
Examination, etc., to prevent erosion of banks in Graham County, Ariz. Report on fixing channel. Estimate of cost, etc. Expenses.
For the construction of a bridge across the Little Colorado River, Little Colorado River.
Bridge at Winslow to be built. Provisos.
One half by State authorities. Maintenance. Payment of excess.
Gila River.
Addition to bridge on San Carlos Reservation.
For the construction of three additional steel spans with abutment and piers to extend the bridge across the Gila River on the San Carlos Indian Reservation near San Carlos, Arizona, $17,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, reimbursable to the United States by the Indians having tribal rights on said reservation and to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds belonging to said Indians until paid.
Navajo National Monument.
Preservation, etc.
For preservation and repair of prehistoric pueblo ruins and cliff dwellings, under supervision of the Smithsonian Institution, Navajo National Monument, Arizona, $3,000.
California.
Support, etc., of Indians in.
For support and civilization of Indians in California, including pay of employees, $42,000.
Land for homeless Indians.
For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, $10,000, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Sherman Institute.
For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the Sherman Institute, Riverside, California, including pay of superintendent, $119,500: for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $129,500.
Yuma allotments.
Irrigation advances.
For reclamation and maintenance charge on Yuma allotments, $10,000, to remain available until expended and to be reimbursed from the sale of surplus lands or from other funds that may be available, Vol. 36, p. 1063.
Fort Bidwell School.
For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Fort Bidwell Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $18,200; for general repairs and improvements, $3,600; in all, $21,800.
Greenville School.
For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Greenville Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $18,400; for general repairs and improvements, including purchase of additional land for school farm, $8,000; in all, $26,400.
Yuma Reservation.
Roads and bridges.
For the improvement and construction of roads and bridges on the Yuma Indian Reservation in California, $10,000, to be immediately available, reimbursable to the United States by the Indians having tribal rights on said reservation.
Florida.
Relief of Seminoles.
Idaho.
Fort Hall Reservaion.
Support, etc., of Indans on.
For support and civilization of Indians on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, including pay of employees, $30,000.
Irrigation system.
For improvement and maintenance and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, $25,000, reimbursable to the United States out of any funds of the Indians occupying the Fort Hail Reservation now or hereafter available.
For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Bannocks in Idaho: For Bannocks.
Fulfilling treaty.
Vol. 15, p. 676.
For the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho: For pay of blacksmith, carpenter, Coeur d’Alenes.
Fulfilling treaty.
Vol. 26, p. 1029.
Kansas.
For support and education of seven hundred and fifty
Haskell Institute.
For support and education of eighty Indian pupils at the Indian Kickapoo Reservation School.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw Potawatomi Reservation.
Construction of bridges in. Provisos.
Contribution by Jackson County. Maintenance. Payment of excess by county. Approval by Indians.
Louisiana.
Chettimanchi Indians.
Clearing title of lands of, etc.
Proviso.
Trust authorized.
Michigan.
For support and education of three hundred and fifty Mount Pleasant School.
For reimbursement of Joseph Bradley, a member of the Saginaw, Joseph Bradley.
Payment to.
Minnesota.
Pipestone School.
For support and education of two hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, including pay of superintendent, $39,175; for general repairs and improvements, and for remodeling building for dormitory purposes, $7,000; for mechanical and general utility shop building, $10,000; for septic tank, $5,500; to gravel and improve the road leading from the school buildings to the south line of the reservation, $1,000: to blast out and deepen the ditch and creek on said reservation, $2,000; in all, $64,675.
Chippewas of the Mississippi.
Schools.
Vol. 16, p. 720.
For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article three, treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven), $4,000.
Chippewas of Minnesota.
Promotion of self-support, etc.
Vol. 25, p. 645.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, the sum of $185,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, arising under section seven of the Act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “ Provisos.
Compensation of employees from tribal funds. Indians to be used on reservation improvements. Electric light plant at White Earth.
Annual celebration of White Earth Band.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to advance to the executive committee of the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota the sum of $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended in the annual celebration of said band to be held June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, out of the funds belonging to said band.
Mahnomen County.
Lands granted to, for school agricultural farm.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey by patent in fee simple to independent school district numbered one, of Mahnomen County, Minnesota, for the purpose of a demonstration farm in connection with the agricultural department of the public schools of said place, that certain tract of land which had been set apart for the now abandoned Mahnomen Indian day school, said tract being described as follows, to wit: West half of the southwest quarter of section eleven, township one hundred Provisos.
Division of purchase money. Legal rights not affected.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized Nett Lake Reservation.
Lands to Northern Methodist Conference. In lieu of former grant.
Vol. 38, p. 591.
That the Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations Advances to individual Chippewas from pro rata distribution. Provisos.
Use for defectives. Deducted from share of permanent fund. Not subject to prior debts.
The superintendent of logging upon the Chippewa Reservations in Sales of pine timber.
Payment of logging expenses from receipts.
Vol. 25, p. 645.
That the sum of $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, General councils.
Payment of expenses from tribal funds. Expenses of delegations to Washington. Attendance of Department official at sessions.
Fond du Lac Band.
Burial ground for.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, arising Vol. 25, p. 645.
Education of Chippewa boys.
For the tuition, board, books and paper and traveling expenses to and from their respective homes of two Chippewa boys for the school year ending June tenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,500; and for five Chippewa boys for the school year ending June tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,250; incurred under the authority of the general council of the Minnesota Chippewas, said amounts to be paid upon vouchers being submitted to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and approved by the board of Indian education of the said general Proviso.
From tribal funds.
Chippewas of White Earth Reservation.
Enrollment commission.
Vol. 38, p. 88, amended.
That the sixth paragraph of section nine of the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page eighty-nine), be, and the same hereby is, amended by striking out the words “ Assistant Attorney General to serve on enrollment commission.
Unexpended balance for expenses.
Vol. 38, p. 89.
That the unexpended balance of $3,436.03 of the appropriation for carrying into effect the provisions of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page eighty-nine), creating a commission to prepare a roll of the allottees within the White Earth Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, and defining the duties of such commission, is hereby
That for the completion of the enrollment of the allottees within Completion of enrollment.
Vol. 38, p. 88.
To carry into effect the Act entitled “ Red Lake Indian Forest, created.
Vol. 25, p. 645. Description. Reservation, etc., lands excluded. Proviso.
Subsequent additions.
That lands within said Red Lake Indian forest, which are not covered Nontimber lands allotted to Indians. Provisos.
Restrictions. Improvements.
That said forest shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior Forest administration. Sawmills, etc. Nurseries for reforesting. Provisos.
Sales. Estimates, etc., required.
Permits and leases allowed.
Conditions.
That the Secretary of the Interior may issue permits or grant leases on such lands for camping or farming. No permit shall be issued for a longer term than one year and no lease shall be executed for a longer term than five years. Every permit or lease issued under authority of this Act to Indians, or to other persons or corporations, and every patent for an allotment within the limits of the forest created by section one, shall reserve to the United States the right to cross the land covered thereby with logging roads or railroads, to use the shore line, or to erect thereon and use such structures as shall be necessary to the proper and economical management of the Indian Forest created by this Act; and the Secretary of the Interior may reserve from allotment tracts considered necessary for such administration.
Net proceeds to credit of Red Lake Indians.
After the payment of all expenses connected with the administration of these lands as herein provided, the net proceeds therefrom shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Red Lake Indians and draw interest at the rate of four per centum per Use of interest.
Indian townsite to be reserved, etc.
That the Secretary of the Interior shall select and set apart an area not exceeding two hundred acres, in sections twenty, twenty-one, twenty-eight, and twenty-nine, township one hundred and fifty-one north, range thirty-four west, cause the lands thus selected to be surveyed and platted into suitable lots, streets, and alleys, and dedicate said streets and alleys and such lots and parcels as he may consider necessary to public uses. The lands thus selected shall not be allotted, but held as an Indian town site subject to further legislation by Congress.
Timber outside of forest.
Disposal of, etc.
That the timber on lands of the Red Lake Indian Reservation outside the boundaries of the forest created by this Act may be sold under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and the proceeds administered under the provisions of the general deficiency Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three (Twenty-second Vol. 22, p. 590. Vol. 24, p. 463.
Mississippi.
Investigation of Indians living in.
Montana.
Support, etc., of Indians.
Fort Belknap Agency.
Flathead Agency.
For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $20,000.
Fort Peck Agency.
For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $20,000, of which amount not exceeding $4,500 shall be expended for salaries.
Blackfeet Agency.
For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Peck Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $30,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Blackfeet Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $25,000.
For maintenance and operation, including repairs, of the irrigation Fort Belknap Reservation.
Irrigation system.
Vol. 36, p. 277.
For fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana: For pay of physician, Crows.
Fulfilling treaty.
Vol. 15, p. 652.
For subsistence and civilization of the Northern Cheyennes and Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes.
Subsistence, etc.
Vol. 19, p. 256. Physician, etc.
Vol. 15, p. 658.
For the employment of “line riders” along the southern and eastern Employing “line riders.”
For the support and civilization of Rocky Boy’s Band of Chippewas, Rocky Boy’s Band, etc.
Support, etc.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to Blackfeet Reservation Indians.
Purchase of cattle, farming implements, etc., for. Provisos.
Repayment. Statement of expenditures.
For the purchase of a strip of land containing sixteen acres, more or Flathead Reservation.
Purchase of additional land for.
That lands on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana valuable Homestead entries permitted on timber lands. Payment for timber.
For continuing construction of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Continuing irrigation systems on Reservation. Provisos.
Payment of cost by settlers. Vol. 33, p. 304. Vol. 35, p. 448. Payments by purchasers of expired allotments.
Vol. 35, p. 444. Exemptions authorized.
Fort Peck Reservation.
Construction of irrigation systems.
Provisos.
Payment of cost by settlers.
Vol. 35, p. 558.
For continuing construction of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in Montana, $100,000 (reimbursable), which shall be immediately available: Payments by purchasers of expired allotments. Lien reserved in patents.
Blackfeet Reservation.
Construction of irrigation systems.
Provisos.
Payment of charges by entrymen.
For continuing construction of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in Montana, $25,000 (reimbursable), which shall be immediately available: Forfeiture, etc. Purchasers of allotments to pay all expenses. Lien reserved in patents.
The work to be done with the amounts herein appropriated for the Irrigation construction work by Reclamation Service. Provisos.
Maintenance of passenger vehicles. Purchase of passenger vehicles.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized Irrigation construction charges to be announced. Assessment ratio.
On the first day of December after the First payment. Subsequent installments. Provisos.
Prepayments. Extension of time to Indian allottees.
That the tribal funds heretofore covered into the Treasury of the Tribal funds used for construction to be returned.
The cost of constructing the irrigation systems to irrigate allotted Reimbursement of construction cost. Charges against Indian allottees.
Payment of operation and maintenance charges.
That in addition to the construction charges every allottee, entryman, purchaser, or owner shall pay to the superintendent of the reservation a maintenance and operation charge based upon the total cost of maintenance and operation of the systems on the several reservations, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to fix such maintenance and operation charge upon such basis as Use of fund. Provisos.
Refusal of water for nonpayment. Water rights for Indian lands continued.
Rules, etc., to be prescribed.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations and issue such notices as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act, and he is hereby authorized and directed to determine the area of land on each reservation which may be irrigated from constructed ditches and to determine what allowance, if any, shall be made for ditches constructed by individuals for the diversion and distribution of a partial Proviso.
Furnishing available water prior to announcement.
Nebraska.
Genoa School.
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Genoa, Nebraska, including pay of superintendent, $68,800; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; for now boilers at power plant, extension of lighting system and of water and sewer main, and for construction of septic tank, $10,800; for Repairs to bridge.
Omahas and Winnebagos.
Drainage assessments on allotments of, approved.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to approve the assessments, together with maps showing right of way and definite location of proposed drainage ditches to be made under the laws of the State of Nebraska upon the allotments of certain Omaha and Winnebago Indians in Wakefield drainage district, in Dixon, Wayne, and Thurston Counties in Nebraska.
Payment.
Proviso.
Amount limited.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay the amount assessed against each of said allotments: Repayment from Indian funds.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, Rights of way approved.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to approve Assessments on other restricted allotments approved.
That in the event any allottees shall receive a patent in fee to any Payment a lien for reimbursement on issue of patent in fee.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform Regulations, etc., authorized.
Nevada.
For support and civilization of Indians in Nevada, Support, etc., of Indians in.
For support and education of two hundred and ninety Indian Carson City School.
For the purpose of procuring home and farm sites, with adequate Homes, etc., for nonreservation Indians. Proviso.
Restriction on use.
For the improvement, enlargement, and extension of the irrigation Pyramid Lake Reservation.
Extension, etc., of irrigation system.
Repayment. Proviso.
Cost limited.
For the purchase of land and water rights for the Washoe Tribe Washoe Tribe.
Purchase of land and water rights for, etc.
New Mexico.
For support and education of four hundred and fifty Albuquerque School.
For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils Santa Fe School.
Pueblo Indians.
Attorney for.
For the pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and for necessary traveling expenses of said attorney, $2,000, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary.
Navajo Reservation.
Highway from Mesa Verde Park to Gallup, on.
For construction work on the Indian highway extending from the Mesa Verde National Park to Gallup, New Mexico, on the Navajo Reservation, $15,000, said sum to be reimbursed from any funds which are now or may hereafter be placed in the Treasury to the Proviso.
Use of Indian labor.
New York.
Senecas.
Annuities.
Vol. 4, p. 442.
For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of Now York: For permanent annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one), $6,000.
Six Nations.
Annuities.
Vol. 7, p. 46.
For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article six, treaty of November eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety-four), $4,500.
North Carolina.
Cherokee School.
North Dakota.
Devils Lake Sioux.
Support, etc.
For support and civilization of the Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, including pay of employees, $5,000.
Fort Berthold Agency.
Support, etc., of Indians.
Turtle Mountain Chippewas.
Support, etc.
Bismarck School.
For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Berthold Agency, in North Dakota, including pay of employees, $15,000.
For support and civilization of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, North Dakota, including pay of employees, $11,000.
For support and education of one hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $22,175; for general repairs and improvements, $4,000; for boys’ dormitory, $30,000; in all, $56,175.
Fort Totten School.
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at Fort Totten Indian School, Fort Totten, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, $68,500; sinking wells and making improvements of the water system, $4,000, to be immediately available; for barn, $5,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $82,500.
Wahpeton School.
For support and education of two hundred and twenty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, and pay of superintendent, $38,540; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; for new school building, $20,000; in all, $63,540.
Fort Berthold Reservation.
Per capita distribution of proceeds from surplus lands sold.
Vol. 36, p. 455.
The Secretary of the Ulterior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, from time to time, in his discretion, all moneys derived from the sale and disposition of surplus lands, within the limits of the former Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, arising under the provisions of the Act approved June first, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and fifty-five), together with the accrued interest thereon, and distribute the same per capita to the Indians entitled
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to redeem a mortgage on Starr McGillis.
Redemption of mortgage on allotment.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse Benson Benson County.
Payment for care of insane Indians.
For the erection of a headstone to mark the grave of Scarlet Crow, Scarlet Crow.
Headstone for grave.
Oklahoma.
For support and civilization of the Wichitas and affiliated Wichitas, etc.
Support, etc.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw Kiowas, Comanches, and Apaches.
Agency expenses from tribal funds.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized Maintenance, self-support, etc. Proviso.
Report of expenditures.
For support and civilization of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes who Support, etc., of Indians.
Cheyennes and Arapahoes.
For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Kansas Indians.
For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma, Kickapoos.
For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians in Oklahoma Poncas.
For support and education of five hundred Indian pupils at the Chilocco school.
Pawnees.
Annuity.
Vol. 27, p. 644.
Schools.
Vol. 11, p. 730.
Farmer, blacksmiths, etc.
Vol. 11, p. 730.
For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For perpetual annuity, to be paid in cash to the Pawnees (article three, agreement of November twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two), $30,000; for support of two manual labor schools (article three, treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven), $10,000: for pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer and apprentices, and two teachers (article four, same treaty), $5,400; for purchase of iron and steel and other necessaries for the shops (article four, same treaty), $500; for pay of physician and purchase of medicines, $1,200; in all, $47,100.
Quapaws.
Education, etc.
Vol. 7, p. 425.
For support of Quapaws, Oklahoma: For education (article three, treaty of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-three), $1,000; for blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith Proviso.
Certificate of President.
Apache prisoners of war.
Settlement, etc., of three families.
Vol. 38, p. 94.
That the unexpended balance of $9,533.38 is hereby reappropriated and made available for continuing the relief and settlement of the Apache Indians formerly confined as prisoners of war on the Fort Sill Military Reservation, Oklahoma, for the purchase of allotments in Oklahoma, as provided for in the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-eight Statutes at Large, page seventy-seven), for the three adult heads of families who have not heretofore received allotments.
Chilocco School Reservation.
Right of way through, of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, changed.
That the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company be, and is hereby, authorized to reconstruct its line of railroad through the Chilocco Indian School Reservation in the State of Oklahoma to eliminate, where necessary, existing heavy grades and curves, and for such purpose to acquire the necessary right of way, not exceeding Conditions.
Five Civilized Tribes.
Administration expenses.
For expenses of administration of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, and the compensation of employees, $185,000, of which $10,000 shall be immediately available.
Choctaws and Chickasaws.
Per capita payment from tribal funds to.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians of Oklahoma entitled under existing law to share in the funds of said tribes, or to their lawful heirs, out of any moneys belonging to said tribes in the United States Treasury or deposited in any bank or held by any official under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $300 per capita, in the case of the Choctaws, and $200 per capita in the case of the Chickasaws, said payment to be made under such rules and regulations as the Provisos.
Restricted Indians. Exempt from prior debts, etc. Claims of specified attorneys to, allowed if valid. Allowance for distribution expenses. Seminoles.
Per capita payment from tribal funds to. Rules, etc., for. Restricted Indians. Exempt from prior debts. Allowance for distribution expenses.
For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees as Probate expenses.
For the support, continuance, and maintenance of the Cherokee Cherokee Orphan Training School.
Maintenance. Proviso.
Additional land. Vol. 38, p. 599.
The sum of $275,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary Tribal common schools.
Quapaws included. Proviso.
Limitation not applicable. Ante, p. 125.
Sales of tribal property.
Payment of expenses from proceeds.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to use not exceeding $35,000 of the proceeds of sales of unallotted lands and other tribal property belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes for payment or salaries of employees and other expenses of advertising and sale in connection with the further sales of such tribal lands and property, including the advertising and sale of the land Coal and asphalt lands.
Vol. 37, p. 67. Provisos.
Collection of rents. Specific appropriation required for expenditures. Exceptions. School maintenance. Repairs, etc., of school buildings.
Choctaws.
Fulfilling treaties.
Vol. 7, p. 99; Vol. 11, p. 614.
For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanent annuity (article two, treaty of November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and five, and article thirteen, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen Light-horsemen.
Vol. 7, p. 213; Vol. 11, p. 614. Blacksmith, etc.
Vol. 7, p. 235; Vol. 11, p. 614. Education.
Vol. 7, p. 235; Vol. 11, p. 614. Iron and steel.
Vol. 7, p. 236; Vol. 11, p. 614.
Oil and gas inspectors on leased allotments.
For the salaries and expenses of not to exceed six oil and gas inspectors, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to supervise oil and gas mining operations on allotted lands leased by
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to acquire Wheelock Academy.
Procuring land for roadway from.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized E. Dowden, Compromise with, for title to Tuttle townsite. Proviso.
Reimbursement from sale of lots.
Oregon.
For support and civilization of Indians of the Klamath Support, etc., of Indians.
Klamath Agency.
For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands, Warm Springs Agency.
For support and civilization of the Indians of the Umatilla Agency, Umatilla Agency.
For support and education of six hundred Indian pupils, Salem School. Proviso.
Assembly hall. Vol. 38, p. 602.
For support and civilization of Indians at Grande Ronde and Siletz Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies. Support, etc., of Indians. Proviso.
Sale of reservation lands. Vol. 36, p. 367, amended.
Appraisal and sale of lands.
Per capita distribution of proceeds.
Klamath Reservation.
Modoc irrigation system on.
Vol. 36, p. 1071.
Proviso.
Limit of cost increased.
Vol. 37, p. 534.
For construction, maintenance, and operation of the Modoc Point irrigation system within the Klamath Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, $20,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven:
Klamath Indians.
Expenses of delegation to Washington, D. C., from tribal funds.
That the sum of $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the tribal funds of the Klamath Indians of the State of Oregon, is hereby appropriated to pay the actual expenses of the two delegates of the said tribe who have been elected by the general council of the Klamath Indians to attend to the business of the tribe and pay their expenses to Washington in February and March, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to present the affairs of the said Klamath Indians of the State of Oregon to the officials of the United States.
Williamson River.
Construction of bridges across, on Klamath Reservation.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Klamath Indians of the State of Oregon, and use the same for the construction of a bridge across the Williamson River, on the Klamath Indian Reservation, Oregon, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
Umatilla Reservation.
Construction of bridges authorized on.
Location.
For the construction of two bridges on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, in Oregon, suitable for wagon and other purposes, across the Umatilla River, at a limit of cost of $28,000, the first at or near Thorn Hollow Station, the second at or near Mission Station, the sum of $18,666 is hereby appropriated to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and to be reimbursable from any funds now or hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of said Provisos.
Cooperation of State authorities. Maintenance. Excess expenditures.
Pennsylvania.
Carlisle School.
South Dakota.
Flandreau School.
For support and education of three hundred and sixty- five Indian pupils at the Indian school at Flandreau, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, $61,500; for general repairs and improvements, Proviso.
Water tank and dairy cattle. Vol. 38, p. 602.
For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils Pierre School.
For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils Rapid City School.
For support of Sioux of Sioux of different tribes.
Teachers, etc.
Vol. 15, p. 640. Additional employees. Subsistence. Vol. 19, p. 256. Proviso.
Transportation.
For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools among Schools. Vol. 19, p. 254.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to Additional school facilities.
Investigation, report, etc., on. Expenses.
For subsistence and civilization of the Yankton Sioux, South Dakota, Yankton Sioux.
Subsistence, etc.
For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum for insane Canton.
Expenses of insane asylum.
For a proportionate share of the amount required to construct a Standing Rock Reservation.
Construction of highway through. Vol. 38, p. 603. Proviso.
Indian labor to be used. Repayment. Vol. 37, p. 675.
Utah.
Utes, Confederated Bands.
Carpenters, etc.
Vol. 15, p. 622.
For support and civilization of Confederated Bands of Utes: For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmiths (article fifteen, treaty of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight), $6,720: for pay of two teachers (same article and treaty), $1,800; for purchase of iron and steel and the necessary tools for blacksmith shop (article nine, same treaty), $220; for Food, etc. Employees.
Support, etc., of detached Indians.
For the support and civilization of detached Indians in Utah, including pay of employees, $10,000.
Utes, Confederated Bands.
Distribution from principal funds.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, within his discretion, the sum of $300,000 of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and to expend the sum of $50,000 of said amount for the benefit of the Ute Mountain (formerly Navajo Springs) Band of said Indians in Colorado, and the sum of $200,000 of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, and the sum of $50,000 of said amount for the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado, which sums shall be charged to For self-support, etc., from accumulated interest. Vol. 37, p. 934. Proviso.
Report of expenditures.
Seeds and agricultural implements.
Vol. 15, p. 622.
To carry into effect the provision of article nine of the treaty of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight (Fifteenth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and nineteen), with the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, for furnishing seeds and agricultural implements, the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Kaibab Reservation.
Highway through.
For a proportionate share of the amount required to construct an interstate wagon road or highway through the Kaibab Indian Proviso.
Use of Indian labor. Repayment.
For continuing the construction of lateral distributing systems to Uncompahgre, etc., Utes.
Irrigating allotments of.
Vol. 34, p. 375.
To reimburse the board of education of Box Elder County, State Box Elder County.
Education of Indian pupils at Washakie School.
For the education of twenty-two Indian pupils at the Indian school at Washakie, Box Elder County, for the school year nineteen hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen, or so much thereof as may be necessary, $832.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw Myton, Utah.
Repair of bridge at, from Uintah funds.
Washington.
For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other Support, etc., of Indians.
D’Wamish, etc.
Makahs.
For support and civilization of the Makahs, including pay of employees, $2,000.
For support and civilization of Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes, Qui-nai-elts and Quilleh- utes.
For support and civilization of Indians at Yakima Agency, including Yakima Agency Indians.
For support and civilization of Indians at Colville, Taholah, Puyallup, Colville, etc., Agencies Indians.
For support of Spokanes in Washington (article six of agreement Spokanes.
Vol. 27, p. 139.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on lands Yakimas.
Irrigating allotments.
Vol. 33, p. 597; Vol. 34, p. 1050. Proviso.
Application of receipts.
For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils Cushman School.
Yakima Reservation.
Extending irrigation system for Indian allotments.
For construction of a dam across the Yakima River for the diversion and utilization of water provided for forty acres of each Indian, allotment on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, and such other water supply as may be available or obtainable for the irrigation of a total of one hundred and twenty thousand acres of allotted Indian land on said reservation, and for beginning the enlargement and extension of the distribution and drainage system on said reservation, $200,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Proviso.
Reimbursement by owners of lands.
Apportionment of charges against Indians.
In the apportionment of charges against Indians, due allowance shall be made for such amounts as may have been repaid the United States on account of reimbursable appropriations heretofore made for this project, and for the construction of the irrigation system prior to the Vol. 33, p. 595. Unpaid charges a lien on allotments. Enforcement. Proviso.
Water rights subject to compliance with rules, etc.
Payment for additional water supply to allottees.
For the third installment in payment of $635,000 for water supply for irrigation of forty acres of each Indian allotment on the Yakima Indian Reservation irrigation system in the State of Washington, Vol. 38, p. 604.
Washington State Historical Society.
Lands in Colville Reservation granted to.
Description.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to patent to the Washington State Historical Society, for memorial and park purposes, the following-described lands in the diminished Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, to wit: A tract of land not exceeding four acres in area located in the northwest corner of lot two of section seventeen, the precise description of said tract to be determined by said Washington Historical Society and the Secretary of the Interior prior to the issuance of the patent therefor, and lot seven, containing twenty and ninety one-hundredths acres of section twenty-one, all in towship thirty north, range twenty-five east of the Willamette meridian, in Washington: Provisos.
Proceeds to credit of Indians. Intoxicants forbidden.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is authorized to sell and dispose of not to exceed twenty acres of that portion of the Fort Spokane abandoned Military Reservation.
Sale of unused lands on.
Vol. 33, p. 584. Proceeds to credit of Spokanes.
That there be, and hereby is, granted to school district numbered Klickitat County.
Lands on Yakima Reservation granted to, for school uses.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized Se-cum-ka-nullax.
Lieu allotment to.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized Charles M. Hickerson.
Homestead entry confirmed.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to lease Spokane Reservation.
Lease of unallotted mineral lands on, authorized.
That there is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury Okanogan County.
Acquisition of water rights for Indian allotments in. Payment. Provisos.
Liens restricted. Reimbursement by owners of lands. Vol. 32, p. 388. Lien on patent in fee.
Wisconsin.
Hayward School.
For the support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Hayward, Wisconsin, including pay of superintendent, $43,350; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; for dairy barn, $3,200; in all, $51,550.
Tomah School.
For support and education of two hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, including pay of superintendent, $47,625; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; for installing electric dynamo and switchboard for a lighting plant, $2,500; in all, $56,125.
Chippewas of Lake Superior.
Support, etc.
Pottawatomies.
Support, etc.
For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $7,000.
For support, education, and civilization of the Pottawatomie Indians who reside in the State of Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $7,000.
Stockbridge and Munsee Tribes.
Payment to certain enrolled members of.
Vol. 27, p. 745.
There is hereby appropriated the sum of $95,000, to be used in addition to the tribal funds of the Stockbridge and Munsee Tribes of Indians, for the payment of the members of the Stockbridge and Munsee Tribes of Indians who were enrolled under the Act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, equal amounts to the amounts paid to the other members of said tribe Proof required.
Oneida School.
Dairy cattle.
For the purchase of pure bred dairy cattle for the Oneida Indian School, Wisconsin, $5,000.
Wisconsin Band of Pottawatomie Indians.
Support, etc.
For the support and civilization of those portions of the Wisconsin Band of Pottawatomie Indians residing in the States of Wisconsin and Michigan, and to aid said Indians in establishing homes on the Vol. 38, p. 102. Repayment. Use of amount. Proviso.
Payment per capita.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw Menominees.
Self-support, etc., from tribal funds. Vol. 26, p. 146.
Vol. 35, p. 51. Use of amount. Proviso.
Restriction on cleaning lands.
Section three of the Act of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred Sales of forest products.
Vol. 35, p. 51, amended.
Modification. Deposit of proceeds. Interest.
That without bias or prejudice to the rights or interests of any Bad River and Lac du Flambeau Reservations.
Sale of timber on disputed lands. Deposit of proceeds. Proviso.
Consent of sale.
With the consent of the Indians of the Lac Court Oreilles Tribe, Lac Court Oreilles.
Disposal of flowage rights on tribal lands. Determination of consideration, etc.
Red Cliff Reservation.
Completing road on.
For the completion of the road on the Red Cliff Reservation $6,500, to be reimbursed out of the funds of the Indians of said reservation, under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Wyoming.
Shoshones.
Support, etc.
For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, including nay of employees, $15,000.
Reservation school.
For support and education of one hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming tiding pay of superintendent, $31,025; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $36,025.
Fulfilling treaty.
Vol. 15, p. 676.
For support of Shoshones in Wyoming; For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article ten, treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight), $5,000; for pay of second blacksmith, and such iron and steel and other materials as may be required, as per article eight, same treaty, $1,000; in all, $6,000.
Fort Washakie.
Repairs.
For repairs at the old abandoned military post of Fort Washakie, on the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, $1,721.
Irrigation system on reservation.
Construction
For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, Repayment.
Vol. 33, p. 1016.
Plans for completing irrigation of reservation to be submitted.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to have prepared and submitted to Congress at the beginning of the next regular session plans and estimates of the character and cost of structures necessary or completing the irrigation of all of the irrigable lands of the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, including the ceded lands of said reservation, in Wyoming, $5,000.
Roads and bridges.
For continuing the work of constructing roads and bridges within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, $25,000, said sum to be reimbursed from any funds which are now or may hereafter be placed in the Treasury to the credit of said Indians.
Joseph H. Norris.
Payment to.
For payment of salary and expenses of Joseph H. Norris as supervisor of Indian schools, October twenty-first to November eleventh, inclusive, nineteen hundred and twelve, $257.
Indian tribal funds.
Annual estimates of receipts and expenditures of, to be submitted.
Total receipts.
Treaty agreements.
Disbursements recommended.
Per capita.
Salaries.
Counsel fees.
Provisos.
No payment without specific appropriation.
Exceptions.
Five Civilized Tribes not affected.
Bureau of Efficiency.
To submit system of bookkeeping, etc., to comply with existing law.
Post, p. 802.
Vol. 38, p. 103.
[H. R. 562.]
Postal service.
Postal savings system.
Vol. 36, p. 815, amended.
Amount of deposit, bearing interest, increased.
Additional deposits without interest increased.
Vol. 36, p. 816, amended.
Deposit of funds in banks.
Vol. 36, p. 816, amended.
Whether Federal reserve banks or not.
Vol. 38, p. 265, amended.
Interest required.
Reserve fund.
Security required.
Distribution of deposits locally.
Provisos.
Preference to Federal reserve member banks.
Vol. 38, p. 251.
Deposits with treasurer.
Withdrawals for repayments.
Amount to be invested in Government bonds, etc.
Purchases from holders of postal savings bonds.
Vol. 36, p. 817.
Application of interest, etc.
Restriction on use of funds.
Disposal of bonds.
Definitions.
“Territory.”
“Bank.”
Empty mail bags.
Return to mails allowed in emergency cases.
Cartage.
Mail transportation.
Readjustment of pay for, when weighing interrupted
by floods, etc.
Ascertaining average weights.
Basis for pay.
Vol. 33, p. 1088.
Proviso.
Applicable to routes affected by Ohio Valley floods, 1913.
Diverted mails.
Limit on allowance for, repealed.
Vol. 37, p. 554.
Mail contracts.
R. S., sec. 3949, p. 766, amended.
“All contracts for carrying the mail shall be in the name of the Awarded to lowest bidder according to advertisement. Proviso.
Celerity, certainty, and security required.
Star route bids.
Substitution of other service if bids exorbitant, etc.
Temporary contracts on failure by accepted bidder.
Limitation.
Proviso.
Cost charged to defaulting contractor, etc.
Services to contractors.
Lien allowed for.
Payment by Postmaster General.
Proviso.
Limitation.
Criminal Code. Vol. 35, p. 1126, amended. Post,
p. 418.
Wilfully injuring mail receptacles, stealing mail therefrom, etc.
“That whoever shall willfully or maliciously injure, tear down, or destroy any letter box or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any mad route, or shall break open the same, or shall willfully or maliciously injure, deface or destroy any mail deposited therein, or shall willfully take or steal such mail from or out of such letter box or other receptacle, or shall willfully aid or Punishment for.
First-class mail. Limit of weight. Proviso.
Restriction on penalty privilege matter. Vol. 29, p. 262.
Vol. 34, p. 477.
Canceling of stamps.
R. S., sec. 3921, p. 762, amended.
Proviso.
Precanceling allowed.
Mail in bulk.
Vol. 33, p. 440, amended.
Acceptance of matter in quantities without stamps.
“That under such regulations as the Postmaster General may establish for the collection of the lawful revenue and for facilitating the handling of such matter in the mails it shall be lawful to accept for transmission in the mails, without postage stamps affixed, quantities Number. Money, etc., by Treasury Department. Proviso.
Prepayment required.
Claims for losses.
Vol. 38, p. 278, amended.
Navy mail clerks included.
Contract stations.
Two-year term allowed.
Fourth class postmasters.
Vol. 22, p. 602.
Assignment to higher class.
Post, p. 418.
Conflicting laws repealed.
[H. R. 759.]
Potomac River, D.C.
Aqueduct Bridge to be replaced by a new one.
Cost.
Acquirement of lands for approaches, etc.
Employment of engineers, etc.
Appropriation for plans, lands, etc.
Proviso.
Limit of cost.
Advice of Commission of Fine Arts.
Bids for construction.
Highway, etc., bridge.
Provisos.
Washington and Old Dominion Railway. Double tracks, etc., permitted.
Restriction on electric system employed.
Use by other electric railways.
Payment for passengers, etc., transported by railways.
Half to credit of District.
Construction and maintenance.
District of Columbia to pay one-half.
Appropriation for repair, etc., of present bridge.
American National Red Cross.
Loan of sanitary equipment, etc., for instruction of volunteers May 1, to June 1, 1916.
Vol. 38, p. 771.
[H. R. 10490.]
District of Columbia.
Fraudulent advertising in, unlawful.
Prosecution.
Punishment for.
Inconsistent laws repealed.
[H. R. 14771.]
Saint Marys River.
Charlton County, Ga., and Nassau County, Fla., may bridge.
Location.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 12766.]
National Defense Act.
Forces constituting the Army.
Regular Army.
Composition of.
Provisos.
Enlisted strength to be kept.
Maximum for time of peace.
Recruits limited.
Mobile troops.
Tactical units.
In time of war.
Brigades.
Divisions.
Corps.
Supply, etc., trains.
Details from line.
Vol. 31, p. 755.
Changes allowed.
General officers of the line.
Constitution of.
Staff.
Increase.
Proviso.
Appointments in time of peace.
The General Staff Corps shall General Staff Corps. Constitution of. Tour of detail, etc. Redetails limited. Filling vacancies made by details. Vol. 31, p. 755.
Not more than one-half of all of the officers detailed in said corps Duty in District of Columbia limited. Employment re stricted. Provisos. Details subject to recommendations of board. Selection of board. Action on recommendations. War College. Duties continued. Restrictions on assignments. Mobile army and Coast Artillery divisions abolished. Business transferred. Vol. 32. p. 830. Chief of Coast Artillery. Duties, etc. Specific duties of Corps to be adhered to. Officer allowing violations to lose pay, etc. Promotions of detailed officers. Grade, etc., increased. Limit.
Adjutant General’s Department.
Constitution of.
Inspector General’s Department.
Constitution of.
Judge Advocate General’s Department.
Constitution of.
Provisos.
Acting judge advocates. Details, duties, etc.
Appointment of one from civil life.
Details limited to acting judge advocates.
Vol. 37, p. 571.
Detachments to study law forbidden.
Examinations for promotions.
Majors.
Retirement if physically disqualified.
Second examination, if for other cause.
Result of finding.
Lieutenant colonels.
Suspension if other than physically disqualified.
Reexamination.
Result of finding.
Quartermaster Corps.
Constitution of.
Vol. 37, p. 591.
Pay clerks.
Enlisted men.
Grades, etc.
Percentages to be observed.
Master electricians.
Construction and repair duties.
The Medical Department Medical Department. Constitution of.
The Medical Corps shall consist of commissioned officers below the Medical Corps. Officers. Ratio to Regular Army. Provisos. Original appointments to cease if strength of Army reduced. Promotions above captains limited. Discharge of increase made for time of war. Qualifications for original appointments. Relative rank determined. Details allowed to Red Cross.
The enlisted force of the Medical Department shall consist of the Enlisted men. Personnel. Provisos. Master hospital sergeants. Examination. Original enlistments, promotions, etc. Transfers from Hospital Corps. Ratio to Army enlisted strength. Additional in time of war. Percentages of grades. Horseshoers, etc. Privates. Promotions limited when Army reduced. Reenlistments allowed. Additional pay ratings. Limit.
The President is hereby authorized to appoint and commission, by Dental surgeons. Appointments authorized. Original rank, etc. Promotions. Provisos. Majors limited. Examinations, etc.
Authority is hereby given to the Secretary of War to grant permission, American National Red Cross. Storage of supplies by, at reservations, etc.
The Corps of Engineers shall consist Corps of Engineers. Officersand enlisted men. Troops.
Each regiment of Engineers shall consist of one colonel; one lieutenant Regiments.
Each battalion of a regiment of Engineers shall consist of one major, Battalions. Companies. Proviso. Additional force.
The Engineer band shall consist of one band leader; one assistant Band.
Each battalion of mounted Engineers shall consist of one major; Mounted Engineers. Battalions. Companies Provisos. Additional force. Details of officers. Included in the line.
Ordnance Department.
Officers and enlisted men.
Provisos.
Sergeants.
Details of officers.
Vol. 31, p. 755.
Vol. 34, p. 455; Vol. 38, pp. 356, 812.
Detail of student officers.
The Signal Corps shall consist of Signal Corps. Constitution of. Aviation section. Vol. 38, p. 514. Details, etc. Vol. 31, p. 755. Redetails of proficient aviators.
Aviation officers may, when qualified therefor, be rated as junior Ratings of aviation officers. Certificates of examinations, etc. Service required.
Each aviation officer authorized by this Act shall, while on duty Aviation officers. Increase of pay. Junior military aviators. Increase in grade, pay, etc. Military aviators. Increase in grade, pay, etc. Provisos. Former provisions repealed. Vol. 37, p. 705. Married officers eligible. Enlisted men. Age limit removed. Appointment of aviators from civil life. Grade created. Discharge. Pay, etc.
The total enlisted strength of the Signal Corps shall be limited and Enlisted men, Signal Corps. Grades established. Percentages of grades. Privates. Unit organizations authorized.
Bureau of Insular Affairs.
Organization continued.
Chaplains.
Number authorized.
Vol. 33, p. 226.
Proviso.
Preference for previous war service.
The President is hereby authorized, by Veterinary Corps. Appointment of veterinarians and assistant veterinarians. Attached to Medical Department.
Hereafter a candidate for appointment as assistant veterinarian Assistant veterinarians. Qualifications for, etc.
An assistant veterinarian appointed under this Act shall, for the Rank, pay, etc. Service promotions. Veterinarians. Proviso. Examinations, etc.
The veterinarians of Cavalry and Field Artillery now in the Army, Appointment of present employees. Assistant veterinarians. Veterinarians. Provisos. Examinations. Retirement for physical incapacity.
The Secretary of War, upon recommendation of the Surgeon General Reserve veterinarians. Appointment, service, etc. Proviso. Qualifications. Eligible as assistant veterinarians.
Within a limit of time to be fixed by the Secretary of War, candidates Probationary appointments of successful candidates. Discharge if unsatisfactory.
The Secretary of War shall from time to time appoint boards of Examining boards.
Composition of Infantry units.—Each regiment of Infantry units. Regiments.
Each, battalion shall consist of one major, one first lieutenant, Battalions. Companies.
Each Infantry headquarters company shall consist of one captain, Headquarters companies.
Each Infantry machine-gun company shall consist of one captain, Machine-gun companies.
Each Infantry supply company shall consist of one captain, Supply companies. Proviso. Additional force.
The commissioned officers required for the Infantry headquarters, Assignment of officers.
Each regiment of Cavalry Cavalry units. Regiments.
Each squadron shall consist of one major, one first lieutenant Squadrons. Troops.
Each headquarters troop shall consist of one captain (regimental Headquarters troops.
Each machine-gun troop shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, Machine-gun troops.
Each supply troop shall consist of one captain (regimental supply Supply troops. Proviso. Additional force.
The commissioned officers required for the Cavalry headquarters, Assignment of officers.
The Field Field Artillery units. Composition of.
In time of actual or threatened hostilities the President is authorized Organization in time of war. Officers. Post, p. 190. Vol. 38, p. 349. Enlisted men.
Each regiment of Field Artillery shall consist of one colonel, one Regiments.
Each gun or howitzer battery shall consist of one captain, two first Batteries. Additional enlisted men.
Each headquarters company of a regiment of two battalions shall Headquarters companies. Two battalion regiments. Three battalion regiments. Additional enlisted men.
Each supply company of a regiment of two battalions shall consist Supply companies.
Each gun or howitzer battalion shall consist of one major, one Battalions. Proviso. Additional force.
Coast Artillery Corps.
Composition of.
Officers and enlisted men.
Post, p. 349.
Bands.
Ante, p. 174.
Rated men.
Coxswains.
The Porto Rico Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry. Status of. Promotions below colonel to be regimental. Vol. 26, p. 562.
The colonel of said regiment shall be detailed by the President, Colonel. Details from Infantry of the Army. Regiment vacancies. Vol. 38, p. 1070.
All men hereafter enlisting in said regiment shall be natives of Enlistment of natives in.
Vacancies created by this Act or occurring hereafter in the grade Second lieutenants. From Military Academy graduate or other native.
Proviso. Status of officers in Provisional Regiment. Vol. 35, p. 392.
Military Academy, etc.
Laws affecting detached duties, etc., continued.
Vol. 36, p. 1045.
Second lieutenants, Army.
Appointments other than cadets to be provisional for two years.
Permanent, if fitness determined.
Promotions.
Termination if not qualified.
Except as Increase to be made in five annual increments. Terms of officers promoted. Proviso. Entire strength in case of war.
Vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant, created or caused by Second lieutenants. Filling vacancies in, made by this Act. Cadets. Enlisted men. Officers’ Reserve Corps. National Guard. Honor graduates of military schools. Civil life. Provisos. Military Academy graduates. Other vacancies. Vol. 36, p. 1045. Enlisted men serving one year. Corps of Engineers. Present law continued. Vol. 36, p. 957. Bureau junior engineers. Lineal and relative rank, etc. Recommissions to former officers. Rank. Examinations for all promotions below brigadier general. Majors and lieutenant colonels. Pay to retired officers on active duty in time of war. If not above major. Post, p. 623.
Detached Officers’ List.
Increase made for duty with National Guard.
Post, p. 623.
Detailed previously.
Vol. 36, p. 1045.
Vol. 31, p. 755.
Proportional number authorized.
Vol. 36, p. 1045.
Vol. 36, p. 1058.
Post, p. 185.
Provisos.
Filling vacancies by promotion.
Assignments of details.
Service with troops, etc., required.
Continuance of present assignments.
Filling vacancies hereafter by detail.
Increase of colonels of Cavalry and Infantry.
To be additional numbers.
Promotions and transfers of lieutenant colonels authorized.
Examinations, etc., required.
Philippine Scouts.
Retirement of captains and lieutenants, who are citizens.
Pay, etc.
Provisos.
Double time not allowed.
Former officers may be retired.
Transfer of retired enlisted men formerly officers of Scouts.
Not on limited retired list.
On and after the Enlistment term to be seven years. Active. In reserve. Provisos. Reenlistment after three years. Furlough to Reserve after one year. Three years computed as enlistment period. Reenlistment of noncommissioned officers. Minors to have parents’ consent. Pay to postmasters for enlistments.
In addition to military training, soldiers while in the active service Vocational instruction for soldiers. Teachers, etc.
Pay of specified enlisted men.
No present pay, etc., reduced.
Final discharge.
At end of service period. Exceptions.
Provisos.
To support dependent family.
By purchase.
Regular Army Reserve.
Composition of.
Service assignments.
Vol. 37, p. 590.
Officers.
Yearly field training.
Mobilizing for active service in case of war.
Provisos.
All enlistments at the outbreak of war continued.
Annual retainer pay.
Pay, etc., in time of war.
Provisos.
Longevity pay.
Allowance when reporting.
No right to retired pay, etc.
Government employees.
Use of services for reserve organizations.
Reenlistments in time of war.
Bounty for, to honorably discharged men who served outside of continental limits.
Computation of.
Civil employment by enlisted men prohibited.
Details of sergeants for duty with National Guard.
Additional to Regular Army number.
For the purpose of Officers’ Reserve Corps. Organization of. Vol. 38, p. 349. Sections. Exception of service, etc.
The President alone shall be authorized to appoint and commission Appointments by President alone. Proviso. Proportion limited.
All persons now carried as duly qualified and registered pursuant Appointment of certified eligibles. Vol. 32, p. 779. Proviso. Commissions to registered colonels and lieutenant colonels. Offices to cease when vacated.
No person shall, except as hereinafter provided, be appointed or reappointed a second lieutenant in the Officers’ Reserve Corps after Honorable discharge, etc., at age limit. Proviso. Staff appointments not affected.
One year after the passage of this Act the Medical Reserve Corps, Medical Reserve Corps abolished. Vol. 35, p. 66. Use of first lieutenants of medical section. Pay, etc.
The commissions of all officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps shall Term of commissions. Recommissions. Proviso. Rank.
In time of Temporary duty in time of war. Rank, pay, etc. Provisos. To rank among themselves. Promotions. No retirement, etc.
Any officer who, while holding a commission in the Officers’ Reserve Subject to Army regulations while in service.
Annual duty with troops for instruction.
Provisos.
Extension by con sent.
Appointments from volunteers.
Prior right of Regular Army to appointment in Volunteers.
Service not counted for retirement.
Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Maintenance in civil schools, etc.
Senior division.
Vol. 12, p. 503.
Junior division.
Application of State institutions for establishing.
Provisos.
Conditions required.
At other than State institutions.
Requirements.
Proviso.
Details from Army.
Condition.
Military training to be prescribed.
Requirements.
Eligibility.
Citizenship, age, and physical.
Details of Army officers as professors.
Limitation.
Retired officers.
Tour of service, officer on active list.
Details of enlisted men.
To be additional number.
Retired enlisted men.
Issue of arms, equipment, etc.
Bond required.
Camps to be maintained.
Payment of expenses, etc.
Appointments of graduates in Officers’ Reserve Corps.
Conditions.
Post, p. 853.
Infra.
Oath required.
Proviso.
Eligibility not affected by postgraduate course.
Subsistence after two years to students agreeing to complete military course.
Eligibility of prior school graduates for Officers’ Reserve Corps, etc.
Temporary second lieutenants.
May be appointed for instruction in time of peace.
Duty with Army.
Retirement, etc., restrictions.
Provisos.
Active duty in time of war.
Roster of persons qualified for service as officers, etc.
Citizen training camps.
Maintenance, etc.
Post, p. 648.
Arms, supplies, etc., to be furnished.
Sales to persons receiving instruction.
Instruction to be given, etc.
For the purpose of Enlisted Reserve Corps. Constitution of; purpose.
There may be enlisted in the grade or grades hereinbefore specified, Enlistment period, eligibility, etc. Issue of certificates. Requirements. Privileges, etc., conferred. Preference when called into active service, etc. Distinctive rosette for. Punishment for unauthorized wearing, etc.
The President is authorized to assign members of the Enlisted Assignment as reserves to Army, etc.
To the extent provided from time to time by appropriations the Period of training service. Proviso. Extension permitted.
Enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps shall receive the pay Pay, etc., in active service. Proviso. No retirement, etc.
The uniform to be worn by enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Uniform, etc., to be used. Provisos. To remain property of United States. Exchanged when unserviceable. Accounting for, on discharge.
Any enlisted man of the Enlisted Reserve Corps ordered to active Subject to Army laws, etc., in active service.
The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to discharge any enlisted Discharges for cause. Proviso. Penalty for not complying with orders.
In time of actual or threatened hostilities the President may order Service with Army in time of war. Status, pay, etc. Provisos. Service with volunteers. Status, pay, etc. No vested right to be mustered.
Military equipment an d instr uctors at other schools, etc.
Ante, p. 192.
Details from Army.
RATIONAL GUARD.
Militia.
Composition of.
National Guard.
Composition of.
Persons exempt from militia duty.
Exemptions from combatant service because of religious belief.
Unit organizations.
President to prescribe.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Other State troop forbidden.
Provisos.
Use in time of peace.
State police, etc.
Number required.
Basis of Congres sional representation.
Yearly increase.
Provisos.
States with one Representative.
Early organization allowed.
Organization by State with one Representative.
Meaning of “Territory.”
Privileges of certain existing corps.
Vol. 1, p. 271.
R. S., secs. 232, 1625 1660, pp. 37, 285–290.
Vol. 32, p. 775.
Provisos.
Status of.
Assignment to higher units.
Assignment to tactical units.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Proviso.
Complete units retained.
Details for division chiefs of staff.
Proviso.
For tactical divisions.
Adjutants general of States, etc.
Returns, etc., from.
Proviso.
Appointment by the President.
Apportionment of annual appropriations made for support.
Post, p. 646.
A sum of money shall hereafter be appropriated annually, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the National Guard, including the expense of providing arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster stores, and camp equipage, and all other military supplies for issue to the National Guard, and such other expenses pertaining to said guard as are now or may hereafter be authorized by law.
The appropriation provided for in this section shall be apportioned Ratio of apportionment. Proviso. Expenses specified. Post, pp. 203, 646. To be from general fund only. NATIONAL GUARD.
The governor of each State and Territory and the commanding general Property and disbursing officers to be appointed. General duties. Payments to, on requisitions. Accounting. Bond required. Pay, from general fund. Provisos. Traveling expenses. Inspection of accounts, etc. Rules, etc., to be made.
Location of units.
Proviso.
Disbandment forbidden without consent of the President.
Enlistments.
Active and reserve service.
Proviso.
Continuous active service allowed.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Federal enlistment contracts.
Recognition of present enlistment contracts.
Obligations required.
Oath and contract.
Form.
Required hereafter.
Discharges of enlisted men.
Federal oath for officers.
Continuance of present commissions.
Proviso.
Oath required.
Qualifications for commissioned officers, hereafter.
Eligibles.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Examinations required.
Board to determine fitness.
Filling vacancies when drafted into Federal service.
Discharge of officers for unfitness.
Duties of board to determine.
Other causes.
Attached to Reserve.
National Guard Reserve.
Organization of.
Provisos.
Pay when in active training.
Restriction.
Recruit training.
Reserve battalion for, in time of war.
Assignment to mobile troops.
Constitution of.
Provisional units.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Maintenance of strength.
Filling vacancies.
Assignment of officers.
Duty if invalided home, etc.
Government employees.
Leaves of absence to, while training.
National Militia Board abolished.
Vol. 35, p. 403.
Militia Division made Bureau in War Department.
Vol. 32, p. 775.
Ante, p. 92.
Proviso.
Assignment of National Guard officers to, etc.
Armament, etc., to be same as Army.
Arms, etc., for field service to be purchased and issued.
Post, p. 647.
NATIONAL GUABD.
Provisos.
Protection, care, etc., required.
Purchases from Army supply departments.
Conditions authorizing.
New type of equipment, etc., to be furnished without charge.
Replacing prior, etc., issues.
Cash purchases allowed States, etc., from Army stores.
Proviso.
Maybe requisitioned in time of war.
Damaged, etc., property.
Report, etc., by surveying officer.
Credit allowed.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Payment for loss, if due to carelessness, etc.
Disposal, etc., of unserviceable articles.
Allowance for.
Refusal to pay for loss, etc., a bar to future allotments.
Proceeds from condemned stores not charged to State allotments.
Purchase of horses.
Funds allotted by the Secretary of War for the support of the National Guard shall be available for the purchase, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, of horses conforming to the Regular Army standards for the use of Field Artillery and Cavalry of the National Guard, said horses to remain the property of the United States and to be used solely for military purposes.
Horses so purchased may be issued not to exceed thirty-two to any Regulations for issue, etc.
Care, etc.
Proviso.
Payment to men detailed.
Discipline to conform to Army system, etc.
Training.
Yearly drill, etc., required.
Proviso.
Minimum practice period.
Inspection by Army officers.
Details required.
Reports.
Encampments and maneuvers.
Participation in Army, etc.
Post, pp. 226, 645.
Allotment for expenses.
Pay, etc.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Command to be retained by Army officer.
Detail of Army personnel for instruction at camps, etc.
Post, pp. 226,645.
National Guard instruction camps.
Conduct of.
Pay, etc., for attending.
Payment to be made any time after muster.
Instruction at Army service schools.
At military posts.
Pay, etc.
Proviso.
Pay limit.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Details to be made from Army.
Officers.
Enlisted men.
Retired officers.
When in service subject to Army laws and regulations.
Courts-martial.
Constitution, authority, etc.
General.
Authority for convening.
Powers, etc.
Special.
Authority for convening.
Powers, etc.
Summary.
Authority for convening.
Powers, etc.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Sentences to confinement in lieu of fines.
Proviso.
Limit.
Approval of dismissal, etc.
In the National Guard, not in the service of the United Power for arrests, subpoenas, etc.
All processes and sentences of said courts shall be executed by such Execution of process, etc.
Pay to certain officers for services.
Exception.
Ratings.
Determination of.
Proviso.
Staff, etc., officers.
Each enlisted Enlisted men. Pay for services. NATIONAL GUARD. Provisos. Attendance at drills, etc., required. Proportional computation. Compensation for part of first year. Other duty accepted in lieu of drills.
All amounts appropriated for the purpose of this and the last Disbursements and accounting. Proviso. Stoppages.
Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, no money appropriated Persons not entitled to pay. Absence of statutory provisions. Proviso. NATIONAL GUARD. Time allowed for State, etc., legislation.
Use when drafted into military service in time of war.
Post, p. 339.
To become part of Army.
Appointment of officers.
To receive Army pay, etc.
Pension laws made applicable.
Rifle practice.
Annual estimates, etc., to be submitted for.
For general use.
Instructors, arms, etc., to be furnished.
Temporary promotions in Army due to details to National Guard.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Provisos.
Staff details.
Vol. 31, p. 755.
Terms limited.
Permanent status not affected.
Physical examinations.
When mustered in.
Proviso.
At discharge.
States debarred from benefits if failing to comply with requirements.
Applicable to land forces only.
Proviso.
Naval Militia credited to quota.
Post, p. 593.
Ante, p. 198.
NATIONAL GUARD.
Rules, etc., io be issued.
Annual estimates required.
Military supplies.
Purchases authorized from manufacturers in time of war.
The President, in time of war or when war is imminent, is empowered, through the head of any department of the Government, in addition to the present authorized methods of purchase or procurement, to place an order with any individual, firm, association, company, corporation, or organized manufacturing industry for such product or material as may be required, and which is of the nature and kind usually produced or capable of being produced by such individual, firm, company, association, corporation, or organized manufacturing industry.
Compliance with all such orders for products or material shall be Orders obligatory, to have precedence, etc. Possession to be taken if plants refuse, etc., orders. Regular ammunition plants. Plants capable of manufacturing arms, etc. Operation by Army Ordnance Department. Punishment for noncompliance.
The compensation to be paid to any individual, firm, company, Compensation for products, etc.
The Secretary of War shall also make, or cause to be made, a complete Private arms and munition plants to be listed. Information required. Plants which can manufacture arms, etc. Plans for transforming, etc., to be made.
The President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to appoint a Board on Mobilization of Industries Essential for Military Preparedness. Appointment, etc.
Government manufacture of arms, etc.
Board to investigate feasibility, etc.
Details to be reported.
Report to Congress.
Medals of honor.
Board authorized to investigate past issues, etc.
Names to be stricken off if improperly issued, etc.
Expenses.
Manufacture of arms, etc., for immediate use.
Tools, gauges, etc., to be procured.
Proviso.
Discretionary use of expenditures.
The President of the United States is Nitrate supply. Investigation to determine means for production of. Exclusive use of hydroelectric sites. Construction of ¡ plants, etc.
The President is authorized to lease, purchase, or acquire, by condemnation, Acquirement of ¡ lands, etc. Minerals, processes, etc.
The products of such plants shall be used by the President for Government use of products. Disposal of surplus.
The President is hereby authorized and empowered to employ such Officers, employees, etc., authorized.
The sum of $20,000,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys Appropriation.
The plant or plants provided for under this Act shall be constructed Operation solely by the Government.
In order to raise the money appropriated by this Act and necessary Use of Panama bonds for funds. Vol. 36, pp. 117, 192, 1013. Proviso. Redemption period modified.
It shall be unlawful for Uniform of Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. Unauthorized wearing of, unlawful. Post, p. 649. Provisos. Use of specified uniforms, etc., permitted National Guard. Boy Scouts, Naval Militia, etc. War veterans on ceremonious occasions. Discharged men returning home. Military societies, etc. School cadets, instructors, etc. Civilians attending instruction camps, etc. Actors, etc., professionally. Distinctive mark required. Restriction on insignia of rank.
Any person who offends against the provisions of this section shall, Punishment for violations.
Travel allowance to discharged enlisted men.
Proviso.
Sea travel.
No Army officer discharged or to lose commission hereby.
Conflicting laws repealed.
[S.J. Res. 72.]
Texas Bicentennial and Pan American Exposition.
Spain and Pan American countries invited to participate in.
[H.R. 14864.]
Oregon-California land grant acts.
Preamble.
Vol. 14, p. 239.
Vol. 16, pp. 47, 94.
Vol. 35, p. 571.
Vol. 14, p. 242.
Oregon and California Railroad Company.
Land grants to, revested in United States.
Vol. 14, p. 239.
Vol. 15, p. 80; Vol. 16, p. 47.
Vol. 16, p. 94.
Proviso.
Rights of way, etc., excepted.
Classification of restored lands.
Power-site lands.
Timberlands.
Agricultural lands, which shall include all lands not Agricultural lands.
Provisos. Reclassification. Rights of way, etc., allowed.
Mineral entries, etc.
Proviso.
Timber reserved.
That nonmineral lands of class two shall not be disposed Timber lands. Opened to horn estead entry, etc., when timber removed.
The timber on lands of class two shall be sold for cash by the Sales of timber by competitive bidding. Provisos. Rejection of unsatisfactory bids. Sale of small units. Timber sales.
The Secretary of the Interior shall as soon as the purchase price is Issue of timber patents. Cutting, removal, etc. Proviso. Termination.
No timber shall be removed until the issuance of patent therefor. Tax, etc.
Agricultural lands.
Opening to entry.
Vol. 38, p. 113.
No commutation,.
Cultivation, etc., required.
Provisos.
Cleared timberlands.
Preference to present residents.
On timber lands.
Prior homestead not a bar.
Special reservation for two years.
Description.
Commissions for timber sales.
Legal proceedings to determine amount due railroad company.
Matters to be considered.
Determination as to taxes due.
Title to moneys now in court.
Payment of accrued State taxes.
That all moneys received from or on account of said Receipts from lands and timber to constitute special fund. Disposition of. Payment to railroad company, etc. Proviso. Balance if receipts insufficient. Distribution after paying railroad company, etc.
A separate account shall be kept in the General Land Office of the From sales of lands and timber. Vol. 32, p. 388. Payments authorized. Proviso. Conditions.
Regulations, etc.
Punishment for false swearing.
Appropriation for classification.
[S. 6073.]
Fox River.
George Fabyan may bridge, at Geneva, Ill.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 12835.]
Haiti.
Details from Navy and Marine Corps authorized for.
Treaties, p. 44.
Proviso.
Compensation permitted.
Substitution.
Proviso.
Service pay, etc., continued.
Marine Corps.
Increase authorized.
Navy.
Medical force increased.
Longevity, etc., not affected by detail in Haiti.
[H. R. 13112.]
Merchant seamen.
Life saving regulations amended.
Vol. 38, p. 1183, amended.
The minimum number of life buoys with which vessels Life buoys.
“Vessels under one hundred feet in length, minimum number of Number modified, luminous added.
Attachments, etc.
[H. R. 13474.]
Gold certificates.
Vol. 31, p. 47; Vol. 34, p. 1289.
Vol. 36, p. 965, amended.
Issue for stamped bullion. Maximum increased.
[H. R. 13765.]
United States courts.
Vol. 36, p. 1108, amended.
That the State of Colorado shall constitute one judicial Colorado judicial district. Terms.
“That the Secretary of the Treasury, in constructing the public Grand Junction and Durango. Public buildings at, to provide court rooms, etc. Provisos. Adjournments authorized. Offices, etc.
[H. R. 15005.]
National Guard.
Appropriation for participating in Army encampments, etc.
Vol. 32, p. 777; Vol. 35, p. 402; Vol. 36, p. 329.
Vol. 32, p. 779.
Ante, p. 206.
Proviso.
Use for militia encampments, etc.
Ante, p. 207.
Engraving and Printing Bureau.
Number of sheets for customs stamps, etc., 1916, increased.
Vol. 38, p. 834, amended.
[H. R. 529.]
Public lands.
Imperial land district, California, created. Description.
Land office.
Transfer of plats, etc.
Register and receiver for.
[H. R. 755.]
District of Columbia.
Boy Scouts of America incorporated.
Incorporators.
General powers.
Purposes.
Successor to former organization.
Executive board.
Administrative powers vested in.
Meetings.
Exclusive right to emblems, badges, etc.
Annual report to be made.
Amendment.
[S. 4506.]
Customs.
Jacksonville, Fla., granted immediate transportation facilities.
Vol. 21, p. 173.
[S. 5274.]
Hawaii.
Act of legislature amending franchise of Hawaiian Electric Company, ratified, etc.
Vol. 33, p. 227.
Restriction repealed.
Powers extended to all of island of Oahu.
Vol. 33, p. 228.
“Electric power, manufacture, sale, and so forth: The right is Extent of franchise.
Buildings and grounds.
Vol. 33, p. 228.
“Power houses, and so forth: Said company shall also have the Power houses, etc.
“This franchise, and the person or corporation holding the same, Subject to public utilities commission as to rates, etc.
Extensions.
Proviso.
Subject to review by courts.
Amendment.
[S. 5685.]
Hawaii.
Act of legislature amending gas franchise of Honolulu Gas Company, ratified, etc. Vol. 33, p. 231.
W. W. Dimond.
Authorized to manufacture gas in the island of Oahu.
Subject to public utilities commission as to rates, etc.
“The franchise and the person or corporation holding the same shall be subject as to reasonableness of rates, prices and charges, and in all other respects to the provisions of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight of the revised laws of Hawaii, nineteen hundred and fifteen, creating a public utilities commission and all amendments thereof for the regulation of the public utilities in said Territory, and all the powers and duties expressly conferred upon or required of the superintendent of public works or the courts of said act creating said franchise, are hereby conferred upon and required of said public utilities commission and any commission of similar character that may hereafter be created by the laws of said Territory.”
Extensions.
Proviso.
Review by the courts.
Amendment.
[S. 5708.]
Customs.
Winston-Salem, N. C., granted immediate transportation privileges.
Vol. 21, p. 174.
[S. 5776.]
Hawaii.
Public utility companies to pay tax to counties.
Amendment.
[S. 4401.]
Predacious fishes, etc.
Investigating damages by.
Experiments in utilizing for food, etc.
Appropriation.
[S. 377.]
Winchester, Tenn.
Term of court at.
Vol. 37, p. 315, amended.
[S. 1793.]
[Public, No. 102.]Kansas.
Granted lands for game preserve.
Proviso.
Reversion.
[S. 3861.]
Denatured alcohol.
Vol. 34, p. 1250, amended.
Allowance for leakage during transportation from distillery.
[S. 4550.]
[Public, No. 104.]Vancouver Barracks, Wash.
Portland, Vancouver and Northern Railway Companygrantedright of way across lands of.
Location.
Time for construction.
Construction, crossings, etc.
Contribution to public street, etc.
Approval of maintenance, etc., of railways.
Use of tracks by other railways.
Reversion, etc.
[S. 4760.]
“Normania,” steamer.
Name may be changed to “William F. Stifel.”
[S. 5310.]
Snake River.
Walla Walla and Franklin Counties, Wash., may bridge.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
[S. 5805.]
Yellowstone River.
Riverview Ferry Company may bridge, near Sidney, Mont.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 5841.]
[Public, No. 108.]Perdido Bay, Fla. and Ala.
Perdido Bay and Bridge Company may bridge.
Location.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 5851.]
Eastern Branch of Elizabeth River, Va.
Time extended for bridging, by Norfolk-Berkley Bridge Corporation.
Vol. 38,p. 790, amended.
Amendment.
[S. 6041.]
West Pascagoula River.
Jackson County, Miss., may bridge, at Pascagoula.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Alaska fur seals.
Sale of skins authorized.
Vol. 37, p. 502.
[S. 3423.]
Salt Fork of Arkansas River.
Appropriation for bridge across, in Ponca Indian Reservation, Okla., from tribal funds.
Proviso.
Contributions by Kay and Noble Counties.
Maintenance.
[S. 3344.]
Fort Barrancas and Fort McRee, Fla.
George H. Herveygranted right of way across.
Amendment.
[H. R. 13670.]
Naval Establishment.
Seagoing submarines.
Speed limit modified.
Vol. 38, p. 951, amended.
[S. 3101.]
Fort Keogh Military-Reservation, Mont.
Area of lease, etc., on, to Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway Company increased.
Vol. 37, p. 357, amended.
[S. 3205.]
Yellowstone National Park.
Protection of property, etc., in.
Vol. 28, p. 74, amended.
“Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of Punishment for violations of law, etc. Former provision.
“Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of Punishment for violations of law, etc., in. Penalty reduced.
[S. 3536.]
Customs.
Bonded warehouses for Mexican peas, authorized.
Provisos.
Duty on withdrawal for consumption.
Payment for services.
[S. 4085.]
Barataria Bay, La.
Coast Guard station authorized near.
[S. 5244.]
Schooner Ledge Light Station, Pa.
Exchange of lands with Alba B. Johnson and Samuel M. Vauclain on Delaware River.
Land conveyed by United States.
By Alba B. Johnson and Samuel M. Vauclain.
Provisos.
Examination of title.
Conveyance.
Improvements on land to be conveyed.
Erection of light station.
Existing lights continued.
Commencement of improvements.
Expenses to be paid from Lighthouse Service.
[S. 5839.]
National Archives Building, D. C.
Inspection, etc., in Europe not required.
Vol. 37, p. 884, amended.
[S. 5910.]
Cedar Point light station, Mass.
Sale of reservation to Scituate, Mass.
Description.
Proviso.
Maintenance as historic landmark.
[H. R. 15775.]
Pensions appropriations.
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes, namely:
For Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, Invalid, etc., pensions. Proviso. Navy pensions. Accounts. Medal of honor pensioners. Ante, p. 54, amended.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services Examining surgeons. Fees, etc.
[H. R. 16677.]
Appropriations for last fiscal year extended through July If not previously provided for.
Post, p. 431.
Provisos.
Proportionate amounts.
Total expenditures for the year not to exceed final appropriations.
Exceptions.
Congressional session employees continued.
Appropriation.
[S. 3722.]
Mississippi River.
Time extended for bridging, by Baton Rouge Bridge and Terminal Company, at Baton Rouge, La.
Vol. 38, p. 514, amended.
Amendment.
[S. 3928.]
Mount Rainier National Park, Wash.
Sole jurisdiction over, ceded by Washington to United States.
State process, etc.
Jurisdiction of Washington western district.
Punishment under Washington laws.
Hunting, fishing, etc., prohibitions.
Regulations, etc.
Vol. 35, p. 365.
Evidence of violations.
Punishment for violations.
Vol. 35, p. 365.
Forfeiture of guns, traps, etc.
That the United States District Court for the Western Commissioner. Appointment, authority, etc.
Such commissioner shall have power, Upon sworn information, to Judicial powers in violations of rules, etc.
In all cases of conviction an appeal shall lie from the judgment of Appeals.
Procedure in criminal cases.
Proviso.
Bail.
Service of process.
Salary.
Provisos.
Residence.
Disposed of fees, etc.
United States fees, etc.
Deposit of fines and costs.
Acceptance of cession.
[S. 4476.]
Mobile Bay, etc., Ala.
Time extended for bridging etc., by Dauphin Island and Harbor Company.
Vol 37, p. 137, amended.
[S. 5777.]
Hawaii.
Act of legislature granting electric power franchise in Kauai County, ratified, etc.
“An act to authorize and provide for the manufacture, maintenance, distribution, and supply of electric light and power within the Lihue district and the Koloa district, county of Kauai, Territory of Hawaii.
“Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, Hans Isenberg. Franchise granted, for electric plant, Kauai County.
Maintenance, etc.
Damages, etc.
Forfeiture for violations, etc.
Proviso.
Purchase by Territory, etc.
Delivery of service.
Provisos.
Monthly charge.
Price for Territorial use.
Subject to public utilities commission.
Connections, etc.
Proviso.
Deposit.
Extensions.
Discontinuance of service.
County regulations, etc.
Inspection of books, etc.
Yearly statements.
Property rights.
Issue of bonds, etc.
Provisos.
Business loans.
Stock issue limited.
Commencement of operations, etc.
Amendment reserved.
That the Territory of Hawaii, the county of Kauai, or Purchase by Territory, etc.
“The amount to be paid to the association for such purchase shall Determination of price.
“Either the association or the purchaser may appeal to the Supreme Appeal, etc.
“Within six months after the determination of the purchase price Termination of Franchise on sale.
[H. R. 7613.]
Red River.
Terral Bridge Company may bridge, at Terral, Okla.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 13669.]
Wabash River.
Wabash County may bridge, at Wabash, Ind.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
[H. R. 15006.]
Grand Calumet River.
Lake County may bridge, at Hammond, Ind.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
[H. R. 15007.]
Grand Calumet River.
Lake County may bridge, at East Chicago, Ill.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
[H. R. 13383.]
Diplomatic and consular appropriations.
Salaries
.Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary, Ambassadors.
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Belgium, Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece and Montenegro, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal,. Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each, $240,000;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Roumania, Servia, and Bulgaria, $10,000;
Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, $5,000; Minister resident and consul general.
Agent and consul general at Cairo, $6,500; Agent, etc., Cairo.
Proviso. Salary restriction.
Chargés d’affaires ad interim $50,000;
Total, $587,000.
For secretaries in the Diplomatic Service as provided in the Act of Secretaries, diplomatic service. Vol. 38, p. 805. Provisos. Counselors authorized. Officially designated. R.S., sec. 1674, p. 293, amended. Vol. 38, p. 806.
Japanese secretary of embassy to Japan, $3,600;
Turkish secretary of embassy to Turkey, $3,600;
Chinese secretary of legation to China, $3,600;
Assistant Chinese secretary to the legation to China, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000.
Assistant Japanese secretary to the embassy to Japan, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000.
Assistant Turkish secretary to the embassy to Turkey, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000.
Instruction and transit pay.
Clerks at embassies and legations.
Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $1,000. Interpreters, etc.
Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, $1,500.
For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall be Student interpreters. In China. Provisos. Nonpartisan selection. Term of service.
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at Tuition.
For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shall In Japan. Provisos. Nonpartisan selection. Term of service.
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at Tuition.
For ten student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, who shall be In Turkey. Provisos. Nonpartisan selection. Term of service.
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at Tuition.
No person drawing the salary of interpreter or student as above Restriction on salaries.
Total, $32,300.
Quarters for student interpreters.
For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the In Japan.
For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the In Turkey.
Total, $1,200.
Contingent expenses, foreign missions.
Dispatch agents.
Printing in Department of State.
Traveling expenses.
Steam launch, Turkey.
Ground rent, Japan.
Cape Spartel light.
Bringing home criminals.
Life saving testimonials.
Emergencies.
Neutrality Act expenses.
Balance available.
Vol. 38, p. 119.
Proviso.
Personal service in Washington, etc.
Ante, p. 78.
Allowance for officers dying abroad.
Bringing home remains of officers.
International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
Vol. 20, p. 714.
International Customs Tariffs Bureau.
Vol. 28, p. 1518.
International Boundary Commission, Mexican.
Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512; Vol. 34, p. 2953.
Boundary, Alaska and Canada.
Vol. 32, p. 1961.
Boundary, United States and Canada.
Vol. 35, p. 2003.
Proviso.
Advances to commissioner.
Bureau for repressing African Slave Trade.
Vol. 27, p. 917.
International Prison Commission.
Pan American Union.
Provisos.
Use of moneys received.
Monthly Bulletins.
International Bureau, Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Vol. 32, p. 1793.
International Commission on Tables of Constants, etc.
Interparliamentary Union to Promote Arbitration.
For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support International Institute of Agriculture. Quota.
For salary of one member of the permanent committee of the Member of committee.
For the payment of the quota of the United States for the cost of Translating publications.
International Sanitary Bureau.
United States court for China.
Judge, $8,000; district attorney, $4,000; marshal, $3,000; clerk, Salaries, etc.
The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when Judge and district attorney. Sessions other than at Shanghai.
For rent of premises for the use of the United States court for Rent.
International Office of Public Health.
Vol. 35, p. 2061.
Vol. 35, p. 1834.
International Seismological Association.
British-American Pecuniary Claims Arbitration.
For the expenses of the arbitration of outstanding pecuniary Expenses. Vol. 37, p. 1625.
Agency salaries and expenses.
Peace Palace at The Hague.
International Radiotelegraphic Convention. Vol. 37, p. 1569.
Canadian Fisheries Commission. Vol. 35, p. 2000.
For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and Canadian Boundary-Waters Commission. Vol. 36, p. 2448. Use of balance. Vol. 38, p. 1124. Post, p. 802. Proviso. Subsistence when absent from Washington.
For payment of services rendered and expenses incurred under the Preparation of cases.
Fifth Pan American Conference. Reappropriation for expenses of. Vol. 38, p. 1126. Post, p. 1055.
Panama. Annual payment to. Vol. 33, p. 2238.
International Geodetic Association. Quota. Proviso. Maintenance of Ukiah latitude observatory.
The duly appointed representative of the United States on the Permanent Representative authorized to vote.
Interparliamentary Union Conference. Appropriation for expenses extended. Vol. 38, p. 450. Post, p. 1056.
International Confess Against Alcoidism. Expenses. Vol. 38, p. 1127. Post, p. 1056. Provisos. Report to Congress. Entertainment restricted.
Shanghai. Building for consulate general, etc.
International Commission on International Law. Reappropriation. Post, p. 1056. Vol. 37, p. 1554. Vol. 37, p. 1556. Vol. 38, p. 451. Vol. 38, p. 1126.
Habana. Building for legation.
Consular Service.
For salaries of consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls, as provided Salaries. Vol. 38, p. 805. Restriction on vice consuls. Proviso. Temporary service. Citizenship requirements.
For salaries of five consular inspectors, at $5,000 each, $25,000. Consular inspectors.
Traveling, etc., expenses.
Proviso.
Subsistence.
For forty consular assistants as provided for by law, $46,600. Consular assistants.
Post allowances to consular officers: To enable the President, Post allowances. Special provisions for officers in belligerent, etc., countries.
Clerks at consulates.
Interpreters at consulates.
Interpreters, guards, etc.
Marshals, consular courts.
Consular prisons.
Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts Shanghai.
Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Chosen, Keeping prisoners. Proviso. Limit of cost.
Rent of prison for American convicts in Smyrna, Turkey, and for Kent, etc., Turkey.
Rent of prison for American convicts in Constantinople, Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, $1,000.
Total, $16,000.
Relief of American seamen.
Foreign hospital, Cape Town.
Contingent expenses, consulates.
[H. R. 15836.]
Sundry civil expenses appropriations.
Treasury Department.
Sites, construction, etc.
Aberdeen, Wash.
Akron, Ohio.
Albion, Mich.
Alliance, Nebr.
Altus, Okla.
Amherst, Mass.
Andalusia, Ala.
Anoka, Minn.
Antigo, Wis.
Ashland, Ky.
Ashland, Ohio.
Athens, Tenn.
Atlanta, Ga.
Attleboro, Mass.
Aurora, Nebr.
Austin, Tex.
Bakersfield, Cal.
Baltimore, Md., immigrant station.
Barnesville, Ga.
Bartow, Fla.
Basin, Wyo.
Batavia, N. Y.
Bay City, Mich.
Bay City, Tex.
Bayonne, N.J.
Beaver Dam, Wis.
Beeville, Tex.
Belton, Tex.
Bemidji, Minn.
Berlin, N. H.
Berwick, Pa.
Birmingham, Ala.
Blackwell, Okla.
Bluffton, Ind.
Bonne Terre, Mo.
Boone, Iowa.
Brenham, Tex.
Bridgeport, Conn.
Brooklyn, N. Y., post office.
Buckhannon, W. Va.
Buena Vista, Va.
Buffalo, N. Y., customhouse and post office.
Buffalo, Wyo.
Burlington, N. C.
Cairo, Ill.
Calumet, Mich.
Cambridge, Md.
Cameron, Tex.
Caribou, Me.
Carlinville, Ill.
Carroll, Iowa.
Carrollton, Ill.
Carson City, Nev.
Caruthersville, Mo.
Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Chadron, Nebr.
Chamberlain, S. Dak.
Chariton, Iowa.
Charles City, Iowa.
Charleston, Ill.
Charles Town, W. Va.
Charlotte, Mich.
Charlotte, N. C., rent.
Cherokee, Iowa.
Cherryvale, Kans.
Chicago, Ill.
Cody, Wyo.
Cohoes, N. Y.
Columbia, S. C.
Coshocton, Ohio.
Cuero, Tex.
Davenport, Iowa.
Decatur, Ala.
De Funiak Springs, Fla.
De Land, Fla.
Denton, Tex.
Des Moines, Iowa.
Dickinson, N. Dak.
Douglas, Ariz.
Dowagiac, Mich.
Dubois, Pa.
Durango, Colo.
Durant, Okla.
East Las Vegas, N. Mex.
East Orange, N. J.
East Pittsburgh, Pa.
Eatonton, Ga.
Elkhart, Ind.
Elkins, W. Va.
Ellensburg, Wash.
El Paso, Tex.
Elyria, Ohio.
Evansville, Ind.
Falls City, Nebr.
Farmington, Mo.
Fayette, Mo.
Fitzgerald, Ga.
Flint, Mich.
Fordyce, Ark.
Fort Atkinson, Wis.
Fort Fairfield, Me.
Fort Morgan, Colo.
Fort Plain, N. Y.
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Franklin, Pa.
Franklin, Va.
Frederick, Md.
Fremont, Ohio.
Front Royal, Va.
Fulton, Mo.
Galesburg, Ill.
Gardiner, Me.
Glasgow, Ky.
Glenwood Springs, Colo.
Globe, Ariz.
Gouvemeur, N. Y.
Grand Junction, Colo.
Greensburg, Ind.
Greenwich, Conn.
Grinnell, Iowa.
Hackensack, N. J.
Hammond, La.
Harrisburg, Pa., rent.
Harrisonville, Mo.
Hartford, Conn.
Hastings, Mich.
Hiawatha, Kans.
Holly Springs, Miss.
Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
Hornell, N. Y.
Houghton, Mich.
Humboldt, Tenn.
Huntington, Ind.
Huntington, W. Va., rent, etc.
Indiana, Pa.
Indianapolis, Ind.
Jackson, Mich.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Jamestown, N. Dak.
Jasper, Ala.
Jersey City, N. J.
Kalispell, Mont.
Kendallville, Ind.
Keokuk, Iowa.
Kirksville, Mo., rent.
Knoxville, Tenn.
Laconia, N. H.
Lakeland, Fla.
Lancaster, Ky.
Lancaster, S. C.
Las Cruces, N. Mex.
Lewistown, Pa.
Lincoln, Nebr.
Rent.
Little Falls, Minn.
Lock Haven, Pa.
Logan, Ohio.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Lyons, N. Y.
McComb, Miss.
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Madison, S. Dak.
Madisonville, Ky.
Maquoketa, Iowa.
Marion, Ky.
Marion, S. C.
Marlin, Tex.
Marquette, Mich.
Martin, Tenn.
Maryville, Tenn.
Media, Pa.
Memphis, Tenn.
Mena, Ark.
Merrill, Wis.
Middletown, Conn.
Middletown, Ohio.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Minden, La.
Missoula, Mont., rent, etc.
Moberly, Mo.
Rent, etc.
Monessen, Pa.
Monongahela, Pa.
Montclair, N. J.
Montevideo, Minn.
Moultrie, Ga.
Mount Cannel, Ill.
Murray, Ky.
Muskegon, Mich.
Nacogdoches, Tex.
Nashville, Tenn.
Naugatuck, Conn.
Navasota, Tex.
Neenah, Wis.
New Albany, Ind., rent, etc.
Newark, N.J.
New Braunfels, Tex.
Newburyport, Mass.
Newcastle, Wyo.
New Haven, Conn.
New Orleans, La.
Customhouse lighting fixtures.
Vol. 38, p. 613.
Newport, R. I.
Rent.
New York, N. Y., assay office.
Norfolk, Va.
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Olney, Ill.
Omaha, Nebr.
Oneida, N. Y.
Oneonta, N. Y.
Opelika, Ala.
Orange, Tex.
Orlando, Fla.
Owego, N. Y.
Paintsville, Ky.
Palatka, Fla.
Peoria, Ill.
Philadelphia, Pa., post office and court house.
Pikeville, Ky.
Phoenixville, Pa.
Pittsburgh,Pa., post office.
Pittston, Pa.
Portland, Oreg.
Pottstown, Pa.
Prescott, Ark.
Pulaski, Va.
Putnam, Conn.
Quincy, Ill.
Quitman, Ga.
Raton, N. Mex.
Reading, Mass.
Red Bluff, Cal.
Redfield, S. Dak.
Rhinelander, Wis.
Richfield, Utah.
Richmond, Va.
Ridgway, Pa.
Rockville, Conn.
Rogers, Ark.
Roseburg, Oreg.
Rumford, Me.
Saco, Me.
Saginaw, Mich.
Saint Augustine, Fla.
Saint Johns, Oreg.
Saint Johnsbury, Vt.
Saint Joseph, Mo.
Saint Louis, Mo.
Mail conveyor system abandoned.
Vol. 38, p. 828.
Saint Marys, Ohio.
Saint Paul, Minn.
Saint Peter, Minn.
Saint Petersburg, Fla.
Salamanca, N. Y.
Salisbury, Md.
San Pedro, Cal.
Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Saranac Lake, N.Y.
Savanna, Ill.
Sayre, Pa.
Seymour, Conn.
Seymour, Ind.
Shawnee, Okla.
Shelby, N. C.
Shelbyville, Ind.
Shelbyville, Ky.
Sidney, Ohio.
Skowhegan, Me.
Somersworth, N. H.
South Bethlehem, Pa.
South Boston, Va.
Southbridge, Mass.
Spanish Fork, Utah.
Springfield, Ohio.
Stamford, Tex.
State College, Pa.
Statesboro, Ga.
Stockton, Cal.
Syracuse, N. Y.
Tacoma, Wash.
Tarentum, Pa.
Taylorville, Ill.
Terre Haute, Ind.
Thomasville, N. C.
Titusville, Pa.
Tomah, Wis.
Tullahoma, Term.
Tulsa, Okla.
Twin Falls, Idaho.
Unionville, Mo.
Valley City, N. Dak.
Vancouver, Wash.
Van Wert, Ohio.
Vermilion, S. Dak.
Vineland, N. J.
Wahoo, Nebr.
Walden, N. Y.
Warrenton, Va.
Washington, D.C.
Interior Department offices.
Winder Building.
Washington, Ind.
Washington, Iowa.
Washington Court House, Ohio.
Waterloo, N. Y.
Waynesboro, Va.
Waynesburg, Pa.
Waynesville, N. C.
Wellsburg, W. Va.
Wenatchee, Wash.
Wheeling, W. Va.
Wilkesboro, N.C.
Willow, Cal.
Wilmington, N. C.
Rent.
Wilmington, Ohio.
Winnemucca, Nev.
Woodbury, N. J.
Woodstock, Ill.
Woodward, Okla.
Worcester, Mass.
Yoakum, Tex.
Ypsilanti, Mich.
Hygienic Laboratory, D. C.
Balances reappropriated.
Vol. 36. p. 717.
Vol. 38, p. 25.
Quarantine stations.
Boston Quarantine Station: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized Boston, Mass. Transfer of station from city.
Columbia River Quarantine Station: For repairs and equipment for Columbia River.
Mobile Quarantine Station: For detention hulk and equipment, or Mobile, Ala.
New Orleans Quarantine Station: For boarding vessel and equipment, New Orleans, La.
Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completed Repairs and preservation. Sitka, Alaska. Provisos. Marine hospitals and quarantine stations. Treasury buildings, D.C. Personal services restricted.
Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical Mechanical equipment. Heating, lighting, etc. Provisos. Marine hospitals and quarantine stations. Treasury buildings, D. C. Pneumatic-tube services, New York City. Personal services restricted.
Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs Vaults and safes.
General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to General expenses. Vol. 35, p. 537. Additional pay, Supervising Architect. Technical services, etc. Superintendents. Expenses of maintenance. Office supplies. Ante, p. 84.
Architectural competitions: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Architectural competitions. Payment of commissions. Vol. 27, p. 468. Hilo, Hawaii. Vol. 36, p. 1373; Vol. 37, p. 428.
Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Operating force. Personal services. Assistant custodians, janitors, engineers, etc. Amount available for fiscal year 1916. Proviso. Buildings for which available.
Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and Furniture, etc. Provisos. Personal services restricted. Lighting fixtures for new buildings. Use of present furniture. Assay offices in public buildings. Vol. 30, p. 614.
Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating Operating supplies. Fuel, lights, water, etc. Buildings excluded. Gas governors. Proviso. Rental.
During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen the Secretary Pneumatic-tube service. Furnishing steam for, to postal service.
Salamanca, New York, ground rent: For annual ground rent of the Salamanca, N. Y. Ground rent.
Coast Guard.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized Expenditures.
For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.
For rations or commutation thereof for warrant officers, petty Rations.
For twelve clerks to district superintendents, at such rate as the Clerks to superintendents.
For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, Fuel.
For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, Outfits, etc.
For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary Stations and houses of refuge.
For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Traveling expenses.
For carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Death allowances. Vol. 22, p. 57; Vol, 35, p, 46.
For draft animals and their maintenance, $20,000; Draft animals.
For telephone lines and care of the same, $20,000; Telephones.
For compensation for special services, $64,000; Special services.
For contingent expenses, including supplies and provisions for Contingent expenses. Ante, p. 84.
In all, $5,199,800.
For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $175,000. Repairs to cutters.
Engraving and printing.
For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, Work authorized. Vol. 38, p. 785.
For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees Salaries. Ante, p. 83. Increase of pay restricted. Proviso. Large notes. Vol. 31, p. 45.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to deliver the engraved Congressional portrait plates. Delivery to heirs.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Wages. Proviso. Large notes. Vol. 31, p. 45.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except Materials, etc.
During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen all proceeds Proceeds from work to be credited to Bureau. Vol. 24, p. 227.
Miscellaneous.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered Internal revenue. Refund of taxes. Vol. 35, p. 325.
Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting Punishing violations of, laws.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in Enforcing laws relating to the Treasury. Details permitted. Limit. Proviso. Other details.
Refunding United States bonds: For expenses of refunding two per Refunding two per cent bonds. Vol. 38, p. 259.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury. Ante, p. 84. Examinations, etc.
Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins in Recoinage of gold coins.
Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Recoinage of minor coins.
Money laundry machines: For all miscellaneous expenses in connection Money laundry machines.
Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive Distinctive paper for securities, etc. Quantity authorized.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to Four-year contracts authorized.
For custody of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.
Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred Suppressing counterfeiting, etc. Ante, p. 84. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 88, p. 680. Protecting person of the President. Proviso. Fees. Post, p. 314.
Appropriations in this Act shall not be used in payment of compensation Payment of persons, detailed forbidden.
Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, Lands, etc.
Customs service.
For collecting the revenue from customs, including not exceeding Collecting revenues. Ante, p. 84.
Scales for customs service: The unexpended balances of the appropriations Automatic scales. Use of balances. Vol. 38, p. 836.
Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties Compensation in lieu of moieties.
For the construction of a permanent wagon and foot bridge across Nogales, Ariz. Bridge on customhouse land.
Public Health Service.
For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, $711,550; Pay, officers.
For additional assistant surgeons, $25,000; Post, p. 440.
For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical Acting assistant surgeons.
For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $517,106; Other employees.
For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the Freight, etc.
For fuel, light, and water, $75,000; Fuel, etc.
For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000; Furniture.
For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital Supplies.
For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $20,000; Hygienic Laboratory.
For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all Marine hospitals. Ante, p. 84. Proviso. Cases for study.
For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of Outside treatment, etc.
For journals and scientific books, $500; Books, etc.
In all, $2,058,156, which shall include the amount necessary for the Inspecting aliens. Vol. 34, p. 903.
Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive Quarantine service. Maintenance, etc., of stations. Ante, p. 84.
Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of Prevention of epidemics. Ante, p. 84. Proviso. Report of expenditures.
Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and Field investigations. Vol. 37, p. 309.
Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and Interstate quarantine service. Post, p. 440.
Studies of rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration Rural sanitation studies.
Study of pellagra: For rental, equipment, and maintenance of a Pellagra studies.
Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, Viruses, serums, etc. Regulating sale, etc., of.
District of Columbia.
Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For repair of nurses cottages, Columbia Hospital for Women. Repairs, heat, light, etc. Half from District revenues.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation for special equipment Equipment, etc. Use of balance for. Vol. 38, p. 838.
Smithsonian Institution.
International exchanges: For the system of international exchanges International exchanges.
American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among American ethnology.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperation International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.
Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, Astrophysical Observatory.
National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances National Museum. Salaries, fixtures, etc.
For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, Heating, lighting, etc.
For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections Preserving collections, etc.
For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, Books, etc.
For repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary Repairs.
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500; Postage.
In all, National Museum, $383,500.
National Zoological Park: For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, National Zoological Park, D. C. Expenses. Half from District revenues.
Interstate Commerce Commission.
For seven commissioners at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all, Salaries.
For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution Expenses. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680. Amount for counsel, etc. Rent.
To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce Enforcing accounting by railroads. Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556.
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed Railway safety appliances. Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943; Vol. 36, p. 298. Accidents. Vol. 31, p. 446; Vol. 36, p. 350. Block signal, etc. Vol. 34, p. 838; Vol. 35, p. 324. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.
Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce Physical valuation of railroads. Vol. 37, p. 701. Issues of stock, etc. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.
For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act Safe locomotive boilers, etc. Vol. 36, p. 913. Vol. 38, p. 1192. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.
Board of Mediation and Conciliation.
For commissioner, $7,500; assistant commissioner, $5,000; necessary Salaries and expenses. Vol. 38, p. 108.
Authority for incurring expenses, including subsistence, by boards Authority for expenses.
Federal Trade Commission.
For five commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; five Salaries. Vol. 38, p. 717.
For compensation, travel expense, and per diem in lieu of subsistence Special attorneys, etc. Salary limit.
For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the purchase Contingent expenses.
For rental of building or quarters, $15,000. Rent.
For witness fees, and mileage, as provided in section nine of the Witness fees, etc. Vol. 38, p. 722.
Rock Creek and Potomac Parks, D. C.
Lands for connecting parkway.
Vol. 37, p. 885.
Half from District revenues.
Provisos.
Area limited.
Settlement of titles.
Vol. 38, p. 829.
Legal assistance.
Added to park system.
Vol 30, p. 570.
War Department.
Armories and arsenals.
Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For increasing facilities for Benicia, Cal.
For increasing storage facilities, $28,000;
For repairs to wharf, $6,000;
For repairs to shop and other buildings, $5,000;
For continuing brick wall in main issue storehouse, making it practically a fire wall, and for rearrangement of the interior of the building, including the erection of a loading platform, $2,500;
For improving the water supply, $5,000:
In all, $51,500.
Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Frankford, Pa.
For a general shop building, $106,800;
For extension of artillery ammunition storehouse, $33,000;
For extension of instrument department building, $22,920;
For extension of fuse shop building, $132,300;
For extension of artillery case shop building, $42,000;
For extension of lead shop building, $12,000;
For metal storehouse, $25,800;
For a storehouse for current manufactures, $54,000;
For purchase of additional land, $125,000;
For one sewer and connections, $9,000;
For garage for motor trucks, $12,000;
For construction or repair of roads, walks, and sea wall, $11,600;
For increasing facilities for fire protection, $24,000;
For increasing the facilities of the arsenal for the manufacture of field artillery ammunition, $183,750;
For five magazine buildings, including necessary barriers and fences about the buildings, railroad connections, sewer lines, lighting mains, and so forth, $90,900;
In all, $885,070.
Honolulu, Hawaii, Ordnance Depot, Fort Shafter Reservation: Honolulu, Hawaii, Fort Shafter Ordnance Depot.
For five storehouses, $99,000;
For six gun sheds, $6,500;
For five magazines, $85,000;
For two shop buildings, $35,500;
For office building, $12,000;
For barracks building, $12,000;
For set of field officer’s quarters, $6,000;
For set of company officer’s quarters, $5,000;
For two sets of quarters for noncommissioned officers, $6,000;
For stable, $6,000;
For wagon shed and garage, $3,000;
For necessary water, sewer, and electrical connections, $5,500;
For transportation facilities, construction of roads, and so forth, $18,500;
In all, $300,000.
Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey: Picatinny, Dover, N. J.
For increasing facilities for manufacture of powder, $53,000;
For buildings for assembling powder charges, $25,000;
For the purchase of additional land, $7,500;
In all, $85,500.
Powder factory: For the establishment of a plant, or the enlargement Powder factory. Procuring site, construction, etc.
Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: Rock Island, Ill.
For high service tank and connections, $20,000;
For road repairs, $13,000;
For bath and toilet room addition to barracks building, $24,000;
For one auto fire engine, $7,500;
Toward providing facilities for manufacturing field artillery ammunition at a total cost not exceeding $1,250,000, under a contract or contracts which are authorized, or otherwise, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, $500,000;
For increasing capacity for manufacture of field artillery vehicles, $90,000;
For storehouse for artillery vehicles, $34,000;
For concrete retaining wall on the east side of Fort Armstrong Avenue, $4,700;
For two sets of quarters for noncommissioned officers, $10,000;
For ice-making plant, $16,000;
For the construction of coal bins, including the installation of a coal-hoisting apparatus in boiler house of shop F, $5,500;
For maintenance and operation of power plant, $12,500;
For operating, care, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and Bridges expenses.
In all, $755,200.
Proving Ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey: Sandy Hook, N. J., proving ground.
For one range tower, $5,000;
For a fireproof vault in office building, for the storage of valuable records, $1,500;
For a building to contain toilet facilities, $1,500;
For a fireproof stable, $8,000;
For a tool and breechblock storage house, $12,000;
For extension of concrete traverses in rear of proof battery, $10,000;
In all, $38,000.
San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas: San Antonio, Tex.
For one storehouse and its equipment, $60,000;
For improving the water supply, $4,200;
For rebuilding roads and walks, $3,000;
In all, $67,200.
Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield, Mass.
For extension of wing of milling shop, $5,500;
For increasing facilities for fire protection, $20,000;
For repairs to streets, $7,100;
In all, $32,600.
Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: Watertown, Mass.
For improving and modernizing the smith shop, $52,600;
For increasing capacity for manufacture of gun carriages, $500,000;
For increasing capacity for manufacture of armor-piercing projectiles, $215,000;
For increasing facilities for fire protection, $11,725;
For a building for housing electric engine and locomotive crane, $5,000;
For replacing roof on building containing hardening plant, $3,400;
For construction and installation of conveying apparatus for handling coal for power plant, $10,000;
For extension of coal pockets, $2,000;
In all, $799,725.
Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional Testing machines.
Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: Watervliet, N. Y.
For improvement of large gun shop, $680,000;
For extension of smith shop, $12,000;
For machine-tool equipment for field and siege gun shop, $37,000;
For increasing facilities for fire protection, $17,700;
For the purchase and installation of an air compressor, $6,000;
For increasing capacity of water-power plant, $2,500;
For repairs to stone and brick walls surrounding the arsenal reservation, $5,000;
For extension of locker room and toilet facilities, $23,000;
For one lumber storage shed, $5,000;
For the construction of storage platforms in large gun shop, $1,500;
For one railroad car for shipping sixteen-inch and fourteen-inch guns between Watervliet and Watertown Arsenals and the Sandy Hook Proving Ground, $14,000;
In all, $803,700.
Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and Repairs, etc.
Quartermaster Corps.
Military posts: For the construction and enlargement at military Military posts. Construction, etc. Restriction.
Military Post, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: Toward the construction Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For construction and Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses. Provisos. Officers’ quarters. Vol. 35, p. 363. San Pedro, Cal.
Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: Fort Monroe, Va.
For repair and maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor Wharf.
For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, Repairs to roads, etc.
For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement,brick, and supplies, Sewer maintenance.
For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for Seacoast defenses. Philippines and Hawaii.
That the internal-revenue taxes imposed by the Philippine Legislature Philippine Islands. Internal revenue and tonnage taxes laws of, ratified. Collection, etc.
Vessels owned by citizens of the Philippine Islands and documented Philippine vessels. Exempted from tonnage and light dues. Refund of payments. Proviso. Island taxes enforced.
National cemeteries. Maintenance.
For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, Superintendents.
For the addition of a kitchen and bathroom to the lodge in the Salisbury, N. C. Additions.
For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone Headstones to soldiers’ graves. Vol. 17, p. 545; Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56. Civilians. Vol. 33, p. 396; Vol. 34, p. 741. Confederates.
For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been Repairs to roadways. Provisos. Encroachments by railroads forbidden. Restriction.
No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair Limited to one approach.
For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in Burial of indigent soldiers, D. C. Half from District revenues.
Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments, Antietam battle field, Md. Preservation, etc.
For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent Superintendent.
Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc. Removal from abandoned posts, etc. Reimbursements to individuals.
To exhume, transport to San Francisco, and reinter in the national Orman K. Osbon. Removal of remains from Philippines.
Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill.
For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Confederate Stockade, Ohio.
Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats. Care, etc.
Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation Monuments in Cuba and China.
Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little Little Rock, Ark. Burial of soldiers dying at Hot Springs Hospital.
Military Parks.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga.
Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishment Shiloh.
Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the establishment of Gettysburg.
Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the establishment Vicksburg.
Engineer Department.
Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance and repair of improvements, Yellowstone. Vehicles. Proviso. Snow restriction.
For widening to not exceeding eighteen feet of roadway and improving Roads, bridges, etc., in park.
For completing the widening to not exceeding eighteen feet of roadway In forest reserve.
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For continuation of a wagon Crater Lake.
Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvement Buildings and grounds, Washington.
For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Improvement and care.
For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000.
For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000.
For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000.
For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500.
For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000.
For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, Monument Grounds, etc.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500.
For repair of post-and-chain fences, constructing stone coping General repairs, etc.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, Reservations.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $3,000.
For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500.
For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $2,000.
For broken-stone road covering for parks, $3,500.
For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000.
For care and maintenance of Potomac Park, $15,000. Potomac Park.
For grading, soiling, seeding, and planting that portion of Potomac Park west of the railroad embankment, and constructing paths, $25,000.
For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $4,000.
For care and improvement of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $15,000.
For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000.
For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition Outdoor sports.
To continue construction of necessary retaining walls in Meridian Meridian Hill Park.
For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. Old Georgetown Reservoir.
For improving the site of the old high-service reservoir, at the Added to park system.
For replacing the post and chain fence around Rawlins Park with a cement coping and for rearranging the walks and improving the planting, $3,000.
For moving out the sea wall on the river side of west Potomac Sea wall, etc., Potomac Park.
For extending Easbys Point sewer in west Potomac Park, $12,000.
For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000.
For one double park lodge in Montrose Park, $3,500.
For a field house in East Potomac Park, east of the railroad embankment, Field House, Potomac Park.
One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in Half from District revenues.
Under appropriations contained herein no contract shall be made Limit for concrete, etc., pavements.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive Grounds of executive departments.
For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library Building, $1,000.
For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and the Senate and House Office Buildings as may be requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, $4,000.
For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds Executive Mansion grounds.
For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of Engineer.
For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000.
Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing Executive Mansion. Care, etc.
For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $6,000. Fuel.
For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, Greenhouses.
For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000.
For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be Traveling expenses of the President.
For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, Lighting.
Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, Lighting and heating public grounds.
For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $3,820;
In all, $24,820, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one half of Half from District revenues.
Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Government Government telegraph.
Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer, Washington Monument. Maintenance.
For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, Expenses.
For extra services of employees and for additional supplies and Sunday opening.
Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous Building where Abraham Lincoln died.
Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs Wakefield, Va.
Commission of Fine Arts: For expenses made necessary by the Commission of Fine Arts. Expenses. Vol. 36, p. 371.
The appropriation of $5,000 made in the sundry civil Act approved Grant Memorial. Reappropriation. Vol. 38, pp. 636, 847.
Lincoln Memorial Commission: For continuing the erection of the Lincoln Memorial. Construction.
Aqueduct Bridge: Toward the construction of the bridge authorized Aqueduct Bridge, D. C. Construction of new. Ante, p. 163. Contracts authorized. Half from District revenues.
Arlington Memorial Amphitheater: For completing the construction, Arlington Memorial Amphitheater. Completing. Vol. 35. p. 540; Vol. 37, p. 882; Vol. 38, p. 848.
Harbors and rivers, contract work: Toward the construction of Rivers and harbors, contract work.
For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred Vol. 34, p. 1098.
Improving Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvement Saint Marys River, Mich. Fourth Lock.
For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred Vol. 34, p. 1079.
Improving Cold Spring Inlet, New Jersey: For continuing improvement, Cold Spring Inlet, N.J.
For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows:
Harbor of Refuge, Cape Lookout, North Carolina: For continuing Cape Lookout harbor of refuge, N. C. Vol. 37, p. 807.
Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: For completing Providence, R. I. Vol. 37, p. 802.
Improving Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon: For completing improvement, Tillamook Bay, Oreg. Vol. 37, p. 819.
Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use Maps.
Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of northern Survey of northern and northwestern lakes.
California Debris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the California Debris Commission. Vol. 27, p. 507.
Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious New York Harbor. Preventing injurious deposits.
For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $75,000;
For purchase or construction of one patrol vessel, $75,000; Patrol vessel.
Chief of Staff.
Topographic maps.
Payment to Geological Survey for making special.
Proviso.
Advances.
Post, p. 301.
Medical Department.
Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or Artificial limbs.
Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances Surgical appliances.
Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled thereto Trusses. Vol. 20, p. 353.
Providence Hospital: For the support and medical treatment of Providence Hospital, D. C. Destitute patients. Half from District revenues.
Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to Garfield Hospital, D. C. Destitute patients. Half from District revenues.
For necessary improvements, repairs, and equipment for isolating Isolating ward.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows:
Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of officers Dayton, Ohio. Current expenses. Proviso. Effects of deceased members.
Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, Subsistence.
Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads, bedding, Household.
Hospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital Hospital.
Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, Transportation.
Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, Repairs. Proviso. Restriction on new buildings.
Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm Farm.
In all, $562,200.
Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, Milwaukee, Wis. Current expenses.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.
For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.
For transportation of members of the home, $600; Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.
In all, $333,600.
Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the Togus, Me. Current expenses.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.
For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.
For transportation of members of the home, $800; Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.
In all, $309,300.
Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, Hampton, Va. Current expenses.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.
For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.
For transportation of members of the home, $1,200; Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.
In all, $365,200.
Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, Leavenworth, Kans. Current expenses.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.
For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.
For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.
In all, $433,000.
Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, Santa Monica, Cal. Current expenses.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.
For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.
For transportation of members of the home, $2,500; Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.
In all, $422,500.
Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including Marion, Ind. Current expenses.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.
For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.
For transportation of members of the home, $800; Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.
In all, $299,800.
Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including Danville, Ill. Current expenses.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.
For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.
For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.
In all, $373,000.
Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, Johnson City, Tenn. Current expenses.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.
For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.
For transportation of members of the home, $1,500; Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.
In all, $284,500.
Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current Hot Springs, S. Dak. Current expenses.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.
For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.
For transportation of members of the home, $4,000; Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.
In all, $163,000.
Clothing for all branches: For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, Clothing for all branches.
Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general Board of managers. Salaries.
The headquarters of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Headquarters offices to be at Dayton, Ohio.
In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $3,820,900:
Proviso. Intoxicants.
State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For State or Territorial homes. Vol. 25, p. 450. Provisos. Intoxicants. Collections from inmates.
Back pay and bounty.
For arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to Payment of. Vol. 14, p. 322. Commutation of rations.
For arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers War with Spain, etc.
Interior Department.
Public buildings.
Repairs of buildings: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension Repairs to department buildings.
Court of Claims Building: For labor and material and for general Court of Claims Building. Repairs.
Capitol Building: For work at Capitol and for general repairs Capitol. Repairs, etc. Ante, p. 102.
For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in Works of art.
Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding Improving grounds.
For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, Senate Repairs to stables, etc. Purchases. Vol. 36, p. 531.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $35,000, made in Enlarging Capitol grounds. Reappropriation for removing buildings, etc. Vol. 37, p. 924; Vol. 38, p. 854. Additional sum.
So much of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year Maltby Building. Use by Agricultural Department revoked. Vol. 38, p. 1108.
Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For restoration Courthouse, D. C. Restoration, etc. Half from District revenues.
Public lands.
Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers Registers and receivers.
Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other Contingent expenses. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680. Proviso. Expenditures restricted.
Depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money Depositing moneys.
Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp land claims. Ante, p. 102. Provisos. Pay established. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680. Alaska service.
For the protection of lands involved in Oregon and California Oregon and California railroad lands. Protection, etc. Ante, p. 218.
Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings held Hearings in land entries. Proviso. Fees for depositions.
Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the Reproducing plats of surveys.
Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of National forests. Advertising restoration of, lands.
Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining Opening Indian reservations to entry. Proviso. Reimbursement.
For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision Expenses. Ante, p. 102. Provisos. Preferences. Vol. 25, p. 616. Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. Pay to surveyors. Supervisors of surveys. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680. Resurveys, etc. Monuments for section comers.
Abandoned reservations: For necessary expenses of survey, Abandoned military reservations. Vol. 23, p. 103. Casa Grande.
Geological Survey.
Office of Director: Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chief Salaries, Director, etc.
Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, Scientific assistants.
General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident General expenses. Ante, p. 102. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680. Vehicles.
For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, Skilled laborers.
For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, Topographic surveys. Proviso. Special for Army. Ante, p. 293.
For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, Geologic surveys.
For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the Chemical and physical researches.
For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, Illustrations.
For preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United Mineral resources report.
For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the Water supply.
For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories Library.
For engraving and printing geologic maps, $110,000; Maps.
For continuation of topographic surveys of the public lands that National forests surveys.
In all, United States Geological Survey, $1,255,520.
Bureau of Mines.
For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary General expenses, salaries, etc. Ante, p. 102.
For investigation as to the cause of mine explosions, methods of Investigating mine explosions, etc.
For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products Testing mineral fuels, etc. Economic use in departments.
For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning Inquiries of economic conditions, etc., of mining. Proviso. Restrictions.
Not exceeding twenty per centum of the foregoing sum and not Personal services in District of Columbia.
For inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, Petroleum and natural gas investigations. Services in the District.
For the employment of personal services and all other expenses in Mining experiment stations. Vol. 38, p. 858.
Toward dismantling and removal of the plant of the Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pa. Equipping etc., experimental plant. Vol. 37, p. 886. Use of balance.
For such additional personal services as may be necessary for the Personal services.
For purchase of three additional mine rescue cars, $53,000; Additional rescue cars.
For equipment for three new mine rescue cars, $13,500;
For operating three new cars, including personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, materials and supplies, $35,000;
For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000; Mine inspector, Alaska. Per diem, etc.
For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding $4 when absent on official business from his designated headquarters, and for actual necessary traveling and contingent expenses of said inspector, $2,500;
For clerk to mine inspector of Alaska, $1,500; Clerk.
For technical and scientific books and publications and books of Library.
For purchase or lease of necessary land, where and under such conditions Headquarters rescue cars. Proviso. Acceptance of lands, etc.
Persons employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen Temporary details of field employees. Proviso. Payment of necessary expenses, etc.
Hereafter in the absence of the Director of the Bureau of Mines Director. Provisions for absence of, etc.
Reclamation Service.
The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Payments from reclamation fund. Vol. 32, p. 388.
For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, All expenditures. Vol. 38, p. 690. Objects designated. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680. Payment of damages. Injuries to workmen. Vol. 35, p. 556. Post, p. 742.
Salt River project, Arizona: For maintenance, operation, continuation Allotment to projects. Salt River, Ariz. Proviso. Moeur-Paflord Company. Reimbursement.
Yuma project, Arizona-California: For maintenance, operation, Yuma, Ariz.-Cal.
Orland project, California: For maintenance, operation, continuation Orland, Cal.
Grand Valley project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation Grand Valley, Colo.
Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation Uncompahgre, Colo.
Boise project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of Boise, Idaho.
Minidoka project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation Minidoka, Idaho.
Jackson Lake enlargement work, Idaho-Wyoming: For maintenance, Jackson Lake, Idaho-Wyo. Conditions.
Garden City project, Kansas: For maintenance, operation, and Garden City, Kans.
Huntley project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation Huntley, Mont.
Milk River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation Milk River, Mont.
Sun River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation Sun River, Mont.
Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For maintenance, Lower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak.
North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo.
Truckee-Carson project, Nevada: For maintenance, operation, continuation Truckee-Carson, Nev.
Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For maintenance, operation, continuation Carlsbad, N. Mex.
Hondo project, New Mexico: For maintenance, operation, and Hondo, N. Mex.
Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For maintenance, operation, Rio Grande, N. Mex. Tex.
North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota: For maintenance, North Dakota pumping.
Lawton project, Oklahoma: For maintenance, operation, continuation Lawton, Okla.
Umatilla project, Oregon: For maintenance, operation, continuation Umatilla, Oreg.
Klamath project, Oregon-California: For maintenance, operation, Klamath, Oreg.-Cal.
Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For maintenance, operation, Belle Fourche, S. Dak.
Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For maintenance, operation, Strawberry Valley, Utah.
Okanogan project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, Okanogan, Wash.
Yakima project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, continuation Yakima, Wash.
Shoshone project, Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation Shoshone, Wyo.
For cooperative and other miscellaneous investigations (secondary Secondary projects.
Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, Expenditures restricted to allotments, etc.
Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably Interchangeable amounts.
All moneys refunded except repayments of construction and operation Moneys refunded to be credited to projects.
In all, for the Reclamation Service, $8,884,000.
Miscellaneous.
Disbarment proceedings.
Alaska expenses.
Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions Alaska Engineering Commission. Construction of railroads, etc. Vol. 38, p. 305.
Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year nineteen Sale of supplies.
During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, there shall Receipts from sales, etc., to be credited to construction account.
Authority is granted to pay to Old Bettis, a native of Nenana, Old Bettis. Payment to.
Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged Care of insane.
Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his Education. Provisos. Limit of pay. Service in District of Columbia.
All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes Supervision of school expenditures.
Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, Medical and sanitary relief of natives.
Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska and Reindeer.
Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the Act approved Protection of game. Vol. 35, p. 102.
Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in Suppressing liquor traffic.
National parks.
Yellowstone National Park: For administration and protection, Yellowstone.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend from park Motor vehicle for superintendent.
For procuring feed for buffalo and salaries of buffalo keepers, Care of buffalo.
Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration and improvement, Glacier. Great Northern Railway Company. Reimbursement. Provisos. Supervision of work. Condition.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented Acceptance of donated lands.
Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement, Yosemite. Motor vehicle. Hydroelectric plant.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented Acceptance of donated lands.
Sequoia National Park, California: For protection and improvement, Sequoia.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented Acceptance of donated lands.
For the purchase of such private holdings in the Sequoia National Purchase of private holdings.
General Grant National Park, California: For protection and improvement, General Grant.
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and Mount Rainier.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, Mesa Verde.
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, Rocky Mountain.
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvement, Crater Lake.
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For improvement and protection, $2,500.
Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For improvement and protection, Platt.
Protection of national monuments: For the preservation, devlopment, National monuments. Protection, etc.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to employ in the District Superintendent of national parks. Authority for, and assistants. Post, p. 535.
Government Hospital for the Insane.
For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital Maintenance, etc.
After the passage of this Act the Government Hospital for the Name changed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
Authority is granted during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to exchange typewriting machines, Exchange of equipment, etc.
For the buildings and grounds, as follows: Buildings and grounds.
To further reimburse the United States, and in full, the amount Reimbursement for care of indigent patients, from District funds.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental Support, etc.
For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and Repairs, etc.
For the construction of a new sewer from farm to West Virginia New sewer, etc.
For the removal of the college women’s dormitory, and the construction, Women’s dormitory.
Upon the passage of this Act the title to all that parcel of land Land added to.
Howard University.
For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of Maintenance, etc.
For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $12,000;
For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $1,500;
For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, $10,000;
Medical department: For part cost of needed equipment, laboratory Medical department.
For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and naturalhistory studies and use in laboratories of the new science hall, including cases and shelving, $2,000;
For fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University, including necessary labor to care for and operate the same, $3,500;
In all, $101,000.
Freedmen’s Hospital.
For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to Salaries, etc.
For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, Contingent expenses. Ante, p. 102.
In all, $60,640.
Hereafter all unclaimed money left at the Freedmen’s Hospital by Disposal of unclaimed moneys.
Department of Justice.
Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, Penitentiaries. Leavenworth, Kans.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, Atlanta, Ga.
Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shall New buildings forbidden.
Miscellaneous.
Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000; Conduct of customs cases. Assistant Attorney General, attorneys, etc. Vol. 36, p. 108. Supplies.
For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnesses Witnesses, Board of General Appraisers.
Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary Defending suits in claims.
Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in Defense, Indian depredation claims.
Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution Detection and prosecution of crimes. Protection of the President. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.
Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of United Inspection of prisons, etc.
Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other Travel, etc., expenses. Advances allowed.
Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust Enforcing antitrust laws. Vol. 38, p. 730. Provisos. Use for prosecuting labor organizations, etc., forbidden. Associations of farmers, etc.
Suits affecting withdrawn oil lands: To enable the Attorney Withdrawn oil lands. Expenses of suits affecting.
Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands for removal of Conveyances, Five Civilized Tribes. Suits to set aside.
Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce: For expenses of representing Enforcing interstate commerce laws. Vol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 38, p. 219.
Suits affecting title to Seminole allotted lands in Oklahoma: For Seminole allotments. Expenses of suits affecting.
Federal Court Reports and Digests: For one hundred and eighty Federal Court Reports and Digests.
For fifteen copies of volume sixty of the Lawyers’ Cooperative Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition. Volume 60.
For two hundred and seventy copies of each of four volumes—namely, United States Reports. Purchase of.
Protecting interests of the United States in suits affecting Pacific Pacific Railroads suits. Expenses.
Judicial.
United States Courts.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their Marshals. Salaries and expenses. Advances. Restriction.
For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys. Salaries and expenses. Services during vacancies.
For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, District of Columbia. Fees, district attorney.
For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are Regular assistants.
For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States Assistants in special cases. Foreign counsel. Oath.
For fees of clerks, $215,000: Provided, That courts of the United Clerks’ fees. Proviso. Suits by seamen.
For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace Commissioners’, etc.,
For fees of jurors, $1,150,000. Jurors’ fees.
Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the Witness fees, etc.
For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, Rent of court rooms.
For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in Bailiffs, etc. Provisos. Actual attendance. Travel, etc., expenses of judges. Vol. 36, p. 1161. Jury expenses. In Alaska. Vol. 31, p. 363. Jury commissioners.
For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Miscellaneous expenses.
For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machines Supplies.
For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing Support of prisoners.
Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including Penitentiaries. Leavenworth, Kans. Subsistence.
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including Clothing, transportation, etc.
For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney Miscellaneous.
For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, Hospital supplies, etc.
For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains— Salaries.
For foremen, laundrymen, tailor, and printer, when necessary, $3,300;
In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $268,080.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the Atlanta, Ga. Subsistence.
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the Clothing, transportation, etc.
For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney Miscellaneous.
For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under Hospital supplies, etc.
For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—one Salaries.
For foremen, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000;
In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $227,600.
McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including McNeil Island, Wash. Subsistence.
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including Clothing, transportation, etc.
For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified Miscellaneous.
For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under Hospital supplies, etc.
For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, Salaries.
In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $48,200.
National Training School for Boys: Superintendent, $2,500; National Training School for Boys, D.C. Salaries.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, Maintenance, etc.
In all, National Training School for Boys, $44,776.
Department of Commerce.
Lighthouses Bureau.
Point Vincente, California, Light Station: For estab fishing a light Aids to navigation. Point Vincente, Cal.
Saint Johns River, Florida, aids to navigation: For improving Saint Johns River, Fla.
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Lighthouse Depot: For improvements Woods Hole, Mass.
Fighting Island Channel, Michigan, aids to navigation: For Detroit River, Mich. Fighting Island Channel.
Florida Reefs, Florida, aids to navigation: For establishing additional Florida Reefs, Fla.
Hudson River, New York, aids to navigation: For improving the Hudson River, N. Y.
Mississippi River, Louisiana, aids to navigation: For improving the Mississippi River. Below New Orleans, La.
Conneaut, Ohio, aids to navigation: For a light and fog signal and Conneaut, Ohio.
Kellett Bluff, Washington, Light Station: For establishing a light Kellett Bluff, Wash.
Coquille River, Oregon, aids to navigation: For improvement of Coquille River, Oreg.
Toledo Harbor, Ohio, aids to navigation: For improving the aids Toledo, Ohio.
Dog Island, Maine, Light: For establishing a light at or near Dog Dog Island, Me.
Delaware River, Pennsylvania and Delaware, aids to navigation: Delaware River.
Eighth lighthouse district, tender and barge: For constructing or Eighth district. Tender, etc., for.
Lighthouse Service.
General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental General expenses. Objects specified. Oil or carbide houses. Proviso. Limit of cost for buildings. Rations, etc. Purchase of lands, etc. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680. Contingent expenses.
Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries not exceeding one thousand Keepers.
Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews Lighthouse vessels.
Inspectors, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen lighthouse Inspectors, clerks, etc.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Expenses. Proviso. Advances.
Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic Field expenses. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Proviso. Island, etc., restrictions.
For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean Pacific coasts.
For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to Physical hydrography.
For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the Offshore soundings, Coast Pilot, etc.
For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian Magnetic observations, etc.
For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses Special surveys.
For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, Miscellaneous. International Geodetic Association.
In all, field expenses, $425,320.
Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, Vessels. Repairs, etc. Officers and crews.
Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; assistants, to be employed in the Salaries. Superintendent, assistants, etc.
Office force: Disbursing agent, $2,500; chief of division of library Office force. Clerks, etc.
Topographic and hydrographic draftsmen: Two at $2,400 each, Draftsmen.
Astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers: One Computers.
Copperplate engravers: One $2,400, two at $2,200 each, three at Engravers.
Engravers and apprentices at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600;
Instrument makers: One $2,400, one $1,600, two at $1,400 each, Instrument makers, etc.
Carpenters: Three at $1,200 each, carpenter and painter, $900;
Electrotypers, photographers, lithographers, plate printers and Printing employees.
Watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers: Three at $880 each, Watchmen, etc.
In all, pay of office force, $213,420.
Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments, including their Office expenses. Ante, p. 116.
Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey Allowances restricted.
Charts of the Coast Survey that are obsolete and have been superseded Obsolete charts. Distribution to schools, etc.
Fisheries Bureau.
Commissioner’s office: Commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner, Commissioner, deputy, etc. Clerks, etc.
Alaska service: Pribilof Islands—two agents and caretakers, at Alaska service. Agents, physicians, etc.
Employees at large: Two field station superintendents, at $1,800 Employees at large.
Distribution (car) employees: Five captains, at $1,200 each; six Distribution employees.
Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, $1,500;foreman, $1,200; Station employees. Afognak, Alaska.
Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; Alpena, Mich.
Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Superintendent, Baird and Battle Creek, Cal.
Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Baker Lake, Wash.
Beaufort (North Carolina) Biological Station: Superintendent and Beaufort, N. C.
Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Boothbay Harbor, Me.
Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Bozeman, Mont.
Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360. Bryans Point, Md.
Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; skilled Cape Vincent, N. Y.
Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Clackamas, Oreg.
Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Cold Springs, Ga.
Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Craig Brook, Me.
Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Duluth, Minn.
Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Edenton, N. C.
Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Erwin, Tenn.
Fairport (Iowa) Biological Station: Director, $1,800; superintendent Fairport, Iowa.
Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Gloucester, Mass.
Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Green Lake, Me.
Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; scientific Homer, Minn.
Key West (Florida) Biological Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Key West, Fla.
Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Leadville, Colo.
Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Louisville, Ky.
Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Mammoth Spring, Ark.
Manchester (Iowa) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Manchester, Iowa.
Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Nashua, N. H.
Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; Neosho, Mo.
Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Northville, Mich.
Orangeburg (South Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Orangeburg, S. C.
Puget Sound (Washington) Stations: Three foremen, at $1,200 Fuget Sound, Wash.
Put in Bay (Ohio) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Put in Bay, Ohio.
Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Saint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt.
San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, San Marcos, Tex.
Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Saratoga, Wyo.
Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Spearfish, S. Dak.
Springville (Utah) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; to be employed Springville, Utah.
Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist Tupelo, Miss.
Washington (District of Columbia) Central Station and Aquaria: Washington, D. C. Central Station and Aquaria.
White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station; Superintendent, $1,500; Woods Hole, Mass.
Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Wytheville, Va.
Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Yes Bay, Alaska.
Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $1,800; general Vessel service.
Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,100; cook, $600; two firemen, at $720 each; seaman, $600; in all, $5,240.
Schooner Grampus: Master, $1,500; first mate, $1,080; second mate, $840; engineer, $840; cook, $600; three seamen, at $600 each; cabin boy, $420; in all, $7,080.
Steamer Phalarope: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; cook, $600; in all, $4,820.
Steamer Curlew: Pilot, $1,100; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; cook, $600; in all, $3,520.
Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; in all, $4,220.
For officers and crew of vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $16,000. Alaska fisheries, vessel.
Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, Administration expenses. Ante, p. 116.
Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and Propagation expenses.
No part of the appropriations herein for propagation of food fishes Restriction on expenses in States.
Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, Maintenance of vessels.
Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of the Food fishes inquiry.
Statistical inquiry: For collection and compilation of statistics of Statistical inquiry.
Sponge fisheries: For protecting the sponge fisheries, including Sponge fisheries. Protection, etc. Vol. 38, p. 692.
Alaska, General Service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, Alaska, general service. Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, Vol. 36, p. 326.
For payments to be made to Great Britain and Japan under the Payments under treaty obligations. Vol. 37, p. 1544. Vol. 37, p. 502.
Distribution cars: For purchase or construction of two steel cars Distribution cars.
Lobster-rearing plant: For construction of a lobster-rearing plant Lobster rearing plant.
Marine biological station, Key West, Florida: For completion of Key West, Fla. Marine biological station.
Alaska fisheries service: For purchase or construction of two motor Motor launches for Alaska service.
Fur-seal islands, Alaska: For new buildings and furnishings to Pribilof Islands. New buildings, etc.
Fish-cultural station, Duluth, Minnesota: For improvement of the Duluth, Minn. Water supply.
Fish-cultural station, Gloucester, Massachusetts: For construction Gloucester, Mass. Brooding basin.
Bureau of Standards.
Testing of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroad Testing large scales, etc.
For construction of a fireproof laboratory building to provide additional Radio laboratory building. Construction.
Department of Labor.
Immigrant station.
Ellis Island, New York: For installation of tiled floor in main Ellis Island, N. Y. Buildings, etc.
For concrete walks, including filling and incidentals, on northerly side of basin, main island, $20,000;
For pipe trench between main power house and baggage and dormitory building, $4,000;
In all, $41,000.
Immigration service.
For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into Enforcing laws regulating admission of aliens. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 860. Vol. 34, p. 898. Post, p. 874. Vol. 36, p. 263. Chinese exclusion. Refunding head tax. Provisos. Vehicles for use outside of District of Columbia. Limit, motor vehicles. Government maintenance of station privileges forbidden. Post, p. 894. Vol. 34, p. 907.
For refund to the North German Lloyd Steamship Line of amount North German Lloyd Steamship Line. Refund to.
For refund to the Cunard Steamship Company (Limited) of Cunard Steamship Company. Refund to.
For refund of overpayment for refrigeration services furnished Refrigeration services. Overpayment refunded.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed George Johannes. Credit in accounts.
Naturalization Bureau.
Special examiners, etc.
Vol. 34, p. 596.
Vol. 37, p. 736.
Per diem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 860.
Rent.
Assistance to clerks of courts.
Vol. 34, p. 600.
Vol. 36, pp. 765, 830.
Provisos.
Allowance limited.
Payment for services in June, 1916.
Witnesses, etc.
Standardizing first aid methods.
Compilation, etc., of publication on.
State Department.
Ascertainment of electoral vote.
Expenses of printing.
Vol. 24, p. 373.
Legislative.
Senate. Beniamin F. Shively. Pay to widow.
For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 Folding.
Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction Statement of appropriations. Vol. 25, p. 587.
Messengers of electoral votes. Payment of mileage to.
Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, Botanic Garden. Repairs, etc.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $2,500 made in Removal of fence, etc. Reappropriation. Vol. 38, p. 878.
Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and Senate Office Building. Maintenance.
For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor and material Furniture, etc.
Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee Construction, etc. Vol. 33, 481.
For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for Senate kitchens, etc.
House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous House Office Building. Maintenance.
Capitol power plant: For fighting the Capitol, Senate and House Capitol power plant. Maintenance.
For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant Fuel, oil, etc. Purchases not restricted to supply committee, Vol. 34, p. 1365. Vol. 36, p. 531.
The Washington Terminal Railroad Company is required to place Railroad siding. To be put in safe condition by Terminal Company. Penalty for neglect. Work by Superintendent of Capitol. Collection from Company.
Public Buildings Commission: With a view to ultimately providing Public Buildings Commission. Created to provide Government owned quarters for all public service in District of Columbia.
The said commission shall elect one of its members as chairman of Chairman, etc.
The said commission shall investigate and ascertain what public Investigation, etc., of buildings needed for all offices, etc.
Any vacancies in said commission shall be filled in the same manner Vacancies.
For expenses of said commission, $10,000, to remain available Payment of expenses.
Said commission shall make final report to Congress not later Final report.
Government Printing Office.
Office of Public Printer: Public Printer, $5,500; purchasing agent, Public Printer, purchasing agent, etc.
Office of Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; Deputy, etc.
Watch force: Captain, $1,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each; and Watch force.
Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions Holidays.
Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with Leaves of absence.
For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printing Public printing and binding. Aggregate amount. Office salaries and expenses. Vehicles, etc. Machinery, equipment, etc. Miscellaneous items.
In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of office Total.
For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings Allotments. Congress.
For the State Department, $40,000. Departments, etc.
For the Treasury Department, $405,000.
For the War Department, $225,000: Provided, That the sum of Army medical bulletins.
Section thirteen of the river and harbor appropriation Act approved River and harbor reports paid hereafter from Department allotment. Vol. 37, p. 234, repealed.
For the Navy Department, $157,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for the Hydrographic Office, and not exceeding $12,000 for special printing and binding.
For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $50,000 for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, $300,000.
For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $575,000.
For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for printing and binding the same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $175,000.
For the Smithsonian Institution: For printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, the editions of which shall not exceed ten thousand copies, $10,000; under the Smithsonian Institution: For the Annual Reports of the
For the Department of Justice, $35,000.
For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, $1,500.
For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $290,000.
For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed $47,000 Agricultural Department. Vol. 26, p. 616. Vol. 34, p. 825. Farmers’ bulletins.
For the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of the Census, $400,000.
For the Department of Labor, $150,000.
For the Federal Trade Commission, $25,000.
For the Supreme Court of the United States, $15,000; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ unless it shall otherwise order.
For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500.
For the Court of Claims, $25,000.
For the Library of Congress, including the copyright office and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, Library of Congress, $200,000.
For the Executive Office, $3,000.
For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $150,000, of which sum not exceeding $10,000 shall be available to print and furnish to the States at cost report-form blanks.
For the International Union of American Republics, $20,000.
That no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby Quarterly allotment restrictions.
Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not be Certificate of necessity required. Congressional authorization.
No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any Restriction on paying detailed employees.
All expenditures from appropriations made herein under Government Apportionment of expenditures to work executed.
Office of Superintendent of Documents.
Superintendent, $3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks—two Superinendent, assistant, etc.
For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines Contingent expenses.
Panama Canal.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the construction, All expenses. Objects designated. Claims for damages. Vol. 37, p. 563. Vol. 33, p. 2234. Payment for land. Vol. 37, p. 561. Disposal of unserviceablematerials, etc. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.
For continuing the construction and equipment of the Panama Construction, equipment, etc., of Canal. Colliers “Ulysses” and “Achilles.” Constructing two colliers. Dock at Cristobal. No new quarantine station.
For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of the Maintenance and operation. Governor. Purchases, etc. Additional from receipts.
For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support Sanitation, etc.
For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, Civil government expenses.
In all, $16,800,000, to be immediately available and to continue Available until expended. Provisos. Reimbursement from sale of bonds. Exceptions. “Ancon” and “Cristobal.” Transfer to Navy rescinded. Vol. 35, p. 385. Transfer of Panama legation premises. Vol. 32, p. 484. Vol. 36, p. 117.
Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent to Number of employees limited to estimates. Permanent organization excepted. Vol. 37, p. 561. Pay restricted.
In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated, for the Money from designated sources to be credited to original appropriations. Net profits to be covered into the Treasury.
In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance, Operating waterworks, etc., for Panama and Colon.
Fortifications.
For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, Available until expended.
For maintenance of clearings and trails, $30,000. Clearings and trails.
For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including Preservation, repair, etc.
For maintenance and repair of search lights and electric light and Maintenance of electric plants.
For the construction of seacoast batteries, $400,000; Seacoast batteries.
For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo Submarine mine accessories.
For purchase of submarine mines and the necessary appliances to Purchase of submarine mines.
For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel, Submarine mine supplies.
For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at Fire-control installations.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for Seacoast cannon. Proviso. Contracts.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition.
For the alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoast Installing, etc., seacoast artillery.
For continuing the construction of barracks, quarters, storehouses, Barracks, quarters, etc.
In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $4,535,000.
Proviso. No pay to officer using time measuring device, etc.
Joint Land Commission.
Not to act on Panama Railroad leases, etc.
Vol. 33, p. 2238.
Annual reports.
Time for furnishing copy, etc., to Public Printer.
R. S. sec. 196, p. 31, amended.
Time for printing.
Exceptions.
Estimates for lumpsum appropriations.
Vol. 38, p. 680 Uniform methods, etc., to be prescribed.
Outstanding checks.
Report to be made by Auditors of, unpaid for three years.
Accepted in lieu of disbursing officers’ returns.
Sums for salaries to be in full.
[H. R. 16678.]
Urgent deficiencies appropriation for Army and Navy.
Army.
Emergency stated.
Post, p. 339.
Signal service.
Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal Service of Expenses.
Radio installations on the Mexican border: For the purchase and Radio installations on Mexican border.
Quartermaster Corps.
Pay of the Army: For pay of officers and enlisted men of the Pay. National Guard ordered into service.
Mileage: For mileage to officers of the Regular Army for travel incident Mileage.
Subsistence: For subsistence of the Army, including the same objects Subsistence.
Regular supplies: For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, including Regular supplies.
Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: For incidental expenses, Incidental expenses.
Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth: For the Horses.
Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters, including the Barracks and quarters.
Transportation: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, Transportation.
Water and sewers at military posts: For water and sewers at military Water and sewers at posts.
Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage: For clothing, and camp Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.
Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and repair Hospitals.
Proviso. Combination of funds.
Medical Department.
Supplies, etc.
Engineer Department.
Engineer depots: For incidental expenses for the depots including Depots.
Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools, instruments, Engineer equipment of troops.
Civilian assistants to Engineer officers: For services of surveyors, Civilian assistants.
Engineer operations in the field: For expenses incident to military Operations in the field. Expenses.
War Department.
Signa] Office.
Amount for technical services increased.
Ante, p. 91.
Adjutant General’s Office.
Expense of commissions under national defense Act.
Ante, p. 166.
Navy.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, Surgeons’ necessaries, etc.
Transportation of remains: For transportation of remains, including Transferring remains.
Marine Corps.
Provisions, Marine Corps: For provisions, including the same Provisions.
Military stores, Marine Corps: For military stores, including the Military stores.
Contingent, Marine Corps: For contingent expenses, including the Contingent.
Army.
President authorized to draft National Guard, etc., into service.
Ante, p. 211.
Term.
Proviso.
Discharged from militia.
Pension laws applicable.
Ante, p. 211.
Combinations into tactical units.
Appointment of officers.
Vol. 32, p. 779.
Ante, p. 190
Proviso.
Filling vacancies made by Army officers appointed in volunteers.
Vol. 38, p. 349.
Assignment of officers in command.
Precedence if no assignment.
Proviso.
Rank of Army officers in drafted force.
[S. 31.]
Public lands.
John L. Sevy.
Exchange of land With.
Proviso.
Added to Sevier and Powell National Forests.
[S. 733.]
Wind River Reservation, Wyo.
Patents to homesteaders on ceded lands not irrigated.
Residence required.
Vol. 33, p. 1019.
[S. 1066.]
Public lands.
Leave of absence allowed settlers on unsurveyed lands.
Proviso.
Notices, etc., required.
[S. 1741]
Glacier National Park.
Confirmation of designated prior homestead entries within.
Vol. 36, p. 354.
Proviso.
Entries not perfected to revert to Park.
[S. 1840]
Court of Private Land Claims.
Filing of adverse possession claims for confirmation.
Vol. 26, p. 862; Vol. 27, p. 471; Vol. 30, p. 495.
That section eighteen of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended by the Act approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and by the Act approved June twenty-seventh, Vol. 35, p. 655, amended.
Time extended.
Proviso. Lands excluded.
[S. 3132]
Abandoned military reservations, Wash.
Survey of designated lands in.
Description.
Opened to settlement.
Rights of present occupants to purchase.
Provisos.
Appraisal.
Payments.
No homestead right thereafter.
Pierce County, Wash.
Grant of land for school district.
Payment.
Disposal of unsold lands.
Vol. 23, p. 103.
[S. 3764]
Florida National Forest.
Lands added to, by exchange with private owners.
North Dakota.
Exchange of lands with.
Added to dry-land experimental station at Mandan.
Public lands.
Enlarged homesteads.
Vol. 35, p. 640, amended.
Noncontiguous lands allowed to complete entry.
Provisos.
Condition.
Actual residence and cultivation required.
Residence on former entry accepted.
Soldiers’ entry rights not affected.
Fortifications appropriations.
Engineer Department.
For construction of guns and mortar batteries, $2,300,000. Gun and mortar batteries.
For modernizing older emplacements, $78,500. Modernizing emplacements.
For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including Fire-control stations. Range finders.
For maintenance of Coast Artillery war-instruction matériel at Coast Artillery war instruction.
For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of our Searchlights.
For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which Preservation, etc.
For the repair and restoration of sea walls, retaining walls, and Galveston, Tex. Repairing defenses, etc.
For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of Plans.
For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and Supplies, etc., electric plants.
For construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo Torpedo structures, etc.
Sites.
Signal Service.
Fire-control installations.
Armament.
Mountain, field, and siege cannon. Proviso. Contracts authorized.
Ammunition. Proviso. Contracts authorized.
Seacoast cannon. Proviso. Contracts authorized.
Ammunition. Modernizing projectiles. Proviso. Contracts authorized.
Ammunition, etc., for practice.
Altering mobile artillery, etc.
Ammunition, etc., for field, etc., artillery practice.
Altering to rapid-fire field batteries.
Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.
Sandy Hook proving ground.
For current expenses of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, Expenses, etc.
For necessary expenses of officers not occupying public quarters Temporary employments.
Submarine mines.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of submarine-mine matériel, Accessories for practice.
For purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to Purchases.
For maintenance of submarine-mine matériel within the limits of Maintenance of supplies, etc. Fort Totten torpedo depot.
For the procurement of the exclusive rights of John Hays Hammond, Radiodynamic torpedo control. Purchase of exclusive rights of John Hays Hammond, jr., etc. Proviso. Subject to investigation and report. Allowance for tests.
The Commissioner of Patents is authorized and directed, in the Issue of patents to United States. Applications to remain secret.
Radiodynamic torpedo unit. Proviso. Condition.
Patents.
Applications to be completed in one year.
Vol. 29, p. 693, amended.
Post, p. 516.
Provisos.
Extended to three years if owned by Government.
Notice of expiration.
Insular possessions.
Engineer Department.
Preservation, repair, etc.
Hawaiian Islands.
Philippine Islands.
In all, $15,000.
Land defenses. Hawaiian Islands.
Philippine Islands.
Electric plants.
Hawaiian Islands.
Philippine Islands.
In all, $6,000.
Submarine mines, etc. Hawaiian Islands.
Automobile for Hawaiian Islands.
Signal service.
Fire-control installations.
Armament.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast Seacoast cannon. Proviso. Contracts authorized.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition. Proviso. Contracts authorized.
For alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.
For purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to Submarine mines.
For maintenance of the submarine-mine material in the insular Supplies.
Chief of coast Artillery.
Fire-control stations
Range finders.
Proviso.
Chief made major general.
Ante, p. 180.
Secretary of War.
Tools, etc., for immediate manufacture of arms, etc.
Ante, p. 215.
Provisos.
Purchases from private plants.
Amount without competition.
Board of Ordnance and Fortification.
Purchases, tests, etc.
Vol. 25, p. 489.
Civilian member.
Vol. 26, p. 769.
Per diem, etc.
Tests, etc.
Proviso.
Right to use invention.
Material to be of American manufacture.
Ordnance Office.
Additional draftsmen, etc.
Ante, p. 91.
Proviso.
Report, etc.
Rent, etc., for drafting force.
Price for powder limited.
Limit on price for purchases.
Proviso.
Waived in emergencies.
Operations of arsenals not to be, restricted.
Proviso.
No pay to officers using time-measuring device on work of employees.
Cash rewards, etc., restricted.
[S. 1388]
Hot Springs Reservation, Ark.
Leo N. Levi Hospital to be furnished water free.
Proviso.
Treatment of emergency patients.
[S. 1843]
Elephant Butte irrigation dam, N. Mex.
Acceptance of lands to be flooded by.
Water to grantor.
Provisos.
Delivery, etc.
Reversion on abandonment.
Alaska.
Homestead entries allowed in.
Conditions.
Vol. 32, p. 1028.
Former entry elsewhere not a bar.
Proviso.
Prior claims.
Lands excepted.
Little River.
Mississippi County, Ark., may bridge.
Location.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Quiniault Indian Reservation, Wash.
Payment for labor by Indians on.
Proviso.
Reimbursement.
Bayou Bartholomew.
Ashley County may bridge, Wilmot, Ark.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Bayou Bartholomew.
Ashley County may bridge, Wilmot, Ark.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Brazos River.
Dallas and Southwestern Motorway Company may bridge, Somerville County, Tex.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Customs.
Northport, Chopaka, and Laurier, Wash., granted immediate transportation privileges.
Vol. 21, p. 173.
Bayou Bartholomew.
C. M. Simpson, etc., may bridge, at Morrell, Ark.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Internal revenue.
That an Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of section thirty-two hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes to other institutions of learning,” approved May third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, is hereby amended to read as follows:
“That the Secretary of the Alcohol. Withdrawal free of tax for colleges, hospitals, etc. Vol. 20, p. 48, amended. Conditions. Provisos. Hospital use. Bond.
[S. 3346]
Massachusetts.
Claims for premium, etc., referred to Court of Claims.
Evidence admitted.
Rural post roads.
Cooperation with States authorized for construction of.
Proviso.
To be free from tolls.
Meaning of terms.
“Rural post road.”
“State highway department.”
“Construction.”
“Properly maintained.”
Bridges and culverts included.
Appropriation.
Annual increases.
Continuation of unexpended balances.
Reapportionment of balances to States.
Proviso.
Apportionment if State action prohibited by constitution.
Administration expenses to be deducted.
Notification of State allotments.
Ratios of apportionment.
Area.
Population.
Rural delivery and star route mileage.
Certification to Treasury and States of amount apportioned.
That any State desiring to avail itself of the benefits of this Submission of projects. Plans, etc. Proviso. Condition of approval. Notification of approval, etc. Conditions of payments.
When the Secretary of Agriculture shall find that any project so Payments to States. Proviso. During construction. Limit. State supervision, etc.
Manner of payments, etc.
Maintenance by State authorities.
Action on failure.
National forests.
Appropriations for roads and trails in, for use, etc., of adjacent communities.
That there is hereby appropriated and made available until expended, out of any moneys in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and each fiscal year thereafter, up to and including the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, in all $10,000,000, to be available until expended under the supervision of the Secretary Request of State, etc. Provisos. Cooperation required. Limit of expenditures. Report to Congress.
Notification of amount determined upon. Reimbursement from forest revenues.
Employees authorized.
Civil service eligibles.
Supplies, etc.
Regulations, etc.
In effect at once.
Ellis Island immigrant station, N. Y.
Use of hospital facilities by New York allowed.
Destitute Americans in Mexico.
Appropriation for relief, etc., of.
Proviso.
Reimbursement.
[S. 2986]
Federal Farm Lean Act.
Administration.
Definitions.
“First mortgage.”
“Farm loan bonds.”
Distinction.
Farm Loan Board.
Farm Loan Bureau.
Created in Treasury Department.
That there shall be established at the seat of government in the Department of the Treasury a bureau charged with the execution of this Act and of all Acts amendatory thereof, to be known as the Federal Farm Loan Bureau, under the general supervision of a Federal Farm Loan Board.
Composition of Board. Appointments, qualifications, etc. Pay, etc.
Term of service. Farm Loan Commissioner.
First meeting.
Other employment forbidden.
Filling vacancies.
The Federal Farm Loan Board shall appoint a farm loan registrar Farm loan registrars. Appraisers and examiners. Restriction on other employment. Proviso. Temporary employees.
The salaries and expenses of the Federal Farm Loan Board, and Payment of salaries, etc. Appraisers.
The Federal Farm Loan Board shall be authorized and empowered Employees authorized. Not subject to civil service laws. Vol. 22, p. 403. Proviso. Transfer to classified service.
Every Federal land bank shall semiannually submit to the Federal Report of salaries.
The Federal Farm Loan Board shall annually make a full report of Annual reports.
The Federal Farm Loan Board shall from time to time require Condition of banks, etc. Amortization tables, etc.
The Federal Farm Loan Board shall prescribe a form for the statement Forms for statements.
It shall be the duty of the Federal Farm Loan Board to prepare from Bulletins of information, etc., to be distributed. Expenses for. Post., p. 384.
Federal land banks.
Designation of land bank districts.
That as soon as practicable the Federal Farm Loan Board shall divide the continental United States, excluding Alaska, into twelve districts, which shall be known as Federal land bank districts, Apportionment of territory.
Bank for each district. Branches.
Temporary management. Preliminary organization.
Organization certificate.
Name.
District.
Capital. Proviso. Increases allowed.
Purposes, etc. Transmittal to Commissioner, etc.
The Federal Farm Loan Board is authorized to direct such changes Changes by Board.
Upon duly making and filing such organization certificate the bank Incorporation. Corporate powers.
First. To adopt and use a corporate seal. General.
Second. To have succession until it is dissolved by Act of Congress or under the provisions of this Act.
Third. To make contracts.
Fourth. To sue and be sued, complain, interplead, and defend, in any court of law or equity, as fully as natural persons.
Fifth. To elect or appoint directors, and by its board of directors to elect a president and a vice president, appoint a secretary and a treasurer and other officers and employees, define their duties, require bonds of them, and fix the penalty thereof; by action of its board of directors dismiss such officers and employees, or any of them, at pleasure and appoint others to fill their places.
Sixth. To prescribe, by its board of directors, subject to the supervision By-laws.
Seventh. To exercise, by its board of directors or duly authorized Incidental powers.
After the subscriptions to stock in any Federal land bank by Permanent organization.
The board of directors of every Federal land bank shall be selected Board of directors. Local. District.
At least two months before each election the Farm Loan Commissioner Local directors. Nominations for, from land associations.
At least one month before said election said Farm Loan Commissioner Voting and election.
District directors. Designation and tenure.
Terms of local directors.
Qualifications. Other employment restricted.
Pay, etc. Approval by Board.
Capital stock.
Amount required.
That every Federal land bank shall have, before beginning business, a subscribed capital of not less than $750,000. The Subscriptions.
Par value of shares.
Transfers restricted.
Dividends. Voting power limited.
Subscriptions. United States to take unsubscribed for stock. Payment. Subsequent issues.
After the subscriptions to capital stock by national farm loan Retirement of original issues.
At least twenty-five per centum of that part of the capital of any Assets required from loan associations. Proviso. Investment in Government bonds.
Government depositaries.
Employment of land banks as.
As financial agents.
Security required.
Use of Government funds.
National farm loan associations.
That corporations, to be known as national farm loan Organization requirements. Articles of association.
Every national farm loan association shall elect, in the manner Board of directors. Officers, etc.
Pay restriction. Residence required.
Secretary-treasurer. Duties specified. Surety bond. Reports, information, etc., to be made by.
Payment of association expenses. Assessment. Advances from land banks.
Formation of associations. Post, p. 370. Ante, p. 362. Proviso. Directors, etc.
When the articles of association are forwarded to the Federal land Application through district land bank. Affidavit of qualification. Subscription to bank stock, etc.
Upon receipt of such articles of association, with the accompanying Action of land bank. Transmittal to board.
If said recommendation is favorable, the Federal Farm Loan Board Issue of charter. Proviso. Discretion of Board.
Upon receipt of its charter such national farm loan association Charter powers.
Whenever any national farm loan association shall desire to secure Subscriptions to land bank stock to secure loans. Held as collateral. Retirement on payment. Association stock. Reduction of bank capital restricted.
Stock of farm loan associations.
That the shares in national farm loan associations shall be Par value.
Voting privileges. Proviso. Maximum.
Limited to borrowers. Subscription requirements. Issue and redemption. Held as collateral for loans.
Increase for additional loans.
Special provisions.
Loans on farm mortgages.
Applications.
Supra.
That any person whose application for membership is accepted by a national farm loan association shall be entitled to borrow money on farm land mortgage upon filing his application in accordance with section eight and otherwise complying with the terms of this Act whenever the Federal land bank of the district has funds available for that purpose, unless said land bank or the Federal Farm Loan Board shall, in its discretion, otherwise determine.
Payment for stock may be included in loans. Proviso. Limit.
Commission on loans allowed land associations. Loans allowed.
Shareholders of every national farm, loan association shall be held Responsibility of shareholders.
After a charter has been granted to a national farm loan association, Requirements of applicants for loans. Post, p. 370.
Appraisal.
That whenever an application for a mortgage loan is Action of loan committee on applications for loans. Ante,p. 366. Approval required.
The written report of said loan committee shall be submitted to the Submission to land bank.
Before any mortgage loan is made by any Federal land bank, or Report, etc., of bank appraisers. Ante, p. 361.
Forms for appraisal reports for farm loan associations and land Forms.
Land bank appraisers shall make such examinations and appraisals Duties of appraisers.
No borrower under this Act shall be eligible as an appraiser under Borrowers disqualified as appraisers.
Powers of farm loan associations.
That every national farm loan association shall have Designated.
First. To indorse, and thereby become liable for the payment of, Indorse mortgages of shareholders.
Deliver funds to borrowers.
Acquire, etc., property.
Issue certificates of deposit. Use of deposits.
Loan restrictions.
Specified conditions.
That no Federal land bank organized under this Act shall make loans except upon the following terms and conditions:
To first mortgages.
Amortization agreements required. Details. Provisos. Advance payments. Determination of interest.
Rate of interest.
Purposes.
Purchase of land.
Equipment, live stock, etc.
Improvement, etc.
Payment of existing debts.
Fifth. No such loan shall exceed fifty per centum of the value of Limitation on value of property mortgaged. Basis of appraisal.
A reappraisal may be permitted at any time in the discretion of the Reappraisal for additional loans.
Sixth. No such loan shall be made to any person who is not at the To cultivators of land mortgaged.
Seventh. The amount of loans to any one borrower shall in no case Amounts limited.
Eighth. Every applicant for a loan under the terms of this Act shall Use of prescribed forms, etc.
Ninth. Every borrower shall pay simple interest on defaulted payments Payment of taxes, liens, etc. Insurance required.
Tenth. Every borrower who shall be granted a loan under the provisions Agreement to use loan only as specified. Proviso. Payment for association stock, etc.
Eleventh. That no loan or the mortgage securing the same shall be Validity of loan.
Funds transmitted by banks.
Federal land banks.
Powers specified.
That every Federal land bank shall have power, subject to the limitations and requirements of this Act—
Issue, etc., of bonds.
Purchase of mortgages.
Deposit mortgages as collateral for bond issue.
Property holdings.
For business purposes.
Real estate, temporarily.
Deposit in Federal member banks.
Accept deposits from loan associations.
Borrow money.
Deal in bonds.
Charge fees, etc., to borrowers.
Bank restrictions.
Designated.
That no Federal land bank shall have power—
Other banking business.
Second. To loan on first mortgage except through national farm Loan except through associations.
Third. To accept any mortgages on real estate except first mortgages Accept other than first mortgages.
Fourth. To issue or obligate itself for outstanding farm loan bonds Exceed maximum bond issue.
Fifth. To demand or receive, under any form or pretense, any Unauthorized commissions, etc.
Land bank agents.
That whenever, after this Act shall have been in effect Loans through, where no association formed.
Such loans shall be subject to the same conditions and restrictions Stock ownership in land bank required.
No agent other than a duly incorporated bank, trust company, Restrictions.
Federal land banks may pay to such agents the actual expense of Payment for appraisal, etc.
Actual expenses paid to agents under the provisions of this section Expenses allowed.
Said agents, when required by the Federal land banks, shall Collection of interest, etc.
Any agent negotiating any such loan shall indorse the same and Indorsement of mortgages, etc.
If at any time the district represented by any agent under the Termination of agency.
Joint stock land banks.
Formation of authorized.
That corporations, to be known as joint stock land banks, for carrying on the business of lending on farm mortgage security and issuing farm loan bonds, may be formed by any number of natural persons not less than ten. They shall be organized subject to the requirements and under the conditions set forth in section four of Ante, p. 362. Proviso. Directors.
Responsibility of shareholders.
General powers, etc. Proviso. No Government ownership in.
Bond issue limit. Business restrictions.
Capital required.
Issue of bonds.
Distinctive form, etc.
Exemptions. Post, p. 375. Ante, pp. 370, 371. Proviso. Loans restricted.
Interest allowed.
Unauthorized charges forbidden.
Authority to issue bonds. Requirements.
Farm Loan Board.
Powers designated.
Charter, etc., land banks and loan asssociations.
Make interest rates.
Determine issue of bonds.
Charges to borrowers.
Reports from banks, etc.
Prescribe forms of bonds.
Payments by banks.
Suspend, etc., officials.
Supervisory authority.
Incidental powers.
Farm loan bonds.
That any Federal land bank, or joint stock land bank, Applications by banks for issue of. Collateral required. Ante, pp. 370, 373, 374.
Upon receipt of such application said farm loan registrar shall Transmittal, etc., by registrar to Board.
Decision by Board, etc.
Written approval.
Delivery to banks.
That whenever any farm loan registrar shall receive from the Federal Farm Loan Board notice that it has approved any issue of farm loan bonds under the provisions of section eighteen he shall forthwith take such steps as may be necessary, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to insure the prompt execution of said bonds and the delivery of the same to the land bank applying therefor.
Return of collateral if issue denied.
Registrar to retain collateral if approved. Trust assignment, etc. Deposit as trustee.
Class of mortgages required.
Sufficiency of collateral required.
Additional security.
Form of bonds.
Denominations, terms, etc.
That bonds provided for in this Act shall be issued in Interest rate.
The Federal Farm Loan Board shall prescribe rules and regulations Payment, etc.
Farm loan bonds shall be delivered through the registrar of the Delivery to bank.
In order to furnish farm loan bonds for delivery at the Federal Preparation, etc., at Treasury. Custody of plates, etc. Expenses. Proviso. Reimbursement. Exchanges of coupon and registered.
Special bond provisions.
That each land bank shall be bound in all respects by the Responsibility of banks.
Every Federal land bank issuing farm loan bonds shall be primarily Liability of issuing banks. Proviso. Assessment of losses.
Every Federal land bank shall by appropriate action of its board Record of obligations.
Every farm loan bond issued by a Federal land bank shall be Form requisites.
Amortization and interest payments.
All payments credited on mortgages.
That whenever any Federal land bank, or joint stock land bank, shall receive any interest, amortization or other payments upon any first mortgage or bond pledged as collateral security for the issue of farm loan bonds, it shall forthwith notify the farm loan registrar of the items so received. Said registrar shall forthwith cause such payment to be duly credited upon the mortgage entitled to such credit. Whenever any such mortgage is paid in full, said Cancellation, etc., when paid in full.
Substitution of collateral security.
Bonds, coupons, etc., payable by issuing bank. At other banks.
Withdrawal of security on delivery of bonds.
Disposal of interest on mortgages.
Face value of bonds, etc., to be paid.
Disposal of amortization, etc., payments.
By Federal land banks.
(a) To pay off farm loan bonds issued by said bank as they mature.
(b) To purchase at or below par farm loan bonds issued by said bank or by any other Federal land bank.
(c) To loan on first mortgages on farm lands within the land bank district, qualified under this Act as collateral security for an issue of farm loan bonds.
(d) To purchase United States Government bonds.
In the case of a joint stock land bank— By joint stock land banks.
(a) To pay off farm loan bonds issued by said bank as they mature.
(b) To purchase at or below par farm loan bonds.
(c) To loan on first mortgages qualified under section sixteen of this Act.
(d) To purchase United States Government bonds. The farm loan bonds, first mortgages, United States Government bonds, or cash constituting the trust fund aforesaid, shall be forthwith deposited with the farm loan registrar as substituted collateral security in place of the sums paid on the principal of indorsed mortgages held by him in trust.
The farm loan bonds, first mortgages, United States Government Deposit of proceeds.
Every Federal land bank, or joint stock land bank, shall notify the Notice of disposition.
Bank reserves and dividends.
That every Federal land bank, and every joint stock land Reserve account from earnings. Balance to be kept. Annual additions. Suspense account.
After deducting the twenty-five per centum or the five per centum Payment of dividends. Investment of reserves.
Loan association reserves and dividends.
That every national farm loan association shall, out of Reserve account from earnings.
Whenever said reserve shall have been impaired, said credit balance Balance to be kept. Annual additions.
Dividends.
Investment of reserves.
Payment by bank on liquidation.
Defaulted loans.
Notice to association.
Default to be made good.
Exemption from taxation.
Federal land banks and loan associations.
Post, p. 767.
That every Federal land bank and every national farm loan association, including the capital and reserve or surplus therein and the income derived therefrom, shall be exempt from Federal, State, municipal, and local taxation, except taxes upon real estate held, purchased, or taken by said bank or association under the provisions of section eleven and section thirteen of this Act. First Mortgages executed to.
Personal tax on joint stock bank shares Conditions.
Real estate taxable.
Bonds.
Acceptable for fiduciary investment, etc.
That farm loan bonds issued under the provisions of this Act by Federal land banks or joint stock land banks shall be a lawful investment for all fiduciary and trust funds, and may be accepted as security for all public deposits.
Federal member banks may deal in.
Limitation on Federal reserve banks. Vol. 38, p. 265.
Examinations.
That the Federal Farm Loan Board shall appoint as many Land bank examiners authorized.
Said examiners shall be subject to the same requirements, responsibilities Duties, authority, etc.
Said examiners shall receive salaries to be fixed by the Federal Salaries.
Dissolution of associations, etc.
That upon receiving satisfactory evidence that any Declaration of insolvency. Proviso. Extent of default necessary. Duties of receiver.
Such receiver shall pay over all money so collected to the Treasurer Deposit of moneys. Interest allowed.
Upon default of any obligation, Federal land banks and joint Application to land banks.
If any national farm loan association shall be declared insolvent Cancellation of bank stock. Application of payments thereon. Proviso Determination of contingent liabilities. Certificate of reduction of land bank capital.
Voluntary liquidation, etc., restricted.
State legislation.
Examination if loans on mortgages protected by.
That it shall be the duty of the Farm Loan Commissioner to make examination of the laws of every State of the United States and to inform the Federal Farm Loan Board as rapidly as may be whether in his judgment the laws of each State relating to the conveying and recording of land titles, and the foreclosure of mortgages or other instruments securing loans, as well as providing homestead and other exemptions and granting the power to waive such exemptions as respects first mortgages, are such as to assure the holder thereof adequate safeguards against loss in the event of default on loans secured by any such mortgages.
Declaration of ineligibility as basis of bond issue. Legal assistance to ascertain.
Statement of requirements lacking.
Penalties.
False valuations, etc.
That any applicant for a loan under this Act who shall knowingly make any false statement in his application for such loan, and any member of a loan committee or any appraiser provided for in this Act who shall willfully overvalue any land offered as security for loans under this Act, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding Liabilities of examiners.
Any person who shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause Counterfeiting, etc., bonds.
Other than the usual salary or director’s fee paid to any officer, Receiving unauthorized fees, etc., by officials. Unauthorized disclosure of information.
Any person connected in any capacity with any national farm loan Embezzlement of funds, etc. False entries, etc.
False representations, etc., of bonds.
Detection, arrests, etc.
Government deposits.
Temporary loan to banks.
Interest, security, etc.
Limit.
Organization expenses.
Appropriation.
Post, p. 803.
Court decisions.
Invalidity of any clause, etc., not to affect remainder of Act.
Inconsistent laws repealed.
Amendment, etc.
Circuit Court of Appeals.
Term at Asheville, N. C.
Vol. 36, p. 1132, amended.
Birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
Acceptance of title to land, etc., Hodgenville, Ky.
To be a national park.
Endowment fund accepted.
Conditions.
Execution of acceptance.
Control, etc., by Secretary of War.
United States courts.
Vol. 36, p. 1121.
Vol. 37, p. 60, amended.
North Dakota judicial district.
Southwestern division.
Southeastern division.
Northeastern division.
Northwestern division.
Western division.
Central division.
Terms.
Offices.
Proviso.
No expense for rent, etc.
Flint River.
Sumter or Dooley Counties, Ga., may bridge, Murray’s Ferry.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Savannah River.
Julian B. McCurry, etc., may bridge, Georgia and South Carolina.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 60]
Interstate and foreign commerce.
Investigation of conditions, etc., by joint Congressional committee.
Subjects designated.
Post, p. 866.
Authority, etc.
Report.
Appropriation.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Exchange of lands with, for mining experimental station.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept from the city of Pittsburgh, State of Pennsylvania, that certain lot or parcel of land bounded and described as follows:
Lands accepted from city.
Lands transferred to City.
[S. 35]
Public lands.
Grant to Myton, Utah, for public uses.
Description.
Proviso.
Reversion.
[S. 36]
Public lands.
Grant to Duchesne, Utah, for cemetery.
Proviso.
Reversion.
[S. 284]
Cleveland, Ohio.
Marine hospital at, to be sold.
Appraisement, etc.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to have the present marine-hospital reservation in Cleveland, Ohio, and the improvements thereon, except so much of said reservation and the improvements thereon as he may deem it advisable to retain for the use of any branch of the public service, appraised by competent appraisers, paying therefor the customary rate of compensation for such service, and then, in his discretion and after due advertisement, to sell said appraised land and improvements, or any portion thereof, to the highest bidder therefor, upon such terms and at such times as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem for the best interests of the United States, for an aggregate price of not less than what he deems the value of said property after considering said appraisements, and at not less than the appraised value, or the appropriate proportionate part of said value for such part of said land or improvements as may be sold separately; and to convey said land and improvements, or any part thereof, to the respective purchasers thereof by the usual quitclaim deed.
Proceeds appropriated for new building, etc. Balance covered in.
Appropriation for appraisal expenses, etc.
Reclamation Act.
Vol. 38, p. 690, amended.
Acceptance of extension of times of payment by present owners.
Proviso.
Time of filing notice.
Payment of installments.
That the following sums of River and harbor appropriations.
Georges River (Thomaston Harbor), Maine: For maintenance, Thomaston, Me.
Harbor at Burlington, Vermont: For maintenance and repair of Burlington, Vt.
Harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $20,000. Newburyport, Mass.
Harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $100,000. Boston, Mass.
Harbor at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement Nantucket, Mass.
Pollock Rip Channel, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, Pollock Rip Channel, Mass. Proviso. Use of dredge.
Merrimack River, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $10,000. Merrimack River, Mass.
Weymouth Fore River, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $15,000. Weymouth Fore River, Mass.
Weymouth Fore River, Massachusetts: Completing improvement, including the removal of the small shoal south of the west end of Peddocks Island, in accordance with the report printed in Senate Committee Document Numbered Thirteen, Sixty-third Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $200,000.
Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island and Connecticut: For maintenance, Pawcatuck River, R. I. and Conn.
Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut: For maintenance, $5,000. Norwalk, Conn.
Improving harbor at New London, Connecticut, in accordance New London, Conn.
Thames River, Connecticut: For maintenance, $9,000. Thames River, Conn.
Connecticut River, Connecticut: Of the appropriation authorized Connecticut River. Conn. Above Hartford. Vol. 37, p. 202.
Below Hartford.
Housatonic River, Conn.
Duck Island, Conn., Harbor of refuge.
Port Chester, N. Y.
Mamaroneck, N. Y.
Port Jefferson, N. Y.
Saugerties, N. Y.
Rondout, N. Y.
Peekskill, N. Y.
Tarrytown, N. Y.
New York Harbor. Ambrose Channel.
Gowanus Bay Channel.
Hudson River Channel.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Black Rock Harbor, N. Y. Unexpended balances available.
Charlotte, N. Y.
Great Sodus Bay, N. Y.
Oswego, N. Y.
Cape Vincent, N. Y.
Plattsburg, N. Y.
Bronx River, N. Y.
East Chester Creek, N. Y.
East River, N. Y. Channel to navy yard. Provisos, Contracts. Restrictions.
Harlem River, N. Y.
Newtown Creek, N. Y.
Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvement and for Hudson River, N. Y. Proviso. Contracts.
Wappinger Creek, New York: For maintenance, $3,500. Wappinger Creek, N. Y.
Staten Island Sound, New York and New Jersey: Continuing improvement, Staten Island Sound, N. Y. and N. J.
Raritan Bay, New Jersey: For maintenance, $20,000. Raritan Bay, N. J.
Absecon Inlet, New Jersey: For maintenance, $25,000. Absecon Inlet, N. J.
Cold Spring Inlet, New Jersey: For maintenance, $40,000. Cold Spring Inlet, N. J.
Newark Bay and Passaic River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement Newark Bay and Passaic River, N. J.
Hackensack River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $6,000. Hackensack River, N. J.
Woodbridge Creek, New Jersey: For maintenace, $3,000. Woodbridge Creek, N. J.
Keyport Harbor, Matawan Creek, Raritan, South, and Elizabeth Keyport Harbor, etc., N. J.
Shrewsbury River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $10,000. Shrewsbury River, N. J.
Cooper River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $5,000. Cooper River, N. J.
Woodbury Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $6,000. Woodbury Creek, N. J.
Mantua Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $10,000. Mantua Creek, N. J.
Raccoon Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $5,000. Racoon Creek, N. J.
Salem River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $10,000. Salem River, N. J.
Maurice River, New Jersey: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, Maurice River, N. J.
Toms River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $2,000. Toms River, N. J.
Absecon Creek, New Jersey: For maintenance, $1,600. Absecon Creek, N. J.
Harbor at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, $2,500. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, $10,000. Erie, Pa.
Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For maintenance by open-channel Allegheny River, Pa.
Monongahela River, Pennsylvania: Completing the reconstruction Monongahela River, Pa.
Chester River, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, $3,000. Chester River, Pa. Crum River.
That Alba B. Johnson and Samuel M. Vauclain and the Baldwin Diversion of channel, by Alba B. Johnson, etc. Old channel abandoned. Provisos. Public use of new channel. Bridge required.
Delaware River, N. J. and Del. Philadelphia to the sea. To Trenton. At Trenton. Proviso. Contracts.
Marcushook, Pa.
Wilmington, Del.
Appoquinimink, etc., Rivers, Del.
Little River, Del.
Smyrna River. Proviso. Title to cut-off.
Leipsic River, Del.
Waterway, Rehoboth and Delaware Bays.
Lewes, Del. Maintenance of iron pier. Provisos. Public use. Transfer to Treasury revoked. Vol. 26, p. 969.
Broad Creek River, Del.
Eastern Shore harbors, etc., Md.
Elk and Little Elk Rivers, Md.
Nanticoke River, Del. and Md.
Potomac River, D. C.
Mattaponi River, etc., Va.
Rappahannock River, Va.
James River, Va.
Coast waterway, Va.
Inland waterway, Norfolk, Va., to Beaufort, N. C.
Shallowbag Bay, N. C.
Beaufort Inlet, N. C.
Morehead City, N. C.
Meherrin River, North Carolina: For maintenance, $2,500. Meherrin River, N. C.
Fishing Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. Fishing Creek, N. C.
Pamlico and Tar Rivers, North Carolina : For maintenance, $4,500. Pamlico and Tar Rivers, N. C.
Bay River, North Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. Bay River, N. C.
Neuse and Trent Rivers, North Carolina: For maintenance, $2,000. Neuse and Trent Rivers, N. C.
Swift Creek, North Carolina: For maintenance, $1,000. Swift Creek, N. C.
Waterway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: Waterway, Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, N. C.
Waterway connecting Core Sound and Beaufort Harbor, North Core Sound and Beaufort, N. C.
New River and waterways to Beaufort, North Carolina: For New River, etc., N. C.
Northeast, Black, and Cape Fear Rivers, North Carolina: For Northeast, etc., Rivers, N. C.
Cape Fear River above Wilmington, North Carolina: Completing Cape Fear River, N. C., above Wilmington.
Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington, North Carolina: Wilmington and below.
Winyah Bay, South Carolina: Continuing improvement and for Winyah Bay, S. C.
Waterways between Charleston and Alligator Creek (opposite Waterways, Charleston and Alligator Creek, S. C.
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina: Completing improvement of Charleston, S. C.
Waccamaw River, North Carolina and South Carolina: Completing Waccamaw River, N. C. and S. C.
Great Pedee River, South Carolina: For maintenance, $5,000. Great Pedee River, S. C.
Santee, Wateree, and Congaree Rivers, South Carolina: For maintenance Santee, etc., Rivers, S. C.
Inland waterway between Savannah, Georgia, and Beaufort, Waterway, Savannah, Ga., and Beaufort, S. C.
Harbor at Savannah, Georgia: Completing improvement and for Savannah, Ga.
Improving Savannah River at Augusta, Georgia: Completing Savannah River at Augusta, Ga.
Harbor at Darien, Georgia: For maintenance, $4,000. Darien, Ga.
Harbor at Brunswick, Georgia: For maintenance, $36,250. Brunswick, Ga.
Savannah River, Georgia: For maintenance below Augusta, Savannah River below Augusta.
Altamaha, Oconee, and Ocmulgee Rivers, Georgia: Continuing Altamaha, etc., Rivers, Ga.
Flint River, Georgia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, Flint River, Ga.
Waterway between Savannah, Georgia, and Fernandina, Florida: Waterway, Savannah and Fernandina.
Chattahoochee River, Georgia and Alabama: Continuing improvement Chattahoochee River, Ga. and Ala.
Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama: Continuing improvement and Coosa River, Ga. and Ala. Locks and dams.
Miami, Fla. Proviso. Contract. Vol. 37, p. 209.
Sarasota Bay, Fla.
Tampa Bay, Fla.
Saint Petersburg, Fla.
Hillsboro Bay, Fla.
Apalachicola Bay, Fla.
Pensacola, Fla.
Saint Johns River, Fla.
Oklawaha River, Fla. Provisos. Conveyance of Kyle and Young Canal, etc. Extension by J. D. Young authorized. Conditions.
Indian River, Fla.
Kissimmee River, Fla.
Caloosahatchee River, Fla.
Orange River, Fla.
Manatee River, Fla.
Hillsboro River, Fla.
Anclote River, Fla.
Withlacoochee River, Fla.
Water hyacinth. Removing, from Florida waters.
Apalachicola River, Fla.
Channel, Saint Johns River and Cumberland Sound, Fla. and Ga.
Clearwater to Tampa Bay, Fla.
Channel from Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay, Florida: Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay, Fla. Calhoun County, Fla. Payment for damages, etc.
Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabama: For maintenance of Choctawhatchee River, Fla. and Ala.
Mobile Harbor and Bar, Alabama: For maintenance, $155,000. Mobile, Ala.
Alabama River, Alabama: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, Alabama River, Ala.
Tombigbee River, Alabama and Mississippi: For maintenance of Tombigbee River, Ala. and Miss.
Channel connecting Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound: For maintenance, Channel, Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound.
Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and for Pascagoula Harbor, Miss. Channels.
Harbor at Biloxi, Mississippi: For maintenance, $5,000. Biloxi, Miss.
Harbor at Gulfport, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and for Gulfport, Miss.
Pascagoula, Leaf, and Chickasahay Rivers, Mississippi: For maintenance, Pascagoula, etc., Rivers, Miss.
Wolf and Jordan Rivers, Mississippi: For maintenance, $5,000. Wolf and Jordan Rivers, Miss.
East Pearl River, Mississippi: For maintenance, $6,000. East Pearl River, Miss.
Pearl River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and for maintenance Pearl River, Miss.
Yazoo River and tributaries, Mississippi: For maintenance of improvement, Yazoo River and tributaries, Miss. Proviso. Direction of expenditures.
Big Sunflower River, Mississippi: Continuing improvement, $50,000. Big Sunflower River, Miss.
Passes at the mouth of the Mississippi River: Continuing improvement Mississippi River passes.
Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For maintenance, including Grand Bayou Plaquemine, La.
Bayou Teche, Louisiana: For maintenance, $10,000. Bayou Teche, La.
Inland waterway on the coast of Louisiana: For maintenance from Waterway, Louisiana coast, Franklin to Sabine River.
Calcasieu River and Pass, Louisiana: For maintenance of improvement Calcasieu River and Pass, La.
Bogue Falia, Bayou Manchac, Amite, Chefuncte, and Tickfaw Rivers: Bogue Falia, etc.
Bayous Vermilion and Plaquemine Brule, and Mermentau River, Bayous Vermilion and Plaquemine Brule, and Mermentau River, La. Proviso. Removal of dam.
Water hyacinth. Removing, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
Bayou Terrebonne, La.
Atchafalaya River, La.
Bayou Grossetete, La.
Bayou Queue de Tortue, La.
Johnsons Bayou, La.
Red River, Ark. and La.
Bayous Bartholomew, etc., La.
Galveston, Tex.
Galveston Channel, Tex. Sea-wall extension. Provisos. Donation of lands by Galveston, etc., required. Construction of sea wall by Galveston. Direction of construction, etc.
Maintenance of channel.
Channel to Texas City.
Channel to Port Bolivar.
Port Aransas, Tex.
Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal, Tex.
Houston Ship Channel, Tex.
Anahuac Channel, etc., Tex.
Texas inland waterways. Proviso. Transfer of allotments.
Brazos River, Tex. At mouth.
Distribution.
Channel from Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas: For maintenance, Channel, Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Tex.
Sabine-Neches Canal, Texas: For maintenance of that portion from Sabine-Neches Canal, Tex.
Trinity River, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance Trinity River. Proviso. Contribution by Dallas, etc.
Cypress Bayou and waterway between Jefferson, Texas, and Shreveport, Cypress Bayou, etc., Tex. and La.
Red River, Arkansas and Texas: Continuing improvement and for Red River, Ark. and Okla.
Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: Continuing improvement Ouachita River, Ark. and La.
Arkansas River, Arkansas and Oklahoma: For maintenance of Arkansas River. Ark. and Okla.
White River, Arkansas: For maintenance, and for preventing cutoff White River, Ark. Use of balance. Vol. 37, p. 814.
Cache River, in Arkansas: That the Cache River in the State of Cache River, Ark. Declared nonnavigable stream. Conditions.
Black and Current Rivers, Arkansas and Missouri: For maintenance, Black and Current Rivers, Ark. and Mo.
Saint Francis River and tributaries, Arkansas: For maintenance of Saint Francis River, etc., Ark.
Cumberland River, Tennessee and Kentucky: For maintenance Cumberland River, Tenn, and Ky.
Tennessee River, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky: For maintenance Tennessee River, Tenn., Ala., and Ky. Distribution. Provisos. Payment of flowage damages. Dams authorized. Determination of type.
Toledo, Ohio.
Port Clinton, Ohio.
Sandusky, Ohio.
Huron, Ohio.
Vermilion, Ohio.
Cleveland, Ohio. Proviso. Location of pierhead.
Ohio River. Open channel work.
Locks and dams.
Ontonagon, Mich.
Grand Marais, Mich.
Manistique, Mich.
Menominee Harbor and River, Mich, and Wis.
Saint Joseph, Mich.
South Haven, Mich.
Saugatuck and Kalamazoo River, Mich.
Holland, Mich.
Grand Haven, Mich,
Muskegon, Mich.
Ludington, Mich.
Frankfort, Mich.
Charlevoix, etc. Mich.
Alpena, Mich.
Harbor Beach, Mich
Grand River, Mich.
Lake Saint Clair Mich. Proviso. Channel at Port Huron.
Saint Marys River Mich. New lock.
Black River at Port Huron, Michigan: Completing improvement Black River, Mich. At Port Huron.
Clinton River, Michigan: For maintenance, $1,500. Clinton River, Mich.
Harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin: For maintenance, $18,000. Green Bay, Wis.
Harbor at Two Rivers, Wisconsin: For maintenance, $3,500. Two Rivers, Wis.
Harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin: For maintenance, $2,500. Port Washington, Wis.
Harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including harbor of refuge: For Milwaukee, Wis.
Harbor at Racine, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement, $200,000. Racine, Wis.
Fox River, Wisconsin: Continuing improvement from Depere Fox River, Wis. Conveyance of “Portage Levee” authorized.
Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin: For maintenance, Duluth and Superior, Minn, and Wis.
Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin: Continuing Enlarging basin, Superior. Proviso. Contracts.
Warroad Harbor and River, Minnesota: For maintenance, $2,000. Warroad, Mich.
Zippel Bay, Lake of the Woods, Minnesota: For maintenance, Zippel Bay, Minn.
Harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota: For maintenance, $6,000. Grand Marais, Minn.
Indiana Harbor, Indiana: Continuing improvement and for Indiana Harbor, Ind.
Harbor at Michigan City, Indiana: For maintenance, $20,000. Michigan City, Ind.
Harbor at Waukegan, Illinois: For maintenance, $16,000. Waukegan, Ill.
Harbor at Chicago, Illinois: Continuing improvement, by the Chicago, Ill.
Harbor at Calumet, Illinois: For maintenance, $25,000. Calumet, Ill.
Chicago River, Illinois: For maintenance, $30,000. Chicago River, Ill.
Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: For maintenance, $20,000: Calumet River, Ill. and Ind. Proviso. Limit.
Illinois River, Illinois: Continuing improvement and for maintenance Illinois River, Ill.
Mississippi River: Government dike, in Illinois, directly opposite Mississippi River. Dike at Louisiana, Mo.
Mississippi River from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio Mississippi River Commission. Mississippi River. From Head of Passes to the Ohio. Securing nine-foot channel. Surveys. Provisos. Dredge boats, etc. Connecting waters, harbors, etc. Jurisdiction over Vicksburg harbor and the Ohio to mouth of Cache River. Canal at Vicksburg. Locks and dams of Ohio River not included. Atchafalaya River. Survey, etc.
Arkansas River. Jurisdiction of Commission extended to Jefferson County. Levees, etc., allotments.
Expenditures for levees from Head of Passes to Rock Island. Ill.
Improvements, etc. From the Ohio to the Missouri.
Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri River to Minneapolis, From the Missouri to Minneapolis.
That the Chief of Engineers, or such board as the Secretary of War Experiments in transporting heavy freights between specified points. Vol. 36, p. 659.
Mississippi River from Saint Paul to Minneapolis, Minnesota: Saint Paul to Minneapolis.
Mississippi River between Brainerd and Grand Rapids, Minnesota: Brainerd to Grand Rapids, Minn.
Mississippi and Leech Rivers, Minnesota: Continuing improvement, Mississippi and Leech Rivers.
Reservoirs at headwaters. Project abandoned.
Osage River, Missouri: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, Osage River, Mo.
Gasconade River, Missouri: Continuing improvement and for Gasconade River, Mo. Proviso. Removal of dams.
Missouri River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, Missouri River. Kansas City to mouth.
Missouri River: For improvement and maintenance from Kansas Kansas City to Sioux City. Sioux City to Fort Benton.
In the interest of navigation and in view of the existing emergency Vermilion, S. Dak. Revetment. Proviso. Local contribution.
Saint Joseph, Mo. Proviso. Contribution by Saint Joseph, etc. Proportion.
Colorado River, Ariz.
Los Angeles, Cal. Diverting dam.
Maintenance.
San Diego, Cal. Proviso. Donation of lands.
San Francisco, Cal.
Oakland, Cal. Proviso. Dredging plant.
San Pablo Bay, Cal.
Humboldt Harbor and Bay, Cal.
Redwood Creek, Cal.
San Joaquin River, Cal.
Stockton and Mormon Channels, Cal.
Mokelumne River, Cal.
Petaluma Creek and Napa River, Cal.
Sacramento and Feather Rivers, Cal. Provisos. Contribution by local interests. Provision for engineer board repealed. Vol. 29, p. 232.
Controlling debris and floods. Proviso. Contribution by State.
Harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon: Continuing improvement and for Coos Bay, Oreg.
Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon: For maintenance of the channel Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oreg.
Coquille River, Oregon: For maintenance, $6,000. Coquille River, Oreg.
Coos River, Oregon: For maintenance, $3,000. Coos River, Oreg.
Siuslaw River, Oregon: For maintenance, $5,000. Siuslaw River, Oreg.
Snake River, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho: Continuing improvement Snake River, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho.
Columbia River and tributaries above Celilo Falls to the mouth of Columbia River, etc.
Willamette and Yamhill Rivers, Oregon: Continuing improvement Willamette and Yamhill Rivers, Oreg.
Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivers below Vancouver, Washington, Columbia and Willamette Rivers. Below Vancouver and Portland.
Mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington: Continuing Columbia River, at mouth.
Clatskanie River, Oregon: For maintenance, $1,000. Clatskanie River, Oreg.
Grays Harbor and Chehalis River, Washington: For maintenance Grays Harbor and Chehalis River, Wash.
Willapa Harbor and River, Washington: For improvement in Willapa Harbor and River, Wash. Proviso. Contracts.
Waterway connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, Waterway, Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, Wash.
Cowlitz and Lewis Rivers, Washington: Continuing improvement Cowlitz and Lewis Rivers, Wash.
Grays River, Washington: For maintenance, $500. Grays River, Wash.
Harbor at Honolulu, Hawaii: Continuing improvement and for Honolulu, Hawaii.
Harbor at Kahului, Hawaii: For maintenance, $10,000. Kahului, Hawaii.
And for the construction of the west breakwater, Kahului Harbor, in accordance with the report published in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and thirty, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $100,000: Proviso. Contracts.
San Juan, P. R.
Examinations, surveys, etc.
Provisos.
Specific authority for new works.
That for examinations, surveys, and contingencies for rivers and harbors for which there may be no special appropriation, the sum of $350,000 is hereby appropriated: Supplemental reports restricted. Special authority required to begin work.
Allotment of preliminary examinations, surveys, etc.
Maine.
Channel west of Swan Island, Kennebec River, Maine, near the town of Richmond.
Kennebec River, Maine, Parker Head Harbor and Channel.
Massachusetts.
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, at its upper end, with a view to providing additional anchorage area and improving the approaches to the Cape Cod Canal, in so far as it may be the duty of the United States to improve the same.
Connecticut
Naugatuck River, Connecticut, between the head of navigation at Derby and Waterbury, Connecticut, with a view to the construction of a barge canal.
Rhode Island.
New York.
New York Harbor, New York, with a view to securing an increase in depth up to forty feet and suitable widths in the North or Hudson River Channel from deep water in the upper bay as far north as Spuyten Duyvil Creek.
Great Kills, Staten Island, New York.
Lemon Creek, Staten Island, New York.
Harbor at Classon Point, New York.
Sea Gate, Coney Island, New York, and connecting waters from Gravesend Bay to Ambrose Channel.
Sheepshead Bay, New York.
Shore front from Jones Inlet to Rockaway Inlet, New York, with a view to obtaining data as to tide, current, drift, and depth of water with a view to determining whether or not the interests of navigation are being endangered by the erosion thereof.
Shinnecock Bay, New York.
Cape Vincent Harbor, New York.
Ship channel Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
Buffalo Harbor, Buffalo Creek and Buffalo Ship Canal, New York, with a view to increasing the dimensions thereof to meet the demands of present and prospective commerce.
Charlotte Harbor, New York, including the portions of Lake Ontario and Genesee River adjacent thereto.
Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, with a view to dredging channel at New Jersey.
Hackensack River, New Jersey, from the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Bridge to the Hackensack Water Company Dam at New Milford.
Hackensack River, New Jersey, with a view of obtaining a depth of sixteen feet up to the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey bridge.
Overpeck Creek, New Jersey, from Little Ferry to Leonia.
Inland waterway on the Atlantic coast of the State of New Jersey between Cape May and New York Bay, New York and New Jersey.
Hereford Inlet, Cape May County, New Jersey.
Newton Creek, Camden County, New Jersey, from the Delaware River to Mount Ephriam Turnpike on the north and south branches, respectively, and to Cuthbert Avenue, Collingswood, on the main stream.
Indian River Inlet, Delaware. Delaware.
Harbor at Havre de Grace, Maryland. Maryland.
Elk River, Maryland.
Aquia Creek, Virginia, with a view to extending the present project. Virginia.
Northwest River, Virginia and North Carolina, with a view to its improvement from its mouth as far up as may be practicable. Willis River, Virginia.
Beach Creek, Virginia, with a view to increasing the dimensions of the channel to a depth of six feet and a width of sixty feet.
Mattaponi River, Virginia, with a view to removing the bars and securing increased depth of water at the mouth.
Queens Creek, Virginia, with a view to securing increased depth of water at the mouth.
Pamlico and Tar Rivers, North Carolina, with a view to providing North Carolina.
Channel leading into Carolina Beach Pier, Cape Fear River, in New Hanover County, North Carolina.
Town Creek, Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Little River, South Carolina. South Carolina.
Winyah Bay, South Carolina, with a view to securing a channel of increased depth and adequate width from a point on the Sampit River one mile above the limits of the city of Georgetown to the entrance of Winyah Bay.
Ashley River, South Carolina.
Front River, Georgia, near Clark’s dock, Sapelo Harbor. Georgia.
Tugaloo River, Georgia.
Flint River, Georgia, from Albany to the limit of practicable navigation above said city.
Kings Creek, Cambden County, Georgia.
Savannah River at North Augustus, South Carolina, with a view to ascertaining what, if any, revetment work is necessary in the interest of navigation.
Savannah River, Georgia, from the foot of Kings Island to a point five miles above.
Northwest Channel, Key West, Florida, with a view to securing a Florida.
Channel from Pineland, on Pine Island, Lee County, Florida, running westerly to deep water at a point in Pine Island Sound about one mile in length, such channel to be not less than five feet deep and of sufficient width.
Silver Springs to Ocala, Florida, with a view to the construction of a waterway of such width and depth as will meet the demands of commerce.
From the docks at Apalachicola, Florida, through Saint George’s Sound to the Gulf of Mexico, on such route as may be most desirable for the demands of commerce.
Caloosahatchee River, Florida, from the mouth to Fort Myers.
Manatee River, Florida, at Palma Sola.
Waterway between Sarasota Bay, near Venice, and Miakka River, Florida, with a view to giving such channel dimensions as commerce may demand.
Inland waterway on the Gulf coast of Florida, connecting Saint George Sound with Tampa Bay.
Channel from the Gulf through Johns Pass to Boca Ciega Bay, Florida.
Escambia River, Florida.
Key West Harbor, Florida, with a view to removing the middle ground.
Onosohatchee River, Florida.
Alabama.
One Mile Creek and Bayou Marmotte, Alabama.
Valley Creek, Jefferson County, Alabama.
Mississippi.
Indian Bayou, from Sunflower River, Mississippi, to Indianola, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation by local interests.
Pearl River, Mississippi, between Jackson and Edinburg.
Louisiana,
Bayou Queue de Tortue, Louisiana.
Bayous des Cannes and Nezpique, Louisiana.
Bayou des Glaizes from Simmesport, Louisiana, to the junction of Bayou des Glaizes with Bayou du Lac and Bayou Rouge, one mile east of Cottonport.
Tangipahoa River, Louisiana.
Texas.
Channel from Harbor Island and the Port of Aransas, Texas, to the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway Wharf at Rockport, Texas, with a view to securing a least depth of twelve feet.
Houston Ship Channel, Texas, with a view to securing such increased width and depth as may be advisable, by using the two dredges provided for this project or otherwise.
Buffalo Bayou, Texas, with a view to improving the channel to accommodate commerce between the ship channel turning basin and mouth of White Oak Bayou.
San Bernard River, Texas.
Turtle Cove Channel, Port Aransas, Texas.
Trinity River, near Liberty, Texas.
Texas City Harbor, Texas, with a view to enlargement and protection.
Brazos River, San Antonio River, Colorado River, Trinity River, and the tributaries of these rivers, all in Texas; Red River and its tributaries, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, with a view to devising plans for flood protection and determining the extent to which the United States should cooperate with the States and other Arkansas.
Sulphur River, Texas and Arkansas.
Sulphur River and Days Creek, Texas and Arkansas.
San Antonio River.
Saint Francis River, Arkansas and Missouri, commencing at the head of what is known as the “sunk lands,” at or near the town of Saint Francis, Clay County, Arkansas, and extending to the foot of said “sunk lands” at or near the town of Marked Tree, Poinsett County, Arkansas, and in making such examination and survey, which shall be thorough and complete, the engineer or engineers having the same in charge shall also prepare plans, specifications, and make estimates of the cost of said improvement, and define the channel or course of said canal, and shall take into account and make report upon any proposition by local interests for participation in the expense of said project in connection with the reclamation of contiguous lands or other lands subject to overflow by said stream.
Arkansas River, from Little Rock to its mouth, an instrumental survey with a view to determining if a minimum depth at all seasons of four and one-half feet can be maintained, and if so, a detailed estimate of the cost thereof.
White River, Arkansas, above Batesville, with a view to providing year-round navigation by the construction of additional locks and dams.
Obed River, Tennessee, from its mouth to its fork at Eastport, or Tennessee.
Forked Deer River, Tennessee, from Dyersburg to its mouth.
Ohio River at Uniontown, Kentucky, with a view to removing the Kentucky.
Rouge River, Michigan. Michigan.
Thunder Bay River, Michigan, with a view to improving the mouth.
Livingstone Channel, Detroit River, Michigan, with a view to securing increased width.
Thunder Bay River, Michigan, with a view of clearing the channel and providing suitable breakwater to protect the same.
Harbor at Mackinac Island, Michigan, with a view of extending the east breakwater a distance of four hundred feet.
Black Lake Harbor, on Macatawa Bay, Michigan, from piers to point two hundred feet east of Graham and Morton dock, sixteen feet, with a view to establishing car-service ferry.
The Les Cheneaux Channels, Michigan, with a view of deepening and widening the same on the northeast side of La Salle Island from a point opposite Reibers Point to Cedarville, thence south on the south west side of La Salle Island to Rocky Reef; also the channel on the northeasterly side of Marquette Island between said island and the mainland; also the channel leading into Hessel between Grover and Wheeler Island and Haven Island.
Red Lake, Minnesota, and Red Lake River from its outlet at Red Minnesota.
Saint Paul (Minnesota) Harbor, with a view of determining Obstructions to traffic, Mississippi River, Saint Paul, Minn.
Traverse and Big Stone Lakes, on the boundary between Minnesota and South Dakota, with a view to flood control and to connecting and extending navigation on and between said lakes.
Mississippi River, near Deer River, Minnesota, with view to the construction of a new channel the termini and course of said channel to be determined with greater particularity by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, the purpose of said new channel being to improve navigation, to enable a more perfect control of waters by Pokegama Dam.
Illinois.
Nebraska.
Kansas. Flood investigation.
California.
Black John Slough, California.
Playa del Rey Inlet and Basin, Venice, California.
Eel River, California.
Oregon.
Umpqua River bar and entrance, Oregon.
Siuslaw River, Oregon, from Acme to the entrance.
Harbor at and channel from the town of Rainier, Oregon, to deep water in the Columbia River.
Yaquina Bay and Harbor, Oregon, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation of local interests.
Hoquarton Slough, Oregon, from Tillamook City to head of navigation on Tillamook Bay, to provide for a straight channel.
Washington.
Willamette River from Corvallis to Eugene, Oregon.
Washougal Slough, Washington.
Everett Harbor, Washington.
Lake River, Washington.
Channel of Bakers Bay from the main ship channel of the Columbia River to the docks at Ilwaco, Washington.
Channel of Youngs Bay from the main ship channel of the Columbia River to a point one mile above County Road Bridge.
Idaho.
Columbia River from the mouth of the Snake to Priest Rapids with a view to improving open-river navigation.
Columbia River from Celilo Falls, Oregon, to the mouth of the Snake River; Snake River to Pittsburg Landing, Idaho, with a view to the construction of locks and dams for navigation; Clearwater River from its mouth to Orofino; and in making such examination
Tolovano River, Alaska. Alaska.
Virgin River, Nevada, between its intersection with the east line Nevada.
Harbors and connecting waters of the Great Lakes, with a view to Great Lakes harbors, etc.
Newport, Cal.
Harbor lines, etc.
Index to Engineer reports 1866 to 1917.
Printing, etc., ordered.
Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor.
Acceptance, etc., of donated electric plant for lighting.
Restriction on private contract work.
Postal service appropriations.
Vol. 5, p. 80.
Postmaster General.
Repair shops and equipment division. Rent.
Building for equipment division. Construction authorized. Site by purchase or condemnation. Appropriation.
Power, etc.
Post office inspectors.
Per diem. Provisos Temporary allowances. Limit.
Clerks at division headquarters.
Travel, etc., expenses.
For livery hire incurred by inspectors not covered by their per Livery hire.
For necessary miscellaneous, expenses at division headquarters, Miscellaneous.
For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction Rewards, etc. Provisos. Death of offenders. Collecting information, etc.
That hereafter the Postmaster General shall have authority to Acting employees allowed for those injured. Leaves of absence. Payment in case of death. Employees included. Proviso. No allowance for negligence.
That the Postmaster General shall not approve or continue any Discharge if sick less than one year forbidden. Reinstatement after military service.
For compensation of a special assistant to the Attorney General to Special attorney in postal cases.
For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office Travel, etc.
First Assistant Postmaster General.
For compensation to postmasters, $31,000,000: Postmasters. Proviso. Quarterly grading of salaries from receipts. Mileage computations. Full and apartment cars.
Assistant postmasters. Appointments restricted.
Employees, first and second class offices.
At $3,200.
At $3,000.
At $2,700.
At $2,600.
At $2,500.
At $2,400.
At $2,200.
At $2,000.
At $1,800.
Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant At $1,700.
Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant At $1,600.
Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant At $1,500.
Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant At $1,400.
Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant At $1,300.
Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant At $1,200.
Assistant superintendents of stations, clerks, stenographers, superintendents At $1,100.
At $1,000.
At $900.
At $800.
Substitutes.
Promotions provided for. First-class offices. “Special clerks” authorized. Second class offices. Provisos. Foremen and stenographers. Special clerks. Eight-hour workday for. Vol. 37, p. 554, amended.
Appointments, etc., restricted. Increase in clerks and carriers. Vol. 34, p. 1206. Proviso. Aggregate.
Printers, mechanics, etc.
Watchmen, messengers, etc.
Contract station clerks.
Temporary, auxiliary and substitute clerks. Provisos. Compensatory time for working holidays. Holidays specified.
Separating mails.
Unusual conditions.
For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of Third-class offices. Provisos. Allowance for clerks. Assistant postmasters.
For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post Rent, light, and fuel. Proviso. Ten-year leases. Limit, third class offices.
For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices of Miscellaneous items.
For pay of letter carriers at offices already established, including City delivery. Carriers. Promotions. Provisos. Detroit River service. No pay distinction between collections and deliveries. Reduced salaries restored.
For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, and of Substitutes.
For pay of letter carriers, substitute and auxiliary letter carriers Carriers, new offices. Provisos. Pay of substitutes rated. For employees off duty without pay.
For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, Vehicle allowance. Provisos. Garage leases. Mail lettings. Postmaster General substituted for Second Assistant. R. S., see. 3944, p. 765, amended. Vol. 20, p. 61.
Messenger service. Provisos. Payments by postmasters. Contracts for, by postmasters, etc. Allowances restricted.
Pneumatic tubes. Proviso. Continuance until March 4, 1917.
Car fare, etc.
Street car collection.
Detroit River service.
Special delivery. Car fare.
Fees.
Travel, etc.
Fourth-class postmasters. Immediate assignment to higher class. Ante, p. 163, amended. Ante, p. 162.
Dead letters.
Domestic, inclosing valuables, to be held. Disposal of others.
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
Mail transportation. Star routes, Alaska. Proviso. Emergency service.
Steamboat, etc., routes, or aeroplanes.
For inland transportation by railroad routes, $59,185,000: Railroad routes. Provisos. Free carriage of officials. Mississippi Bridge, Saint Louis, Mo. Transfers, etc., Saint Louis, Mo.
For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes, Freight on postal cards, etc.
For railway post-office car service, $4,397,000: Post office car service. Proviso. Sound and sanitary cars. Post, p. 427.
Railway Mail Service. Division and assistant superintendents. Clerks. Provisos. Clerks in charge of crews. Full time when deadheading.
And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall be so Appointment, etc., restricted. Proviso. Limit.
For travel allowances to railway postal clerks, acting railway postal Travel allowances.
For temporary clerk hire for emergency service, $60,000. Temporary clerks.
For substitutes for clerks on vacation, $893,900: Substitutes. Provisos. Leaves with pay. Vol. 31, p. 1105, amended. Leaves when providing substitutes. Vol. 37, p. 798, amended.
Traveling expenses.
Miscellaneous. Rent for terminal offices.
Per diem, assistant superintendents.
Electric and cable car service. Provisos. Rates of pay. Outside of cities. Unusual conditions. Substitution of wagon service.
Foreign mails. Proviso. Clerks on steamships. Pier transfers. Contract mail transfers.
For assistant superintendent, Division of Foreign Mails, with headquarters Assistant superintendent.
For balances due foreign countries, $681,700. Balances due foreign countries.
For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office Travel, etc.
Third Assistant Postmaster General.
For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery Stamps.
For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, Stamped envelopes and wrappers.
For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped Distribution.
For manufacture of postal cards, $360,000. Postal cards.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, $150. Ship, etc., letters.
For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces Indemnity for lost registered matter, etc.
For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of registered articles in the international mails, in accordance with convention stipulations, $10,000.
For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office Travel, etc.
For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the service of the Postal Postal Savings System.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Stationery, etc.
For official and registry envelopes, including pay of one envelope Official and registry envelopes.
For the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System, including Supplies, Postal Savings System. Bond expenses. Vol. 36, p. 817.
For equipment for City Delivery Service, including letter boxes, City delivery equipment. Proviso. Letter box dies.
For postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype Post marking, etc., stamps.
For letter balances, scales, test weights, and repairs to same, Letter balances.
Wrapping paper.
Twine, etc.
Facing slips, etc.
Purchase, exchange, etc., of miscellaneous articles.
Rural delivery equipment.
Shipping supplies.
Post route maps, etc. Sale, etc.
Miscellaneous supplies.
Miscellaneous equipment.
Canceling machines.
Labor saving devices.
Mail bags, locks, etc. Shop supplies. Proviso. Distinctive equipments for departments, Alaska, etc.
Labor in equipment shops.
Star route transportation. Proviso. Discontinued if served by rural delivery. New routes restricted.
For pay of rural carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual Rural delivery. Carriers, etc. Lake Winnipesaukee. Provisos. Station clerks. Extension of service.
Hereafter all rural mail delivery routes shall be divided into two Classification of standard routes.
Standard horse-drawn vehicle routes, which shall be twenty-four Horse-drawn vehicle.
Standard motor-vehicle routes, which shall be fifty miles in length, Motor vehicle. Petition required.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the establishment Lesser horse-drawn routes. Provisos. Increased length. Pay. Vehicles, etc., by carriers. Use of motor for horse-drawn. Adequate equipment. Extra pay for pouch service.
The Postmaster General is hereby authorized and directed to Readjustment of service. Provisos. Preference on new routes to former carriers Payment to carriers for service in 1915, under law restoring pay. Vol. 38, p. 1227. No pay to attorneys, etc.
Parcel post. Experiments in extending, for farm products. Effect on rural delivery service.
Village delivery.
Travel, etc.
Appropriation from Treasury to meet deficiencies.
Second class mail.
Restriction on sending, as freight, repealed.
Vol. 37, p. 547.
That so much of section one of the “Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, which provides that the Post Office Department shall not extend or enlarge its present policy of sending second-class matter Unfair discrimination forbidden. Proviso. Submission of complaints to Department. Hearings, etc. Appeal from adverse decision to Court of Appeals, D. C. Procedure, etc.
The jurisdiction of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia Jurisdiction of court exclusive.
Such proceedings in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia Precedence, etc.
Railroad transportation.
Allowance for increased weight of parcel post packages.
Allowance for increased weight in specified parcel post zones, August 15, 1913.
That the Postmaster General is authorized and directed Readjustment of pay to railroads. Post, p. 431.
The Postmaster General may state railroad mail routes and Service classified.
Full railway post-office car mail service shall be service by cars Full car service.
Apartment railway post-office car mail service shall be service by Apartment car service.
Storage-car mail service shall be service by cars used for the Storage car service. Proviso. Space units.
Mail, equipment, employees, etc., to be carried.
Closed pouch service. Space units.
Rates, etc.
Full car service.
In addition thereto he may allow not exceeding $4.25 as a combined initial and terminal rate for each one-way trip of a sixty-foot car.
Apartment car service.
In addition thereto he may allow not exceeding $2.75 as a combined initial and terminal rate for each one-way trip of a thirty-foot apartment car and $2 as a combined initial and terminal rate for each one-way trip of a fifteen-foot apartment car.
Storage car service.
In addition thereto he may allow not exceeding $4.25 as a combined initial and terminal rate for each one-way trip of a sixty-foot car.
Deduction if length below standard. Proviso. No allowance for greater lengths.
Closed pouch service.
In addition thereto he may allow not exceeding 25 cents as the combined initial and terminal rate for each one-way trip of a three-foot unit of service and 50 cents as a combined initial and terminal rate for each one-way trip of a seven-foot unit of service.
Land grant roads. Vol. 19, p. 82; Vol. 34, p. 1212; Vol. 36, p. 362.
Initial and terminal rates. Expenses included in. Variations permitted.
In computing the car miles of the full railway post-office cars and Storage cars.
In computing the car miles of storage cars, the maximum space Changes of service.
New service and additional service may be authorized at not Proviso. Additional pay restricted. Special contracts for higher rates.
The Postmaster General is authorized to make special contracts Report to Congress. Post office cars. Construction and maintenance. Vol. 36, p. 1335.
All cars or parts of cars used for the Railway Mail Service shall Sound and sanitary cars. Vol. 36, p. 363. Restrictions on wooden cars. Steel required after July 1, 1917. Emergency cases, etc.
Service over property owned or controlled by another company or a Service over other roads. Proviso. Land grant roads.
Railroad companies carrying the mails shall furnish all necessary Facilities to be furnished by railroads. Station rooms, etc.
Penalty for not providing facilities, etc.
General requirements. Fines for noncompliance.
Deductions for diminished service.
Rail and water service included.
Rates for mails on freight trains.
Sworn statements of service required.
Carriage at express rates of other than first class mail.
Fourth class matter and periodicals. Car load, etc., rates for.
Dispatch of third and fourth class mail, and periodicals.
The Postmaster General is authorized to return to the mails, when Return of postal cards, supplies, etc., in mail cars.
The Postmaster General, in cases of emergency between October Empty mail bags, etc. Return to the mails of, in emergency cases.
The Postmaster General may have the weights of mail taken on Weighing periods at discretion of Postmaster General. Expenses.
Pending the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission, as Existing rates continued until decision of Interstate Commerce Commission. Selection for space system. Proviso. Readjustment if decision adverse to space rates.
All railway common carriers are hereby required to transport such Railroads required to transport mail. Fair compensation, etc.
The Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby empowered and Interstate Commerce Commission. Rates, etc., for mail transportation to be fixed by.
In fixing and determining the fair and reasonable rates for such Basis for determining.
The procedure for the ascertainment of said rates and compensation Procedure.
Within three months from and after the approval of this Act, or as Statement of requirements to be filed by Postmaster General.
Employees, etc., for preparing. Submission of plan, etc.
Notice to carriers. Answer.
Taking of testimony, etc.
Classification of carriers and rates.
Additional weighings authorized.
Rates established by Commission. Payment.
Reexaminations allowed.
Authority vested in Commission.
Diminished allowance to land grant roads.
The existing law for the determination of mail pay, except as herein Existing law continued until action of Commission.
That the appropriations for inland transportation by railroad routes Current appropriations available.
That it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to refuse to perform Penalty for refusal to perform service, etc.
Parcel post service.
Authority to re-form classification, etc.
Vol. 37, p. 557.
Proviso.
Approval by Interstate Commerce Commission necessary.
Berkshire Trout Hatchery, Mass.
Gift of Mrs. Mary E. Scully accepted.
Extension of appropriations not provided for, through August.
Ante, p. 242.
Hawaii National Park.
Established on islands of Hawaii and Maui.
That the tracts of land on the island of Hawaii and on the island of Maui, in the Territory of Hawaii, hereinafter described, shall be perpetually dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States, to be known as Hawaii National Park. Said tracts of land are described as follows:
Description. On Hawaii.
Second. All that tract of land comprising portions of the lands of Kapapala and Kahuku, in the district of Kau, island of Hawaii; Keauhou second, in the district of North Kona; and Kaohe, in the district of Hamakua, containing seventeen thousand nine hundred and twenty acres, bounded as follows: Beginning at Pohaku Hanalei of Humuula, a small cone on the brow of Mauna Loa, and at the common boundary points of the lands of Humuula, Kapapala, and Kaohe, from which the true azimuth and distance to Government survey trigonometrical station Omaokoili is one hundred and ninety-five degrees twelve minutes eighteen seconds, seventy-eight thousand two hundred and eighty-six feet, and running by true azimuths: First, two hundred and ninety-eight degrees, five thousand two hundred and forty feet; second, twenty-eight degrees, thirty-six thousand nine hundred and sixty feet; third, one hundred and eighteen degrees, twenty-one thousand one hundred and twenty feet; fourth, two hundred and eight degrees, thirty-six thousand nine hundred and sixty feet; fifth, two hundred and ninety-eight degrees, fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty feet, to the point of beginning.
Third. A strip of land of sufficient width for a road to connect the two tracts of land on the island of Hawaii above described, the width and location of which strip shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior.
Fourth. All that tract of land comprising portions of the lands of On Maui.
Existing land claims not affected.
Rights of way.
Vol. 31, p. 790.
Private ownership not affected.
Administration, etc.
Leases for accommodating visitors.
Proceeds for park uses.
Provisos.
Limit on expenses.
Conveyances of easements from private owners.
Floods in Southern States.
Appropriation for relief of sufferers by.
Post, p. 534.
Issue of Army supplies.
Plummer, Idaho.
Townsite subdivided.
Vol. 34, p. 337.
Sale of tracts.
Lands granted to town for public uses,
Payments.
Use for public buildings.
[S. 5645]
Noyes, Minn.
Granted immediate transportation privileges.
Vol. 21, pp. 173, 174,
[S. 6242]
Saint Marys River.
Nassau County, F la., and Charlton County, Ga., may bridge, at Kolars Ferry.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[S. 6375]
“Aroline,” Steamship.
Change of name authorized.
Saint Louis River.
Saint Louis County. Minn., may bridge at Duluth.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Cottonseed.
Statistics of, and products to be published monthly.
Subjects specified.
Proviso.
Expenses limited.
Information confidential.
Punishment for unauthorized divulging of.
Information required of oil mills, manufactories, etc.
Punishment for refusing to furnish, etc.
Guncotton, medicated cotton, etc.
Quarterly statistics of cotton used for, to be published.
Vol. 37, p. 198.
South Hilo, Hawaii.
Street railway franchise.
Vol. 37, p. 243, amended.
Meaning of words.
“Commission.”
“County of Hawaii.”
Powers vested in commission.
Time of construction, extended.
Vol. 38, p. 555, amended.
The construction of the railway shall be commenced and at least the sum of $20,000 shall have been expended or contracted to be expended on or before August first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and at least two miles shall be completed, equipped and ready for the transportation of passengers within two years after such commencement.
Additional construction.
Proviso. Unavoidable delays.
Extensions, etc. Proviso. Expenses of maintenance.
Public utility board.
Condemnation authority.
Indefinite grant.
Tax exemption for ten years.
“The association shall pay to the county of Hawaii, within one Payment to Hawaii County from gross receipts.
“No member of the association, or of any assignee or successor of Stockholders not to have interest in contracts.
The Territory of Hawaii, the county of Hawaii, or any Purchase by Territory, etc., after twenty years, permitted.
“The amount to be paid to the association for such purchase shall Determination of amount, etc.
“Either the association or the purchaser may appeal to the supreme Appeal to supreme court.
Termination of franchise, etc., on payment.
Public Health Service.
Additional appropriations.
Ante, p. 278.
That the following additional sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Public Health Service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, namely:
Assistant surgeons.
Interstate quarantine service. Ante, p. 279.
National forests.
Restrictions on agricultural entries in Black Hills, S. D., removed.
Vol. 34, pp. 234, 883.
Vol. 37, p. 188.
Black River.
Clay County, Ark., may bridge, Bennetts Ferry.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Mississippi River.
New Orleans, La., may bridge.
Proviso.
Substitution of tunnel.
Time for construction.
Amendment.
[S. 3069]
Interstate commerce regulations.
Issue of bills of lading.
Vol. 38, p. 1197, amended.
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Liability for actual loss. Passenger baggage excepted. Shipments if rates based on declared values. Vol. 36, p. 549. Rates to be established. Ordinary live stock excepted.
Lassen Volcanic National Park, Cal.
Established.
Description.
Trespassing forbidden.
Provisos.
Valid claims not affected.
Rights of way.
Reclamation Service use.
Present ownership not affected.
Indemnity selections.
Regulations of control, etc.
Leases to accommodate visitors, etc.
Timber disposal.
Charges.
Limit on appropriations.
York, Pa.
Sale of old public building at.
Proviso.
Minimum price.
Townsite reserves, Okla.
Sale of lands in, to Tillman County, and Grandfield.
Vol. 34, p. 80.
Proceeds to credit of Indians.
Bayou Bartholomew.
Ashley County, Ark., may bridge.
Location.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Missouri River.
Missouri River Bridge Company may bridge, Williston, N. Dak.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Hudson River, N. Y.
Time extended for bridging, by Hudson River Connecting Railroad Corporation.
Vol. 38, p. 308, amended.
Amendment.
Agricultural Department appropriations.
Pay of Secretary, Assistant, Solicitor, etc. Inspectors, law clerks, clerks, etc. Watchmen, laborers, etc.
Farm Management Office. Salaries.
General expenses.
To investigate and encourage the adoption of improved methods Farm management and practice.
For studying methods of clearing off “logged-off” lands with a Logged-off timber lands. By-products, etc.
In all, for general expenses, $225,000.
Total for Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $688,160.
Weather Bureau.
Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc. Messengers, etc.
General expenses. Classification of objects. Vol. 26, p. 653. Cooperation with other bureaus, etc.
Expenses in Washington.
Printing office. Proviso. Limitation on work.
Expenses outside of Washington.
For official traveling expenses, $24,000; Traveling expenses.
For the purchase of a site and the erection of a building at Cape Cape Henry, Va. Observatory building.
In all, for general expenses, $1,411,200.
Total for Weather Bureau, $1,747,260.
Animal Industry Bureau.
Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.
General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry: For carrying General expenses. Vol. 23, p. 31. Vol. 26, p. 833. Vol. 26, p. 414. Vol. 32, p. 193. Vol. 32, p. 791. Vol. 33, p. 1264. Cattle quarantine. Vol. 34, p. 607. Twenty-eight hour law. Vol. 37, p. 832. Collecting information, etc. Employees. Tuberculin, serums, etc. Purchase, destruction, etc., of animals.
Inspection and quarantine work.
Southern cattle ticks. Demonstration work. Proviso. Limitation on purchase of materials, etc.
Dairy Industry. Proviso. Cheese marketing, etc.
Animal husbandry. Feeding, breeding, etc., experiments. Provisos. Horses for military purposes. Poultry, ostriches.
Animal diseases. Proviso. Contagious abortion of animals.
For construction of buildings at bureau experiment station at Experiment station and farm buildings.
For investigating the disease of hog cholera, and for its control or Hog cholera. Eradicating, etc. Provisos. Regulating trade in viruses, etc. Pathological researches.
For all necessary expenses for the investigation, treatment, and Dourine. Eradicating, etc.
For general administrative work, including traveling expenses and Administrative work.
In all, for general expenses, $2,277,776.
Meat inspection. Additional expenses. Vol. 34, p. 674.
Total for Bureau of Animal Industry, $3,020,746.
Plant Industry Bureau.
Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc. Laboratory aids, etc. Gardeners, etc.
General expenses. Investigations. Proviso. Limit for buildings. Post, p. 454. Investigators, etc.
Plant diseases, etc.
Orchard, etc., fruits.
Citrus canker. Expenditures, etc. Provisos. Restriction. Balance reappropriated. Ante, p. 24.
Trees and shrubs. Proviso. Balance for whitepine blister rust reappropriated. Ante, p. 24.
For the investigation of diseases of cotton, potatoes, truck crops, Cotton, potatoes, truck crops, etc.
For investigating the physiology of crop plants and for testing and Crop plant physiology.
For soil-bacteriology and plant-nutrition investigations, including Soil bacteriology and nutrition. Publishing tests, etc.
For soil-fertility investigations into organic causes of infertility and Soil fertility.
For acclimatization and adaptation investigations of cotton, corn, Acclimatizing tropical plants, etc.
For the investigation, testing, and improvement of plants yielding Drug plants, etc.
For crop technological and fiber plant investigations, including the Fiber plants, nematodes, etc.
For investigating the handling, grading, and transportation of Grain handling, etc.
For biophysical investigations in connection with the various lines Biophysical work.
For studying and testing commercial seeds, including the testing Commercial seeds, grasses, etc. Testing samples, etc. Preventing admission of adulterated seed grain, etc. Vol. 37, p. 506. Vetch and ryegrass included. Proportion of foreign matter allowed. Blue grass seed.
Cereals. Flax, and broom corn. Provisos. Com improvement. Black and stripe rust.
Tobacco production, etc.
Paper making plants.
Arid land crops.
Sugar-beet culture, etc. Provisos. Improving American strains. Cane sugar products.
Grazing lands, etc.
Dry land, etc., crops. Provisos. Buildings. Ante, p. 452. Free tree distribution restricted.
Utilizing reclai med lands.
Fruit growing, shipping, etc.
Experimental gardens and grounds.
Horticultural investigations.
For continuing the necessary improvements to establish and maintain Arlington experiment farm. Vol. 31, p. 135. Proviso. Buildings. Ante, p. 454.
For investigations in foreign see and plant introduction, including Foreign seed and plant introduction.
For the purchase, propagation, testing, and distribution of new and New and rare seeds, etc. Proviso. Distribution.
For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned Administrative expenses.
In all, for general expenses, $1,866,340.
Seeds, etc. Purchase, Congressional distribution, etc. Seeds, etc., to be adapted to localities. Proviso. Contracts for packets, mailing, etc. Congressional distribution. Contents to be indicated on wrapper, selection, etc. Early distribution for southern section. Distribution of uncalled for allotments. Report of purchases, etc. Diversion of appropriation forbidden.
Total for Bureau of Plant Industry, $2,537,120.
Forest Service.
Pay of Forester, supervisors, etc. Rangers, etc. Clerks, etc. Draftsmen, etc. Machinists, etc. Watchmen, laborers, etc.
General expenses. Investigations restricted to United States. Proviso. Cost of buildings. Protection of national forests. Sale of timber. Care of fish, etc. Agents, etc. Supprres, etc.
For salaries and field and station expenses, including the maintenance National forests. Maintenance, etc.
Absaroka National Forest, Montana, $7,425; Absaroka, Mont.
Alamo National Forest, New Mexico, $4,222; Alamo, N. Mex.
Angeles National Forest, California, $9,510; Angeles, Cal.
Apache National Forest, Arizona, $9,279; Apache, Ariz.
Arapahoe National Forest, Colorado, $5,736; Arapahoe, Colo.
Arkansas National Forest, Arkansas, $11,930; Arkansas, Ark.
Ashley National Forest, Utah and Wyoming, $3,865; Ashley, Utah and Wyo.
Battlement National Forest, Colorado, $4,916; Battlement, Colo.
Beartooth, Mont.
Beaverhead, Mont, and Idaho.
Bighorn, Wyo.
Bitterroot, Mont.
Blackfeet, Mont.
Black Hills, S. Dak.
Boise, Idaho.
Bridger, Wyo.
Cabinet, Mont.
Cache, Utah and Idaho.
California, Cal.
Caribou, Idaho and Wyo.
Carson, N. Mex.
Cascade, Oreg.
Challis, Idaho.
Chelan, Wash.
Chiricahua, Ariz. and N. Mex.
Chugach, Alaska.
Clearwater, Idaho.
Cleveland, Cal.
Cochetopa, Colo.
Coconino, Ariz.
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Colorado, Colo.
Columbia, Wash.
Colville, Wash,
Coronado, Ariz.
Crater, Oreg. and Cal.
Crook, Ariz.
Custer, Mont.
Datil, N. Mex.
Deerlodge, Mont.
Deschutes, Oreg.
Dixie, Utah and Ariz.
Durango, Colo.
Eldorado, Cal. and Nev.
Fillmore, Utah.
Fishlake, Utah.
Flathead, Mont.
Florida, Fla.
Fremont, Oreg.
Gallatin, Mont.
Gila, N. Mex.
Gunnison, Colo.
Harney, S. Dak.
Hayden, Wyo. and Colo.
Helena, Mont.
Holy Cross, Colo.
Humboldt, Nev.
Idaho, Idaho.
Inyo, Cal. and Nev.
Jefferson, Mont.
Kaibab, Ariz.
Kaniksu, Idaho and Wash.
Klamath, Cal.
Kootenai, Mont.
La Sal, Utah and Colo.
Lassen, Cal.
Leadville, Colo.
Lemhi, Idaho.
Lewis and Clark, Mont.
Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, $3,845; Lincoln, N. Mex.
Lolo National Forest, Montana, $16,638; Lolo, Mont.
Luquillo National Forest, Porto Rico, $2,500; Luquillo, P. R.
Madison National Forest, Montana, $3,930; Madison, Mont.
Malheur National Forest, Oregon, $7,591; Malheur, Oreg.
Manti National Forest, Utah, $4,890; Manti, Utah.
Manzano National Forest, New Mexico, $4,230; Manzano, N. Mex.
Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, $7,944; Medicine Bow, Wyo.
Michigan National Forest, Michigan, $3,081; Michigan, Mich.
Minam National Forest, Oregon, $6,476; Minam, Oreg.
Minidoka National Forest, Idaho and Utah, $3,384; Minidoka, Idaho and Utah.
Minnesota National Forest, Minnesota, $2,970; Minnesota, Minn.
Missoula National Forest, Montana, $8,380; Missoula, Mont.
Modoc National Forest, California, $7,388; Modoc, Cal.
Mono National Forest, Nevada and California, $2,847; Mono, Nev. and Cal.
Monterey National Forest, California, $3,050; Monterey, Cal.
Montezuma National Forest, Colorado, $4,670; Montezuma, Colo.
Nebraska National Forest, Nebraska, $2,365; and to extend the Nebraska, Nebr. Proviso. Young trees to arid land residents. Vol. 33, p. 547.
Nevada National Forest, Nevada, $3,244; Nevada, Nev.
Nez Perce National Forest, Idaho, $10,120; Nez Perce, Idaho.
Ochoco National Forest, Oregon, $6,451; Ochoco, Oreg.
Okanogan National Forest, Washington, $9,994; Okanogan, Wash.
Olympic National Forest, Washington, $16,598; Olympic, Wash.
Oregon National Forest, Oregon, $12,560; Oregon, Oreg.
Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, $9,030; Ozark, Ark.
Palisade National Forest, Idaho and Wyoming, $4,235; Palisade, Idaho and Wyo.
Payette National Forest, Idaho, $10,537; Payette, Idaho.
Pend Oreille National Forest, Idaho, $10,320; Pend Oreille, Idaho.
Pike National Forest, Colorado, $10,165; Pike, Colo.
Plumas National Forest, California, $20,594; Plumas, Cal.
Powell National Forest, Utah, $1,010; Powell, Utah.
Prescott National Forest, Arizona, $6,255; Prescott, Ariz.
Rainier National Forest, Washington, $12,035; Rainier, Wash.
Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado, $7,157; Rio Grande, Colo.
Routt National Forest, Colorado, $6,585; Routt, Colo.
Ruby National Forest, Nevada, $2,570; Ruby, Nev.
Saint Joe National Forest, Idaho, $16,700; Saint Joe, Idaho.
Salmon National Forest, Idaho, $7,784; Salmon, Idaho.
San Isabel National Forest, Colorado, $3,924; San Isabel, Colo.
San Juan National Forest, Colorado, $5,534; San Juan, Colo.
Santa Barbara National Forest, California, $9,774; Santa Barbara, Cal.
Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico, $14,673; Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Santa Rosa National Forest, Nevada, $1,643; Santa Rosa, Nev.
Santiam National Forest, Oregon, $9,052; Santiam, Oreg.
Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho, $4,953; Sawtooth, Idaho.
Selway National Forest, Idaho, $12,659; Selway, Idaho.
Sequoia National Forest, California, $17,366; Sequoia, Cal.
Sevier National Forest, Utah, $1,496; Sevier, Utah.
Shasta National Forest, California, $17,425; Shasta, Cal.
Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, $4,200; Shoshone, Wyo.
Sierra National Forest, California, $15,750; Sierra, Cal.
Sioux National Forest, South Dakota and Montana, $2,640; Sioux, S. Dak. and Mont.
Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon and California, $10,660; Siskiyou, Oreg, and Cal.
Sitgreaves, Ariz.
Siuslaw, Oreg.
Snoqualmie, Wash.
Sopris, Colo.
Stanislaus, Cal.
Superior, Minn.
Tahoe, Cal. and Nev.
Targhee, Idaho and Wyo.
Teton, Wyo.
Toiyabe, Nev.
Tongass, Alaska.
Tonto, Ariz.
Trinity, Cal.
Tusayan, Cal.
Uinta, Utah.
Umatilla, Oreg.
Umpqua, Oreg.
Uncompahgre, Colo.
Wallowa, Oreg.
Wasatch, Utah.
Washakie, Wyo.
Washington, Wash.
Weiser, Idaho.
Wenaha, Wash, and Oreg.
Wenatchee, Wash.
White River, Colo.
Whitman, Oreg.
Wichita, Okla.
Wyoming, Wyo.
Additional forests under conservation Act. Vol. 36, p. 963.
Miscellaneous administration expenses.
In National Forest District One, $64,100;
Tn National Forest District Two, $48,400;
In National Forest District Three, $55,200;
In National Forest District Four, $50,400;
In National Forest District Five, $70,100;
In National Forest District Six, $61,400;
In National Forest District Seven, $14,900;
In the District of Columbia, $127,730;
Total. Provisos. Interchangeable appropriations. Limit.
Selecting lands for homestead entries.
Survey, etc., of agricultural lands. Vol. 34, p. 233. Vol. 30, p. 1095. Vol. 37, p. 842. Proviso. Unexpended balance continued. Vol. 38, p. 1099.
For fighting and preventing forest fires and for other unforeseen Emergencies, fighting fires, etc.
For the purchase and maintenance of necessary field, office, and Supplies, etc.
For investigations of methods for wood distillation and for the Investigating wood distillation, forest products, etc.
For experiments and investigations of range conditions within Range conditions.
For the purchase of tree seed, cones, and nursery stock, for seeding Tree planting, etc.
For silvicultural, dendrological, and other experiments and investigations Management of forest lands, etc.
For estimating and appraising timber and other resources on the Timber sales, etc.
For other miscellaneous forest investigations, and for collating, Collating, etc., results.
For the construction and maintenance of roads, trails, bridges, Permanent improvements. Provisos. Traveling expenses restricted. Articles for periodicals.
In all, for general expenses, $3,188,415.
Conservation of navigable waters, etc. Vol. 36, p. 961. Additional appropriations for lands, etc.
Expenses of employees, etc. Vol. 36, p. 961.
Timber sales. Fund for removing débris.
Total for Forest Service, $8,549,735.
Mining, etc., on lands acquired under conservation Act. Vol. 36, p. 961. Disposal of receipts.
Chemistry Bureau.
Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc. Inspectors, laboratory helpers, etc.
General expenses. Apparatus, supplies, etc.
For conducting the investigations contemplated by the Act of May General subjects. Vol. 12, p. 387.
For collaboration with other departments of the Government Collaboration with other departments, etc.
For investigating the character of the chemical and physical tests Examining foreign tests of food products.
For investigating the preparation for market, handling, grading, Poultry and eggs investigations.
For investigating the handling, grading, packing, canning, freezing, Fish investigations.
For investigating the packing, handling, storing, and shipping of Shipping oysters, etc.
For the biological investigation of food and drug products and Biological and physical examinations.
For the study and improvement of methods of utilizing by-products Citrus fruits by-products.
For investigation and experiment in the utilization, for coloring Utilizing raw materials for colors.
Traveling laboratory.
Pure food inspection, etc. Vol. 34, p. 768. Revision of Pharmacopoeia.
Naval stores investigations, etc.
In all, for general expenses, $838,211.
Total for Bureau of Chemistry, $1,153,801.
Soils Bureau.
Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.
General expenses.
Chemical investigations of soils.
Physical investigation of productivity.
Natural fertilizers.
For the investigation and demonstration within the United States Potash. Demonstrating manufacture of. Post, p. 1153. Proviso. Sale of product.
For the investigation of soils, in cooperation with other branches Cooperative investigation of soils, mapping, etc.
For the examination and classification of agricultural lands in Agricultural lands in national forests.
For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned Administrative expenses.
In all, for general expenses, $433,735.
Total for Bureau of Soils, $503,735.
Bureau of Entomology.
Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.
General expenses. Investigations of insects, etc.
For investigations of insects affecting deciduous fruits, orchards, Fruit and fruit trees.
For investigations of insects affecting cereal and forage crops, Cereal and forage crops.
For investigations of insects affecting southern field crops, including Southern field crops.
For investigations of insects affecting forests, $50,770; Forests.
For investigations of insects affecting truck crops, including insects Truck crops, stored products, etc.
Bee culture.
Tropical and subtropical fruits.
Fruit flies.
Miscellaneous insects.
Administrative expenses.
In all, for general expenses, $464,650.
Gipsy and brown tail moths. Controlling, etc. Cooperative quarantine against, etc.
Total for Bureau of Entomology, $868,880.
Biological Survey Bureau.
Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.
General expenses.
Preventing shipments of prohibited birds, etc. Vol. 35, pp. 1137, 1138. Carrying illegally killed game. Vol. 31, p. 187.
For the maintenance of the Montana National Bison Range and Reservations for game animals and birds. Maintenance. Protection of bird preserves. Vol. 35, p. 1104. Purchase of game.
For the improvement of the game preserve in Sullys Hill National Sullys Hill National Park, N. Dak. Game preserve.
For investigating the food habits of North American birds and Food habits of birds and animals. Fur-bearing animals. Provisos. Destroying ground squirrels. Wild duck disease, Utah. Destroying wolves, etc. Protecting domestic animals from rabies.
For biological investigations, including the relations, habits, geographic Biological investigations.
For all necessary expenses for enforcing the provisions of the Act Migratory birds. Enforcing law for protecting. Vol. 37, p. 847. Post, pp. 1702, 1792.
For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned Administrative expenses.
In all, for general expenses, $534,200.
Total for Bureau of Biological Survey, $578,230
Accounts and Disbursements Division.
Salaries, Division of Accounts and Disbursements: One chief Pay of chief of division, clerks, etc.
Total for Division of Accounts and Disbursements, $44,920.
Publications Division.
Pay of chief of division, editors, etc. Clerks, etc.
General expenses.
Supplies, etc.
For envelopes, stationery, and materials, $6,500;
For office furniture and fixtures, $1,000;
For photographic equipment and for photographic materials and artists’ tools and supplies, $6,000;
For telephone and telegraph service and freight and express charges, $250;
For wagons, bicycles, horses, harness, and maintenance of the same, $500;
For purchase of manuscripts, traveling expenses, electrotypes, illustrations, and other expenses not otherwise provided for, $3,000;
In all, for general expenses, $20,250;
Total for Division of Publications, $197,650.
Crop Estimates Bureau.
Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.
General expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates: For all necessary General expenses.
Salaries and employment of labor in the city of Washington and Administrative expenses. In Washington, etc.
Salaries, travel, and other necessary expenses of employees out of Out of Washington.
In all, for general expenses, $193,556.
Total for Bureau of Crop Estimates, $316,436.
Library.
Pay of librarian, clerks, etc.
General expenses.
Total for library, $49,520.
Miscellaneous.
Contingent expenses.
Rent.
Buildings in District of Columbia.
Proviso.
Statement of quarters rented.
States Relations Service.
Pay of director, clerks, etc.
Support of agricultural experiment stations. Vol. 24, p. 440. Vol. 12, p. 503.
Allotment of increased appropriations. Vol. 34, p. 63. Proviso. Limit.
Cooperative agricultural extension work. Vol. 38, p. 372. Clerical, etc., expenses. Annual statement.
Demonstration work outside cotton belt.
Cooperative demonstrations, cotton boll weevil. Proviso. Voluntary contributions accepted.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report Farmers’ institutes and agricultural schools. Investigating progress, etc., of.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain Stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam. Sale of products. Proviso. Extension work, Hawaii.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the relative Utilization of agricultural products.
For general administrative expenses connected with the lines of Administrative expenses.
In all, for general expenses, $2,842,140.
Total for States Relations Service, $2,969,680.
Public Roads and Rural Engineering Office.
Pay of director, clerks, etc.
General expenses. Proviso. Restriction on roadmaking machinery.
Road management.
Road-making materials, etc.
Chemical investigations.
Field experiments, etc.
Farm irrigation investigations.
Drainage, investigation of swamp lands, etc.
Farm domestic water supply, etc.
Administrative expenses.
In all, for general expenses, $510,820.
Total for Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, $599,200.
Markets and Rural Organization Office.
Pay of chief of office, clerks, etc.
General expenses.
For acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States Diffusing information of farm products, supplies, etc.
For collecting and distributing, by telegraph, mail, and otherwise, Distributing market prices, etc.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to gather from stockmen, Live stock, and products. Collecting and distributing specific information of raising, marketing, etc.
For investigating, demonstrating, and promoting the use of standards Cotton standards, ginning, etc. Proviso. Testing spinning value, etc.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make studies of cooperation Rural credits, etc. Study of, diffusing information, etc. Ante, p. 360.
Cooperative distribution of information.
Administrative expenses.
In all, for general expenses, $621,960.
Cotton futures Act. Expenses of enforcing. Post, p. 476.
Total for Office of Markets and Rural Organization, $872,590.
Insecticide Act.
Salaries, enforcement of.
General expenses.
Salaries, supplies, etc. Vol. 36, p. 331.
Total for enforcement of the insecticide Act, $105,000.
Federal Horticultural Board.
Salaries.
General expenses.
Enforcing plant quarantine Act. Vol. 37, pp. 315, 854.
Total for Federal Horticultural Board, $75,000.
And not to exceed ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for Interchangeable appropriations.
Total, Department of Agriculture, for routine and ordinary work, $25,123,852.
Miscellaneous.
Reclamation projects. Aiding agricultural development of.
International Farm Congress, etc. Exhibit to be made at El Paso, Tex.
The President is hereby authorized to extend invitations to other Foreign nations invited. Proviso. No appropriation.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with and make National Dairy Show. Exhibit to be made at Springfield, Mass.
The President is hereby authorized to extend invitations to other International Irrigation Congress. Foreign nations invited. Proviso. No appropriation.
Conservation of navigable waters, etc. Cooperation with States for fire protection, etc. Vol. 36, p. 961.
Game preserves, etc., authorized in. Vol. 36, p. 961. Punishment for unlawfully hunting, etc., in.
Cotton futures Act.
Title declared.
Construction of terms.
Corporations liable for acts of officials, etc.
Tax on contracts at exchanges, etc., for future delivery.
Written contracts required.
Contents.
Weight of bales.
Conditions relieving contracts from tax.
Conforming to legal requirements.
Specifying authorized grades, prices, and dates of making and of delivery.
Proviso.
Middling accepted if grade not specified.
For delivery of standard grades.
Allowance if different from grade contracted for.
Not to deliver prohibited cotton.
Details of exclusion.
Full weight, etc., to be tendered.
Notice of tender.
Certificate of identity.
Provide that, in case a dispute arises between the person Submission of disputes as to classification to Secretary of Agriculture.
“The provisions of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh subdivisions Acceptance of conditions implied.
“The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to prescribe rules and Rules for determining disputes. Effect of findings, in suits.
Determination of difference in prices.
From spot cotton sales at market of delivery.
From averages at five spot markets.
Provisos.
Values, based on standard grades.
If based on another grade.
No tax on contracts by parties to accept other than specified grade, etc.
That no tax shall be levied under this Act on any contract of sale mentioned in section three hereof if the contract provide that, in case cotton of grade or grades other than the basis grade specified in the contract shall be tendered in performance of the contract, the parties to such contract may agree, at the time of the tender, as to the price of the grade or grades so tendered, and that if they shall not then agree as to such price, then, and in that event, the buyer of said contract shall have the right to demand the specific fulfillment of such contract by the actual delivery of cotton of the basis grade named therein and at the price specified for such basis grade in said contract, and if the contract also comply with all the terms and conditions of Proviso. Exemption not applicable in specified cases.
Designation of contracts. Conditions implied.
Contracts excluded. Post, p. 479.
Spot markets to be designated.
Bona fide spot markets.
Methods of determining.
Proviso.
Fixing grade values, if spot markets not designated.
Cotton standards.
Establishment and promulgation of.
Changes, etc., of present standards.
Vol. 35, p. 256; Vol. 38, p. 422.
Provisos.
Future changes restricted.
No change effective until after one year’s notice.
Official standards.
Preparation, etc., of practical forms for.
Contracts not subject to tax.
Conforming to rules, etc.
Having specified requirements.
Providing for delivery of cotton contracted for.
Requiring actual transfer.
Provide that the delivery of cotton under the contract shall not be effected by means of ‘set-off’ or ‘ring’ settlement, but only by the actual transfer of the specified cotton mentioned in the contract.
Acceptance of conditions implied.
Sales of spot cotton not taxed.
Not applicable to exchange, etc., contracts. Ante, p. 476.
Payment of tax by stamps.
Contracts not enforceable unless law complied with.
Collection of tax.
Inspection of records, etc.
Sworn statements required.
Clearing house reports.
Agents to be appointed.
Internal revenue laws applicable.
R. S., secs. 3173–3175, pp. 609, 610.
Vol. 38, p. 178.
Punishment for violations.
Additional penalty.
One-half to informer.
Prosecutions.
Testimony compulsory.
Criminal immunity.
State laws not impaired, etc.
Appropriation for internal revenue expenses; reappropriation.
Vol. 38, p. 1017.
Ante, p. 86.
Vol. 38, p. 693.
Appropriation for determining spot markets, standards, etc.; reappropriation.
Vol. 38, p. 698.
Vol. 38, p. 1112.
Publication of investigations.
Receipts to be covered into the Treasury.
Time of taking effect.
Proviso.
Prior contracts.
Former Act repealed.
Vol. 38, p. 693.
Proviso.
Status of rights, etc., under.
Invalidity or any cause, etc., not to affect remainder of Act.
Grain Standards Act.
Title declared.
“Person,” construed.
“In interstate or foreign commerce.”
Corporations liable for action of officials, etc.
Investigating and determining standards for grain.
Promulgation of effective dates.
Official grain standards established.
Interstate or foreign shipments prohibited unless inspected and of standard grades.
Provisos.
Sales by samples, etc., permitted.
Inspection at place of delivery, etc., permitted.
If no inspector at place of shipment or delivery.
Determination of grade.
Certifying shipment to be other than of alleged standard, forbidden.
Representing grain to be of standard other than shown by certificate, forbidden.
Examinations authorized.
Publication of findings.
Appeals from grade determined by inspectors.
Duties of Secretary.
Proviso.
Place of inspection.
Fees allowed.
Effect of findings in suits.
Inspection licenses.
The Secretary of Agriculture may issue a license to any person, upon presentation to him of satisfactory evidence that such person is competent, to inspect and grade grain and to certificate the grade thereof for shipment or delivery for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, under this Act and the rules and regulations prescribed thereunder. Certificate of inspection by other than licensed inspectors forbidden. Provisos. Preference to inspectors under State laws. Suspension or revocation of licenses. Temporary suspension. Interest by inspectors in grain elevators, etc., prohibited.
“The Secretary of Agriculture shall require every inspector licensed Records, etc., to be kept by inspectors. Details. Publication of statistics.
Regulations to be made.
Punishment for violations, etc.
Punishment for assaulting officials.
Invalidity o f any clause, etc., not to affect remainder of Act.
Appropriation for expenses.
Warehouse Act.
Title declared.
Terms construed.
“Warehouse.”
“Agricultural product.”
“Person.”
“Warehouseman.”
“Receipt.”
Investigation, etc., of warehouses.
Classification.
Duties of warehousemen.
Licenses to warehousemen.
Proviso.
Conditions of issue.
Period of license.
Bond to be filed.
Conditions.
Sureties, terms, etc.
Additional bond.
Suit on bonds.
Bonded warehouses.
Designation.
Conditions authorizing.
Licenses for storage by persons not warehousemen.
Conditions.
Receipts and bond required.
Examination and inspection charges.
Deposit of fees.
Licenses to classifiers and weighers of products.
Conditions.
Suspension or revocation of licenses.
Discriminations by licensed warehousemen forbidden.
Deposits subject to terms of Act.
Inspecting, grading, etc., fungible products,
Separation of deposits.
Mingling of fungible products permitted.
Separation of grades.
Issue of receipts for products actually stored.
Form of receipts.
Details required.
Description.
Grade or class.
Provisos.
Official standard to be given.
Temporary use of recognized standards.
Conditions, etc.
Statement of advances.
If amount unknown.
Signature.
Nonnegotiable receipts allowed.
Established standards to be promulgated.
Proviso.
Official standards established by Congress, confirmed.
Issue of other than original receipts, forbidden.
Lost or destroyed receipts.
New ones to be issued incompliance with law.
Proviso.
Security if no law applicable.
Delivery products to holder of receipt.
Conditions.
Cancellation of receipts upon delivery.
Records, receipts, etc., to be preserved.
Reports of business operations, etc.
Examinations of stored products.
Suspension or revocation of licenses for violations, etc.
Publication of investigations, list of warehouses, licenses, etc.
Official examinations of records, etc.
Regulations, etc., to be made.
State laws not impaired.
Cooperation with State authorities.
Operation of present laws.
Punishment for violations, etc.
Appropriation for expenses.
Invalidity of any clause, etc., not to affect remainder of Act.
Amendment, etc.
Cane sugar and cotton districts. Cooperative experiments for live stock production in. Erection of buildings, etc.
Dairying and live stock. Experiments in production in semi-arid and irrigated districts.
That not to exceed $60,000 of the lump-sum appropriations herein Motor vehicles. Allowance from lump-sum appropriations for. Provisos. Purchases limited. Report of expenditures for. Restriction not applicable for field work vehicles. Vol. 38, p. 508.
Detailed estimates for all officers, etc., to be submitted.
Statement of completed investigations.
Statement of expenditures. Restriction on paying salaries removed.
Detailed statement to be reported annually.
Vol. 23, p. 356, amended.
Contagious diseases of animals. Emergency appropriation for arresting, etc. Paying claims for animals destroyed, etc. Provisos. Appraisement of values. Unexpended balance reappropriated. Vol. 38, p. 1115.
Total carried by this bill for the Department of Agriculture, $26,948,852.
Military Academy appropriations.
Permanent establishment.
For pay of seven professors, $27,000: Professors, etc. Provisos. Promotion to colonel. Cadet store manager may be retired.
For pay of one chaplain, $2,400;
For pay of the master of the sword, $2,400;
For pay of cadets, $462,000: Cadets. Provisos Second examinations allowed, etc. Applicable to former cadets. Restriction. Eligibility for present vacancies in second lieutenants. Ante, p. 182.
Filipino cadets. Vol. 35, p. 441. Post, p. 552.
Extra pay for officers.
For pay of one commandant of cadets (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as captain, $1,100;
For pay of one professor of ordnance and science of gunnery (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500;
For pay of one professor of law (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500;
For pay of one professor of practical military engineering (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500;
For pay of twelve assistant professors (captains), in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $4,800;
For pay of two battalion commanders (majors), in addition to pay as captains, $1,200;
For pay of one senior assistant instructor of artillery tactics (captain), in addition to pay as first lieutenant, $400;
For pay of nine instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $4,900;
For pay of one adjutant, in addition to pay as captain or lieutenant, $600;
For pay of one quartermaster and commissary of cadets and treasurer, in addition to pay as captain, $600;
For pay of one line officer, on duty in quartermasters’ department at academy, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, $400;
For pay of one associate professor of mathematics (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600;
For pay of one associate professor of modern languages (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600;
For pay of one constructing quartermaster, in addition to his regular pay, $1,000;
Longevity.
Enlisted men.
Academy band.
Twelve enlisted musicians, at $45 each per month, $6,480;
Twelve enlisted musicians, at $36 each per month, $5,184;
Sixteen enlisted musicians, at $30 each per month, $5,760;
Additional pay for length of service, $5,124;
Field musicians.
Two corporals, $504;
Twenty-two privates, at $180 each, $3,960;
Additional pay for length of service, $664 ;
General Army service.
Forty sergeants, $14,400;
Twenty corporals, $5,040;
Three cooks, $1,080;
One hundred and eighty privates, $32,400;
Additional pay for length of service, $23,275;
Quartermaster duty.
Cavalry detachment.
One first sergeant, $540;
One stable sergeant, $360;
Five sergeants, $1,800;
Three cooks, $1,080;
Eleven corporals, $2,772;
Two trumpeters, $360;
Three horseshoers, $1,080;
One farrier, $252;
Two saddlers, $504;
One wagoner, $252;
One hundred privates (Cavalry), $18,000;
For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of mess, at $6 per month, $72;
Additional pay for length of service, $13,408;
For pay of Artillery detachment: Artillery detachment.
One first sergeant, $540;
One quartermaster sergeant, $360;
One stable sergeant, $360;
One chief mechanic, $288;
Nine sergeants, $3,240;
Three cooks, $1,080;
Sixteen corporals, $4,032;
Five mechanics, comprising one saddler, two horseshoers, and two mechanics, $1,476;
Two trumpeters, $360;
One hundred and two privates, $18,360;
One electrician sergeant, $540;
One electrician sergeant, second class, $432;
One master gunner, $480;
For additional pay for first and second class gunners, $3,600;
For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of detachment mess, at $6 per month, $72;
Additional pay for length of service, $8,932;
For pay of engineer detachment: Engineer detachment.
One first sergeant, at $45 per month, $540;
One quartermaster sergeant, at $36 per month, $432;
Eight sergeants, at $36 each per month, $3,456;
Ten corporals, at $24 each per month, $2,880;
Two cooks, at $30 each per month, $720;
Two musicians, at $15 each per month, $360;
Thirty-eight privates, first class, at $18 each per month, $8,208;
Thirty-eight privates, second class, at $15 each per month, $6,840;
For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of detachment mess, at $6 per month, $72;
Additional pay for length of service, $8,604;
Additional pay of marksmen, sharpshooters, and expert riflemen, Marksmen, etc.
Travel allowances to enlisted men on discharge, $1,390; Travel, etc., on discharge.
Clothing not drawn due enlisted men on discharge, $9,051.60;
Interest on deposits due enlisted men, $950.16;
For extra pay of four enlisted men employed as clerks in the office Extra pay, enlisted men.
For extra pay of two enlisted men employed as clerks in the office of the commandant of cadets, at 50 cents each per day, Sundays and legal holidays included, $365;
For extra pay of five enlisted men, at Headquarters United States Military Academy, four as printers and one as assistant to bookbinder, at 50 cents each per day, $782.50;
For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as watchman, at 35 cents per day, $191.63;
For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as trumpeter at the cadet barracks, at 35 cents per day, $159.80;
For extra pay of two enlisted men employed in the department of philosophy, at 50 cents each per day, $313;
For extra pay of two enlisted men employed in the chemical department, at 50 cents each per day, $313;
For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of drawing, at 50 cents per day, $156.50;
For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the mathematical department, at 50 cents per day, $156.50;
For extra pay of five ordnance soldiers employed one as draftsman in charge of museum, one as machinist, one as clerk, one in the department of ordnance and gunnery, and one as skilled attendant in the museum, at 50 cents each per day, $782.50;
For extra pay of seven enlisted men (cavalrymen) employed, two when performing especially skilled mechanical labor, one as saddler, one in charge of property and saddle equipment pertaining to riding and equitation other than military, one sergeant in charge of stables and horses, one clerk, and one in charge of new riding hall and property, and property contained therein, $1,173.50;
For extra pay of thirteen enlisted men (cavalrymen)—two teamsters, nine laborers employed in keeping clean the equipment used by cadets in riding and equitation other than military, and two laborers for harrowing, sprinkling, and assisting in caring for the riding hall, at 35 cents each per day, $1,460.48;
For extra pay of one enlisted man on duty in charge of engineer property and fatigue, at 50 cents per day, $156.50;
For extra pay of five enlisted men as assistants and attendants at the library, at 50 cents each per day, Sundays and legal holidays included, $912.50;
For extra pay of one enlisted man as clerk in the department of practical military engineering and to the officer in charge of waterworks, and works of construction at the Military Academy, at 50 cents per day, $156.50;
For extra pay of eight enlisted men (artillerymen), three performing extra mechanical labor, one sergeant in charge of stables, horses, and mules, one enlisted man employed as clerk and stenographer to senior assistant instructor of artillery tactics, and three enlisted men performing the duty of mechanics in the batteries, at 50 cents each per day, $1,304;
For extra pay of three teamsters (artillerymen), at 35 cents each per day, $383.25;
For extra pay of eight laborers (artillerymen), employed in keeping clean the equipment used by cadets, at 35 cents each per day, $876.40;
For extra pay of one enlisted man as messenger in the office of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, at 35 cents per day, $109.55;
For extra pay of three enlisted men employed as clerks in the office of the quartermaster and one as clerk in charge of clothing room in quartermaster’s storehouse, at 50 cents per day, $678;
For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of civil and military engineering, at 50 cents per day, $156.50;
For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as janitor and substitute teacher in the children’s school at 50 cents per day, $156.50;
For extra pay of one teamster (engineer soldier) employed in the department of practical military engineering, in connection with the water supply and on works of construction, at 35 cents per day, $127.75;
For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of modern languages, at 50 cents per day, $156.50;
For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of English and history, at 50 cents per day, $156.50;
Battalion sergeant major.
Proviso. Pay, etc.
For pay of one teacher of music, $1,700; Pay of civilians.
For pay of four clerks in the office of the quartermaster, as follows: One clerk, at $1,500; two, at $1,400 each; and one clerk and stenographer, at $1,200, $5,500;
For pay of nine clerks and stenographers employed at headquarters, United States Military Academy, in the offices of the superintendent and adjutant, as follows: One chief clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,500; two clerks, at $1,400 each; one clerk, at $1,200; and four clerks, at $1,000 each, $11,000;
For pay of one clerk to treasurer, $1,800;
For pay of one clerk and stenographer in the office of the commandant of cadets, $1,200;
For pay of two civilian instructors in French, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, $2,000 per year each, $4,000;
For pay of two civilian instructors in Spanish, at $2,000 per year each, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, $4,000;
For pay of two expert civilian instructors in fencing, broad-sword exercises, and other military gymnastics as may be required to perfect this part of the training of cadets, $3,000;
For pay of one professional civilian instructor in gymnastics, athletics, and swimming, $1,500;
For pay of one librarian, $3,000;
For pay of assistant librarian, $1,200;
For pay of custodian of gymnasium, $1,200;
For pay of one superintendent of gas works, $1,500;
For pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet barracks and office building, cadet hospital, chapel, and library, $1,800;
For pay of assistant engineer of same, $1,000;
For pay of eleven firemen, $7,920;
For pay of one draftsman in department of civil and military engineering, $1,200;
For pay of mechanic and attendant skilled in the technical preparations necessary to chemical and electrical lectures and to the instruction in mineralogy and geology, $1,200;
For pay of mechanic assistant in department of natural and experimental philosophy, $1,000;
For pay of one custodian of academy building, $1,000;
For pay of one electrician, $1,500;
For pay of one chief plumber, $1,500;
For pay of assistant plumber, $900;
For pay of one plumber’s helper, $600;
For pay of one scavenger, at $60 a month, $720;
For pay of chapel organist and choirmaster, $1,200: Chapel organist. Proviso. Allowances.
For pay of superintendent of post cemetery, $1,200;
For pay of engineer and janitor for Memorial Hall, $900;
For pay of printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,500;
For pay of one assistant printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,000;
For pay of one janitress, Memorial Hall, $600;
For pay of one master mechanic, $1,800;
For pay of attendant and skilled photographer in the department of drawing, $1,200;
For pay of one stenographer, typewriter, and attendant in charge of the library in the department of law, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $840;
For pay of one overseer of the waterworks, $720;
For pay of one engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus for the cadets’ mess, $840;
For pay of one copyist, stenographer, librarian, typewriter, and attendant in the department of modern languages, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $840;
For pay of one mechanic and attendant skilled in the operation necessary for the preparation of lectures and of material in the department of drawing, $720;
For pay of janitor for bachelor officers’ quarters, $600;
For pay of one chief engineer of-power plant, $2,400;
For pay of three engineers for power plant, $3,600;
For pay of two oilers for power plant, $1,440;
For pay of one attendant in the department of philosophy for the handling of models and materials used in the instruction of cadets, $480;
For pay of one copyist, typewriter, and attendant in the department of English and history, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $840;
For pay of one bookbinder at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,200;
For pay of two book sewers in bindery, $960;
For pay of one skilled pressman in the printing office, headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,000;
For pay of one charwoman, headquarters United States Military Academy, $480;
For pay of one messenger for the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $720;
For pay of one skilled copyist, confidential stenographer, librarian, typewriter, and attendant in the department of mathematics, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $840;
Accounting.
Current expenses.
Board of Visitors.
Superintendent.
Repairs and improvements.
Fuel, lighting, etc.
For gas pipes, gas and electric fixtures, electric lamps, telephone and lighting supplies, lamp-posts, gasometers and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, $6,500;
For installing electric fight and fixtures in buildings (officers’ quarters, hotel, and so forth) now without such fixtures, $11,800;
For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, $10,000;
For postage and telegrams, $375; Postage and telegrams.
For stationery, namely, blank books, paper, envelopes, steel pens, Stationery.
For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, including Pullman Transportation.
Printing: For printing and binding, type, materials for office, Printing,
For department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics: Tan bark Department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics.
For camp stools, camp and office furniture, and repairs to same; for doormats for cadet barracks, sinks, and cadet headquarters; for stationery, typewriting supplies and repairs, for use of instructor and assistant instructors of tactics; for books and maps, binding books, and mounting maps; for plumes, silk and worsted sashes for cadet officers and acting officers; for furniture, curtains, and rugs for cadet reception room; and contingencies, $1,750;
For the upkeep of athletic grounds, $500;
Gymnasium and athletic supplies: For repairs, new machines, athletic supplies, and fixtures for gymnasium; for foils, masks, belts, fencing gloves, fencing jackets, gaiters, sabers, and repairs; for repairs and improvements to dressing rooms, platform, and swimming tank, $3,500;
For repairs to saddles, bridles, purchase of leather, curb chains, bits, stirrups, and so forth, and to keep the same in repair, $250;
For purchase of carbons and for repairs and maintenance of searchlight for Coast Artillery night practice and for miscellaneous expenses connected with Coast Artillery fire-control stations, $125;
For repair of mattresses, machines, and for replacing worn-out articles in gymnasium of Cavalry barracks, $100;
For riding hall: Providing material for hurdles, and upkeep of wings, head posts, and so forth; repairing and maintaining electric lights and providing reflectors for same; and for painting knee-guard, $600;
For general repairs to cadet camp, including camp grounds, repairs to tent platforms, painting, shower baths, and underground sinks, and so forth, to be immediately available, $1,000;
For two hundred new tent floors for cadet camp, $3,000, to be immediately available;
For the purchase of thread, wax, needles for new blades, sharpening old blades, and spare parts and accessories for power clipping machines and saddler’s sewing machines in Cavalry and Artillery stables, $150;
For repairs to mattresses, machines, and for replacing worn-out articles in the drill hall and gymnasium of Artillery barracks, and for miscellaneous expenses connected therewith, $100;
For repair of mattresses, machines, and replacing worn-out articles in the drill hall and gymnasium pertaining to Engineer barracks, and for miscellaneous expenses connected therewith, $100;
Department of civil and military engineering.
Department of natural and experimental philosophy.
Department of mathematics.
Department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology.
Department of drawing.
For the purchase of the latest model sketching apparatus to complete the equipment of the drawing department necessary for the instruction of cadets in the course of topography, $1,000;
Department of modern languages.
Department of law.
Department of practical military engineering.
For department of ordnance and gunnery: For purchase, manufacture, Department of ordnance and gunnery.
For purchase of machines, tools, and material for practical instruction of cadets in wood and metal working, $500;
For department of military hygiene: For stationery, textbooks, Department of military hygiene.
For department of English and history: For purchase of stationery, Department of English and history.
For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets, Lectures.
Miscellaneous and incidental expenses.
For commercial periodicals, stationery, office furniture and supplies, Treasurer’s office.
For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, wicking and Lighting, plumbing, etc.
For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, $7,000;
For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings (not quarters), $4,050;
For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in same, $600;
Increase and expense of library, namely: Library.
For purchase, preservation, care, storage, binding and repair of books, periodicals, pamphlets, maps, pictures, and manuscripts; purchase of furniture, cases, stationery, and fittings; for expenses of making copies of military manuscripts in other libraries, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for; purchases to be made in open market on the written order of the superintendent, $7,200;
For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the Contingent, academic board.
Proviso. Technical supplies.
Purchase of instruments for band and repairs to same; for purchase Musical supplies.
Repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery and apparatus Laundry, kitchen, etc.
Repair and purchase of cooking utensils, chairs, tables, and other furniture in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $2,600;
Policing.
Cadets barracks.
Children’s school.
Fire protection.
Proviso. Periodicals.
Buildings and grounds.
Ordnance museum, laboratory, etc.
For repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to the department of ordnance and gunnery, and materials for roads and walks, and for repairs to machinery and tools, $150;
For general repairs to the cadet laundry building, and for emergency incidental expenses about building, to be expended without advertising, $400;
For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe-repairing shops, $500;
Soldiers’ hospital.
Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, droplights, tubing, mantels, and so forth; for paraffin and turpentine for waxing floors; for brushes, paints, glass, putty, and for general repairs; for materials for rebronzing radiators; and for purchase of flowers, fruit trees, shrubs, plants, and so forth, for hospital grounds, $165;
For general repairs to the building, and so forth, $1,192.20;
For the repair and upkeep of quarters of the sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps, at soldiers’ hospital: For miscellaneous minor repairs and general upkeep of quarters, and so forth, and putting on new tin roof, $590.40;
Waterworks.
Cadet mess.
For repairs to cadet mess building, $2,000;
For repairs and improvements to the West Point Army mess building, including supplying and renewing furniture, $1,029;
For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows:
Cadet hospital.
For repainting the entire metal roof of the building, and repairing and rebuilding chimneys, $325;
For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, $100;
For installing fire escape at cadet hospital, $350:
For the repair and upkeep of quarters of the sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps, at the cadet hospital, $50;
Repairs to cadet barracks: Cadet barracks.
For repairing and renewing plastering, painting, and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and other incidental repairs to the building, to be immediately available, $15,000;
For repairs to the children’s school building, $1,470; School building.
For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, Cemetery.
For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous Wall, roads, etc.
For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks, roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, $10,000;
For repair and supplies of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, Machinery, etc.
For repairs to steward’s quarters, cadet mess, to be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $150;
For the repair, improvement, and maintenance of the cadet polo field, and for the purchase of blackboards, gongs, and other necessary material for same, $600;
For waterproofing the post headquarters and bachelor buildings, $2,000;
For installation of automatic stokers under four four hundred and Automatic stokers.
For steel furniture, shelving, and filing cabinets for offices of Office furniture.
For construction of retaining wall for earth slope behind officers’ Retaining wall.
For reconstruction of Artillery stable, practically destroyed by fire Reconstructing artillery stable, etc.
For alterations and repairs to quarters forty-one, $760.60;
For purchase of one pneumatic flusher, $900;
For one eight-ton road roller, $2,850; Road roller.
For steel cases for the Warner house on Constitution Island, to Warner house.
For material and labor for construction of moving target on Cro Moving target.
For carrying on the development of the general plan for improvements Improving grounds.
For the care and maintenance of organ in the cadet chapel, $250;
The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to appoint three Board to report plan for extension, etc. Ante, p. 62.
Provisos. Funds accounted as “Maintenance.”
Settlement of accounts with Department bureaus, etc.
Maj. B. T. Clayton. Credit in accounts.
J. Ricardo de Borja, of Ecuador, admitted for instruction. Provisos. No expense, etc. Oath and service.
[S. 2500]
Navajo Indian Reservation, Ariz.
Prior homestead entries allowed on lands withdrawn for.
[S. 4594]
Naturalization of aliens.
Declarations of intention filed in certain counties of Montana, validated.
Vol. 34, p. 30.
Vol. 35, p. 1102; Vol. 36, p. 831; Vol. 37, p. 737.
Rehearings.
Provisos.
Applicable only to entrymen.
Public lands.
Granted to Oregon for public park.
Description.
Provisos.
Reversion for nonuser.
Telegraph, etc., line rights reserved.
Valid claims excepted.
Proviso.
Condition.
Reclamation Service.
Sale of railroad in Boise project, Idaho, constructed by.
Vol. 32, p. 388.
Property included.
Auction sale.
Proceeds to irrigation project.
Provisos.
Rejection of bids.
Private sale.
Terms, etc.
State irrigation districts.
Public lands within, subject to State laws.
Provisos.
Rights, etc., of owners.
Lands excepted.
That the cost of constructing, acquiring, purchasing, or Charges, etc., to be apportioned. Lists to land offices. United States not liable.
That all charges legally assessed shall be a lien upon unentered Liens for charges. Enforcement on unpatented lands. Proviso. Conditions of tax titles. Lands in irrigation projects. Vol. 32, p. 388. Rights as assignee. Vol. 36, p. 592. Issue of patent.
Plans, etc., for irrigation subject to approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
Provisos.
Release of lien if work not constructed.
Lands subject to taxes on approval of plans, etc.
Record of approval in land offices.
Unentered lands.
Tax a continuing lien.
Payment by entrymen required.
Unpatented lands not in irrigation projects.
Issue of patents.
Vol. 32, p. 388.
That any entered but unpatented lands not subject to the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), sold in the manner and for the purposes mentioned in this Act may be patented to the purchaser thereof or his assignee at any time after the expiration of the period of redemption allowed by law under which it may have been sold (no redemption having been made) upon the payment to the receiver of the local land office of the minimum price of $1.25 per acre, or such other price as may be fixed by law for such lands, together with the usual fees and commissions Qualifications, etc.
Application.
Subsequent purchase if fees not paid. Payment of irrigation charges, etc.
In any case where any tract of entered land lying within such Disposal of vacant entered lands.
Issue of notices.
Appeals, etc.
Disposal of receipts.
Rosebud Band of Sioux Indians, S. Dak.
Payments to certain enrolled members.
Amount.
Proviso.
Attorneys’ fees.
Missouri River.
Missouri River Transportation Company may bridge, Sheridan County to Richland County, Mont.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Yellowstone River.
Savage Bridge Company may bridge, Richland County, Mont.
Location.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Red River of the North.
Hendrum, Minn., and Elm River, N. Dak., may bridge.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Red River of the North.
Traill County, N. Dak., may bridge, Caledonia.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, by Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company, at Kansas City, Mo.
Vol. 38, pp. 386, 1186, amended.
Amendment.
Red Lake River.
Highlanding Minn., may bridge.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
West Branch of Susquehanna River.
Lycoming County, Pa., may bridge, Williamsport to Duboistown.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
West Branch of Susquehanna River.
Lycoming County, Pa., may bridge, Montgomery to Muncy Creek.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
West Branch of Susquehanna River.
Northumberland and Union Counties, Pa., may bridge, Watsontown to White Deer.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Flint River.
Crisp County, Ga., may bridge, Huguenins Ferry.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Red River of the North.
Traill County, N. Dak., and Polk County, Minn., may bridge, Bellmont, N. Dak.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
War Risk Insurance Bureau.
Time for suspension extended.
Vol. 38, p. 712, amended.
Post, p. 1131
Premiums and salvage to credit of appropriation for losses.
Public lands.
Settlers on former Fort Niobrara Reservation, Nebr., allowed extension of time for payments.
Vol. 37, p. 651.
[S. 5172]
District of Columbia.
Daughters of Amercan Revolution exempted from real estate tax.
Post, p. 1009.
Vol. 19, p. 399.
Church rectories,, etc., exempted.
Provisos.
Ownership.
Limitation.
That the following described Teton National Forest, Wyo. Lands added to.
All of section four; east half; east half northwest quarter; east Description.
The south half; south half northeast quarter; southeast quarter northwest quarter of section nine; all of section sixteen; southeast quarter; southeast quarter northeast quarter; southeast quarter southwest quarter of section seventeen; south half ; south half northwest quarter; south half northeast quarter of section nineteen, all in township forty-one north, range one hundred and fifteen west of the sixth principal meridian, State of Wyoming.
The southeast quarter; south half northeast quarter; southeast quarter northwest quarter; east half southwest quarter of section twenty-four; all of section twenty-five; the southeast quarter; east half northeast quarter of section twenty-six; the south half southwest quarter; south half southeast quarter of section thirty-three; the south half southwest quarter; south half southeast quarter of section thirty-four; all of section thirty-five; all of section thirty-six, all in township forty-one north, range one hundred and sixteen west of the sixth principal meridian, State of Wyoming.
The east half southeast quarter of section one; east half; east half northwest quarter; east half southwest quarter of section twelve; all of section thirteen; east half southeast quarter; southeast quarter northeast quarter of section twenty-three; all of section twenty-four; all of section twenty-five; east half; southwest quarter of section twenty-six; all of section thirty-five; all of section thirty-six, all in township forty-two north, range one hundred and fifteen west of the sixth principal meridian, State of Wyoming.
Wyoming National Forest.
Lands added to.
Yuma irrigation project, Ariz.
Settlers within, allowed credit for residence, etc., on farm unit ntry.
Vol. 32, p. 388.
Patents, etc.
Time extended for filing applications, etc., delayed by existing war.
Vol. 29, p. 693.
Ante, p. 348.
Reciprocal extension abroad to citizens required.
Restriction.
Limitation.
[S. 1159]
Coos Head Military Reservation, Oreg.
Marshfield and North Bend granted use of, for public park.
Improvements, etc., authorized.
Designated.
Government uses reserved.
Provisos.
No United States pecuniary liability.
Grant temporary.
[S. 1351]
Public lands.
Development of water holes, etc., on arid lands.
Erection of signboards, etc.
Means of utilizing.
Distribution of information, etc.
Expenditure authorized.
Punishment for malicious injuries, etc.
Regulations, etc.
[S. 5466]
Abandoned military reservations, Nevada.
Agricultural lands in, opened to entry.
Proviso.
Restricted to desert lands.
Vol. 19, p. 377.
[S. 5976]
That section two of an Act District of Columbia. Baltimore and Washington Transit Company. Vol. 29, p. 264.
Construction and motive power.
Vol. 35, p. 473, amended.
That section four of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Former restriction repealed. Vol. 29, p. 264. Proviso. Construction, etc., subject to Public Utilities Commission, etc.
[S. 6308]
Shoshone Indian Reservation, Wyo.
Oil and gas leases on ceded lands of, authorized.
Proceeds to Indians.
Vol. 33, p. 1020.
Proviso.
Prior rights not affected.
Royalties.
Terms, etc.
[S. 6372]
Spanish River.
Baldwin and Mobile Counties, Ala., may bridge.
Location.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 20]
Public lands.
Granted to Gunnison County, Colo., for public park.
Description.
Payment.
Prior rights not affected.
Provisos.
Oil, etc., deposits reserved.
Use restricted.
Reversion.
Spokane Indian Reservation, Wash.
Appropriation for roads in, from tribal funds.
Proviso.
Contribution by Stevens County.
District of Columbia,
Public Utilities Commission.
Express companies excluded from jurisdiction of.
Vol. 37, p. 975, amended.
Crater Lake National Park, Oreg.
Sole jurisdiction over, ceded by Oregon to United States.
State process, etc.
Jurisdiction of Oregon judicial district.
Punishments under Oregon laws.
Hunting, fishing, etc., prohibitions.
Regulations, etc.
Evidence of violations.
Punishment for violations.
Forfeiture of guns, traps, etc.
That the United States District Court for Oregon shall Commissioner. Appointment, authority, etc.
Such commissioner shall have power, upon sworn information, Judicial power in violations of rules, etc.
In all cases of conviction an appeal shall lie from the judgment of Appeals.
Procedure in criminal cases.
Proviso.
Bail.
Service of process.
Salary.
Provisos.
Residence.
Disposal of fees, etc.
United States fees, etc.
Deposit of fines and costs.
Acceptance of cession.
Public lands.
Flandreau, S. Dak., granted lot for public park.
Description.
Hawaii.
Act of legislature granting gas franchise, South Hilo, ratified, etc.
John T. Baker.
Franchise granted, for gas manufacture.
Buildings, etc.
Laying pipes, etc.
Provisos.
Additions, etc.
Replacing streets, etc.
Condition.
Bond.
Meters, charges, etc.
Provisos.
Prices, etc.
Regulation by public utilities commission.
Ante, p. 38.
Cutting off service.
General restrictions.
Commencement and completion.
Mortgages, etc.
Exemption from Territorial taxes.
Payment to county.
Annual statements required.
The association shall, within one month after the expiration of each calendar year, file with the board of supervisors a detailed statement showing all of its receipts and expenditures during the preceding calendar year; and all of its books, papers, records, and accounts shall, at all reasonable times, be open to inspection by the public utilities commission, the board, and their respective agents Issue of stock and bonds.
Stockholders forbidden construction contracts.
Amendment, etc.
The Territory of Hawaii, the county of Hawaii, or any Purchase by Territory, etc.
The amount to be paid to the association for such purchase shall be Determination of amount.
Either the association or the purchaser may appeal to the Supreme Appeal, etc.
Within six months after the determination of the purchase price as Franchise to cease on purchase. Conveyances.
Canal Zone.
Sanitation, etc., regulations subject to the President.
Punishments for violations.
Taxes.
Limit.
Public roads.
Regulations, etc.
Automobile tax.
Agreement with Panama.
Enforcement of police power.
Punishment for violating regulations, etc.
Deposit money orders.
Payment of interest.
Customs fees, etc.
Seamen regulations.
Immigration, etc., restrictions.
Deportations.
Withholding clearances.
Punishment for violations.
Punishment for injuring Panama Canal, etc.
Causing death.
Conflicting laws repealed.
Mahoning River.
Trumbull County may bridge, Warren, Ohio.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Preamble.
Newark, N. J.
Postal canceling stamp for two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration.
[S. 5425]
Lime barrels.
Standard sizes established.
Sales in interstate and foreign commerce without specified marking, unlawful.
Marking required if fractional parts of small barrel.
Regulations, etc., to be made.
Variations allowed.
Interstate shipments unmarked, etc., unlawful.
When less than standard.
Penalty.
Prosecutions.
Proviso.
Penalities effective January 1, 1917.
Effect.
United States courts.
Exemption of docketing liens, etc., of, in State courts, repealed.
Vol. 28, p. 813, repealed.
In effect January 1, 1917.
Fort Mifflin, Pa.
Right of way through, granted to Philadelphia.
Purposes, etc.
Provisos.
Location, etc.
Conditions.
Government use reserved.
Amendment.
Judicial Code.
Vol. 36, p. 1097, amended.
Removal of causes from State courts.
Suits or prosecutions of revenue officers.
Federal court officers.
Officers of Congress.
Petition, etc.
Certiorari to State court for record, etc.
Capias proceedings.
Duty of marshal
Duty of plaintiff.
Colorado River.
Needles and Oatman Bridge Company may bridge, Needles, Cal.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Savannah River.
A. N. Alford may bridge, Browns Ferry, Ga.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Flood sufferers, West Virginia.
Relief of.
Ante, p. 434.
[S. 5202]
Saint Croix River.
Dams authorized across, Bayley ville and Grand Falls, Me.
Provisos.
Approval by International Joint Commission.
Vol. 36, p. 2450.
Plans, etc., to be approved by Secretary of War.
Subject to laws regulating dams.
Vol. 36, p. 593.
Amendment.
National Park Service established.
Director, etc., to be appointed.
Proviso.
Limit for experts, etc.
Purpose defined.
Director.
Control of national parks, monuments, etc.
Ante, pp. 23, 309.
Proviso.
National monuments contiguous to national forests.
Regulations for management, etc., to be made.
Punishment for violations.
Vol. 36, p. 857.
Disposal of timber.
Leases, etc., for accommodating visitors.
Proviso.
Grazing permits.
Yellowstone Park excepted.
Rights of way not affected.
Vol. 31, p. 790.
Connecticut River.
Hampden County and Springfield, Mass., may bridge.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
District of Columbia.
Washington and Old Dominion, and Washington-Virginia Railway Companies.
Public Utilities Commission excluded from control of, outside the District.
Vol. 37, p. 975, amended.
Ante, p. 13.
Aids to navigation.
That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to establish, provide, or improve the
Light keepers’ dwellings and appurtenant structures, including sites Keepers’ dwellings, etc. Vol. 34, p. 996.
Constructing and equipping light vessels for general service on the Light vessels.
Second district.
Constructing and equipping a lighthouse depot for the second Depot.
Third district.
Constructing, or purchasing, and equipping a lighthouse tender to Tender.
Improving the light station, moving the fog signal, and constructing Great Salt Pond, R. I.
Improvement of the offices and laboratory at the general lighthouse Tompkinsville, N. Y., depot.
Improving the aids to navigation on the East River, New York, East River, N. Y.
Fifth district.
Constructing and equipping a light vessel for station off Cape Vessel, Cape Charles, Va.
Improving lights and fog signals leading to Cape Charles City, Cape Charles City, Va.
Improving aids to navigation and establishing new aids on the Chesapeake Bay, eastern shore.
Ninth district.
Removal and rebuilding on another site of the light station and Point Borinquen, P. R.
Tenth district.
Aids to navigation at Huron Harbor, Ohio, $4,500. Huron, Ohio.
Improving the aids to navigation at Fairport Harbor, Ohio, Fairport, Ohio.
Eleventh district.
Improving aids to navigation and establishing new aids at or near Keweenaw Harbor of Refuge, Mich.
Improvement at Detroit, Michigan, lighthouse depot, $53,000. Detroit, Mich., depot.
Light station and fog signal at or near Sand Hills, Michigan, Sand Hills, Mich.
Twelfth district.
Improving the light and fog-signal station at Manitowoc North Manitowoc, Wis.
Removing and rebuilding Chicago Harbor Light Station, Illinois, Chicago, Ill.
Establishing and improving aids to navigation at Indiana Harbor, Indiana Harbor, Ind.
Sixteenth district.
Alaska.
Seventeenth district.
Additional aids, etc.
Nineteenth district.
Honolulu, Hawaii. Temporary depot.
Depot. Proviso. Use of naval lands.
Exchanges of rights of way authorized.
Expenses.
Post lantern lights authorized.
Motor cycle for Hawaiian Islands authorized.
Keepers, etc.
Treatment at marine hospitals, etc.
Proviso.
Physical examination of new appointments required.
Radio equipment for seagoing vessels.
[S. 19]
Bills of lading.
Issued in interstate and foreign commerce governed hereby.
Straight bills defined.
Order bills defined.
Negotiability.
Issues in part for continental use forbidden.
Proviso.
For insular, etc., use permitted.
Duplicates.
Character to be noted.
Liability for failure.
Proviso.
Not applicable to insular, etc., use.
That a straight bill shall have placed plainly upon its Straight bills. Nonnegotiability to be marked.
This section shall not apply, however, to memoranda or acknowledgments of an informal character.
Order bills.
Notification request not to affect.
Delivery of goods by carrier.
Offer to pay charges.
Surrender of bill.
Receipt for delivery.
Effect of refusal.
Person entitled to delivery.
Owner.
Consignee.
Legal possessor of order bill.
Liability for unauthorized delivery.
Delivery after notice.
By person.
Information against.
Notice requirements.
Liability if bill not taken up and canceled.
Post. p. 542.
Partial delivery.
Requirements.
Canceling bill.
Statement of part delivered.
Liability for failure.
Alterations, etc., void.
Lost, etc., order bills.
Delivery of goods on order of court.
That where an order bill has been lost, stolen, or destroyed a court of competent jurisdiction may order the delivery of the goods upon satisfactory proof of such loss, theft, or destruction and upon the giving of a bond, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the court, to protect the carrier or any person injured by such delivery from any liability or loss incurred by reason of the original bill remaining outstanding. The court may also in its discretion order Proviso. Voluntary indemnifying bond.
The delivery of the goods under an order of the court, as provided Rights of purchaser without notice, etc.
Liability for duplicate bills.
Liability for refusing delivery of goods.
Protection if adverse claims made.
Time allowed to ascertain owner.
Enforcing rights of third persons.
Responsibility for goods.
When loaded by carrier.
Loaded by shipper in packages or bulk.
Effect of “Shipper’s weight, load, and count.”
Proviso.
Responsibility when shipper affords weighing facilities.
Liability of carrier for acts of agents.
Protection against attachment.
Legal rights of creditors.
Limit of carrier’s lien.
Carrier not liable if goods lawfully sold.
Negotiation of order bills.
Blank indorsement.
Indorsement to order.
Transfer of bill.
Straight bills subject to equities.
Negotiation of bills by possessor.
Rights of purchaser.
Title to goods.
Obligation of carrier.
That a person to whom a bill has been transferred, but not Rights of transferee if bill not negotiated. Notification to carrier.
Prior to the notification of the carrier by the transferor or transferee Attachment, etc., before notice.
A carrier has not received notification within the meaning of this Notification required.
Order bills.
Indorsement.
Warrant of transferor.
Limit of indorser’s liability.
Responsibility of holder of bill for security, etc.
Validity of negotiation by purchaser for value, etc., of bill wrongfully sold.
Validity of negotiation by purchaser for value, etc., if goods mortgaged, etc.
Purchaser for value, etc., exempt from seller’s liens, etc., on goods.
Rights of mortgagees and hen holders.
Punishment for counterfeiting, etc., bills.
Issuing false statements.
Violating provisions of this Act.
First. That in this Act, unless the context of subject Meaning of words used.
“Action” includes counterclaim, set-off, and suit in equity.
“Bill” means bill of lading governed by this Act.
“Consignee” means the person named in the bill as the person to whom delivery of the goods is to be made.
“Consignor” means the person named in the bill as the person from whom the goods have been received for shipment.
“Goods” means merchandise or chattels in course of transportation or which have been or are about to be transported.
“Holder” of a bill means a person who has both actual possession of such bill and a right of property therein.
“Order” means an order by indorsement on the bill.
“Person” includes a corporation or partnership, or two or more persons having a joint or common interest.
To “purchase” includes to take as mortgagee and to take as pledgee.
“State” includes any Territory, District, insular possession, or isthmian possession.
Prior bills not affected.
Invalidity of any part, etc., not to affect remainder of Act.
In effect January first after passage.
[S. 381]
Philippine Government.
Preamble.
Philippine Islands.
Territory included as.
Vol. 30, p. 1755.
Vol 31, p. 1942.
Philippine citizenship.
Requisites for.
Vol. 30, p. 1754.
Proviso.
Subsequent acquisition by law.
Declaration of rights.
Protection of life, liberty, and property.
That no law shall be enacted in said islands which shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or deny to any person therein the equal protection of the laws. Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.
Criminal prosecutions.
Trials.
Bail, exceptions.
Contracts.
Imprisonment for debt.
Writs of habeas corpus.
Ex post facto laws, etc.
Titles of nobility, etc.
Excessive bail, etc.
Seizures, etc.
Slavery prohibited.
Freedom of speech, etc.
Religious freedom, etc. Polygamy.
That no money shall be paid out of the treasury except in pursuance Appropriations.
That the ride of taxation in said islands shall be uniform. Uniform taxation.
That no bill which may be enacted into law shall embrace more Enactment of laws.
That no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported Search warrants.
That all money collected on any tax levied or assessed for a special Special taxes.
Payment of expenses by Philippine Government.
Exception.
General laws of the United States not applicable.
Present Philippine laws continued.
That the legislative authority herein provided shall have Amendments, etc., by legislature.
This power shall specifically extend with the limitation herein Revenue and tax laws.
Philippine Legislature.
General powers.
United States property rights transferred.
Vol. 30, p. 1755.
Exceptions.
Lands from religious orders, etc.
Vol. 32, p. 706.
Disposal of public lands.
Provisos.
Approval by the President.
Subsequent transfers of reserved lands.
Trade relations subject to United States laws.
Provisos.
Approval of tariff, immigration, etc,, laws.
Action of the President.
No export tax.
Imposition of other taxes, etc.
Bonds, etc., authorized.
Proviso.
Limitations.
Philippine Legislature.
Constitution of.
Proviso.
Temporary continuance of present authorities.
Jurisdiction, etc., of Commission to cease.
Senate.
Term of members, etc.
Qualifications.
House of representatives.
Term of members, etc.
Qualifications.
Proviso.
Term of members of present assembly.
That at the first election held pursuant to this act, the Qualification of voters. First election. Subsequent.
Every male person who is not a citizen or subject of a foreign Citizenship and residence.
Present voters.
Property, etc.
Literacy.
That the Philippine Islands shall be divided into twelve Senate districts.
First district : Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Ilocos Norte, and Ilocos Sur.
Second district: La Union, Pangasinan, and Zambales.
Third district: Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, and Bulacan.
Fourth district: Bataan, Rizal, Manila, and Laguna.
Fifth district: Batangas, Mindoro, Tayabas, and Cavite.
Sixth district: Sorsogon, Albay, and Ambos Camarines.
Seventh district: Iloilo and Capiz.
Eighth district: Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, Antique, and Palawan.
Ninth district: Leyte and Samar.
Tenth district: Cebu.
Eleventh district: Surigao, Misamis, and Bohol.
Twelfth district: The Mountain Province, Baguio, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Department of Mindanao and Sulu.
Representative districts.
First election. Provisos. Term of senators. Appointive members. Elections hereafter.
Terms of elective members.
Appointive members.
Rights of membership, etc.
That the senate and house of representatives, respectively, shall be the sole judges of the elections, returns, and qualifications of their elective members, and each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with Meetings and organization. Sessions. Annual. Special. Limit.
The senators and representatives shall receive an annual compensation Pay of members. Immunity from arrest, etc.
No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he Ineligibility for created office, etc.
That each house of the legislature shall keep a journal of Legislative proceedings. Consideration of vetoed measure. Transmittal to the President. Provisos. Bills, etc., not returned by Governor General. Action of the President. Veto of separate items in appropriation hills.
All laws enacted by the Philippine Legislature shall be reported to Laws to be reported to Congress. Appropriations for government expenses, continued.
Resident Commissioners to the United States.
Election and recognition.
Pay and allowances.
Eligibility, etc.
Term of present Commissioners.
Vacancies.
Governor General.
Executive power vested in.
Appointment, etc.
Residence.
Appointments authorized by.
General powers.
Suppression of violence, etc.
Proviso.
Notification to the President, etc.
Annual report.
Executive departments continued.
Termination of Philippine Commission.
Provisos.
Continuance of present officials, etc.
Supervision, etc.
Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes established.
That there shall be appointed by the President, by and Vice governor. Appointment and duties. Department, of public instruction under.
Other bureaus now included in the department of public instruction Department of the interior.
The President may designate the head of an executive department Temporary Governor General.
That there shall be appointed by the President an auditor, Auditor. Appointment by the President. General duties.
Preservation, of accounts.
Notices of irregular, etc., expenses.
Deputy auditor.
Administrative jurisdiction of auditor over accounts. Proviso. Additional reports from officers.
Effect of decisions. Direct settlement of claims, etc.
Annual report.
Administration of oaths, etc.
Office supervision, etc.
Appeals from auditor’s decisions, etc.
That any person aggrieved by the action or decision of the auditor in the settlement of his account or claim may, within one year, take an appeal in writing to the Governor General, which appeal shall specifically set forth the particular action of the auditor to which exception is taken, with the reason and authorities relied on for reversing such decision.
If the Governor General shall confirm the action of the auditor, Action on appeal. Final decision by Secretary of War.
Jurisdiction of courts.
Municipal courts.
Appointments.
Supreme court.
First instance courts.
Proviso.
Admiralty jurisdiction.
Pending cases.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Jurisdiction specified.
Post, p. 727.
Public utilities.
Grant of franchises, etc., authorized.
Provisos.
General restrictions.
Subject to action by Congress.
Stock and bond limitations, etc.
Labor conditions.
Penalty for violations.
Salaries.
Determined by legislation.
Officers, etc., appointed by the President.
Specified.
Provincial and municipal officials.
Laws not conflicting continued.
Naval service appropriations.
Pay, miscellaneous.
The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginning Schedule of all pay and allowances to be sent to Congress.
For commissions and interests; transportation of funds; exchange; Miscellaneous expenses. Information from abroad, etc. Provisos. Allowance for clerical, etc., services at yards, etc. Interned persons, etc. Accounting without vouchers for information from abroad. Leaves of absence to civilian employees outside continental limits. Cumulation permitted.
Treatment of interned insane.
Chief of Naval Operations. To rank as admiral. Effect of orders from. Details for duty with. Provisos. Rank if appointed from captain. Retirement.
Assistant chiefs for specified bureaus. Other designation by the President. Assistant to Judge Advocate General.
Drafting, technical and inspection force. Allowances from lump sum appropriations.
Contingent.
Civilian Naval Consulting Board.
Fuel oil and gasoline. Investigation and adaptation of. Equipment plant, etc.
Aviation. General expenses. Proviso. Technical, etc., services.
Advisory committee for aeronautics. Expenses, employees, etc. Post, p. 1170.
Naval Militia. Arming, equipping; pay, etc. Vol. 38, p. 286. Post, p. 595. Post, p. 600. Naval Militia Board. Naval Militia Affairs Division. Ante, p. 98. Retainer pay. Post, p. 593.
For the purchase, repair, and alteration of a ship for the Naval Ships for Illinois and Minnesota.
State marine schools. Reimbursing New York and Massachusetts. Vol. 36, p. 1353.
Lepers. Care, etc., Culion, P. I.
Naval lands. Leases of unused, authorized. Provisos. Oil, etc., lands excluded. Deposit of receipts.
Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation.
Recruiting. Provisos. Discharge after one year’s sea service. Post, p. 1171. Personal status. Condition. Postmasters paid for enlisting recruits.
Contingent.
Gunnery and engineering exercises.
Outfits.
Naval auxiliaries.
Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for Equipment supplies, instruments, etc.
Ocean and lake surveys Proviso. Details to Hydrographic Office.
Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval Training stations. Yerba Buena Island, Cal.
Coasters Harbor Island, R. I. Proviso. Clerical, etc., services.
Great Lakes. Proviso. Clerical, etc., services.
Saint Helena, Va.
Naval War College, R. I. Proviso. Clerical, etc., services.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. Pay of employees.
Maintenance. Payable from naval pension fund. Proviso. Return to fund of moneys received, etc.
Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and Ordnance stores. Passenger vehicles, etc. Proviso. Chemical, etc., services.
Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $1,800,000: Smokeless powder. Provisos. Price limited. Purchasse subject to full operation of Indianhead factory.
Naval Gun Factory, D. C. Machinery.
Puget Sound, Wash., magazine.
Projectile plant. Erection and equipment of. Post, p. 1175.
Armor plant. Erection or purchase authorized. Location. Appropriation. Acquirement of site. Technical, etc., services.
Cost per ton of product to be reported.
Liners for eroded guns.
Batteries for merchant auxiliaries.
Ammunition for ships.
Torpedoes and appliances.
Air compressors for destroyers.
Torpedo nets for battleships.
Reserve ordnance supplies.
Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. General expenses.
Machinery, etc.
Experimental work.
Contingent building fund.
Repairs.
Contingent.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance. Vehicles. Provisos. Clerical, etc., services. Exchange of worn-out motor vehicles.
Contingent.
Public works.
Portsmouth, N. H.
Boston, Mass.
New York, N. Y.
Philadelphia, Pa.
For the purchase of ground adjoining Quartermaster’s Depot, Post, p. 1177.
Washington, D. C.
For the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of such lands in Additional lands for navy yard. Purchase, etc. Balances reappropriated, Vol. 34, p. 1187. Vol. 36, p. 615. Railroad siding to navy yard. Vol. 36, p. 615, amended. Location. Provisos. Right of way. Title. Location over pub lie grounds. Purchase or condemnation of right of way. Use of appropriations. Construction of bridge across Anacostia River. Vol. 34, p. 84. Use of present track during construction of new. Removal after completion. Right to amend, etc. Condemnation proceedings if necessary. Vol. 26, p. 412. Wharves, structures, etc., of present occupants included. Closing of streets, etc., within area acquired. Reserved for naval purposes. Use of balances. Lease of water front to Lewis E. Smoot. Surrender by him of present lease.
Norfolk, Va.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to lease for a period not to Lease for storage.
Naval Academy.
Port Royal, S. C.
Charleston, S. C.
Dredging Cooper River, approach to navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, $175,000.
Pensacola, Fla. Repairs, aeronautic station.
New Orleans, La. Repairing hurricane damages. Vol. 38, p. 770.
Mare Island, Cal.
Land for aviation base, etc., San Diego County, Cal. Proviso. Donation from San Diego.
Puget Sound, Wash.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Cayey, P. R. Part of Army barracks, transferred to Navy.
Description.
Oahu, Hawaii. Naval reservation on Fords Island transferred to Army, in part.
Description. Provisos. Naval rights reserved. Right of way to reservation.
Tutuila, Samoa.
Guam.
Guns and munitions storage at designated yards, etc.
Hingham, Mass., naval magazine.
Indianhead, Md., proving ground. Passenger bridge. Proviso. Construction.
Fort Mifflin, Pa., naval magazine.
Iona Island, N. Y., naval magazine.
Lake Denmark, N. J., naval magazine.
Keyport, Wash., naval magazine.
Kuahua, Hawaii, naval magazine.
Mare Island, Cal., naval magazine.
Newport, R. I., torpedo station.
Saint Juliens Creek, Va., naval magazine.
Puget Sound, Wash., naval magazine.
Fuel depots.
Melville, R. I., coaling station.
Torpedo storage. Former appropriation available. Vol. 38, p. 935.
Naval hospitals. Canacao, P. I.
Chelsa, Mass.
Mare Island, Cal.
Newport, R. I.
Guam, marine barracks.
Experimental and research laboratory. Equipment, operation, etc. Provisos. Continuance of other experiments. Statement of expenditures.
California training station.
New York naval hospital.
Repairs and preservation.
Total public works, $8,350,875, and the amounts herein appropriated Amounts available until expended.
The President is hereby authorized to appoint a commission of five Commission to report on necessity, etc., for additional yard on Pacific coast. Designation of site, etc. Basis of consideration. Estimates, etc.
Said commission shall also investigate and report upon the necessity, Necessity for additional yards on Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea coasts.
Said commission shall also investigate and report as to the necessity, Submarine and aviation bases.
Provided, That the sum of $10,000 is hereby appropriated to defray Amount for expenses.
Said commission shall also investigate and report as to the necessity, Advisability of abolishing present yards, etc.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Surgeons’ necessaries. Civil establishment.
Contingent. Dental outfits. Proviso. Dairy herd, Las Animas, Colo., hospital.
Transferring remains of officers, etc. Provisos. Not deducted from gratuity pay. Vol. 37, p. 329. Application of fund.
In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $1,187,728.
Hospital Corps.
Authorized strength of. Grades and ratings. Proviso. Transfers allowed to and from.
Pharmacists. Examination, etc., for rating. Proviso. Rank, pay, etc.
Pharmacists shall, after six years from the date of warrant, be Chief pharmacists. Rank, pay, etc. Proviso. Promotions from pharmacists.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby empowered to limit and fix the numbers in the various ratings. Limit.
Section three of an Act entitled “An Act to organize a Hospital Former ratings, etc., repealed. Vol. 30, p. 475. Proviso. Chief pharmacist’s mate.
Hospital and ambulance service with such commands and at such Hospital and ambulance service. Status.
Officers and enlisted men of the Medical Department of the Navy, Service when attached to Army with marines.
Naval Dental Corps.
That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to Dental surgeons. Appointments authorized. Original probationary periods. Provisos. Rank among themselves. Qualifications.
Rank, pay, and allowances. Proviso. Limitation.
Present officers may be appointed without examination, etc. Vol. 37, pp. 344, 903. Provisos. Not subject to probationary service. To rank from original appointment. Retirement restricted.
Loss of numbers on Navy list to affect longevity.
Dental Reserve Corps.
Organized as part of Medical Department.
Vol. 37, p. 344.
Qualifications, etc.
Temporary active service.
Proviso.
Recommissions of present officers.
Post, p. 1182.
Promotions.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Pay of the Navy. Allotment of amounts. Enlisted men. Increase authorized. Maximum strength. Additional apprentice seamen. Provisos. Enlistments during calendar year. Ratings changed. Storekeepers, artificer’s branch. Ratings for.
Midshipmen. Additional appointments. By the President. By Secretary of the Navy from enlisted men. Ante, p. 9. Post, p. 1182. Proviso. Competitive examinations required.
Admission of Filipinos. Designation by Governor General. Proviso. Pay, allowances, etc. Not entitled to appointment in Navy.
Commissioned personnel.
Percentage of officers of the line. Provisos. Distribution of grades. Service of lieutenants (junior grade).
Staff corps.
Percentages. Promotions. Provisos. Assistant surgeons. Semiannual computation of. Authorized number in grades.
The total number of commissioned officers of the active fist of the Grades distributed.
Medical Corps. Proviso. Age of appointees.
Pay Corps.
Construction Corps. Provisos. Original vacancies. Transfers of ensigns.
Civil Engineer Corps.
Hereafter no further appointments shall be made to the Corps of Professors of mathematics to cease.
When there is an odd number of officers in the grade or rank of rear Provision for odd numbers.
Whenever a final fraction occurs in computing the authorized number Fractional number. Proviso. Minimum.
For the purpose of determining the authorized number of officers Additional numbers excluded from authorized strength.
Hereafter pay and allowances of officers in the upper half of the Rear admirals. Pay and allowances. Proviso. Rank in staff corps.
Chief warrant officers. Pay, etc., after six years. Proviso. After twelve years.
Heat and light allowances.
Leaves of absence.
Promotions to commander, and above, to be by selection only. Post, p. 1182.
Board for recommending. Composition.
Oath required.
List of vacancies and eligibles to be submitted to. Provisos. Communication t o board allowed from eligibles. Restriction. Service in grade required. Recommendations for shore and engineering duty only. Status.
The board shall recommend for promotion a number of officers in Recommendations for next calendar year. Provisos. Concurrence required. Captains limited.
The report of the board shall be in writing signed by all of the Report. Recommendations to be stated.
The report of the board shall be submitted to the President for Submission to the President. Substitution for unacceptables. Eligible after approval, to promotions. Proviso. Examinations required, etc. Effect.
On and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, no Actual sea service required after June 30, 1920. Age limit. Provisos. Engineering duty not included. Officers ineligible foe promotion on account of age to be retired. Pay restricted.
Except as herein otherwise provided, hereafter the age for retirement Retiring age, 64.
Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to reduce the No reduction of present rank, etc.
Officers for engineering duty only.
Assignments from the line on application. Duties. Vol. 30, p. 1005. Provisos. Status in line retained. Number of assignments in any year. Acting ensigns for engineering duty only, authorized from civil life. Qualifications, etc. Probationary period.
Service required. Commission on termination. Examination, etc.
Duties restricted.
No pay if absent on account of personal misconduct. Proviso. Enlistment period continued until absence made good.
Furloughs for unexpired enlistment. Proviso. Conditions. Recall in time of war.
Hereafter the authorized number of surgeons in the United States Surgeons increased by one. Detail for Red Cross service.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to cause to be paid Sophia Gompers. Payment to.
That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed Eliza Orr. Payment to.
No officer who, after having commanded a fleet in active commission, General Board. Pay, etc., of officer serving as chair man of executive committee when retired. Provisos. Pay, etc., of retired officers detailed for active duty. No reduction of pay.
Hereafter all commissioned officers of the active list of the Navy Pay of officers on active list. Proviso. Commissioned warrant officers.
That the accounting officers of the United States Treasury are Telephones in government quarters. Accounts for, allowed.
That the accounting officers of the United States Treasury are Paymaster George R. Crapo. Credit in accounts.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to Passed Assistant Paymaster James C. Hilton. Credit in accounts.
Paymaster T. D. Harris. Credit in accounts.
Ensign Harold Harrison Little. Promotion authorized. Proviso. No back pay, etc.
Assistant Paymaster John D. P. Hodapp. Date of appointment established. Proviso. No back pay, etc.
Double pay prohibitions modified. Ante, p. 120, amended.
Double salaries restricted.
Exceptions extended.
Proviso.
Excepted classes not deprived of salary, etc.
Naval Flying Corps.
Composition of. Additional to naval strength.
Yearly detail of officers. Provisos. Maximum. Proportion of line officers. Student flyers in addition.
The officers detailed and the enlisted men of the Naval Flying Corps Pay and allowances.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to appoint annually Acting ensigns or second lieutenants for aeronautic duty only. Qualifications. Proviso. Medical examinations. Proportion. Probationary period.
Such acting ensigns and acting second lieutenants shall be detailed Details for actual flying.
Such acting ensigns of the Navy and acting second lieutenants of Promotions on completing probation. Examinations, etc. Additional probation.
Such acting lieutenants (junior grade) and acting first lieutenants Choice of duties. Duty with Flying Corps. Regular service duty.
Such acting lieutenants (junior grade) and acting first lieutenants Commissions for aeronautic duty only. Grade in Navy or Marine Corps. To be extra numbers.
Commissions for line duty. Examinations, etc. To be extra numbers.
Transfers to Reserve Flying Corps. Commissions. Proviso. Transfers during probation. Discharge if found not qualified.
Promotions of officers for aeronautic duty only. Grade limited, etc. Proviso. Service required.
Detail from other branches as student aviators or airmen.
Pay and allowances.
Student flyers from enlisted men or civil life. Pay, etc. Provisos. Age. Examinations.
The appointment of student flyers shall continue in force for two Term of appointment. Proviso. Revocation or transfer to Reserve Corps.
Student flyers shall, after receiving a certificate of qualification Qualified aviators. Rank and pay. Provisos. Promotion after three years. Examinations. Transfer on request to Reserve Corps. Commissions. Other transfers.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to establish aeronautic Aeronautic training schools authorized.
Nothing in this or any other Act shall be so construed as to prevent Temporary details for aircraft duty allowed.
In the event of the death of an officer or enlisted man or student Aviation accidents. Gratuity for death from. Vol. 38, p. 539, amended. Vol. 37, p. 326. Double pension for death or disability.
Student flyers and the acting ensigns and acting lieutenants Navy laws, etc., applicable.
The enlisted personnel of the Naval Flying Corps shall be distributed Ratings of enlisted men.
Transfers of enlisted men within two years. Proviso. Limit.
Regulations to be mad.
Enlisted men may become student flyers.
Administration of justice.
Officers who may order deck courts. R. S., sec. 1624, pp. 281–284. Vol. 35, p. 621, amended.
Summary courts-martial. Proviso. Naval hospitals or ships.
Approval of sentence. Proviso. By officer ordering court. General courts-martial.
Officers who may convene. Proviso. In time of war at yards, etc.
Courts of inquiry.
Marines as a separate organization. Authority of commander of vessel not impaired.
Naval Reserve Force.
There is hereby established, under the Department of the Navy, Established.
First. The Fleet Naval Reserve. Classes.
Second. The Naval Reserve.
Third. The Naval Auxiliary Reserve.
Fourth. The Naval Coast Defense Reserve.
Fifth. The Volunteer Naval Reserve.
Sixth. Naval Reserve Flying Corps.
The Naval Reserve Force shall be composed of citizens of the Composition. For service in time of war, etc. Proviso. Insular citizens.
The Secretary of the Navy shall make all necessary and proper Regulations to be made.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force may be ordered into active Order for active service.
There shall be allowed in the Naval Reserve Force the various Ranks, grades, etc. Deck or engineering duties.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force appointed to commissioned Commissions by President alone. Warrant grades. Proviso. Retainer pay. Rank of officers.
Enrollment and reenrollment shall be for terms of four years, but Term of service.
Persons enrolling shall be required to take the oath of allegiance Oath of allegiance.
When first enrolled members of the Naval Reserve Force, except Provisional grade, etc. Instruction service on application.
No member shall be confirmed in his provisional grade, rank or Service for confirmation of grade, etc.
No person shall be appointed or commissioned as an officer in any Examinations, etc., of officers. Former officers and midshipmen excepted.
Retainer pay. On enrollment.
Additional to active Pay.
Conditions of payment.
Reenrollment. Increased pay, etc., for. Proviso. Retirement after twenty years. Cash gratuity in lieu of pay.
Payment of retainer Pay.
Other public service than military allowed.
Naval laws applicable when in active service. Badge or button, to issue. Punishment for unauthorized use.
Pay, etc., for active service. At other times.
Service in time of war, etc.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force shall, upon first reporting Uniform gratuity for training.
Upon reporting for active service in time of war or national emergency For service in time of war. Proviso. Deduction on voluntary withdrawal.
Hereafter, in shipping officers and men for service on board United Auxiliary vessels. Preference to Reserve Force. Restricted to, after two years.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force may, upon application, be Transfers to other classes permitted.
The Secretary of the Navy shall prescribes suitable flag, or pennant, Flag or pennant to be prescribed. Proviso. Condition.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to establish schools Schools of instruction, etc. Admissions. Certificates on completing course. Appropriation for expenses.
Fleet Naval Reserve.
All former officers of the United States naval service, including Former naval officers, etc., eligible for.
In addition to the enrollments in the Fleet Naval Reserve above Transfers of enlisted men to. Service required. Proviso. On voluntary application, etc.
Training on shipboard. Proviso. Travel allowance limited.
Retainer pay. Ratings. Obligation incurred by. Proviso. Enlistment period. Officers’ retainer pay.
Reenrollments. Retainer pay increased. Proviso. Additional pay if reenlisting in regular service.
Longevity increase of retainer pay. Proviso. Credit for heroism or good conduct.
Forfeiture if not reporting for inspection.
Issue of warrants or commissions on examination, etc. Proviso. Retainer pay, etc., not affected.
Men transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve shall be governed by the Discharges restricted. Voluntary retirement after specified service. Uniform to be kept.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized in time of war or when a Active service in time of war. Pay, etc.
Naval Reserve.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force who have been or may be Qualifications for enrollment in.
The minimum active service required of members to qualify for Active service for rank, etc.
The minimum active service required for maintaining the efficiency Service during term.
The annual retainer pay of members in this class after confirmation Retainer pay.
Naval Auxiliary Reserve.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force of the seagoing profession Eligibility for membership in.
In time of war or during the existence of a national emergency, To serve on merchant type of ships in time of war.
The requirement as to qualifications of officers and men for confirmation Qualifications limited to merchant service, etc.
Command of officers.
Retainer pay.
Naval Coast Defense Reserve.
Eligibility for membership in.
Classes of service to be enrolled for. Proviso. Owners of yachts and motor boats. Contracts for using boats, etc.
Service for rank and rating.
Retainer pay.
Volunteer Naval Reserve.
Gratuitous offers of service to constitute.
Naval Reserve Flying Corps.
Composed of transfers from Flying Corps.
Proviso.
Surplus graduates of aeronautic school.
Skilled operators, designers, etc., of aircraft.
Service required.
Retainer pay.
Marine Corps Reserve.
A United States Marine Corps Reserve, to be a constituent part of Established as part of Marine Corps. Proviso. Classes.
All Acts or parts of Acts relating to the Naval Reserve which are Inconsistent laws repealed.
Appropriation for organizing Naval Reserve Force. Use of balances. Vol. 38, p. 941. Retainer pay. Ante, p. 575. Post, p. 611.
Naval Militia and Volunteers.
Each commissioned and warrant officer on the active list of the Naval Militia. Retainer pay of officers.
To officers of or above the naval rank or equivalent rank of lieutenant, Ratings.
To officers of the naval rank or equivalent rank of lieutenant (junior grade), $240;
To officers of the naval rank or equivalent rank of ensign, $200;
To warrant officers, $120;
Proviso. Attendance at drills required. Vol. 38, p. 288. Equivalent duty.
That each enlisted man on the active list of the Naval Militia shall Enlisted men. Retainer pay. Proviso. Attendance at drills, etc., required. Vol. 38, p. 288. Equivalent duty.
Qualifications. Enrollment in Volunteers. Post, p. 595.
Quarterly computation of payments. Attendance required. Provisos. Payment for part of first year. Other service in place of drills.
Government employees. Pay continued while attending drills, etc. Efficiency ratings, etc., not affected.
Payments to be made through State, etc., disbursing officers. Vol. 38, p. 288. Amount to disbursing officer. Travel allowance. From general fund. Ante, p. 559.
The governor of each State and Territory, and the commanding Appointment of disbursing officers.
Accounting officers shall render accounts as prescribed by the Accounting officers. Bond. Issue of property by. Proviso. Yearly inspection.
When accounting officers are traveling in the performance of their Travel expenses. From general fund. Ante, p. 559.
That officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia to whom Responsibility for property received. Stoppages, if lost, etc.
That no part of the Naval Militia which is entitled to compensation Disbandment without President’s consent, forbidden.
That to provide a force for use in any emergency, including that National Naval Volunteers. Created for emergency use. Enrollment from Naval Militia. Without examination. Qualifications. Vol. 38, p. 284. Subject to examination. Liable for immediate service.
Draft authorized of those not volunteering. Provisos. Rank and grade. Commissions, etc., authorized.
Subject to Navy 1aws, etc., while in service.
Term of service. Age limit. Proviso. Punishment for failure to obey call.
Resignations, etc. Proviso. Service period. Reenrollment at qualified Naval Militia rating. Vol. 38, p. 284.
Volunteers relieved from Naval Militia duty. Subject to Navy laws, etc. Regular pay, etc.
Service with Navy or Marine Corps. Command of combined forces. Volunteer officers. Rank and precedence with Navy and Marine Corps. Among themselves.
That when serving under the call of the President, officers of said Service of officers on courts-martial.
That when any officer or enlisted man of the said Volunteers is Pension laws applicable.
That the President may relieve any and all persons in the National Termination of active service.
That no distinction shall be made between the regular naval service Recognition of distinguished conduct, etc.
That the Naval Militia shall consist of the regularly enlisted militia Naval Militia. Composition. Age limit, officers. Ante, p. 579. Proviso. Continued service of enlisted men.
That hereafter the period of enlistment in the Naval Militia shall Enlistment period. Reenlistments.
Courts-martial. Constitution of.
General.
Summary.
Deck courts.
Powers, procedure, etc., to conform with, Navy.
Place of meeting.
Powers. General.
Summary.
Deck courts.
Confinement in lieu of fines. Proviso. Limit.
Approval of dismissal.
Power for arrests, etc.
That all processes and sentences of said courts-martial shall be Execution of process, etc.
That the Naval Militia shall be subject to the system of discipline Subject to Navy or Marine Corps discipline. Minor punishments by commanding officer.
That the amount of any fine imposed under sentence of the courts Collection of fines.
That all fines assessed under the provisions of this Act and collected Disposal of fines.
That courts of inquiry in the Naval Militia shall be instituted, Courts of inquiry. Institution, etc., of.
That officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps may, Navy and Marine Corps officers may be commissioned in Militia. Proviso. Resignation. Authority of Secretary of the Navy.
Duties of line officers.
Instruction at Navy or Marine Corps service schools. Travel, etc., allowances. Proviso. Pay limit.
Annual estimates to be made.
Volunteer Patrol Squadrons. Oil and gasoline issued to. Post, p. 1172.
Coast Guard.
Personnel subject to Navy laws, etc., when operating therewith. Vol. 38, p. 800. Provisos. Punishment for offenses. Limitation.
Reimbursement of expenses.
Precedence of officers.
Any commissioned or warrant officer, petty officer, or other enlisted Assignments of personnel to duty. Maintenance of stations.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and Construction of cutters authorized. Post, p. 1185. For river flood service, etc. Appropriation. Proviso. Building at navy yards.
That for the purpose of saving life and property along the coasts Aviation stations. Establishment and equipment of coast, authorized. Details to. Aeronautic school.
At the request of the Secretary of the Treasury the Secretaries of Instruction at Army and Navy aviation schools.
Hereafter officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard, when Increased pay, etc., for aviation duty. Provisos. Number to be detailed. Increase in third lieutenants. Restriction repealed. Vol. 37, p. 429.
Lighthouse Service.
Transfer of vessels, etc., to Army or Navy in emergencies. Provisos. Return on termination. Personnel subject to Army or Navy rules during transfer.
Preparation of regulations, etc., for cooperation.
Retired officers restored to active list:
Ten Eyck De Witt Veeder. Templin Morris Potts. John Henry Gibbons. Frank Kinsey Hill. Armistead Rust. John Gardner Quinby. John Morris Ellicott. Frank W. Kellogg. Allen M. Cook. Emmet R. Pollock. Washington Irving Chambers. George N. Hayward. Provisos. Examinations required. To be additional numbers. No back pay, etc.
Provisions. Provisos. Commutation of rations to prisoners. Army emergency rations.
For the purchase of necessary additional land, cattle, and work Naval Academy dairy farm. Installation, etc. Provisos. Limit of cost. Advance to store fund. Report, etc.
Maintenance. Equipment supplies. Food inspection. Proviso. Clerical, etc., services.
Freight, Department and bureaus.
Interstate commerce. Military transportation in time of war. Vol. 34, p. 587, amended. Former provision.
be amended to read as follows:
Preference to be given troops, etc. Prompt delivery in time of peace. Embargoes prohibited.
Fuel and transportation.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Construction and repair of vessels. Equipment supplies. Colliers “Ulysses” and “Achilles.” Provisos. Repairs. Wooden ships. Other ships. In foreign waters, etc. Specified vessels. Clerical, etc., services.
The statutory limit of $200,000 for repairs and changes to capital Limit of repairs to capital ships increased. Vol. 34, p. 1195, amended.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to sell any or all Naval auxiliaries. Sale of unserviceable.
Construction plants
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts, $25,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, New York, New York, $35,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $25,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, $35,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, $10,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Mare Island, California, $35,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $25,000.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Engineering repairs, machinery, etc. Equipment supplies. Radio telegraphic work. Provisos. Clerical, etc., services. Radio shore station sites. Transfer of lands from other departments. Radio laboratory. Machinery for “Maumee.” Radio aerials, State, etc. Department Building. Pneumatic tube from Department to Navy Annex.
High-power radio stations: For the completion of high-power High-power radio stations. Completion.
For the construction of propelling engines for the North Dakota, Engines for specified vessels.
Engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy, Engineering experiment station. Experimental, etc., work.
Equipment of building: For extension of steam, air, and water Equipping building.
Machinery plants.
Naval Academy.
Pay of professors, etc. Provisos. Employment of professors, etc., authorized. Total pay limited. Annual report.
No part of any sum in this Act appropriated shall be expended in No pay to officers performing duty of civilians.
One swordmaster, $1,600; one assistant, $1,200; and two assistants, Instructors, etc.
Department of ordnance and gunnery.
Departments of electrical engineering and physics.
Department of seamanship.
Department of marine engineering and naval construction.
Commissary department.
In all, civil establishment, $334,521.92.
Contingent expenses.
Library.
Board of Visitors. Composition of. changed. Appointments. VoL 37, p. 907 amended.
Per diem, etc., allowed.
Expenses.
Superintendent.
In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $37,585.
Maintenance and repairs. Passenger vehicles.
Rent of buildings for the use of the academy, and commutation of Rent.
In all, Naval Academy, $703,946.92.
Marine Corps.
Pay. Officers, active list.
Hereafter the total number of commissioned officers of the active Commissioned personnel hereafter. Proportionate distribution. Provisos. Brigadier generals. Promotion to vacancies. Seniority. Major general commandant. Appointments hereafter. Vol. 37, p. 241. Senior staff officers made brigadier generals. Rank as colonels to compute ratio. Permanent staff officers ineligible for line brigadier general.
Staff officers. Proportionate ratio. Division.
Details hereafter. In lower grade from the line. Upper grade. Tour of detail, etc.
Permanent staff officers may be reappointed in the line. Provisos. Rank limited. Probationary line service, etc.
Equalization of promotions. Examinations, etc.
Second lieutenants. Appointments from civil life. Provisos. Former officers eligible. Qualifications. Age limit waived. Service. Probationary period of civil life, etc., appointees. Determination of rank. Competitive examinations. Restriction as to midshipmen and cadets failing to graduate.
That the warrant grades of marine gunner and quartermaster clerk Marine gunner and quartermaster clerk. Warrant grades established. Appointments, etc.
That officers of the Marine Corps with the rank of colonel who shall Retirement of colonels as brigadier generals. Service.
The President is hereby authorized, within two years after the approval Restoration to active list, officers retired by board for physical disability. Provisos. To be additional number. Conditions. Examinations required.
In lieu of suspension from promotion of any officer of the Marine Officers failing in examinations for promotion. Loss of files in lieu of suspension. Provisos. Reexaminations allowed. Honorable discharge on failure.
Pay, officers on retired list.
Pay, enlisted men, active list. Increase authorized.
Further increase authorized. Proviso. Distribution among grades.
Band. Increased pay and allowances. Vol. 30, p. 1009. Proviso. Individual engagements restricted.
Pay, retired enlisted men.
Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for Undrawn clothing.
Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without Mileage.
For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops Commutation of quarters.
Civil force.
In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,200.
In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,800; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,400; one clerk, at $1,200.
In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,800; one clerk, at $1,500; two clerks, at $1,400 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; one draftsman, at $1,800.
In the office of the assistant quartermaster, San Francisco, California: One chief clerk, at $1,800.
In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One chief clerk, at $1,800; one messenger, at $840.
In all, for pay of civil force, $34,111.28, and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
In all, pay, Marine Corps, $5,673,866.30.
Quartermaster’s Department.
Provisions. Shore duty rations. Provisos. Navy ration instead of Army. Articles for sale to officers, etc.
Clothing.
Fuel, light, etc.
Military stores. Pay. Armored automobiles. Equipments, etc. Ammunition, etc.
Instruction camps. Regulations for, etc. Sale of uniforms to. Proviso. Transportation, etc., by citizens. Appropriation.
Transportation and recruiting. Proviso. Advertising.
Repairs of barracks, etc.
Forage.
Commutation of quarters.
Contingent.
In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, Disbursement and accounting.
For the authorized expenses of the Marine Corps Reserve, $25,000. Marine Corps Reserve. Ante, p, 593.
Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $12,088,380.01.
Increase of the Navy,
Construction authorized prior to July 1, 1919. Post, p. 1191.
Ten first-class battleships. Early construction.
Six battle cruisers. Early construction.
Ten scout cruisers. Early construction.
Fifty torpedo-boat destroyers. Early construction. Proviso. Four on Pacific coast. Cost restriction.
Nine fleet submarines.
Fifty-eight coast submarines. Cost. Early construction. Appropriation. Twelve on Pacific coast. Proviso. Cost restriction.
Neff propulsion submarine. Provisos. Construction by owners of system. Payment on acceptance.
Three fuel ships.
Repair ship.
One transport. Transport.
One hospital ship, at a cost not to exceed $2,350,000, to be begun Hospital ship.
Two destroyer tenders. Two destroyer tenders.
One fleet submarine tender. Fleet submarine tender.
Two ammunition ships, one at a cost, exclusive of armor and armament, Two ammunition ships.
Two gunboats, one at a cost, exclusive of armor and armament, Two gunboats. Proviso. Early construction contracts, etc.
The Secretary of the Navy shall build any of the vessels herein Vessels to be built at navy yards if bidders combine. Proviso. Designation of navy yards.
New vessels. Construction and machinery.
Torpedo boats.
Armor and armament.
Ammunition.
Total increase of the Navy heretofore and herein authorized, $139,345,287.
To provide for the speedy construction of the vessels herein authorized Increased cost allowed for speedy construction. In navy yards. By private contractors. Provisos. Contracts at actual cost plus profit. Leaves of absence to all employees. Pro rata leave. Discretion as to time. Limit. Sick leave and holidays not affected.
Equipment of designated navy yards for building new ships. Proviso. For capital ships.
Harbor defense. Report on.
Plans for improving, for fleet operations.
Extending existing projects.
Cost.
Policy for peaceful settlement of international disputes declared. International disarmament, etc.
Conference invited to plan tribunal for peaceful settlement of disputes. United States representatives authorized. Appropriation.
Suspension of new construction if tribunal established, etc.
Restriction on purchases, etc., which can be supplied by Government plants. Proviso. No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device on work of employee. Cash rewards, etc., limited.
That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall be expended Purchases from trust combinations, etc., forbidden. Restriction on prices. Present contracts not affected. Battleship.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to submit to the Congress Report on construction of the largest practicable. Further details.
That no part of any sum herein appropriated under “Increase of Appropriations not to be used for clerical, etc., services in Department.
That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used Specific authority for use in Department.
That the following sums be, Army appropriations.
Contingencies. Emergencies. Per diem subsistence.
Office, Chief of Staff.
Army War College.
Contingencies, military information section. Proviso. Periodicals.
Observing war operations abroad.
Service schools. Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Fort Riley, Kans. Fort Sill, Okla. Pay of translator. Proviso. Field Artillery second lieutenants. Instruction details.
Adjutant General’s Department.
Contingencies at headquarters.
Chief of Coast Artillery.
Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.
For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring Special apparatus, etc.
For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $3,000;
For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring Engineering and mine defense.
For purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defenses, $2,500.
Provisos. Periodicals.
Typewriters. Special price allowed.
Signal Service.
Expenses. War balloons, airships, etc. Provisos. Aviation section. Purchases, etc., under. Paying reserves in service. Developing aviation motor.
Aviation instruction.
Accounting with other offices.
Contract requirements.
Site for aviation school, etc.
Aviation field sites, etc. Acceptance of donations for.
Acquirement of land for aviation purposes, if no reservation available.
The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept for the United Mobilization, etc., stations. Acceptance of land for. Report on tracts necessary, etc.
Washington-A1aska cables, etc. Extension, etc.
Telephone service for Coast Artillery.
Pay.
For pay of officers of the line, $10,000,000: Officers of the line. Provisos. Assignments to Detached Officers’ List. Ante, p. 183. Determination of commissions. Filling vacancies. Seniority in grade or arm. Status of retired Artillery officers. Ante, p. 183. Allowance for loss of files by increase in arm, etc. Status of generals of the line advanced for Panama Canal service. Vol. 38, p. 1191.
Longevity.
Officers’ Reserve Corps. Ante, p. 189.
For pay of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to duty with troops or at field exercises, or for instruction, $25,000.
Ante, p. 194.
National Guard officers.
Enlisted men.
Pay. Proviso. Sergeant major at recruit depots. Vol. 34, p. 242.
Longevity.
Regular Army Reserve. Ante, p. 188.
Ante, p. 187.
Ante, p. 188.
Ante, p. 188.
Enlisted Reserve Corps. Ante, p. 196.
Ante, p. 195.
National Guard. Provisos. Government employees to be restored to former positions. Ante, p. 211. Payment to men enlisted by States, up to time of muster.
Engineer Corps.
Pay of enlisted men, $700,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $73,000.
Ordnance Corps.
Pay of enlisted men, $300,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $150,000.
Quartermaster Corps.
Pay of enlisted men, $2,000,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $325,000.
Signal Corps.
Pay of enlisted men, $800,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $90,000.
Medical Department.
Pay of enlisted men, $1,500,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $220,000.
For pay of privates, first class, when rated as dispensary assistants, Dispensary assistants, etc. Proviso. Proportion of privates, first class.
Office of Chief of Staff.
One chief clerk, at $2,250 per annum, $2,250; Clerks, messengers, etc.
Four clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $8,000;
Six clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $10,800;
Eleven clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $17,600;
Fifteen clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $21,000;
Twenty-one clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $25,200;
Thirteen clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $13,000;
One captain of the watch, at $900 per annum, $900;
Three watchmen, at $720 each per annum, $2,160;
One gardener, at $720 per annum, $720;
One packer, at $840 per annum, $840;
One chief messenger, at $1,000 per annum, $1,000;
One messenger, at $840 per annum, $840;
Twenty messengers, at $720 each per annum, $14,400;
One laborer, at $660 per annum, $660;
Two laborers, at $600 each per annum, $1,200;
Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum, $1,200;
In all, $121,770.
Headquarters of departments, etc.
Seven clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $14,000; Clerks and messengers.
Eleven clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $19,800;
Fourteen clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $22,400;
Thirty-two clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $44,800;
Fifty-seven clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $68,400;.
Forty-nine clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $49,000;
Thirty-nine messengers, at $720 each per annum, $28,080;
In all, $246,480.
Additional pay while on foreign service, $9,000. Foreign service pay.
For commutation of quarters and of heat and light, $53,742. Commutation of quarters, etc.
Hereafter headquarters clerks shall be known as Army field clerks Army field clerks. Headquarters clerks to be known as; pay, etc.
Hereafter not to exceed two hundred clerks, Quartermaster Corps, Quartermaster Corps field clerks. Pay, etc., established.
Commutation.
Provisos. Service assignment. Duty in Department forbidden.
Staff officers.
Adjutant General’s Department.
For pay of officers of The Adjutant General’s Department, $100,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $26,000.
Inspector General’s Department.
For pay of officers of the Inspector General’s Department, $69,500.
Additional pay for length of service, $17,500.
Corps of Engineers.
Pay of officers of the Corps of Engineers, $675,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $150,000.
Ordnance Department.
For pay of officers of the Ordnance Department, $280,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $60,000.
Quartermaster Corps.
Provisos. Charles P. Daly. Appointed military storekeeper. Grade revived. Bond of officers may be waived.
Additional pay for length of service, $160,000.
Medical Department.
For pay of officers of the Medical Department, $1,800,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $250,800.
Contract surgeons.
Superintendent, Nurse Corps.
Proviso. Allowances, etc.
Nurses.
Judge Advocate General’s Department.
For pay of officers in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, $60,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $12,320.
That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause to be prepared, Military laws. Codification, etc., directed. Vol. 31, p. 1181. Report to Congress, etc.
For paying the expenses of clerical hire and printing and other Expenses.
Signal Corps.
For pay of officers of the Signal Corps, $375,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $50,000.
For pay of thirty aviators, Signal Corps, at $1,800 each per annum, Aviators.
Bureau of Insular Affairs.
For pay of officers of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, $13,000.
Additional pay for length of service, $2,000.
Retired officers.
For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be Pay. Proviso. Temporary command of post without garrison. Duties. Pay, etc. Vol. 33, p. 831; Vol. 34, p. 245. Grades included.
Additional pay for length of service, $467,000.
Four retired veterinarians, $7,140. Veterinarians.
Thirteen retired pay clerks, $21,750. Pay clerks.
Increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $57,275. Active duty pay.
Additional pay for length of service, $19,137.
That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint Col. James Jackson. Promoted brigadier general, retired.
That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint Appointment of retired colonel as brigadier general, retired. Service conditions. Proviso. No prior advance.
Appointment of retired brigadier general as major general, retired. Service conditions. Proviso. Other similar promotions.
Major general retired. Appointment of any retired officer as, having specified Civil War record, etc.
Retired enlisted men.
Miscellaneous.
Hospital matrons.
Courts martial, etc.
Officer, buildings and and grounds, District of Columbia.
Commutation of quarters, etc.
Interest on deposits.
Translator.
Expert accountant.
Extra pay, seacoast fortifications.
For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboard Switchboard operators, interior posts.
For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and to Alaska cable, etc.
For mileage to commissioned officers, contract surgeons, and expert Mileage to officers, etc.
For additional ten per centum increase of pay of officers on foreign Additional pay, foreign service. Officers.
For additional twenty per centum increase of pay of enlisted men Enlisted men.
For pay of one computer for Artillery Board, $2,500. Computer.
For payment of exchange by acting quartermasters serving in Loss by exchange.
For three months’ additional pay to enlisted men reenlisting within Additional pay. First reenlistment.
For six months’ pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men Death from wounds, etc.
For one year’s pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men Aviation accidents.
For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required Officers furnishing mounts.
For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, Jennie Carroll. Vol. 35, p. 1325.
For amount required to make monthly payments to Mable H. Mabie H. Lazear. Vol. 35, p. 1325.
For amount required to make monthly payments of $100 to John John R. Kissinger. Vol. 36, p. 1919.
That the Secretary of War shall make a list of all officers of the Retired officers. Examinations for return to duty if on the list for disability.
For temporary employment, under the direction of the Secretary Temporary field clerks, mustering additional forces.
Philippine Scouts.
Fifty-two captains, at $2,400 each per annum, $124,800; Officers.
Sixty-five first lieutenants, at $2,000 each per annum, $130,000;
Sixty-five second lieutenants, at $1,700 each per annum, $110,500;
For pay of thirteen majors in addition to pay as captain, at $600 each per annum, $7,800;
Additional pay for length of service, $93,783. Enlisted men.
For pay of enlisted men, $601,028.
Additional pay for length of service, $40,766.
All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army Pay account specified.
Subsistence. Supplies, purchase, etc. Provisos. National rifle match. Excess restricted. Payments. Commutation of rations, etc. Prizes for bakers and cooks. Preservation, accounting, etc. Sales to Navy and Marine Corps. Purchases from Navy and Marine Corps.
Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps. Heat, light, etc. Recreation buildings. Vol. 32, p. 282. Post schools, etc. Forage, etc., for animals. Provisos. Captain Sam Van Leer. Suspension in accounts removed. Printing restriction. Ice machines, etc. Disposal of surplus products. Use of proceeds. Equipping additional tents for use.
Incidental expenses. Proviso. Pay of disciplinary barracks guard. Horse expenditures.
Transportation. Post, p. 811. Provisos. Baggage of enlisted men discharged for disability. Mustered out enlisted men from Mexican border. Per diem subsistence. Payment to landgrant railroads. Basis of computation. Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided. Full pay to excepted roads. Draft and pack animals, etc. Ships, boats, etc. Transports.
Employees on harbor boats. Sale of transports “Meade” and “Crook.”
Water, sewers, etc. Preparing camp sites, etc., for forces drafted into service. Available from June 18, 1916.
Clothing and camp and garrison equipage. Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.
Provisos. Sale of cloth cuttings, etc. Exchange of machines, vehicles, etc.
Regulation of accounting, etc.
Supplies, Services, and Transportation. Combination fund constituted of.
Horses. Purchases of, etc. Provisos. Limitation. Open market purchases. Standard required. Polo ponies.
Barracks and quarters. For National Guard in service. Provisos. Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Additional land, buildings, etc., for supply depots. Switch tracks, etc. Appropriation. Canal Zone. Temporary shelter for troops.
Commutation restricted. Civilian employees.
Dowsett Company. May remove buildings from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Forfeiture on failure.
Repairing forts, etc. damaged by Gulf hurricane.
Post exchanges. Recreation buildings. Vol. 32, p. 282.
Military posts. Roads, walks, wharves, etc. Provisos Arlington Cemetery.
Presidio of San Francisco, Cal. Connecting road.
That the United States hereby consents to the closing and abandoning Abandonment of streets, etc., consented to, for normal school site, San Francisco, Cal. Condemnation proceedings. Proviso. Reversion if site not used.
That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to grant to the Panama-Pacific Exposition Company. Permit to occupy portion of the Presidio, for Palace of Fine Arts. Jurisdiction ceded to California. Provisos. Termination of previous cession. Vol. 38, p. 783. Prior crimes. Revesting. Removal of buildings. Limitation.
Alaska. Military and post roads, etc.
Philippine Islands. Barracks and quarters.
Proviso. Restriction on officers’ quarters.
Hospitals. Construction, etc. Hot Springs, Ark. Temporary structures.
Quarters for hospital stewards.
Shooting galleries and ranges.
Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Target range lands.
For the acquisition of private holdings now embraced in the Fort Fort Bliss, Tex. Target range lands.
For sinking additional wells to augment the present insufficient Water supply, etc.
Army War College.
Rent of buildings, Washington, D. C. Post, p. 811.
Field medical supply depot, $7,967.10;
Signal Corps test rooms, $2,100;
Quartermaster stable, $2,700;
Quartermaster stable and storehouse, $4,938;
Quartermaster stable and warehouse, $3,600;
For Army Medical School, $8,680;
For attending surgeon and retiring board, $3,000;
Depot quartermaster office, $2,500;
Garage, Quartermaster Corps, $1,500;
One room for storage purposes, Quartermaster Corps, $54.
Target practice, etc., damage claims. Proviso. Settlement by Auditor.
Medical Department.
Supplies, etc. Mosquito destruction. Provisos. Motor ambulances. Contract requirements. Provisos. Private treatment excepted. Contagious diseases expenses. Hot Springs Hospital, Ark. Temporary hospitals. Age limit of appointments in prior Act repealed. Ante, p. 171. Limit for first lieutenants made thirty-two, after January 1, 1918.
Canal Zone. Payment for hospital care, etc., at garrisons.
Museum.
Library.
Bureau of Insular Affairs.
Care of insane soldiers in the Philippines.
In Porto Rico.
Engineer Department.
Incidental expenses at depots.
Engineer School, Washington, D. C. Equipment, etc. Incidental expenses. Travel expenses. Proviso. In lieu of mileage. Textbooks, etc.
For one power lithographic press for the Engineer School, $6,000. Lithographic press.
For the purchase of material to be used in the construction of a trade Trade school building.
Equipment of troops.
Proviso. Motor cycles authorized.
Civilian assistants.
Field operations expenses.
Contingencies, Philippine Islands.
Puuloa Reservation, Oahu, Hawaii. Transferred to the Navy. Description.
Per diem subsistence out of District of Columbia.
Ordnance Department.
Current expenses.
Ammunition for small arms. Manufacture and purchase of.
Provisos. Amount for purchases.
Tools, etc., for manufacture of ammunition. Ante, p. 215. Competition modified.
Target practice. Manufacture and purchase of ammunition, targets, etc., for.
Proviso. Amount for purchases.
Manufacturing, etc., arms.
Proviso. Tools, etc., for manufacture of arms by private parties. Ante, p. 215. Competition modified.
The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to issue, under such Target practice. Issues to rifle clubs, etc., for.
Preserving, etc., ordnance.
Proviso. Amount for purchases.
The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to sell, at the prices Cuba. Sale of ordnance to, authorized.
Rifle contests. Trophy, medals, prizes, etc., for.
Automatic machine rifles. Purchase, manufacture, etc.
For National Guard.
Armored motor cars.
National Guard. Manufacture of field artillery material for. Proviso. Amount for purchases.
Ammunition, field artillery. Manufacturing reserve.
Provisos. Amount for purchases.
Tools, etc., for manufacture by private parties. Ante, p. 215. Competition modified.
Per diem subsistence.
Pay clerk. Appointment of, as first lieutenant, Quartermaster Corps.
Port Riley, Kans. Replacing bridge across Republican River, near.
The President, in time of war, is empowered, through the Secretary Transportation of troops, etc. Exclusive control of systems in time of war
National Guard.
Horses. Purchase, etc., for. Ante, p. 205. Regulation for use.
To provide for the procurement of forage, bedding, shoeing, veterinary Forage, care, etc.
To provide for the compensation of competent help for the care of Pay of enlisted men for care, etc. Proviso. Details, etc.
To provide for the participation of the whole or any part of the Participation in Army encampments, maneuvers, etc. Ante, p. 206. Pay, etc., allowed. National Guard instruction camps. Army officers to conduct. Ante, p. 207. Pay, etc., for attendance. Provisos. Transportation o f Army troops. Reduced rates by carriers allowed. Vol. 24, p. 379.
Instruction at Army schools. Ante, p. 207. At posts. Allotment for pay, etc. Proviso. Pay limit.
Officers assigned to Militia Bureau.
Property and disbursing officers. Ante, p. 200.
Arms, military supplies, etc. Ante, pp. 92, 199. Proviso. States, etc., relieved of liability for property lost, etc., prior to December 31, 1911.
Militia Bureau. Clerical, etc., expenses. Ante, p. 203.
Miscellaneous.
Travel of Federal officers for inspection, etc. Ante, p. 206.
Travel of inspector-instructors and sergeant-instructors, joining at State stations for duty and returning to duty with regiments, $7,500;
Armory instruction. Proviso. Limit.
Travel of Federal officers in connection with State camps of instruction State instruction camps.
Inspection of target ranges and mobilization camps for use of the Target inspection, etc.
Inspection of material pertaining to Field Artillery and Signal Inspecting material.
Transportation of supplies (including transportation of animals Transporting supplies.
Expenses of sergeant-instructors on duty with the National Guard, Sergeant-instructors. Ante, p. 189.
Proviso. Offices.
Office rent of inspector-instructors, $12,500. Office rent.
All the money hereinbefore appropriated for arming, equipping, Accounting.
Arms, etc., for field service. Ante, p. 203. Proviso. Aviation instruction.
Target ranges for Field Artillery practice.
Issue of new Infantry equipment, etc. Ante, p. 204. Provisos. Requisitions for, etc. Receipt and accounting. Return, etc., of prior issues.
Ranges for civil rifle practice. Ante, p. 211. Arms, ammunition, etc., for. Proviso. Director of Civilian Marksmanship.
Citizen training camps. Maintenance. Ante, p. 194. Proviso. Subsistence, etc., for attending in 1916.
Transporting rifle teams to matches. Provisos. Apportionment of amount. Selection of teams.
No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device, etc., over job of employee.
That the sum of $2,000,000 is hereby appropriated out of any Support of families of enlisted men called or drafted into military service. Post, p. 801. Of Army enlisted man until National Guard discharged. Provisos. Action of Secretary of War final, etc. Marriage restriction, etc.
That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available Citizenship. Required of Army officers appointed in time of peace.
That section one hundred and twenty-five of the Act entitled “An Coast Guard. Use of uniform restricted. Ante, p. 216.
That section forty-seven hundred and sixteen of the Revised Pensions. Civil War restriction repealed.
That a Council of National Defense is hereby established, Council of National Defense. Composition.
That the Council of National Defense shall nominate to the President, Advisory commission to be appointed. Special qualifications. Expenses allowed. Meetings.
That it shall be the duty of the Council of National Defense to Subjects for investigation, etc. Frontier railroads. Highways, etc. Mobilizing resources. Increase of domestic production. Seagoing transportation. Sources of military supplies, etc.
Conduct of investigations. Subordinate bodies for special work, etc.
Appropriation for experimental work, etc. Submission of reports, etc. Detail of expenses. Proviso. Amounts without items.
Articles of War.
Title and effect.
Preliminary provisions.
Persons subject hereto.
Proviso.
Naval jurisdiction.
Regular Army, Volunteers, etc.
Cadets.
Marine Corps when attached to Army.
Proviso.
Naval offenses, etc.
Retainers and followers abroad.
Courts-martial prisoners, etc.
Soldiers’ Home inmates.
Courts-martial.
Courts-martial shall be of Classification. Vol. 37, p. 721.
First, general courts-martial;
Second, special courts-martial; and
Third, summary courts-martial.
Composition.
Officers competent for.
General.
Special.
Summary.
Appointment.
General.
Special.
Summary.
Proviso.
Single officer, with command.
Judge advocates.
Jurisdiction.
General.
Proviso.
Military Academy restriction.
Special.
Special courts-martial shall have power to try any person subject to military law, except an officer, for any crime or offense not capital made punishable by these Proviso. Modification.
Punishment restricted.
Summary.
Summary courts-martial.—Summary courts-martial shall have power to try any person subject to military law, except an officer, a cadet, or a soldier holding the privileges of a certificate of eligibility to promotion, for any crime or offense not capital made Provisos. Noncommissioned officers. Modifications.
“Summary courts-martial shall not have power to adjudge confinement Punishment restricted. Proviso. Approval required.
Jurisdiction not exclusive.
Trial of officers.
Procedure.
Prosecutions.
Counsel for accused.
Challenges.
The judge advocate of a general or special Oaths to be administered. Members of court.
“When the oath or affirmation has been administered to the members Judge advocate and assistants.
Witnesses.
Reporter.
Interpreter.
Affirmations.
Continuances.
Refusal to plead.
Process to compel attendance.
Refusal to appear or estify, a misdemeanor.
Punishment for, in United States court.
Proviso.
Witness fees.
Compulsory self-incrimination prohibited.
Depositions.
Admissibility.
Proviso.
In capital cases.
Designated officials authorized to take.
Courts of inquiry.
Admission of records as evidence.
Proviso.
By defense.
Resignation without acceptance not to release officer.
Enlistment without discharge, desertion.
Closed sessions of courts.
Order of voting.
Punishment of contempts.
Records of courts-martial.
General.
Special and summary.
Disposition of.
General.
Special and summary.
Irregularities.
Errors not invalidating proceedings.
Nor injuring rights.
Provisos.
Nature of offenses.
Omission of “hard labor.”
President may prescribe rules.
Provisos.
Limitation.
Presentation to Congress.
Limitations upon prosecutions.
Time.
Provisos.
Desertion in time of peace, etc.
Absence from United States.
Crimes barred.
Once for same offense.
Punishments.
Kinds prohibited.
Penitentiary sentences.
Restricted to civil offenses, etc.
Provisos.
More than one offense.
Place.
At Disciplinary Barracks, etc.
Death sentence.
Restriction.
Cowardice or fraud.
Publication of dismissal.
Accessory penalty.
Maximum limits.
Action of authority.
Approval and execution of sentence.
Incidental powers.
Findings.
Sentences.
Confirmation required.
By the President.
Specified cases.
Exceptions in time of war.
Any sentence of death, except in the cases of persons convicted in time of war of murder, rape, mutiny, desertion, or as spies; and in such excepted cases a sentence of death may be carried into execution upon confirmation by the commanding general of the Army in the field or by the commanding general of the Territorial department or division.
Approval by confirming authority.
Confirming sentences.
Incidental powers.
Findings.
Sentences.
Mitigation or remission of sentences.
The power to order the execution of the sentence adjudged by a court-martial shall be held to include, inter alia, the power to mitigate or remit Restriction.
Unexecuted portions.
Uncollected forfeitures.
Suspension of sentences.
Dismissal or death.
Dishonorable discharge.
Forfeiture or confinement.
Punitive articles.
Fraudulent enlistment.
Officer making unlawful enlistment.
Muster required.
Punishment for officer making false, etc.
Returns to be made.
Punishment for officer making false, or none
Desertion.
Advising or aiding deserter.
Knowingly entertaining deserter.
Absence without leave.
Disrespect to President, etc.
Toward superior officer.
Assaulting, etc., superior officer.
Assaulting, etc., noncommissioned officer.
Inciting mutiny or sedition.
Failure to suppress mutiny or sedition.
Quarrels, frays, and disorders.
Arrest and confinement of accused persons, officers.
Soldiers.
Other persons.
Restriction.
Punishment for breaking arrest.
Investigation of and action on charges.
Right of accused.
Proviso.
Courts-martial in time of peace.
Refusal to keep prisoners.
Report of prisoners received.
Unauthorized releasing of prisoners.
Delivery of offenders to civil authorities.
When any person subject to military law, except one who is held by the military authorities to answer, or who is awaiting trial or result of trial, or who is undergoing sentence for a crime or offense punishable under these articles, is accused of a crime or offense committed within the geographical limits of the States of the Union and the District of Columbia, and punishable by the laws of the land, the commanding officer is required, except in time of war, upon application duly made, to use his utmost endeavor to deliver over such accused person to the civil authorities, or to aid the officers of justice in apprehending and securing him, in order that he may be brought Punishment for refusal.
Completion of court-martial sentence after civil.
War offenses.
Misbehavior before the enemy.
Subordinates compelling commander to surrender.
Improper use of countersign.
Forcing a safeguard.
Not securing captured property.
Dealing in captured or abandoned property.
Aiding, etc., enemy.
Spies.
Miscellaneous crimes and offenses.
Military property.
Willful loss, damage, etc.
Waste or unlawful disposition by soldier.
Drunk on duty.
Misbehavior of sentinel.
Personal interest in sale of provisions.
Intimidating persons bringing provisions.
Maintenance of good order and redress of wrongs required.
Provoking speeches or gestures.
Dueling.
Murder or rape.
Designated crimes.
Any person subject Frauds against the Government. False claims.
“Who presents or causes to be presented to any person in the Bringing false claims for approval.
“W o enters into any agreement or conspiracy to defraud the Obtaining allowance of false claim.
“Who, for the purpose of obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, Use of false papers, etc.
“Who, for the purpose of obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, Use of false oaths, etc.
“Who, for the purpose of obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, Forging signatures, etc.
“Who, having charge, possession, custody, or control of any Delivery of less amount than receipt.
“Who, being authorized to make or deliver any paper certifying Certifying false receipts.
“Who steals, embezzles, knowingly and willfully misappropriates, Stealing, etc., military property.
“Who knowingly purchases or receives in pledge for any obligation Purchasing, etc., military property wrongfully sold, etc.
“Shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine or imprisonment, Punishment.
Conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman.
Other disorders, etc., cognizable by courts-martial.
Courts of inquiry.
Authority for ordering.
Request to be made.
Composition.
Challenges.
Oaths.
The recorder of a court of inquiry shall administer to the members the following oath: 'You, A. B., do swear (or affirm) that you will well and truly examine and inquire, according to the evidence, into the matter now before you, without partiality, favor, affection, prejudice, or hope of reward. So help you, God.’ After which the president of the court shall administer to the recorder the following oath: 'You, A. B., do swear (or affirm) that you will, according to your best abilities, accurately and impartially record the proceedings of the court and the evidence to be given in the case in hearing. So help you, God.’
Affirmation.
Powers, procedure, etc.
Opinion on merits restricted.
Records to be kept.
Authentication.
Miscellaneous.
Disciplinary powers of commanding officers.
“The disciplinary punishments authorized by this article may Disciplinary punishments.
Redress of injuries to person or property. Assessment of damages on offenders.
“Where the offenders can not be ascertained, but the organization On organization or detachment.
Arrest of deserters by civil authorities.
Soldiers to make good time lost.
Discharges.
Oath of enlistment.
Articles to he read and explained.
Copy of record of trial.
Effects of deceased persons.
Disposal of, by commanding officer
In case of the death of any person subject to military law, the commanding officer of the place or command will permit the legal representative or widow of the deceased, if present, to take possession of all his effects then in camp or quarters, and if no legal representative or widow be present, the commanding officer shall direct a summary court to secure all such effects; and said summary court shall have authority to convert such effects into cash, by public or private sale, not earlier than thirty days after the death of the deceased, and to collect and receive any debts due decedent’s estate by local debtors; and as soon as practicable after converting such effects into cash said summary court shall deposit with the proper officer, to be designated in regulations, any cash belonging to decedent’s estate, and shall transmit a receipt for such deposit, accompanied by any will or other papers of value belonging to the deceased, an inventory of the effects secured by said summary court, and a full account of his transactions to the War Department for transmission to the Auditor for the War Department for action as authorized by law in the settlement of the accounts of deceased officers or enlisted men of the Army; but if in the meantime the legal representative, or widow, shall present himself or herself to take possession of decedent’s estate the said summary court shall turn over to him or her all effects not sold and cash belonging to said estate, together with an inventory and account, and make to the War Department a full report of his transactions.
“The provisions of this article shall be applicable to inmates of the Soldiers’ Home inmate dying at military hospital outside District of Columbia.
Inquests.
Officers authorized to administer oaths.
Reporters.
Interpreters.
Assistant judge advocates.
Removal of civil suits from State to district courts.
Vol. 36, p. 1097.
Discharge or dismissal of officers.
Dropped for absence imprisonment, etc.
Vol. 36, p. 894.
Rank and precedence among Regulars, Militia, and Volunteers.
Assignment of command by President.
Order otherwise.
Proviso.
Precedence of Army officer holding other commission.
Command when different corps or commands happen to join.
Complaints to general officer.
Articles of War in effect March 4, 1917.
Proviso.
Specified articles in force at once.
Prior offenses, etc., subject to previous law.
Inconsistent laws repealed.
[S. 6924]
Citizen training camp.
Appropriation maintaining, at Fort Douglas, Utah.
Ante, p. 194.
Public lands.
Homesteaders allowed credit for absence in military service.
Vol. 30, p. 473.
Mahoning River.
Youngstown, Ohio, may bridge.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 5]
John Ericsson.
Appropriation for memorial to, in District of Columbia.
Proviso.
Approval of Commission of Fine Arts.
Colville Indian Reservation, Wash.
Sale, etc., of unallotted lands in.
Vol. 34, p. 82, amended.
Lands reserved for agency, etc., purposes.
Mission uses.
Proviso.
Saint Mary’s School and Mission.
Fee simple patent for lands.
Cemeteries.
Intoxicants prohibited.
Oklahoma.
Drainage assessments on Indian lands.
Vol. 37, p. 194, amended.
Government lands included.
Climax fruit baskets, etc.
Standards established.
Two-quart baskets.
Four-quart baskets.
Twelve-quart baskets.
Smaller baskets for fruits, berries, and vegetables.
Capacities.
Interstate shipments, etc., not conforming to standards, unlawful.
Penalty.
Proviso.
Foreign shipments not affected.
Tests, etc., by Department of Agriculture.
Rules, etc.
Prosecution of violations.
Immunity of guaranty from purchaser.
Contents of guaranty.
In effect from November 1, 1917.
Antitrust Act, 1914.
Common carrier dealing with corporation in which officer interested.
Effective time extended.
Vol. 38, p. 734, amended.
Post, p. 1201.
Child labor.
Interstate and foreign shipments of products of, forbidden.
Specified age prohibitions.
Proviso.
Restriction on prosecutions.
Board to make regulations, etc.
Inspections, etc., authorized, to enforce.
Employees.
Prosecution for violations.
Proviso.
Boys’ and girls’ canning clubs excepted.
Punishment for violations.
Provisos.
Dealers with guaranty from shipper excepted.
Conditions of guaranty.
Punishment for false Statements in.
Producer, etc., having certificate of permissible age, excepted.
Punishment for false statements in certificate.
State certificates admitted.
Construction of terms.
In effect in one year.
District of Columbia appropriations.
Half from District revenues.
General expenses.
Executive office. Salaries, commissioners, etc.
Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the Veterinary division.
Medicines, surgical and hospital supplies, $1,000;
Purchasing division: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy purchasing Purchasing division.
Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; assistant Building inspection division.
To reimburse two elevator inspectors for provision and maintenance Motorcycles for elevator inspectors.
For transportation, means of transportation, and maintenance of Transportation.
Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, $2,000; Plumbing inspection division.
Motorcycles.
In all, Executive Office, $119,450.
Care of District Building.
For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics and labor, not Maintenance.
Assessor’s office.
Assessments biennially hereafter. Completion, appeals, etc. Vol. 28, p. 284. Proviso. Additional employees.
Personal tax board.
Excise board. Proviso. No pay to rejected nominee.
Collector’s office.
Tax sale certificates.
Auditor’s office.
Corporation counsel’s office. Proviso. Retention of fees forbidden.
Sinking-fund office.
Coroner’s office: Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistant Coroner’s office.
Market masters.
Produce market.
Eastern market.
Western market. Fish wharf and market.
Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.
For purchase of small quantities of groceries, meats, provisions, Purchases for investigations.
Engineer Commissioner’s office. Engineers, superintendents, etc. Proviso. Asphalt inspector, restriction. Assistant engineers etc. Inspectors, etc. Clerks, etc.
Municipal architect’s office.
Public Utilities Commission.
For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, $10,000;
In all, Public Utilities Commission, $44,000.
Special assessment office.
Street cleaning division.
Examiners, steam engineers.
Automobile board.
Insurance department.
Surveyor’s office.
Temporary services.
In all, $31,575.
Female employment inspectors. Vol. 38, p. 291.
Free public library and Takoma Park branch.
For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at the Substitutes.
For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half Sunday, etc., opening.
Miscellaneous.
For binding, by contract or otherwise, including necessary personal services, $4,500;
For maintenance, repairs, fuel, fighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles; and other contingent expenses, $9,000;
In all, $22,000.
For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, Contingent expenses.
For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motor cycles, Motor vehicles. Maintenance, etc.
Automobiles for the offices of the civilian commissioners, including Automobiles.
For the assessor’s office, one automobile to be purchased new; for the Board of Children’s Guardians, one automobile to be purchased new; for the surface division, one automobile to be purchased in lieu of one automobile to be exchanged; for the street-cleaning division, two automobiles to be purchased in lieu of two automobiles to be exchanged; and for the surveyor’s office, two automobiles in lieu of one to be exchanged;
Motorcycles.
Motor-trucks.
Use of vehicles restricted. Provisos. Limits of cost. Distinctive color and marking required.
Restriction on use of horses, etc.
Central garage.
Limit on expenses for horses.
Fire insurance prohibited.
Specified residence telephones allowed. Connections with Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, etc.
For postage for strictly official mail matter, $11,500. Postage.
The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish Official use of street car tickets. Provisos. Limit. Fire and police not included.
Hereafter the several street railway companies in the District of Free street car rides for police and firemen.
For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, Collecting personal taxes.
For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, Judicial expenses.
For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation Coroner’s expenses.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for Advertising, General.
For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen Taxes in arrears. Vol. 26, p. 24.
For enforcement of game and fish laws, to be expended under the Game and fish laws.
For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first, Removing dangerous buildings. Vol. 30, p. 923. Reappropriation. Vol. 38, p. 901.
For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the Historical tablets. Reappropriation. Vol. 38, p. 901.
Copies of wills to assessor.
Vehicle tags.
Repairing fire injuries.
Markets, repairs.
Fish market, etc.
New buildings, etc., on fish wharf.
Produce market.
Autotruck, etc.
For maintenance and repairs to auto truck, $250.
Motor vehicle allowance.
Repair shop. Improvements, etc.
For changes to provide for more orderly and systematic arrangement and distribution of materials and labor at the repair shop, $4,800;
For construction of shed in yard in rear of repair shop for protection of perishable and bulky material, $1,600;
For machines for repair work in machine shop—one twenty-four inch lathe, one milling machine, and one drill press, $3,500; in all, $9,900.
Improvements and repairs.
Assessment and permit work.
Work on streets and avenues.
Schedules.
Proviso. Streets paved with Belgian block, etc.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be Limit for asphalt pavements. Proviso. Increase allowed.
Repave with asphalt the roadway of Twelfth Street northwest, from Repaving Twelfth Street NW.
Repave with asphalt the roadway of Third Street northwest, from Repaving Third Street, NW.
Repave with asphalt the granite block roadway of Seventh Street Repaving Seventh Street NW.
For repaving the roadway of B Street northwest, from Ninth Street Repaving B Street NW.
Repave with asphalt the roadway of Fourteenth Street northwest, Repaving Fourteenth Street NW.
Repave with asphalt the roadway of First Street southwest, from Repaving First Street SW.
For repaving the roadway of B Street northwest, from Seventh Repaving B Street NW. Proviso. Assessment against Washington Market Company.
Grading.
Condemnation.
Suburban roads and streets.
Northeast. Rhode Island Avenue, South Dakota Avenue to District line, grade and improve, $17,000;
Southeast. Nichols Avenue, Fourth Street to Upsal Street, grade Nichols Avenue SE.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to transfer Transfer from Government reservation for opening.
Northwest. Connecticut Avenue, Cathedral Avenue to Klingle Road, pave, $8,300;
Northeast. Todd Place, Lincoln Road to Second Street, grade, $2,500;
Northeast. First Street, U Street to Todd Place, pave, $2,000;
Northwest. Colorado Avenue, Montague Street to Georgia Avenue, grade and improve, $7,000;
Northwest. Clifton Street, Eleventh Street to Thirteenth Street, pave, $5,500;
Northwest. Eleventh Street, Florida Avenue to Clifton Street, pave, $4,400;
Northwest. Thirteenth Street, Florida Avenue to Clifton Street, pave, $6,700;
Northwest. Champlain Street, Florida Avenue to Kalorama Road, pave, $10,500;
Northwest. Twelfth Street, Clifton Street to Euclid Street, pave, $2,200;
Northwest. Hobart Street, west of Mount Pleasant Street, pave, $3,600;
Northwest. Twenty-seventh Street, Woodley Road to Cathedral Avenue, pave, $4,000;
Northwest. Perry Place, Holmead Place to Spring Place, pave, $6,900;
Northwest. Hall Place, north of W Place, pave, $2,800;
Northwest. W Place, Wisconsin Avenue to Hall Place, pave, $1,700;
Northeast. Quarles Street, Kenilworth Avenue to Minnesota Avenue, grade and improve, $3,400;
Northeast. Olive Street, Polk Street to Eastern Avenue, grade and improve, $3,600;
Northeast. Ord Street, Kenilworth Road to Forty-fourth Street, grade and improve, $2,900;
Southeast. Portland Street, Nichols Avenue to Fourth Street, grade, $10,500;
Northwest. Illinois Avenue, Ingraham Street to Hamilton Street, grade and improve, $1,700;
Northwest. Ellicott Street, Belt Road to Wisconsin Avenue, grade and improve, $4,400;
Northwest. Sixth Street, Aspen Street to Butternut Street, grade and improve, $2,400;
Northwest. Kennedy Street, Eighth Street to Ninth Street, grade and improve, $3,600;
Northwest. W Street, Fourth Street to Fifth Street, pave, $2,100;
Northwest. Parkwood Place, Holmead Place to Fourteenth Street, pave, $3,600;
Canal Road NW.
Southeast. U Street, Nichols Avenue to Shannon Place, pave, $1,300;
Southeast. Shannon Place, U Street to W Street, pave, $3,300;
Northwest. Forty-first Street, Davenport Street to Ellicott Street, grade and improve, $2,300;
Northwest. Princeton Place, Georgia Avenue to Rock Creek Church Road, pave, $4,100;
Seventeenth Street NW.
Condemning lands for extending. Vol. 34, p. 151. Proviso. Damages assessed as benefits.
There is appropriated out of the revenues of the District of Columbia Appropriation for expenses. Payment of awards.
Northwest. Twentieth Street, Kalorama Road to Belmont Street, pave, $3,750;
Northeast. Lawrence Street, Seventeenth Street to Twenty-Second Street, grade and improve, $7,000;
Northwest. Dahlia Street, Fifth Street to Seventh Street, grade and improve, $5,000;
Northwest. Vamum Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, pave, $2,800;
Northwest. Seventh Street, Vamum Street to Upshur Street, pave, $2,200;
Northwest. Fifth Street, Aspen Street to Butternut Street, grade and improve, $2,500;
Northeast. Sixteenth Street, Brentwood Road to Irving Street, grade and improve, $4,600;
Northwest. Holmead Place, Otis Street to Spring Road, grade and improve, $5,000;
Northeast. Sixteenth Place, Rhode Island Avenue to Franklin Street, grade and improve, $1,100;
Northeast. Franklin Street, Sixteenth Place to Seventeenth Street, and Seventeenth Street, Franklin Street to Douglas Street, grade, $3,200;
Northeast. South Dakota Avenue, Carlton Avenue to Vista Street, grade and improve, $2,200;
Southeast. Naylor Road, east of Good Hope Road, to District Naylor Road SE. Appropriation continued. Vol. 38, p. 902.
Northwest. Madison Street, from Fourteenth Street to Colorado Avenue, grade and macadam, $1,000;
Northwest. Park Road, New Hampshire Avenue to Fourteenth Street, pave, $17,500;
Northwest. Warder Street, Kenyon Street to Columbia Road, pave, $4,500;
Northeast. Benning Road, end of macadam to Central Avenue, grade and improve, $4,500;
Northwest. Keokuk Street, Connecticut Avenue to Thirty-seventh Street, grade and improve, $3,800;
Northeast. Queens Chapel Road, Bunker Hill Road to District line, grade and improve, $5,200;
Northwest. Lamont Street, Sixth Street to Park Place, pave, $5,300;
Northwest. Sixteenth Street, from Montague Street to Alaska Sixteenth Street NW.
Massachusetts Avenue NW.
Portland Street SE.
Northwest. Fifteenth Street, from Sixteenth Street to Lamont Street, macadamize, $760;
Northwest. New Hampshire Avenue Northwest, from Grant Circle to Oregon Avenue, grade and improve, $16,000;
Kenyon Street NW. Condemning land for extending. Vol. 34, p. 151. Proviso. Damages assessed as benefits. Appropriation for expenses. Payment of awards.
Northwest. Thirty-sixth Street, from Macomb Street to Woodley Road, grade and improve, $4,000;
Northeast. Woodridge Street, Twenty-fourth Street to Thayer Street, grade and improve, $650;
In all, $440,160.
Permanent system of highways. Extending streets to conform with. Vol. 37, p. 950. Solely from District revenues.
Repairs of streets, etc. Street railway pavements. Vol. 20. p. 105.
Contracts for work, etc. Bond from surety company, etc., required. Term of guarantee. Repeal of cash, retent. Proviso. Existing contracts included.
The authority given the commissioners in the District of Columbia Changing curbs, etc. Vol. 34, p. 1130. Proviso. Condition.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized in Fourteenth Street SW. Width increased.
For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public Sidewalks and curbs.
Suburban roads, repairs.
Bridges. Construction and repairs. M Street Bridge. Street bridges over railroads. Vol. 20, p. 105.
Highway Bridge across Potomac River: Draw operators—two at Highway Bridge.
For painting the ironwork and repairing the fenders of the bridge, $10,000.
Operation of Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous Anacostia Bridge.
Calvert Street Bridge: For preparation of plans for construction of Calvert Street Bridge. Plans for new.
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission: The parcel of Rock Creek and Parkway Commission. Addition to connecting parkway.
Sewers.
Cleaning, etc.
Pumping station.
Main and pipe.
Suburban.
Assessment and permit.
Rights of way.
Anacostia interceptor.
Rock Creek interceptor.
Upper Potomac interceptor.
Streets.
Cleaning, etc. Removing ice and snow.
Stable improvements.
Disposal of city refuse.
Parking commission.
Bathing beach.
Playgrounds. Maintenance.
For salaries: Clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $900; supervisor, Salaries.
For supplies, repairs, and necessary expenses of operating three Swimming pools.
Five guards or swimming teachers for four months at $60 per Guards.
For construction of two swimming pools, shower baths, appurtenances, New swimming pools.
In all, for playgrounds, $55,695.
Public convenience stations.
Condemning insanitary buildings. Vol. 34, p. 157.
Electrical department.
Electrical engineer, $2,500; assistant electrical engineer, $2,000; Salaries.
Supplies, contingent expenses, etc.
Placing wires underground.
Police-patrol system.
Ninth precinct telephone system.
Lighting. Vol. 36, p. 1008. Vol. 37, p. 181.
Shorter periods for lighting authorized.
Fire-alarm boxes.
Motor truck.
Square 857. Sale of lands in old Baltimore and Ohio right of way. Provisos. Opening alleys. Limit of time.
Washington Aqueduct.
The Chief of Engineers of the War Department is authorized and Traffic regulations for protection of roads, etc. Fine for violating. Proviso. Jurisdiction of courts.
The United States District Court for the District of Maryland is Additional commissioners, Maryland district court, authorized. Fees.
Officers authorized to make arrests under the provisions of this Paroles, etc.
Rock Creek Park.
Care, etc.
Public schools.
Salaries. Officers.
Attendance officers.
Teachers.
Principal of the Central High School, $3,000: Central High. Proviso. Salary of principal.
Other principals. Proviso. Salaries.
Assistant principal. Proviso. Salary.
Directors. Proviso. Penmanship.
Primary instruction assistant. Proviso. Salary.
Assistants. Proviso. Penmanship, assistant director.
Assistant supervisor, manual training. Proviso. Salary.
Other teachers.
Normal, high, and manual-training high schools, promoted for superior work, group B of class six, fourteen at $1,900 each;
Group A of class six, including three principals of grade manual-training schools, three hundred and four at $1,000 each;
Class five, one hundred and twenty-four, including vocational and trade instructors, at $950 each;
Class four, four hundred and forty-one at $800 each;
Class three, four hundred and ninety-eight at $650 each;
Class two, three hundred and forty-six at $600 each;
Class one, eighty at $500 each;
Special beginning teacher in the normal school, $800;
In all for teachers, $1,443,200.
Vacation schools and playgrounds.
Librarians and clerks.
Librarian in class four—one $800; librarians and clerks—thirteen in class three at $650 each, six in class two at $600 each, nine in class one at $500 each; in all, $17,350.
Longevity pay. Vol. 34, p. 320. Vol. 35, p. 289. Vol. 36, p. 393. Vol. 37, p. 156.
Principals. Additional pay, grade schools. Vol. 34, p. 320.
Hereafter in assigning salaries to teachers of public schools in the No sex discrimination. Restriction, clerks, etc.
Night schools. Salaries.
For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment Equipment.
Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, $3,000. Kindergarten supplies.
Janitors and care of buildings.
Central High School (New): Engineer, $1,500; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; electrician, $1,000; three firemen, at $600 each; one coal passer, $540; janitor, $1,100; two assistant janitors, at $900 each; gardener, $840; night watchman, $720; two charwomen, at $480 each; fourteen laborers, at $360 each; in all, $17,100;
M Street High School (New): Engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; coal passer, $540; janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; nine laborers, at $360 each; two charwomen, at $480 each; night watchman, $720; in all, $10,760;
Central High School (Old) and annex: Janitor, $1,000; laborers—two at $480 each, two at $360 each; in all, $2,680;
Business High School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers—two at $480 each, two at $360 each; in all, $2,680;
J. Ormond Wilson Normal School and Ross School: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $800; laborers—two at $420 each, two at $360 each; in all, $3,360;
Jefferson School: Janitor, $1,000; two laborers, at $420 each; in all, $1,840;
Western High School: Janitor, $1,100; laborers—two at $480 each, two at $360 each; in all, $2,780;
Franklin School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers—one $420, two at $360 each; in all, $2,140;
Myrtilla Miner Normal School: Janitor, $900; laborers—one $480, two at $360 each; in all, $2,100;
Eastern High School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers—one $420, one $360; in all, $1,780;
Stevens School: Janitor, $1,000; two laborers, at $420 each; in all, $1,840;
McKinley Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,500; assistant engineer, $1,000; assistant janitor, $720; night watchman, $600; fireman, $600; laborers—two at $360 each; in all, $6,140;
Armstrong Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $720; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,200; assistant engineer, $720; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $4,360;
M Street High School (Old) and Douglass and Simmons Schools: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $900; laborers—one $420, three at $360 each; in all, $3,400;
Birney and annex, Emery, New Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Gage, Powell, van Buren, and Wallach Schools, and sixteen-room building on the site purchased west of Soldiers’ Home Grounds, south of Rock Creek Church Road: Nine janitors, at $1,000 each; nine laborers, at $480 each; in all, $13,320;
Brookland, Bryan, Congress Heights, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garfield, Garnet, Grant, Grover Cleveland, Henry, Johnson and annex, Langdon, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, Webster, and Strong John Thomson Schools: Twenty-two janitors, at $840 each; twenty-two laborers, at $300 each; in all, $25,080;
Abbot, Benning, Berret, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, Dent, Randall, Syphax, and Tenley Schools: Eleven janitors, at $840 each; in all, $9,240;
Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Elizabeth V. Brown, Bruce, Buchanan, Carbery, Cardozo, Cardozo Manual Training, Corcoran, Eaton, Edmonds, Eckington, Fillmore, French, Garrison, Giddings, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Isaac Fairbrother, Jackson, Jones, Ketcham, Langston, Lenox, Logan, Ludlow, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, O Street Manual Training, Patterson, Payne, Petworth, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Randle Highlands, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatly, Wilson, Woodburn, Wormley, and West Schools: Seventy-three janitors, at $720 each; in all, $52,560;
Brightwood Park, Crummell School, Kenilworth, Wisconsin Avenue Manual Training School: Four janitors, at $600 each; in all, $2,400;
Bunker Hill, Deanwood, Hamilton, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Smothers, Stanton, Threlkeld, Military Road, and Burrville Schools: Twelve janitors, at $480 each; in all, $5,760;
Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, and Fort Slocum Schools: Three janitors, at $150 each; in all, $450;
Night watchmen.
In all, $174,470.
Smaller buildings and rented rooms.
Medical inspectors. Chief, authorized, etc.
Graduate nurses.
Miscellaneous. Rent.
For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the second Equipping temporary rooms, etc.
For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and Repairs, etc.
For removal and reerection of portable’ schools, $3,000. Portable schools.
For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, Manual training expenses.
For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $85,000. Fuel, lights, etc. Furniture.
For furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades for Specified buildings. Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, Pianos.
For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten Supplies to pupils.
For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first Proviso. Exchanges.
For purchase of United States flags, $800. Flags.
For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school playgrounds, Playgrounds.
For maintenance and repairing sixty playgrounds now established, $3,000.
For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance School gardens.
For purchase of apparatus and technical books and extending the Physics departments supplies.
For purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials and Chemistry and biology laboratories.
Cabinetmaker.
Instruction camp for cadets. Proviso. Use of Government reservation, etc.
Extending telephones.
Buildings and grounds. Elizabeth V. Brown School.
Petworth School.
Eastern High School. Use of unexpended site balance for construction. Cost; contract. Closing streets and alleys within site.
Burrville School.
McKinley Manual Training School.
Benning School.
New building, fifth division.
Additional ground for designated schools.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Blake School, $2,500.
For the erection of a greenhouse at the J. Ormond Wilson Normal School, $2,000.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Bradley School on the south, $3,000.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Lovejoy School, $1,200.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Langdon School, $3,000.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Addison School, $6,000.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Eckington School, $4,500.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Brent School on the east, $5,000.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Garrison School, $7,000.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Syphax School, $4,500.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Weightman School, $1,250.
For grading, resurfacing, and fencing ground recently purchased for the John F. Cooke School, $3,000.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Tyler School, $6,000.
For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Madison School, $4,200.
Hereafter so much of any balance remaining after the purchase of Use of site balances for cleaning, etc., grounds.
The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings Limit of cost for sites and buildings.
Appropriations in this Act shall not be paid to any person employed Soliciting subscriptions, etc., forbidden. Exceptions.
The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Preparation of plans.
The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall Doors to open out wards, etc.
Deaf and dumb pupils. Vol. 31, p. 844.
For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable Colored deaf mutes.
For instruction of indigent blind children of the District of Columbia, Blind children.
Police.
Salaries.
Criminal Identification Bureau.
Fuel.
Repairs.
Miscellaneous expenses. Detection of crime. Proviso. Mounted equipment.
Flags.
Motor vehicles
For motor vehicle for the use of the major and superintendent, $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary;
Site for suburban station house.
For reconstruction of cell corridors and the making, erecting, and Second precinct station.
In all, $58,800.
House of detention.
Harbor patrol.
For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $2,000;
In all, $7,000.
Fire department.
Chief engineer, $3,500; deputy chief engineer, $2,500; four battalion Salaries.
Miscellaneous.
For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-driven Repairs, etc. Proviso. Construction of apparatus in repair shop.
For hose, $12,000; Supplies, etc.
For fuel, $15,000;
For purchase of horses, $8,000;
For forage, $25,000;
For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $1,000;
For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, Contingent expenses.
In all, $114,500.
New apparatus.
For four combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, at $5,500 each, $22,000;
For three tractors, motor driven, $13,500;
For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $12,500;
For installing steam heat in engine and truck houses, $3,000;
In all, $59,500.
Health department.
Salaries.
Milk and dairy inspection.
Preventing spread of diseases. Vol. 29, p. 635. Vol. 34, p. 889. Tuberculosis registration, etc. Vol. 35, p. 126. Horses, wagons, etc. Proviso. Bacteriological examination of milk, etc.
Repairs to buildings
Smallpox hospital.
Disinfecting service.
Drainage of lots, etc. Vol. 29, p. 125. Abating nuisances. Vol. 34, p. 114.
For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration Food, etc., adulterations.
Bacteriological laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good Bacteriological laboratory.
Chemical laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order, Chemical laboratory.
For contingent expenses incident to enforcement of an Act to Enforcing milk regulations. Vol. 28, p. 709. Adulterations of food, candy, etc. Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398. Pure food law. Vol. 34, p. 768.
For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including Inspecting dairy farms, etc.
Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minor Isolating wards at hospitals.
For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, Crematory.
For the purchase of one motor wagon for use in the pound service, Motor vehicles.
For maintenance of one motor vehicle for the sanitary and food inspection service, $300.
For alterations at the pound and stable to provide accommodations Alterations, pound and stable. Reappropriation. Vol. 38, p. 540.
Courts.
For eleven copies of volumes forty-six and forty-seven of the reports Court of appeals reports. Vol. 32, p. 609.
Probation system.
Juvenile court. Salaries.
Jurors.
Rent.
Furniture.
Miscellaneous.
In all, $5,400.
Police court. Salaries.
Miscellaneous.
For witness fees, $3,000;
For furniture and repairing and replacing same, $200;
For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $50;
Jurors, etc.
For repairs to buildings, $1,000;
In all, $12,500.
Municipal court. Salaries.
Rent.
Contingent expenses.
In all, municipal court, $25,050.
Lunacy writs. Vol. 33, p. 740.
Interest and sinking fund.
Amount.
Emergency fund.
Expenditures.
Proviso.
Purchases.
Courts and prisons.
Support of convicts. Post, p. 712.
Courthouse, care, etc.
Court of Appeals Building, care, etc. Proviso. Custodian.
For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal, of refuse, Expenses.
Supreme Court. Witness fees.
Jurors’ fees.
Pay of bailiffs, etc.
Miscellaneous expenses.
Charities and corrections.
Board of Charities. Salaries, etc.
Reformatories, etc.
Washington Asylum and Jail. Salaries.
Contingent expenses.
For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, $2,500;
For refrigerator and ice box for hospital kitchen, $500;
Payments to abandoned families, etc. Vol. 34, p. 87.
Support of jail prisoners.
Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to Washington Transporting prisoners to jail.
In all, Washington Asylum and Jail, $135,610.
Home for Aged and Infirm. Salaries.
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to Contingent expenses.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $3,000; Repairs, etc.
For purchase of material for permanent roads, $300;
For purchase of material and erection of permanent fence, $500;
For purchase of motor truck, $600;
For extension of colored women’s ward, $26,000; Colored women's ward.
In all, Home for Aged and Infirm, $73,392.
National Training School for Boys. Care of boys committed to.
National Training School for Girls. Salaries.
For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, Contingent expenses.
For purchase or condemnation of additional land, $5,000; Additional land.
For an additional building for white girls, including furnishing of Building for white girls.
In all, National Training School for Girls, $45,980.
Medical charities.
For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be Freedmen’s Hospital.
Columbia Hospital for Women.
Children’s Hospital.
Homeopathic Hospital.
Emergency Hospital.
Casualty Hospital.
Home for Incurables.
Georgetown University Hospital.
George Washington University Hospital.
Tuberculosis Hospital. Salaries.
Contingent expenses.
Repairs, etc.
For erection of buildings to afford additional accommodations for incipient cases, $2,000;
For purchase of X-ray machine and accessories, $2,360;
In all, Tuberculosis Hospital, $61,220
Care of children.
Board of Children’s Guardians. Expenses.
Salaries.
Feeble-minded children.
Board, etc., of children. Amount to sectarian institutions.
In all, Board of Children’s Guardians, $111,980.
The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to Advances to agent.
Industrial Home School for Colored Children. Salaries.
For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, Expenses.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,500;
For manual training equipment, $300;
For materials for construction of roads and sidewalks, $500;
In all, Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $20,880: Proviso. Use of proceeds from sales.
Industrial Home School: Superintendent, $1,500; supervisor Industrial Home School. Salaries.
For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, Expenses.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,700;
For resurfacing roads and relaying gutters, $550;
In all, Industrial Home School, $28,830.
For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made Home for destitute colored children.
For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made Foundlings’ Home.
For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made Saint Ann’s Asylum.
Temporary homes.
Municipal lodging house and wood yard: Superintendent, $1,200; Municipal lodging house.
For a new municipal lodging house, of which amount not more New building.
Temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army Grand Army Soldiers’ Home. Admissions.
Hope and Help Mission.
Southern Relief Society, for Confederate veterans, etc.
Aid to the blind.
National Library.
Columbia Polytechnic Institute.
Support of indigent insane.
Deporting nonresident insane.
Advances to Board of Charities.
Relief of the poor.
Transporting paupers.
Workhouse. Administration salaries.
Operation salaries.
Maintenance salaries.
Expenses of operation, etc.
For fuel for maintenance, $15,000; fuel for manufacturing and Fuel, etc.
For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $4,000; Repair materials.
For laundry machinery, including mangle, extractor and washers, Laundry machinery.
In all, $180,110, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners.
Reformatory. Temporary quarters.
For beginning construction of permanent buildings, including Construction.
For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, Maintenance. Provisos. Sentences of convicts to imprisonment in jail or reformatory. Jurisdiction of Commissioners over prisoners in reformatory. Return of convicts serving elsewhere to complete term in jail or reformatory. Jurisdiction of Commissioners. Payment of maintenance. Ante, p. 705. Training schools not affected.
Fuel.
Enlarging power plant.
Refrigerating plant.
In all, $129,000, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners.
Militia.
Expenses.
Camps, drills, etc.
Rent.
Miscellaneous expenses.
For printing, stationery, and postage, $1,800.
For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $2,000.
For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, $1,000.
For clerk, office of the adjutant general, $1,000.
For expenses of target practice and matches, $2,500.
Pay of troops.
Refund of erroneous collections.
Payment. Vol. 36, p. 967. Proviso. Prior years.
Anacostia River Flats.
Continuing reclamation.
Vol. 38, p. 549.
Small parks.
Condemnation expenses.
Vol. 38, p. 625.
Water service.
Payable from water revenues.
Washington Aqueduct.
For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, Maintenance of reservoir, tunnel, filtration plant, etc.
For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance Conduit Road.
For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break Emergency fund. McMillan Park grounds.
Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence Superintendence of War Department continued.
Water department.
For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall also Revenue and inspection branch.
For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; engineer, $2,400; Distribution branch.
Contingent expenses
Operating expenses.
Service expenses. Water meters, etc.
Detailed estimates be submitted.
Construction work under Commissioners.
Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed.
That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street cleaning or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums Proviso. Limit.
Temporary laborers, etc.
Horses, vehicles, etc.
Special authority from Commissioners for using.
Report, etc.
Proviso.
Temporary work on excavations, etc.
That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers, Water department. Engineers, draftsmen, etc., temporarily employed. Proviso. Limit.
The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily Temporary laborers, etc.
Miscellaneous trust funds.
Expenses payable from.
Vol. 33, p. 368.
Price of gas for public buildings limited to 70 cents.
That hereafter no part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for the payment to the Washington Gas Light Company or the Georgetown Gas Light Company for any gas furnished by said companies for use in any of the public buildings of the United States or the District of Columbia at a rate in excess of 70 cents per one thousand cubic feet.
Gas to consumers from Washington Gas Light Company to be 75 cents. Provisos. Additional if not paid in ten days. Powers of Public Utilities Commission not affected.
From Georgetown Gas Light Company, 85 cents.
Rent assessed from users of space under sidewalks, etc.
Street paving.
Half cost of, assessed on a butting street property.
That hereafter the half cost of the paving or repaving of a roadway between the side thereof and the center thereof with sheet asphalt, asphalt block, granite block, vitrified block, cement concrete, bituminous concrete, macadam, or other form of pavement shall be assessed against the property abutting the side of the street so improved, such assessments to be levied and collected as now provided Proviso. Publication of proposed work not required.
Assessable area.
Cost excluded.
Twenty feet beyond street line.
Work within street railway space. Expense by companies. Vol. 20, p. 105.
Parks and reservations.
Streams in, to be protected from sewage of Maryland towns, etc.
Sewer connections authorized.
Proviso.
Payment of cost.
Deposit of sums collected.
Daughters of American Revolution.
Refund of real estate taxes for 1916.
Ante, p. 515.
Tax on personal property.
Vol. 32, p. 618, amended.
“That the moneys and credits, including moneys loaned and invested, Appraisal of intangible property. Post, p. 1046. Vol. 32, p. 618. Tax imposed. Provisos. Savings deposits not over $500 exempted. Joint Congressional committee to recommend changes in tax laws.
Policemen and firemen’s relief fund created.
That from and after the passage of this Act the funds now authorized by law and known as the “Police relief fund” and the “Firemen’s relief fund” shall be designated and known as the “Policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia.”
Composition of. Deficiency from District revenues. Post, p. 809. Pensions, etc., payable from. Accounting, etc.
Allowance for temporary disability. Medical certificate required. Approval.
Retirement allowance for total disability. For age. Amount. Amount. Pension to widow or children. Provisos. To cease on remarriage. Marriage subsequent to retirement excluded.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to Funeral expenses.
There is created in and for the District of Columbia a board to be Retiring and relief board created. Composition. Duties. Surgeon’s certificate. Hearings. Authority to secure witnesses, etc. Compulsory attendance. Vol. 29, p. 10. Vol. 27, p. 29. Action by Commissioners.
Medical examinations of disabled pensioners.
Reduction or discontinuance. Causes for.
Service in emergency cases. Enforcement. Residence elsewhere.
Special street crossing policemen made members of regular force. Vol. 30, p. 489. Vol. 31, p. 820. Vol. 37, p. 63. Rights, etc., secured. Subject to police discipline, etc.
In determining the classes to which said special policemen shall be Assignment to class on force.
The superintendent of police of the District of Columbia may, in Substitution of regular force to special duty. Proviso. Pay not altered.
Conflicting laws repealed.
United States courts.
South Carolina judicial districts.
Vol. 38, p. 961.
That the terms of the district court for the eastern district Terms of court. Eastern district. Vol. 38, p. 961, amended.
“Terms of the district court of the western district shall be held at Western district.
“The office of the clerks of the district court for the western district Offices.
Eight hour standard workday.
Established January 1, 1917, for train employees of interstate common carriers.
Exceptions.
Vol. 24, p. 379.
Proviso.
Terminal or transfer lines not excepted.
Commission to investigate effects, etc., of Act.
Report.
Appropriation.
No reduction of wages pending report.
Punishment for violations.
[S. 5496]
Public lands.
Minnesota drainage assessments, charges.
That section five of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the drainage of certain lands in the State of Minnesota,” approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
Patents to purchasers of unentered lands on paying Government price, etc.
Vol. 35, p. 170, amended.
Limitations.
Sales to State excepted.
Excess of drainage charges to be used for maintenance, etc.
That section six of said Act be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
Patents to purchasers of entered lands on paying Government price, etc.
Vol. 35, p. 170, amended.
Disposal of excess.
Forfeiture if charges, etc., not paid in 90 days.
Rights of subsequent purchaser.
Payment to be made.
Disposal of drainage charges.
Mississippi River.
Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company released from wagon, etc., bridge, Memphis, Tenn.
Vol. 25, p. 92; Vol. 33, p. 543, amended.
Condition.
Maintenance of wagon, etc., bridge dispensed with.
Conflicting laws repealed.
Mississippi River.
Aitkin County and Logan Township, Minn., may bridge.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
Public lands.
Enlarged homesteads in Idaho.
Vol. 36, p. 532, amended.
Entry of noncontiguous lands to complete prior entry.
Provisos.
Restricted to designated lands.
Vol. 35, p. 639.
Residence and cultivation required.
Soldiers’ locations not affected.
Customs.
Withdrawals from bonded warehouse far export.
Time extended for goods to Mexico.
United States counts.
Vol. 36, p. 1112 amended.
Kansas judicial district.
First division.
Second division.
Third division.
Terms.
First division.
Second division.
Third division.
Deputy clerks.
Deputy marshals.
Judicial Code.
Amendments.
Supreme Court.
Terms.
Vol. 36, p. 1156, amended.
Writs of error.
Vol. 36, p. 1156; Vol. 38, p. 790.
Writs of error from State courts.
Vol. 36, p. 1156, amended.
A final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of their validity, may be reexamined and reversed or affirmed in the Supreme Court upon a writ of error. The writ shall have the same effect as if the judgment or decree complained of had been rendered or passed in a court of the United States. The Supreme Court may reverse, modify, or affirm the judgment or decree of such State court, and may, in its discretion, award execution or remand the same to the court from which it was removed by the writ.
Certiorari to State courts in causes affecting validity of treaty, law, etc., of United States. Vol. 38, p. 790, amended.
Circuit courts of appeals.
Vol. 36, p. 1134; Vol. 38, p. 804.
Finality of decisions.
Bankruptcy proceedings.
Vol. 38, p. 804, amended.
Injuries to railroad employees.
Vol. 35, p. 65; Vol. 36, p. 291.
Railroad eighteen-hour Act.
Vol. 34, p. 1415.
Railway safety appliances acts.
Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 32, p. 943.
Certiorari from Supreme Court allowed.
Appellate courts.
Dismissal by, solely for mistake in procedure, forbidden.
Supreme Court.
Writs of error and appeals from Philippine supreme court to, not allowed hereafter.
Ante, p. 555.
Certiorari continued.
Time limit for bringing causes for review.
Proviso.
Exception.
Effect.
Temporary continuances.
[S. 5407]
Augusta, Ga.
Time extended for payment for former public building by.
Vol. 36, p. 1365.
Interest, etc.
Shipping Act, 1916.
That when used in this Act:
Meaning of terms. “Common carrier by water in foreign commerce.” Proviso. Ocean tramps not included.
“Common carrier by water in interstate commerce.”
“Common carrier by water.”
“Other person subject to this Act.”
The term “person” includes corporations, partnerships, and associations, “Person.”
That within the meaning of this Act no corporation, partnership, Citizenship requirement.
The provisions of this Act shall apply to receivers and trustees of Receivers and trustees.
That a board is hereby created, to be known as the United United States Shipping Board. Created; appointment, etc.
The first commissioners appointed shall continue in office for terms Tenure of office.
The commissioners shall be appointed with due regard to their Qualifications, etc. Other employment restricted. Removal, vacancies, etc.
The board may adopt rules and regulations in regard to its procedure Rules, etc.
That each member of the board shall receive a salary of Salaries of officials, etc. Details from Army, Navy, etc.
With the exception of the secretary, a clerk to each commissioner, Employees from civil service eligibles. Exceptions.
The expenses of the board, including necessary expenses for transportation, Payment of expenses.
Rent of offices.
Auditing accounts.
Authority to build vessels.
Purchase, charter, etc.
Use designated.
Proviso.
Purchases, etc., excluded.
Post, p. 731.
Engaged in active commerce.
Of belligerent country.
Unsuitable.
Unseaworthy.
Transfers of Government owned vessels to Board.
Charters, etc., to citizens.
Sale, etc., of unserviceable vessels.
American registry and enrollment allowed.
That any vessel purchased, chartered, or leased from the board may be registered or enrolled and licensed, or both registered and enrolled and licensed, as a vessel of the United States and entitled Proviso. Coastwise trade permitted.
Operation as American merchant vessels. Transfers restricted.
When the United States is at war, or during any national emergency In time of war transfers, etc., restricted to citizens. Post, p. 1814. Vessels for sale to be offered to Board before to a foreigner.
Any vessel sold, chartered, leased, transferred, or operated in Forfeiture for violation. Punishment imposed.
That the President, upon giving to the person interested Possession by the President for military or naval use. Proviso. Without notice.
Thereafter, upon ascertainment by agreement or otherwise, the Payment to be made. Ascertainment of value.
That the board, if in its judgment such action is necessary Shipping corporation. Charter and purposes. Capital stock. Majority to be held by United States. Sales of stock. Proviso. To operate vessels only when citizen unobtainable.
Notice of offer. Declaration by the President for operation by corporation.
Dissolution of corporation. Disposal of property. Redemption of privately owned stock.
Investigations by the Board.
Subjects designated.
That the board shall investigate the relative cost of building merchant vessels in the United States and in foreign maritime countries, and the relative cost, advantages, and disadvantages of operating in the foreign trade vessels under United States registry and under foreign registry. It shall examine the rules under which vessels are constructed abroad and in the United States, and the methods of classifying and rating same, and it shall examine into the subject of marine insurance, the number of companies in the United States, domestic and foreign, engaging in marine insurance, the extent of the insurance on hulls and cargoes placed or written in the United States, and the extent of reinsurance of American maritime risks in foreign companies, and ascertain what steps may be necessary to develop an ample marine insurance system as an aid in the development of an American merchant marine. It shall examine the navigation laws of the United States and the rules and regulations thereunder, and make such recommendations to the Congress as it deems proper for the amendment, improvement, and revision of such laws, and for the development of the American merchant marine. It shall investigate the legal status of mortgage loans on vessel property, with a view to means of improving the security of such loans and of encouraging investment in American shipping.
Annual reports. Details of.
Liabilities limited.
That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of sections five and eleven no liability shall be incurred exceeding a total of Bond issue authorized. Vol. 36, pp. 117, 192, 1013. Proviso. Payable within 50 years.
The proceeds of such bonds and the net proceeds of all sales, All receipts to be credited to the board. Permanent appropriation made. Ante, pp. 730, 731.
That no common carrier by water shall directly or indirectly— Common carriers by water.
First. Pay, or allow, or enter into any combination, agreement, or Specified restrictions. Allowing deferred rebates. Definition.
Second. Use a fighting ship either separately or in conjunction Using fighting ships. Definition.
Third. Retaliate against any shipper by refusing, or threatening Retaliating, etc. against shippers.
Fourth. Make any unfair or unjustly discriminatory contract with Making discriminatory shipping contracts. Details.
Any carrier who violates any provision of this section shall be Penalty for violations.
That every common carrier by water, or other person subject Statement of all rate agreements, etc., to be filed with Board. Details.
Authority of Board to approve, disapprove, etc.
Status of existing agreements.
Agreements unlawful without approval of Board.
Lawful agreements not subject to antitrust laws. Vol. 26, p. 209. Vol. 28, p. 570. Vol. 37, p. 667; Vol. 38, p. 730.
Penalty for violations.
Preferences forbidden.
That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier by water, or other person subject to this Act, either alone or in conjunction with any other person, directly or indirectly—
As to persons, localities. or descriptions of traffic.
Lower rates by unfair means.
Inducing discriminating insurance rates.
Common carriers in foreign commerce.
Unjust rates, etc., by, forbidden.
That no common carrier by water in foreign commerce shall demand, charge, or collect any rate, fare, or charge which is unjustly discriminatory between shippers or ports, or unjustly prejudicial to exporters of the United States as compared with their Correction by Board.
Just regulations for receiving, delivering, etc., goods, required. Correction by Board.
That every common carrier by water in interstate commerce Common carriers in interstate commerce. Just and reasonable rates, etc., by, required. Details.
Every such carrier shall file with the board and keep open to public Tariffs to be filed and displayed. Through routes.
No such carrier shall demand, charge, or collect a greater compensation Restriction on increasing charges.
Whenever the board finds that any rate, fare, charge, classification, Correction of unjust rates, etc.
Restriction on increasing reduced rates.
That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier by water Unauthorized giving or receiving information of shipments unlawful. Conditions.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the giving of such Authorities entitled to receive information.
Reports, etc., to be filed with Board.
That the board may require any common carrier by water, or other person subject to this Act, or any officer, receiver, trustee, lessee, agent, or employee thereof, to file with it any periodical or special report, or any account, record, rate, or charge, or any memorandum of any facts and transactions appertaining to the business of Form, etc. Penalty for failure.
Punishment for falsifying reports, etc.
Complaints of violation.
That any person may file with the board a sworn complaint setting forth any violation of this Act by a common carrier by water, or other person subject to this Act, and asking reparation for Copy to carrier. Investigation. Reparation.
Investigations initiated by Board.
Orders of the Board.
Full hearings, etc.
Orders of the board relating to any violation of this Act shall be made only after full hearing, and upon a sworn complaint or in proceedings instituted of its own motion.
Continuance of, except for payment of money.
Record, etc., of investigations.
That the board shall enter of record a written report of every investigation made under this Act in which a hearing has been held, stating its conclusions, decision, and order, and, if reparation Copies to parties.
Publication of re ports. Received as evidence
Modification, etc.
Rehearings.
Investigations of unequal treatment of American vessel by foreign Government.
Report to the President, etc.
Message to Congress if equal privileges not secured.
Authority to secure testimony, etc.
Subpoenas, depositions, etc.
Fees, etc.
Enforcement.
Testimony, etc., compulsory.
Criminal immunity.
Perjury excepted.
Jurisdiction of district courts.
Orders other than for paying money.
That in case of violation of any order of the board for the For payment of money.
Findings of board prima facie evidence of facts.
Joining of parties in suits for reparation. Service of process etc. Judgments.
Limitation of time.
Venue and procedure.
General penalty for violations.
Interstate Commerce Commission powers not affected.
No intrastate application.
Invalidity of any provision not to affect remainder of Act.
Appropriation for expenses.
Clearance to be refused vessel declining freight from any citizen.
[S. 3646]
That the Act approved Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation, Mont. Lands of, opened to settlement. Vol. 38, p. 809, amended.
Rocky Boy’s Band of Chippewas.
Lands reserved for.
Allotments.
Vol. 24, p. 388.
Havre, Mont.
Lands granted to, for reservoir.
Description.
Provisos.
Payment.
Reversion.
Camping ground lands reserved.
Description.
[S. 5987]
Internal revenue special taxes.
Tobacco manufacturers, etc., selling to dealers only, not peddlers.
[S. 6561]
Port Angeles, Wash.
Sale of unsold townsite lots in.
Vol. 34, p. 167.
Patents to purchasers on paying reappraised price of lots.
Former condition revoked.
Conflicting laws repealed.
Vol. 34, p. 167.
[S. 6748]
Indian schools.
Per capita limitation removed.
Vol. 35, p. 72.
Proviso.
Maximum cost.
[S. 6839]
Juneau, Alaska.
May issue bonds for schoolhouse.
Election to authorize.
Conduct of election.
Interest rate.
Provisos.
Redemption.
Payment of principal and interest.
Written signatures, etc., required.
Use of funds restricted.
Sale of bonds.
[H. R. 14391.]
Madison, Wis.
Sale of present public building, authorized.
Vol. 37, p. 873, amended.
Proviso.
Free occupancy during construction of new building.
New site and building authorized.
Limit of cost.
Use of former appropriations.
Vol. 38, p. 825.
Open space modified if present site used.
[H. R. 15316.]
Government employees.
Compensation for inuries in service.
Exceptions.
Days excluded.
Total disability.
Computation of pay.
Partial disability.
Computation of pay.
Affidavit required.
No pay on failure to make.
No pay if refusing work.
Allowance for total disability.
Partial.
To minors and learners.
Decrease for old age.
Other pay, etc., restricted.
Pensions excepted.
To use leave with pay first.
Immediate medical, etc., assistance to be furnished.
Transportation for treatment.
Allowances if death results.
Pay to beneficiaries.
Widow.
Dependent widower.
Parent with children.
Child with other guardian.
Termination of pay to child.
Children without parent.
Termination.
Dependent parents.
To the parents, if one is wholly dependent for support upon the deceased employee at the time of his death and the other is not dependent to any extent, twenty-five per centum; if both are wholly dependent, twenty per centum to each; if one is or both are partly dependent, a proportionate amount in the discretion of the commission.
Conditions. If widow, widower, or child living.
Other dependent relatives.
To the brothers, sisters, grandparents, and grandchildren, if one is wholly dependent upon the deceased employee for support at the time of his death, twenty per centum to such dependent; if more than one are wholly dependent, thirty per centum, divided among such dependents share and share alike; if there is no one of them wholly dependent, but one or more partly dependent, ten per centum divided among such dependents share and share alike.
The above percentages shall be paid if there is no widow, widower, Conditions. If widow, etc., living.
Termination of payments.
Relationship construed.
Pay to remaining persons on allowance to others ceasing.
Modification of apportionment.
Monthly pay construed.
Punishment for receiving pay after marriage.
Burial expenses allowed.
Computing employee’s monthly pay.
Wage-earning capacity if partially disabled.
Lump sum commutations.
Computation.
Written notice of injury required.
Particulars.
No pay without notice.
Exception.
Claim must be filed.
Delivery to Commission.
Forms, etc.
Time for making claims.
Medical examinations.
Suspension of pay on refusal.
Reexamination if physicians disagree.
Examination fees.
Superior officer to report injury.
Assignments void, etc.
If an injury or death for which compensation is payable Injuries caused by other persons. Action for damages to be assigned. No pay if assignment refused.
The cause of action when assigned to the United States may be Application of proceeds if action assigned.
Damages received by employee from other party.
Application if employee entitled to compensation.
Refund of pay received.
Credit to amount payable.
Employees’ Compensation Commission.
Appointment, terms, etc.
Salaries, office, etc.
Jurisdiction of all other offices, etc., transferred.
Reports from employees.
Ante, p. 747.
Transfer of clerks, etc.
Office force, etc.
Civil service appointees.
Annual estimates.
Regulations, etc., to be made.
Report to Congress.
Amount authorized for salaries and expenses.
Post, p. 821.
Ante, p. 747.
Amount for employees’ compensation fund.
Post, p. 821.
Permanent appropriation authorized.
Annual estimates.
Determination of claims.
Payment.
Review, etc., of awards.
Ante, p. 747.
Cancellation of mistakes.
Punishment for false statements, etc.
Construction of terms used.
That wherever used in this Act—
The singular includes the plural and the masculine includes the feminine.
The term “employee” includes all civil employees of the United States and of the Panama Railroad Company.
The term “commission” shall be taken to refer to the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission provided for in section twenty-eight.
The term “physician” includes surgeons.
The term “monthly pay” shall be taken to refer to the monthly pay at the time of the injury.
Inconsistent laws repealed.
Provisos.
Settlement for prior injuries.
Injuries under Panama Railroad Company.
Employees, Panama Canal Railroad and Alaska railroad.
Administration by officers thereof.
That the President may, from time to time, transfer the administration of this Act so far as employees of the Panama Canal and of the Panama Railroad Company are concerned to the governor of the Panama Canal, and so far as employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission are concerned to the chairman of that commission, in which cases the words “commission” and “its” wherever they appear in this Act shall, so far as necessary to give effect to such transfer, be read “governor of the Panama Canal” or “chairman of the Alaskan Engineering Commission,” as the case may be, and Payments from appropriations therefor. Ante, p. 747.
Panama employees. Waiving claim applications authorized. Ante, p. 746. Payments to alien employees. Ante, p. 743. Advances from Panama and Alaska funds. Ante, pp. 743, 745. Reimbursement to 3ompensation fund.
[H. R. 17235.]
Niagara River.
W. H. Crosby, etc., may bridge, Buffalo, N. Y.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Proviso.
May substitute tunnel.
Time for construction.
Amendment.
[H. R. 17567.]
North Branch of Susquehanna River.
Luzerne County, Pa., may bridge, Wilkes-Barre.
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
Amendment.
[H. R. 13391.]
Federal Reserve Act.
Amendments.
That the Act entitled “Federal reserve Act,” approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, be, and is hereby, amended as follows:
Reserve Board. May allow member banks to keep reserves in reserve banks. Vol. 38, p. 263, amended.
Reserve banks.
Deposits allowed in. Vol. 38, p. 263, amended. Bills for collection added.
Discount of commercial paper. Description. Secured paper. Stock trading paper excluded. Government securities excepted. Time limit. Proviso. Additional, for agricultural notes, etc.
Rediscount restrictions.
Foreign acceptances.
Member banks may deal in foreign trade paper. Limit of acceptances. Additional, if with collateral.
“Any Federal reserve bank may make advances to its member Advances by reserve to member banks. Collateral required.
Section fifty-two hundred and two of the Revised Statutes of the National banks. Indebtedness limited. R. S., sec. 5202, p. 1006, amended. Exceptions.
Circulating notes.
Deposits.
Drafts, etc.
Dividends, etc.
Federal reserve liabilities.
“The discount and rediscount and the purchase and sale by any Discounts, etc., by reserve banks restricted. Vol. 38, p. 264, amended.
“That in addition to the powers now vested by law in national National banks. Insurance business allowed by, in small localities. Act as agents for real estate loans. Provisos. Guarantees forbidden. Insurance applications. Acceptances of foreign paper for dollar exchange. By member banks.
“Any member bank may accept drafts or bills of exchange drawn upon it having not more than three months’ sight to run, exclusive of days of grace, drawn under regulations to be prescribed by the Federal Reserve Board by banks or bankers in foreign countries or dependencies or insular possessions of the United States for the purpose of furnishing dollar exchange as required by the usages of trade in the respective countries, dependencies, or insular possessions. By reserve banks. Provisos. Restriction on acceptances from one person. With collateral. Maximum.
That subsection (e) of section fourteen, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:
Reserve banks.
Accounts and agencies of, in foreign countries.
Vol. 38, p. 265, amended.
Accounts for foreign correspondents.
Federal reserve notes.
Applications for, by reserve banks. Vol. 38, p. 265, amended. Collateral. Classes of paper extended. Ante, p. 752. Vol. 38, p. 264. Daily notices of issues and withdrawals. Additional security.
Real estate loans. Vol. 38, p. 273, amended.
By national banks not in central reserve cities.
On farm lands.
Any national banking association not situated in a central reserve city may make loans secured by improved and unencumbered farm land situated within its Federal reserve district or within a radius of one hundred miles of the place in which such bank Other real estate. Time and value limitations. Permissible amounts.
“The Federal Reserve Board shall have power from time to time Extension of restriction.
That section twenty-five be, and is hereby, amended to read as Foreign branches of national banks. Vol. 38, p. 273, amended. Applications.
Object of branches.
To invest an amount not exceeding in the aggregate ten May invest in other banks engaged in foreign business.
“Such application shall specify the name and capital of the banking Details in applications. Full authority of Board.
“Every national banking association operating foreign branches Information to be furnished Comptroller. To Reserve Board.
“Before any national bank shall be permitted to purchase stock Restrictions on purchasing stock in other banks. Investigation whether regulations are complied with. Disposal of interest for noncompliance.
Separation of accounts.
Member bank officials, etc., may serve in such banks. Vol. 38, p. 732.
[H. R. 16763.]
Revenue Act, 1916.
[H. R. 17465.]
Deficiencies appropriations.
Federal Trade Commission.
George Rublee.
Services.
Bureau of Efficiency.
The sum of $4,000 appropriated by the deficiency appropriation Labor-saving machinery, etc., for Pension Office. Reappropriation. Vol. 38, p. 1146. Provisos. To remain in Pension Office. Investigation of business methods.
Travel expenses, Indian Service investigations. Ante, p. 76. Ante, p. 159.
Retention of present quarters.
Department of State.
Foreign intercourse.
Pan American Scientific Congress. Printing reports, etc.
Nicaragua. Payment for canal concession. Post, p. 1771.
Canadian Boundary Waters Commission. Balance available for expenses. Ante, p. 259.
Representing foreign Governments during European war. Balances reappropriated. Vol. 38, pp. 778, 1138.
Relief and protection of American seamen.
Chargés d’affaires ad interim.
International Radiotelegraphic Conventions. Vol. 37, p. 1569.
Treasury Department.
Mrs. Joseph Cameron. Payment to. Post, p. 1347.
For refund of internal revenue taxes to the J. L. da Roza Estate, J. L. da Roza Estate. Payment to. Post, p. 1342.
For payment to M. J. Haynes, public administrator of the city and Hector M. McDonald. Payment to estate of. Post, p. 1390.
Federal Farm Loan Board.
Salaries and expenses.
Ante, p. 360.
Rent for Treasury bureaus removed from Department building.
Public buildings.
Rogersville, Tennessee, post office: For continuation (site), $250. Rogersville, Tenn.
Salem, New Jersey, post office: For site, $500. Salem, N. J.
Honolulu, Hawaii, quarantine station: For the removal of the Honolulu, Hawaii, quarantine station.
Minneapolis (Minnesota) post office: To enable the Secretary of Minneapolis, Minn.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For miscellaneous repairs to Engraving and Printing Bureau. Repairs.
General expenses: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to General expenses. Advertising.
Customs service.
Pay of laborers modified.
Vol. 35, p. 1065.
Internal revenue.
Salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue: For salaries Collectors, surveyors, etc. Additional for 1917. Ante, p. 85. Proviso. Appointees from civil service eligibles.
Refunding taxes illegally collected. Former appropriation revoked. Vol. 38, p. 330. Claims allowed.
Robert W. Childs. Services.
Additional clerks on emergency taxes. Ante, p. 82.
Tax on legacies, munitions, etc. Expenses. Ante, p. 756. Employees, rent, supplies, etc., allowed. Proviso. Clerks, etc., in District of Columbia.
Investigation of business methods.
Coast Guard.
For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under Contingent expenses.
To reimburse the fund “General account of advances,” Navy “Onondaga,” cutter. Repairs.
Robert T. Crane.
Credit in accounts.
District of Columbia.
Coroner’s office: To pay the deputy coroner during the absence of Deputy coroner.
For contingent expenses of the coroner’s office for the fiscal years Expenses, coroner’s office.
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For printing, checks, Contingent expenses.
For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, Judicial expenses.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for Advertising.
For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred Advertising taxes in arrears.
For the purchase of enamel metal or leather identification number Vehicle tags.
Inauguration, 1913.
Benning Road viaduct. Reappropriation. Vol. 38, p. 1141.
Assessment and permit work.
Sewers.
Bathing beach. Additional pay employees, 1917. Ante, p. 691.
Public schools. Principals.
Teachers.
Longevity pay.
Contingent expenses.
Birney School.
Instruction of deaf mutes. Vol. 31, p. 844.
Blind children.
Juvenile court.
For payment of premium on appeal bond in case of Hughlett against Juvenile Court, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $5.
Lunacy writs.
Support of convicts.
Supreme court. Miscellaneous.
Washington Asylum and Jail.
For payments to destitute women and children, including the same Abandoned families.
For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at Jail prisoners.
National Training School for Boys.
Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum: To pay the Columbia Hospital for Women. Construction.
For labor and material for construction and installation of awnings, frames, and screens for windows and porches, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol, $4,000.
For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be Care of indigent patients.
Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital: For emergency care Emergency Hospital.
Eastern Dispensary: For emergency care and treatment of and Eastern Dispensary.
Children’s Hospital.
Tuberculosis Hospital.
Board of Children’s Guardians. Care, etc., of children.
Increase to sectarian institutions.
Authority is granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $6,200, heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $1,016.57 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Feeble-minded children.
Industrial School for Colored Children.
Industrial Home School.
Indigent insane.
Workhouse.
Workhouse and Reformatory.
Militia. Mobilization expenses.
Judgments. Exception.
Half from District revenues.
Policemen and firemen’s relief fund. Pensions, etc., 1917. Ante, p. 718.
War Department.
Col. William W. Harts.
Credit in accounts.
For necessary employees during the balance of the fiscal year Additional clerks, etc., for 1917. Ante, p. 166. Ante, pp. 90–92.
Office of the Secretary: Clerks—one of class four, two of class three; Secretary’s Office.
Adjutant General’s Office: Clerks—ten of class four, ten of class Adjutant General’s Office.
Inspector General’s Office: Clerks—three of class one, and two at Inspector General’s Office.
Judge Advocate General’s Office: Clerks—one of class three, two Judge Advocate General’s Office.
Signal. Office: Clerks—two of class four, two of class three, four Signal Office.
Quartermaster General’s Office: Clerks—three of class four, four Quartermaster General’s Office.
Surgeon General’s Office: Clerks—one of class four, two of class Surgeon General’s Office.
The pay of the superintendent of the building occupied by the Pay of superintendent, Medical Museum, reduced. Ante, p. 91.
Office of Chief of Ordnance: Clerks—two of class four, three of Ordnance Office.
Office of Chief of Engineers: Clerks—one of class three, two of class Engineer Office.
In all, for additional clerical services, $218,983.33, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Contingent expenses.
Rent.
Buildings and grounds.
Union Station Plaza.
Lighting public grounds, 1917.
Half from District revenues.
Arsenals.
Frankford, Pa., 1917.
Rock Island, Ill., 1917.
For increasing storage facilities, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $250,000.
San Antonio, Tex. 1917.
Sodium nitrate storage, 1917.
National cemeteries.
Disposition of remains of officers, etc., 1917.
National parks.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga.
Motor vehicle.
Ante, p. 288.
River and harbor damage claims.
Vol. 36, p. 676.
Army.
Quartermaster Corps.
Pay.
Travel allowance to National Guard on discharge. Ante, p. 217. Ante, p. 633. Vol. 31, p. 902.
Rent of buildings: For rental of an office in the District of Columbia Aviation section. Rent, 1917.
Engineer Department.
Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools, instruments, Equipment of troops.
Engineer operations in the field: For expenses incident to military Operations in the field.
Sandy Hook Reservation, New Jersey: For protection of the shore Sandy Hook, N. J. Protection of shore.
Ordnance Department.
Automatic machine rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, and Automatic machine rifles.
Ordnance stores—Ammunition: For the purchase or manufacture Ammunition.
Fortifications.
Armament.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber Ammunition for field artillery, etc., practice.
For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including Altering mobile artillery.
Panama Canal.
Two colliers.
Cost increased.
Vol. 38, p. 71.
Fortifications.
Ordnance depot. Buildings, etc.
For three storehouses, $90,000;
For two magazine buildings, $20,000;
For one magazine building, $6,000;
For one shop building, $17,000;
For one office building, $4,000;
For one barrack, $17,350;
For one set of field officers’ quarters, $16,800;
For one set of captains’ quarters, $15,750;
For one set of double noncommissioned officers’ quarters, $12,600;
For seven sets of family quarters for personnel of Ordnance depot, $18,200;
For one stable, with carriage house, $5,000;
For three sets of family quarters for Ordnance machinists, one each at Forts Randolph, Sherman, and Grant, $7,800;
Dock.
Dredging.
Railroad tracks.
Roads, water, etc.
In all, $533,000, to continue available until expended.
Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.
Hampton, Va.
For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,500;
Marion, Ind.
Hot Springs, S. Dak.
For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,000;
State or Territorial homes.
State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,247.03.
Vicksburg National Memorial Celebration. Expenses of veterans attending. Proviso. Completion of arrangements. Control of celebration exercises, etc. Control of camp, etc. Travel expenses allowed.
Navy Department.
For necessary employees during the balance of the fiscal year Additional clerks, etc., for 1917. Ante, pp. 94–98.
Office of the Secretary: Stenographer, $1,000; clerk, $900; telephone Secretary’s office.
Office of Chief of Naval Operations: Clerks—one of class three, one Naval Operations.
Office of Solicitor: Law clerk, $2,000; clerk of class three; Solicitor’s Office.
Office of the Judge Advocate General: Chief law clerk, $2,000; law Judge Advocate General.
Bureau of Construction and Repair: Clerks—one of class four, one Construction and Repair.
The limitation specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial Technical services. Ante, p. 97.
Bureau of Navigation: Clerks—one of class two, two of class one, Navigation.
Office of Naval Intelligence: Translator, $1,400; clerks—one of Naval Intelligence.
Bureau of Ordnance: Clerks—one of class two, one of class one; Ordnance.
Bureau of Steam Engineering: Clerks—one of class three, two of Steam Engineering.
The limitation specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial Technical services. Ante, p. 96.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Clerks—one of class four, two of Supplies and Accounts.
Medicine and Surgery.
Yards and Docks.
Technical services. Ante, p. 97.
In all, $64,633.33, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Naval Militia Affairs. Ante, pp. 98, 559.
Naval Records and Library.
Naval Records of the Rebellion.
Balance for publication reappropriated.
Vol. 37, pp. 390, 707.
Hydrographic Office.
Reinforcing rooms in Navy Annex.
Ante, p. 95.
Contingent expenses.
Additional for 1917. Ante, p. 98.
Rent. Ante, p. 98.
Navy collision claims.
Payment.
Vol. 36, p. 607.
Navy.
Pay, miscellaneous.
To pay the New York Telephone Company for rental of twenty-one New York Telephone Company.
Bureau of Ordnance.
Ammunition for ships: For ammunition for ships of the Navy, Ammunition for ships.
Torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase and manufacture of Torpedoes, etc.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Pay of the Navy: For pay of the Navy, including the same objects Pay.
Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freight, including Freight.
Coal and transportation: For coal and other fuel, including the Coal, etc.
Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations, including Provisions.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Construction and repair of vessels: For construction and repair of Construction and repair.
For payment of vouchers in favor of the Carroll Foundry, Carroll Foundry.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Engineering: For engineering, including the same objects specified Engineering.
Steam machinery: For steam machinery, including the same Steam machinery.
General account of advances.
Reimbursement. Vol. 20, p. 167.
Pay, miscellaneous.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Repairs and preservation at navy yards, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $835.02;
Bureau of Navigation.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Marine Corps.
Pay, miscellaneous.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
In all, general account of advances, $9,055.06.
Marine Corps.
Captain Davis B. Wills, and Paymaster’s Clerk Leon L. Dye. Credit on accounts. Vol. 34, p. 247.
Military stores.
Contingent.
Transportation and recruiting.
Forage.
Interior Department.
Public buildings.
Court of Claims Building: To pay P. F. Brandstedt for labor and Court of Claims. Repairs.
To pay the National Mortar Company for cement bags, $300. National Mortar Company.
Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For an additional amount for the restoration and reconstruction of the exterior and Courthouse, District of Columbia. Restoration of buildings, etc., 1917. Half from District revenues.
To provide temporary quarters by rental or otherwise for the courts, Rent of temporary quarters, etc., 1917. Supervision. Half from District revenues.
Capitol Building: For payment to Professor Charles E. Munroe, for Capitol. Charles E. Munroe.
For overhauling the elevator machinery in the Senate wing of the Elevators, Senate wing.
Public lands, surveying.
The unexpended balance on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and Northern Pacific grant. Classifying lands within. Vol. 38, p. 1148. Vol. 13, p. 367. Vol. 28, p. 683.
To reimburse the estate of Joseph C. Auld, late receiver of public Joseph C. Auld. Reimbursing estate of.
Mines Bureau.
Rescue cars.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
Buildings and grounds.
Mukuntuweap National Monument, Utah.
Interstate wagon road.
Vol. 36, p. 2498.
Judicial.
Joseph R. Lamar. Pay to widow of Justice.
Judge, New Jersey district. Ante, p. 48.
Mount Rainier Park. Commissioner. Ante, p. 243. Vol. 29, p. 184.
Crater Lake Park. Commissioner. Ante, p. 521. Vol. 29, p. 184.
United States courts.
Marshals.
Ewing C. Bland. Services.
For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects Support of prisoners.
There is created a commission, to be composed of the Chief of Penitentiaries. Commission on manufacturing in articles used by the Government. Nature of report. Expenses.
For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorney.
To pay Tom K. Richie, of Tucson, Arizona, the sum inadvertently Tom K. Richie. Reimbursement.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures, Penitentiaries. Atlanta, Ga.
Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures, Leavenworth, Kans.,
McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures, McNeil Island, Wash.
National Training School for Boys: Of the unexpended balance of National Training School for Boys, D. C. Additional land. Vol. 38, p. 52.
Post Office Department.
For furniture and filing cabinets, fiscal year nineteen hundred and Furniture, etc., 1917.
For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, fiscal year Official Postal Guide. Additional for 1917. Ante, p. 108.
Postal service.
Postmasters.
Unusual conditions.
Freight on postal cards, etc.
Star routes, Alaska.
Railroad routes.
Injured employees.
Special delivery. Fees.
Department of Commerce.
Lighthouse Service.
Repairing damages, Gulf of Mexico hurricane.
Fisheries Bureau.
Vessel service.
Commutation of rations.
Department of Labor.
Contingent expenses.
Immigration.
Immigrant station, Ellis Island, New York: For completion of Ellis Island immigrant station, N. Y.
For repairing damages to buildings caused by explosions on July thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $150,000.
Section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation A. B. Fry. Double salary restriction not applicable to. Ante, p. 120.
For refund to the Scandinavian-American Line of amount erroneously Scandinavian-American Line. Refund to.
To pay E. C. Terry for information that led to the collection of $500 E. C. Terry. Informer’s fee.
Employees’ Compensation Commission.
For expenses under an Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation Expenses. Ante, p. 742.
Salaries and expenses. Ante, p. 749. Estimates.
Compensation fund. Payment into. Ante, p. 749.
Legislative.
Senate.
To pay Caroline F. Martin, Vallie B. Williamson, Lucy E. Boyd, and Edwin C. Burleigh. Pay to family of.
To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of Official reporters. Reimbursement.
Dennis M. Kerr. Services.
House of Representatives.
Joseph A. Goulden. Pay to widow.
Samuel A. Witherspoon. Pay to widow.
William G. Brown, jr. Pay to widow.
Hunter H. Moss, jr. Pay to widow.
Contested-election expenses.
William Elza Williams.
J. McCan Davis.
Francis J. Horgan.
George Holden Tinkham.
William J. Cary.
Stationery.
Miscellaneous items, etc.
Folding.
Official reporters and stenographers. Reimbursement.
Horses and mail wagons.
Government Printing Office.
Holidays.
Leaves of absence.
Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes.
Printing and binding.
Library of Congress.
Judgments, United States courts.
For payment of the final judgment and decree, including cost of Payment. Vol. 24, p. 505.
Under the Treasury Department, $2,069.55. Treasury Department.
In all, $2,069.55; together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the judgment at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made.
Judgments, Court of Claims.
For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, Payment. Classification.
For payment of the net amount, namely, $689,460.54, of a judgment Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians. Payment of judgment in favor of. Vol. 35, p. 619. Vol. 25, p. 645. Interest.
Judgments, Indian depredation claims.
For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Payment. Deductions. Vol. 26, p. 853. Reimbursement. Proviso. Appeal.
Right of appeal.
Audited claims.
Claims certified by accounting officers.
Vol. 18, p. 110.
Vol. 23, p. 254.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.
For collecting the revenue from customs, $4,189.44.
For salaries and expenses under Act to amend the national banking laws, $125.40.
For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, 28 cents.
For Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, $1.05.
For refunding internal-revenue collections, $25.
For refunding taxes illegally collected, $111,277.75.
For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $397,071.18.
For redemption of stamps, $25.
For allowance of drawback, internal revenue, $46.97.
For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $239.36.
For Life-Saving Service, $487.15.
For contingent expenses, assay office at Helena, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $6.29.
For operating supplies for public buildings, $119.63.
For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $211.21.
For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $208.88.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $33.96.
For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $27.28.
For heating apparatus for public buildings, $11.66.
For rent of buildings, Boston, Massachusetts, $168.35.
For post office and courthouse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, $71.20.
For general expenses of public buildings, $29.44.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.
For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks at Army division and department headquarters, $1,503.25.
For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $42.
For subsistence of the Army, $11.58.
For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $84.72.
For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $49,805.79.
For barracks and quarters, $90.64.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $2,927.08.
For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $609.53.
For water and sewers at military posts, $1,397.10.
For construction and repair of hospitals, $3,660.19.
For headstones for graves of soldiers, $13.14.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, $12.80.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, $9.30.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, salaries and incidental expenses, $22.54.
For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington Volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, $24.69.
For support four companies Utah Volunteers, $62.71.
For expenses of Rogue River Indian War, $7.91.
For transporting and caring for interned Mexican soldiers and military refugees, $5,973.29.
For pay, miscellaneous, $30. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.
For contingent, Navy, $30.
For pay, Marine Corps, $2,334.23.
For contingent, Marine Corps, $99.03.
For repairs, Naval Academy, $3.04.
For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $291.72.
For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $7.34.
For new batteries for ships of the Navy, Bureau of Ordnance, $51.27.
For fire control for ships of the Navy, Bureau of Ordnance, $5,970.
For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, $75.
For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $121.68.
For bringing home remains of officers, and so forth, Navy Department, nineteen hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen, $226.34.
For pay of the Navy, $4,143.51.
For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $98.61.
For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $14,920.27.
For coal and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $6.08.
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $40.16.
For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $44.
For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, Vol. 28, p. 962.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $27.25.
For contingent expenses of land offices, $22.32. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.
For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $2.
For surveying the public lands, $12.10.
For Geological Survey, $2.99.
For investigating mine accidents, $7.88.
For return of funds of patients, Government Hospital for the Insane, $2.40.
For Army pensions, $701.57.
For suppressing liquor traffic among the Indians, 50 cents.
For Indian school and agency buildings, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $889.67.
For Indian school transportation, $6.79.
For industrial work and care of timber, $31.95.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $4,521.07.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $170.04.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $183.69.
For contingencies, Indian Department, $15.
For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $255.
For bridge, Western Navajo Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $30.57.
For support of Indians of Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $45.22.
For support of Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $58.79.
For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $8.90.
For maintenance and operation irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3.29.